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MrNubbz

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5306 on: Today at 07:33:38 AM »
1861 First Battle of Bull Run [Battle of First Manassas], the first major battle of the US Civil War, is fought near Manassas, Virginia, and ends in a Confederate victory

1904 After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian Railway is completed

1853 Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island

1865 In Springfield's market square in Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown

1873 Jesse James and James Younger gang's 1st train robbery at Adair, Iowa

1899 Ernest Hemingway American author (The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel Prize for Literature -1954), born in Oak Park, Illinois

1919 Anthony Fokker establishes his new aircraft company, the Dutch Aircraft Factory in Amsterdam(Those Fokker's were Messerschmidts)

1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 in Chicago, Illinois

1924 Don Knotts, American actor (Andy Griffth Show, 3's Company), born in Morgantown, West Virginia

1930 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)

1934 113°F (45°C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)

1949 Al Hrabosky(The Mad Hungarian) MLB player (St. Louis Cardinals), born in Oakland, California

1951 Robin Williams actor and comedian,born in Chicago, Illinois

1967 Basil Rathbone,South African born British actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 75

1972 In New York 57 murders occur in 24 hours

1972 MLB Los Angeles Dodgers release knuckleball pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, ending his career

1975 NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays

1978 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St. Bernard, pulls a 2,909-kg load 27 meters

1983 World's lowest-ever natural temperature is recorded: -89.2°C (-128.6°F; 184.0 K) at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica

1989 Mike Tyson KOs Carl "The Truth" Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title

1998 Alan Shepard,1st American in space, dies of leukemia at 74

1991 Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck, Jr are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York

2017 Singer Justin Bieber is barred from performing in China by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture, citing his "bad behavior"(evidently Tiananmen is OK)

2022 US President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19(Brains scans came back normal,though)

2023 Tony Bennett American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop and jazz singer dies at 96.

2024 US President Joe Biden abandons his campaign for re-election and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris


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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5307 on: Today at 08:35:04 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Lowest Temperature in History Recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (1983)
Located near the magnetic South Pole, Russia's Vostok Research Station in Antarctica experiences three straight months of polar night every year from April to August, a period during which the Sun does not rise. In 1983, in the dead of southern winter and polar night, Vostok experienced the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth, a chilling -128.56 degrees F (-89.2 degrees C). December 1989 was the warmest month ever recorded at Vostok.
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« Reply #5308 on: Today at 09:18:44 AM »
Launched on this date, July 21, in 1961, Mercury-Redstone 4, which carried Gus Grissom in his Liberty Bell 7 capsule on the second US suborbital manned mission. The flight lasted 15 minutes 30 seconds, reached an altitude of more than 190 km (118 mi), and flew 486 km (302 mi) downrange, landing in the Atlantic Ocean. All went as expected until just after splashdown, when the hatch cover, designed to release explosively in the event of an emergency, accidentally blew. Grissom was at risk of drowning, but was recovered safely via a U.S. Navy helicopter. The spacecraft sank to the bottom of the ocean and was not recovered until 1999.

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« Reply #5309 on: Today at 09:22:24 AM »
Also fake.

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