On This Date In History.....
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I don't know if anyone has ever done this before,but I thought this might give us something to talk about other than the norm around here,and this is something that we could do everyday. Just pick any of the topics listed and go. 
Here are a list of things that happened on this day. Pleas feel free to add anything.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/
On April 10, in:
1847 Newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer was born in Hungary.
1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated.
1912 The luxury liner Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
1925 "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published.
1932 Adolf Hitler came in second in voting for German president to the incumbent, Paul von Hindenburg.
1972 Some 70 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed an agreement banning biological warfare.
1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands won election to the British Parliament.
1992 Financier Charles Keating Jr. was sentenced in Los Angeles to nine years in prison for swindling investors when his Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed. (The convictions were later overturned).
1996 President Bill Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique that opponents call partial-birth abortion.
1998 Negotiators in Northern Ireland reached a landmark settlement that called for Protestants and Catholics to share power.
2001 The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
2007 A woman wearing an explosives vest strapped underneath her black robe blew herself up in the midst of 200 Iraqi police recruits in Muqdadiyah, killing 16.
Here are a list of things that happened on this day. Pleas feel free to add anything.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/
On April 10, in:
1847 Newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer was born in Hungary.
1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated.
1912 The luxury liner Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
1925 "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published.
1932 Adolf Hitler came in second in voting for German president to the incumbent, Paul von Hindenburg.
1972 Some 70 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed an agreement banning biological warfare.
1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands won election to the British Parliament.
1992 Financier Charles Keating Jr. was sentenced in Los Angeles to nine years in prison for swindling investors when his Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed. (The convictions were later overturned).
1996 President Bill Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique that opponents call partial-birth abortion.
1998 Negotiators in Northern Ireland reached a landmark settlement that called for Protestants and Catholics to share power.
2001 The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
2007 A woman wearing an explosives vest strapped underneath her black robe blew herself up in the midst of 200 Iraqi police recruits in Muqdadiyah, killing 16.
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"what a long, strange trip it's been"
2005 - Tiger Woods wins fourth Masters
1953 - First color 3-D film opens - "House of Wax" w/ Vincent Price
1970 - Paul McCartney announces the breakup of the Beatles
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
1865 : Robert E. Lee surrenders
At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option.
In retreating from the Union army's Appomattox Campaign, the Army of Northern Virginia had stumbled through the Virginia countryside stripped of food and supplies. At one point, Union cavalry forces under General Philip Sheridan had actually outrun Lee's army, blocking their retreat and taking 6,000 prisoners at Sayler's Creek. Desertions were mounting daily, and by April 8 the Confederates were surrounded with no possibility of escape. On April 9, Lee sent a message to Grant announcing his willingness to surrender. The two generals met in the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home at one o'clock in the afternoon.
Lee and Grant, both holding the highest rank in their respective armies, had known each other slightly during the Mexican War and exchanged awkward personal inquiries. Characteristically, Grant arrived in his muddy field uniform while Lee had turned out in full dress attire, complete with sash and sword. Lee asked for the terms, and Grant hurriedly wrote them out. All officers and men were to be pardoned, and they would be sent home with their private property--most important, the horses, which could be used for a late spring planting. Officers would keep their side arms, and Lee's starving men would be given Union rations.
Shushing a band that had begun to play in celebration, General Grant told his officers, "The war is over. The Rebels are our countrymen again." Although scattered resistance continued for several weeks, for all practical purposes the Civil War had come to an end.
another good place for this kind of info is History.com
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_plane_crash
98 CAA
00 Virginia Beach;Camden I; Jones Beach III
05 Borgata Night I; Wachovia Center
06 Letterman Show; Webcast (guy in blue shirt), Camden I; DC
08 Camden I; Camden II; DC
09 Phillie III
10 MSG II
13 Wrigley Field
16 Phillie II
shit i gotta buy him a gift still :?
i have to say the coolest one of those was the spca being made
anyone have an extra ticket??
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
damn scalpers!
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
That's where I went. Love History.com and nationalgeographic.com
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
1606 England adopted the Union Jack as its flag.
1861 The Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
1877 The catcher for Harvard's baseball team, James Tyng, wore a modified fencing mask behind the plate. It is believed to be the first time a catcher's mask was used during a game.
1955 The Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective.
1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the Earth once before making a safe landing.
1981 The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its first test flight.
1983 Harold Washington was elected Chicago's first African-American mayor.
1999 U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony in a lawsuit filed by Paula Jones about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned under pressure from the country's divided military. (He was returned to office two days later.)
2004 Barry Bonds hit his 660th home run to tie Willie Mays for third on baseball's career list. (Bonds is now the career leader in home runs.)
2009 American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips was rescued from Somali pirates by U.S. Navy snipers who shot and killed three of the hostage-takers.
April 11: General Interest
1814 : Napoleon exiled to Elba
On this day in 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
The future emperor was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769. After attending military school, he fought during the French Revolution of 1789 and rapidly rose through the military ranks, leading French troops in a number of successful campaigns throughout Europe in the late 1700s. By 1799, he had established himself at the top of a military dictatorship. In 1804, he became emperor of France and continued to consolidate power through his military campaigns, so that by 1810 much of Europe came under his rule. Although Napoleon developed a reputation for being power-hungry and insecure, he is also credited with enacting a series of important political and social reforms that had a lasting impact on European society, including judiciary systems, constitutions, voting rights for all men and the end of feudalism. Additionally, he supported education, science and literature. His Code Napoleon, which codified key freedoms gained during the French Revolution, such as religious tolerance, remains the foundation of French civil law.
In 1812, thinking that Russia was plotting an alliance with England, Napoleon launched an invasion against the Russians that eventually ended with his troops retreating from Moscow and much of Europe uniting against him. In 1814, Napoleon's broken forces gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. When this offer was rejected, he abdicated and was sent to Elba. In March 1815, he escaped his island exile and returned to Paris, where he regained supporters and reclaimed his emperor title, Napoleon I, in a period known as the Hundred Days. However, in June 1815, he was defeated at the bloody Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon's defeat ultimately signaled the end of France's domination of Europe. He abdicated for a second time and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena, in the southern Atlantic Ocean, where he lived out the rest of his days. He died at age 52 on May 5, 1821, possibly from stomach cancer, although some theories contend he was poisoned.
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TERRY FOX STARTED HIS MARATHON OF HOPE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRfHLthGd90
30 years ago today...
Dude!!!! There are some really old 10c members on here.. 1900 ???? Holy shit !!!
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i think he's only a hero to canadians mostly...
1943 : Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered
In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds. After taking the drug, formally known as lysergic acid diethylamide, Dr. Hoffman was disturbed by unusual sensations and hallucinations. In his notes, he related the experience:
"Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant, intoxicated-like condition characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away."
After intentionally taking the drug again to confirm that it had caused this strange physical and mental state, Dr. Hoffman published a report announcing his discovery, and so LSD made its entry into the world as a hallucinogenic drug. Widespread use of the so-called "mind-expanding" drug did not begin until the 1960s, when counterculture figures such as Albert M. Hubbard, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey publicly expounded on the benefits of using LSD as a recreational drug. The manufacture, sale, possession, and use of LSD, known to cause negative reactions in some of those who take it, were made illegal in the United States in 1965.
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1775 Paul Revere began his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
1923 The first baseball game was played at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, with New York beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
1942 An air squadron led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1946 The League of Nations went out of business.
1949 The Irish Republic was proclaimed.
1955 Physicist Albert Einstein died at age 76.
1956 Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1978 The U.S. Senate voted 68-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control in 1999.
1983 A suicide bomber killed 63 people, including 17 Americans, at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1989 Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.
1999 Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time leading scorer, played his last professional game, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
2004 Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ordered a withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.
2006 Actor Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes had a baby girl, Suri.
2007 The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld a federal ban on a medical procedure that opponents calls partial-birth abortion.
Some really important events took place on this day...
and my Son Rusty won both of them.......yeah very proud,he crashed in practis and his knee swelled up pretty good but he raced anyway, LOL !! I told him that pain is weakness leaving the body..he didn't agree right away
but changed his mind when he got the money for the Pro Am purse
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