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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5208 on: July 08, 2025, 08:38:52 AM »
1778 George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army

1792 France declares war on Prussia


1816 Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts during "year without a summer"

1822 Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom

1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade

1889 John L. Sullivan successfully defends the last officially sanctioned bare-knuckle world heavyweight prizefighting championship when Jake Kilrain's trainer throws in the towel after 75 one-minute rounds near Hattiesburg, Mississippi

1889 Wall Street Journal begins publishing

1891 61°F, highest temperature for July 1891, in Baltimore and Philadelphia

1923 Warren G. Harding becomes 1st sitting US President to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)

1928 Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader

1950 33.4 cm rainfall at York, Nebraska (state record)

1950 General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief of UN forces in Korea

1969 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam

1982 Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager

1988 Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3)

1988 Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992; he does not follow through

1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed

2010 During 1st round of the John Deere Classic, Paul Goydos becomes the 4th and oldest player in PGA Tour history to shoot 59; round included 12 birdies and 6 pars

2012 Ernest Borgnine,Award-winning actor - From Here To Eternity, McHale's Navy; The Poseidon Adventure, dies from renal failure at 95

2015 The New York Stock Exchange stops trading for nearly four hours due to a technical error

2015 Ken Stabler, American Pro Football HOF quarterback (4 x Pro Bowl; NFL MVP, First-team All-Pro 1974; Super Bowl 1976; Oakland Raiders), dies of colon cancer at 69

2015 The NFL's Washington Redskins have their trademark vacated on the grounds it may cause offence to native Americans

2019 US financier Jeffrey Epstein indicted on further charges of sex trafficking of minors

2020 Americans and Polynesians made contact around 1200 A.D. according to new genomic study in "Nature"; people from eastern Polynesia had DNA from indigenous Colombia

2021 MLB Padres relief pitcher Daniel Camarena gets his first hit, in his second career at bat - a grand slam - against Washington Nationals' Max Scherzer, in San Diego

2022 Tony Sirico, American actor (The Sopranos - "Paulie Walnuts"; Cop Land; Family Guy), dies at 79




"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games" - Ernest Hemingway

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5209 on: July 10, 2025, 11:20:38 AM »


Apollo 9, can you imagine standing on your head like that?

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5210 on: July 10, 2025, 02:03:36 PM »


Apollo 9, can you imagine standing on your head like that?
Zero gravity at that point.  They were testing the LEM in space in Earth Orbit.  A10 took it down almost to the surface but didn't land.  It pisses me off grievously when people claim we did not land on the moon.  

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5211 on: July 10, 2025, 03:39:00 PM »
you have evidence?
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5212 on: July 10, 2025, 09:05:41 PM »
No amount of evidence would convince the deniers and flat earthers otherwise. 

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5213 on: July 11, 2025, 08:07:00 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Skylab Returns to Earth (1979)
Five years after it was abandoned in orbit, the US space laboratory Skylab began to fall back toward Earth. The impending re-entry and breakup became an international media event, as it was unclear exactly when or where the debris would land. News organizations went so far as to offer rewards for surviving pieces of the spacecraft. The debris finally crashed to Earth in Western Australia, earning NASA a $400 fine for littering from the Shire of Esperance.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5214 on: July 11, 2025, 09:33:26 AM »
  It pisses me off grievously when people claim we did not land on the moon. 
I see these, um, debates? on Facebook fairly often, they get pretty intense.  I don't care if someone doesn't believe, or does believe, in whatever.

For me, it's an indication of how humans evaluate information.

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« Reply #5215 on: July 11, 2025, 09:56:19 AM »
For me, it's an indication of how humans evaluate information.
or pervert it,pretty sure all those spacemen weren't in on the fix though
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« Reply #5216 on: July 11, 2025, 10:06:09 AM »
that's why some disappeared!?!?
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« Reply #5217 on: July 11, 2025, 10:54:41 AM »
1798 US Marine Corps formally established as a distinct military branch by an Act of Congress signed by President John Adams

1804 Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel

1882 British fleet bombards Alexandria, Egypt

1914 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth makes his MLB debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and earns a 4-3 win against the Cleveland Naps at Fenway Park

1944 Franklin Roosevelt announces he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States

1952 General Eisenhower nominated as Republican US presidential candidate

1969 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" nine days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon

1976 In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks & Wedlocks"

1985 Astros' Nolan Ryan becomes the first to strike out 4,000 batters (Mets' Danny Heep)

1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor

1989 President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All-Star Game

1990 NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)

"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games" - Ernest Hemingway

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5218 on: July 11, 2025, 01:36:32 PM »
July 5, 1946: On this date in 1946, a French engineer called Louis Réard unveiled an outfit "smaller than the world's smallest swimsuit." It arrived with a bang, so named after the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll, and remains popular to this day. Here's a photo of Micheline Bernardini modeling one of Réard's original bikini's in 1946.

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5219 on: July 11, 2025, 02:01:38 PM »
Why am I not surprised the French invented bikinis?

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« Reply #5220 on: July 12, 2025, 07:54:53 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

King Henry VIII of England Marries Sixth and Last Wife, Catherine Parr (1543)
By 1543, Henry VIII had had five marriages, which respectively ended in one divorce, one annulment, and three deaths—two by beheading. He then married Parr, his sixth and final wife. She had a good influence on the increasingly paranoid king—her third husband—and developed close friendships with his children, even acting as guardian of one of Henry's daughters after his death in 1547.
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« Reply #5221 on: July 12, 2025, 09:45:23 AM »
40 years ago today, Coca-Cola corrected a potential brand-damaging decision of creating a new recipe in April 1985. The switch from the original formula sparked outrage nationwide with many boycotting the beverage company. 79 days later, they announced the return of the original recipe and rebranded it as a "classic recipe." Those hoarding as many as 900 bottles in their basements could stop their self-imposed rationing and begin to drink the product as they always had — as often as they'd like. Coca-Cola Classic is still sold using the recipe from 1886, with minor tweaks.

 

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