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I remember Fran the Man being WAY better than Roger the Dodger

Oh really?  So he must have won at least 3 Superbowls then, right?  'Cause Roger won 2, so Fran had to have won 3 or more, right?

I mean, surely he's not one of those clowns that went 0-3 in the Superbowl, right?

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Iran Hostage Crisis Begins (1979)
In 1979, an Islamic revolutionary government overthrew Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi of Iran. When the exiled shah was admitted to the US for medical treatment, a crowd of about 500 seized the US embassy in Tehran, demanding the shah's extradition. US President Jimmy Carter halted Iranian oil imports and froze Iranian assets, but his diplomatic initiatives proved fruitless, and a US rescue mission failed. Fifty-two hostages were held for 444 days until the end of the crisis in 1981.

On this Day in History
1900 Martin Dies, American politician is born in Colorado City, Texas (d. 1972) How's that for Weird History

1900 Under US military control since the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898, Cuba now calls its own constitutional convention

1905 Roald Amundsen reaches Eagle City, Alaska, to announce to the world by telegraph his is the first expedition, in 400 years of attempts, to complete a Northwest Passage

1911 Roy Rogers [Leonard Stye], American cowboy actor and country music singer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1998)

1912 Democrat candidate Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive candidate Theodore Roosevelt

1913 Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria

1913 Vivien Leigh,English actress (Gone With The Wind; A Streetcar Named Desire), born in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, India(d.1967)

1917 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time

1925 British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') is executed in a forest near Moscow by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union

1935 Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly

Nov 5,1939 - Germany,A plot to arrest or even kill Adolf Hitler, hatched by of his most senior military staff, collapsed. Led by General Franz Halder, the architect of the invasion of Poland, many Generals were appalled by Hitler's plans to continue the conflict by invading Belgium and the Netherlands and feared that the adventure would founder in another Great War quagmire.

1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for an unprecedented third term, defeating Republican candidate Wendell Willkie

1943 The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the rail yards and oil facilities at Gelsenkirchen, Germany. 

1944 The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Frankfurt, Germany.(seems like The USAAF 306th Bomb Group liked to attack on this day)

1947 Peter Noone, British pop-rock singer, sometimes known as "Herman" (Herman's Hermits - "I'm Into Something Good"; "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter"), born in Davyhulme, Lancashire, England

1952 Bill Walton American Basketball Hall of Fame center, Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics, born in La Mesa, California (d.2024)

1959 Bryan Adams,Canadian Juno and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter ("Heaven"; "Run To You"), born in Kingston, Ontario

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederate States of America (1861)
As a US senator, Davis advocated states' rights but tried to discourage secession. Still, when Mississippi seceded, he resigned from the Senate, was appointed major general of the Mississippi militia, and soon was chosen to be president of the Confederacy. After Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered without Davis's approval in 1865, Davis fled Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, hoping to continue the fight until he could secure better terms from the North.

Forgot to mention that Davis was a Democrat before he was a traitor.

While we’re based in Wyoming, Idaho[/iurl] is a short jaunt away and we here at See Jackson Hole also love covering our close and wonderful neighbors to the west. So, while you pack your bags, here's a few things to mull over about the state...
Boise means "wooded" in French, since the earliest fur trappers, being French-Canadians, exclaimed the phrase with joy upon finding the spot with a great river.
The state motto is "Esto Perpetua", which means "It is forever".
The Salmon River is the longest free-flowing river that heads and flows within a single state
Idaho has a state horse, the Appaloosa, and state fish, the prized cutthroat trout. It also has a state fruit...the huckleberry!
The Center of the Universe is found there, in Wallace, population 800. Even has a manhole cover marking the exact spot.
It's called the Gem State because of the 72 types of precious and semi-precious stones found here, including possibly the largest diamond ever found in the US!
One of the world's rare blue football fields can be found at BSU, nicknamed the Smurf Turf.
The first alpine chairlift was used in Sun Valley, and in 1936 the fee was 25 cents per ride.
Idaho's Hell's Canyon is the deepest gorge in the US, deeper even than the Grand Canyon. And Shoshone Falls near Twin Falls drops 52 feet farther than Niagara Falls.
And Idaho has the largest hops farm in the world, Elk Mountain Farms, which grows its crop for Anheuser-Busch.

That's Wilt, right?