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MrNubbz

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« Reply #5306 on: July 21, 2025, 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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« Reply #5307 on: July 21, 2025, 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: July 21, 2025, 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: July 21, 2025, 09:22:24 AM »
Also fake.

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« Reply #5310 on: July 22, 2025, 07:10:26 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Pablo Escobar Escapes from His Luxury Prison (1992)
By 1989, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was one of the world's richest men. At the height of his success, his Medellín cartel controlled 80% of the global cocaine market. Even after he was incarcerated, he continued to conduct business from the resort-like Colombian prison that had been built to his specifications. In 1992, in an effort to avoid extradition to the US, Escobar escaped. He was killed by police 16 months later.
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« Reply #5311 on: July 22, 2025, 08:59:52 AM »


I'm about finished with this and learned a few things.  It's a slog, more detail than I really need, but well written.  My take had been that the French were unwilling to go to war over Czechoslovakia, but at least initially they said they would if the Brits would follow suit.  I doubt they would have been aggressive, they weren't when Germany invaded Poland beyond a few miles of incursion swiftly retreated.

Britain was poorly prepared, but so was Germany at that time.  They feared having their cities bombed.  The French feared another WW One type battle, hence the Maginot Line.  Germany feared that their western frontier was almost bereft of defensive troops and fortifications.

So, plausibly WW 2 could have started a year earlier with similar outcomes, I don't know.  I doubt Germany attacks Poland while being at war with France at the time.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5312 on: July 22, 2025, 12:05:58 PM »
1955 Chevy truck engine, this is who we learned to fix things back in the day.

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« Reply #5313 on: July 22, 2025, 12:12:14 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 22, 2025, 12:05:58 PM
1955 Chevy truck engine, this is who we learned to fix things back in the day.


Now, when you open a hood like this, you just close it and make a phone call.

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« Reply #5314 on: July 22, 2025, 12:37:18 PM »
On this date in 1997 “The Maddux” was born: Greg Maddux delivered one of the most efficient pitching performances in history, throwing a complete game shutout on just 78 pitches. 

“Pitching a Maddux" now refers to a complete game in which the starter throws a complete game shutout with fewer than 100 pitches.

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« Reply #5315 on: July 22, 2025, 06:18:23 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cPvv2eW0Hcc?feature=share
Oops,the look out on the Titanic was transferred at the last minute from the ship forgot to leave the keys for binocular locker. And found out after the ship left port, evidently no one else had another set. Unfortunately they'd have come in handy a few days later
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« Reply #5316 on: July 23, 2025, 09:06:56 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Egyptian Revolution of 1952 Begins (1952)
The Egyptian Revolution was a coup d'état led by a group of army officers that overthrew Egypt's King Farouk I. Organized by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the "Free Officers Movement" decried the Egyptian monarchy as corrupt, pro-British, and ineffective and was incensed by Egypt's defeat in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Days after the coup began, Farouk abdicated and General Muhammad Naguib took over as leader of Egypt. The monarchy was later abolished, and a republic was declared.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5317 on: July 23, 2025, 09:15:03 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on July 22, 2025, 06:18:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cPvv2eW0Hcc?feature=share
Oops,the look out on the Titanic was transferred at the last minute from the ship forgot to leave the keys for binocular locker. And found out after the ship left port, evidently no one else had another set. Unfortunately they'd have come in handy a few days later
I'm not sure how it mattered given it was night and the ship was flying along.  

Maybe.
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« Reply #5318 on: July 23, 2025, 09:20:29 AM »
Pulled out of San Pedro late one night

The moon and the stars was shinin' bright
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« Reply #5319 on: July 23, 2025, 09:24:18 AM »
I finished the book on Munich with H and C, learned a few things.  I was pondering the alternate future where the French and Brits held firm and basically went to war.  There is some chance the German generals would have taken Hitler out, I think that chance is small, they were a lot of bold talk but ...

Then you kind of see what happened after Poland happening, the French maybe invading Germany a few miles and then pulling back into the Maginot Line, Czech falls in a month or less, and they drop into a stagnant "Phony War".  Hitler in this case would not have attacked Poland (yet) and would probably have gone after France in May 1939 instead of 1940.  

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