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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5194 on: July 06, 2025, 10:50:26 AM »
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« Reply #5195 on: July 06, 2025, 01:24:47 PM »
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« Reply #5196 on: July 06, 2025, 02:01:53 PM »

1916 The second of four fatal Jersey Shore shark attacks occurs at Spring Lake when Charles Bruder (27) bleeds to death, five days after the first

1923 The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1933 "Nertsery Rhymes" short film starring Ted Healy and His Stooges premieres, one of the first film appearance of The Three Stooges

1936 114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)

1936 121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)

1943 2nd day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: 25,000 Germans killed

1944 US General George S. Patton lands in France

1944 World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut, killing at least 167 people and injuring 700 in one of the worst fire disasters in US history

1945 Abbott and Costello's film "The Naughty Nineties" released; features longest version of their "Who's on First?" routine

1949 Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes

2020 Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes agrees to the largest contract for an athlete in sports history, inking a 12-year deal that could end up being worth US$503 million
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« Reply #5197 on: Today at 07:36:45 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
Samantha Smith Visits the Soviet Union (1983)
In 1982, Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old American girl, wrote a letter to the newly elected leader of the USSR, Yuri Andropov, asking if he intended to start a war. Andropov replied personally. Expressing a desire for lasting peace with the US, he invited Smith to visit. The following July, she and her parents spent two weeks in the USSR amidst a media frenzy that hailed her as a goodwill ambassador. After her death in a plane crash two years later, she was honored by both nations
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« Reply #5198 on: Today at 07:37:11 AM »
I don't remember that but, I was pretty busy in 1983
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« Reply #5199 on: Today at 08:53:15 AM »
Andropov wasn't around long.  I remember sitting on a bus next to an old guy reading the newspaper.  He read that Andropov was hospitalized for kidney failure and underwent a transplant.  The old guy remarked that Andropov didn't have much trouble finding a donor on short notice.
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« Reply #5200 on: Today at 09:13:08 AM »
and he still dropped of
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« Reply #5201 on: Today at 10:09:59 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on Today at 07:36:45 AM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
Samantha Smith Visits the Soviet Union (1983)
In 1982, Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old American girl, wrote a letter to the newly elected leader of the USSR, Yuri Andropov, asking if he intended to start a war. Andropov replied personally. Expressing a desire for lasting peace with the US, he invited Smith to visit. The following July, she and her parents spent two weeks in the USSR amidst a media frenzy that hailed her as a goodwill ambassador. After her death in a plane crash two years later, she was honored by both nations
I don't remember this at all, and I was an '80's kid.  
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« Reply #5202 on: Today at 10:28:07 AM »
I was in my junior year of college - I have a poor memory - probably because of my college years
I do remember the 1983 Husker football season pretty well.
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« Reply #5203 on: Today at 11:27:41 AM »
1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death

1865 Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are executed for their role in the conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln

1912 American athlete Jim Thorpe wins 4 of 5 events to win the Pentathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982

1923 Cleveland Indians set an AL record 27 runs including 13 in the 6th in 27-3 win v Boston Red Sox

1928 Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder; described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.

1930 Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam

1936 American businessman Henry F. Phillips receives patents for a new "cross-recessed" screw, and the new screwdriver needed to make it work

1941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion

1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident

1948 Cleveland Indians stun MLB by signing 42-year-old veteran Negro Leagues pitcher Satchel Paige

1961 James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters

1968 British rock group "Yardbirds" disbands; guitarist Jimmy Page recruits new members to fill concert commitments - the new group evolves into Led Zeppelin

1977 "The Spy Who Loved Me", 10th James Bond film starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, premieres in London

1997 Tower, Minnesota temperature dips to 24°F

2006 Cleveland Indians first baseman Travis Hafner becomes first player in MLB history to hit 5 grand slams before the All-Star break when he homers off Baltimore's Kris Benson

2022 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces his resignation at Downing Street after pressure from, and mass resignations of his ministers
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