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« Reply #5320 on: July 23, 2025, 10:13:23 AM »
1579 Francis Drake departs San Francisco to cross the Pacific Ocean

1632 Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France - in present day Canada

1664 Four British ships arrive in Boston to drive the Dutch out of New York

1777 King Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply the United States with munitions during the American Revolution

1777 Polish military leader Casimir Pulaski arrives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, to volunteer in the Continental Army cavalry

1829 William Austin Burt patents America's first typewriter, the typographer

1866 Cincinnati Baseball Club (Red Stockings) forms

1885  Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President and Union general, dies in Mount McGregor NY at 63

1886 American civilian Steve Brodie allegedly survives a 135-foot plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge

1894 Arthur Treacher, British character actor, TV announcer/sidekick (The Merv Griffin Show, 1965-70), and fish and chips restaurant namesake, born in Brighton, England

1900 The Canadian government reviews immigration policy, prohibiting criminals and paupers from landing in Canada

1904 Ice cream cone is created during the St. Louis World's Fair, reputedly first by Charles E. Menches

1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his first of 23 career grand slams

1936 Don Drysdale American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher 3 World Series9 x MLB All Star; Cy Young Award 1962; Brooklyn/LA Dodgers, born in Los Angeles, California

1944 Helmuth James von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed by the Nazis for treason at 37

1940 Don Imus, American radio talk show host (WNBC), born in Riverside, California

1944 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WWII

1944 US troops occupy Pisa, Italy

1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 km/h

1961 Woody Harrelson, American Emmy Award-winning actor,Cheers,Natural Born Killers,Midway  born in Midland, Texas

1965 Slash English-American rock guitarist and songwriter, Guns N' Roses, born in Stoke-on-Trent, England

1971 Alison Krauss American bluegrass singer and fiddler, born in Decatur, Illinois

1973 Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern, born in San Francisco, California

1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, American aviator "Ace of Aces" (WWI), dies at 82

1973 US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation

1978 MLB Philadelphia Phillies' Steve Carlton becomes the 78th MLB pitcher to win 200 games

1979 George Brett of the Kansas City Royals achieves his 1,000th career hit in Major League Baseball

1983 Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a successful deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba, earning the nickname "Gimli Glider"

1984 KC Royals Dan Quisenberry achieves his 200th career save

1989 Ringo Starr's first All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include Joe Walsh, Nils Lofgren, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Clarence Clemons, Dr. John, Billy Preston, and Jim Keltner

1994 All 40,000 ceiling tiles in the Kingdome must be replaced

2000 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Tiger Woods beats Thomas Bjørn and Ernie Els by eight shots to win his first Open title and becomes the youngest player at only 24 to win all four major titles

2011 Amy Winehouse British singer-songwriter ("Stronger Than Me"; "Rehab"), dies from alcohol poisoning at 27

2021 MLB Cleveland Indians announce team will be renamed the Guardians (bad move)

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5321 on: July 23, 2025, 10:19:25 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 23, 2025, 09:15:03 AM
I'm not sure how it mattered given it was night and the ship was flying along. 

Maybe.
Prolly not as it was a clear night and I'm sure they had and axe on board or hammer and chisel if they wanted them bad enough.But the surviving lookout stated in following inquiry that he would have been able to see the Iceberg with the binoculars
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« Reply #5322 on: July 23, 2025, 10:23:04 AM »
he survived!?!?!
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« Reply #5323 on: July 24, 2025, 08:32:09 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

First Ascent of the Eiger's North Face (1938)
Switzerland's Eiger mountain was first summited in 1858, but the sheer north face of the 13,025-foot (3,970-m) Alpine peak was not successfully climbed until 1938, when two independent pairs of climbers met on the face, joined forces, and reached the summit as a team. It has been climbed many times since, sadly with many fatalities, which, due to the cliff's high visibility, occur in full view of nearby villages.
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« Reply #5324 on: July 24, 2025, 01:08:45 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 23, 2025, 10:23:04 AM
he survived!?!?!
Evidently you missed "the look out on the Titanic was transferred at the last minute from the ship forgot to leave the keys for binocular locker"
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« Reply #5325 on: July 24, 2025, 01:13:30 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on July 23, 2025, 10:13:23 AM
1579 Francis Drake departs San Francisco to cross the Pacific Ocean
Well...not really. Drake departed Northern California, close to San Francisco--a little to the north, closer to Point Reyes--but he did not actually get to San Francisco, or even the San Francisco Bay. Remarkably, the San Francisco Bay was "discovered" (i.e., mapped by non-indigenous peoples) in 1776. Europeans had been up and down the Pacific coastline many times, but had never mapped the mouth of the bay. This is particularly surprising because the Spanish mapped the Monterey Bay, just a little ways south, in 1602.
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« Reply #5326 on: July 24, 2025, 01:20:17 PM »
Lazy Brits.

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« Reply #5327 on: July 24, 2025, 01:47:39 PM »
1660 Great Fire of 1660 in Constantinople: two-thirds of the city is destroyed, including 280,000 wooden houses, with a death toll of around 40,000

1847 Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah

1866 Tennessee becomes the first Confederate state readmitted to the Union

1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas

1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, killing 852 people

1931 A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, kills 48 people

1936 118°F (48°C) recorded in Minden, Nebraska (state record)

1936 121°F (49°C) recorded near Alton, Kansas (state record)

1944 300 Allied bombers drop firebombs on German positions at Saint-Lô, France. But 77 planes released their bombs too soon & they dropped on their own positions killing General Lesley J. McNair by friendly fire during the bombing. 111 US soldiers were killed, including McNair, and another 490 were wounded. Among those who survived the bombing was famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle. He said it was “the most sustained horrible thing I've ever gone through”. The day before, another such incident had happened where 25 were killed and 130 wounded. It was not uncommon for enraged US infantry to fire on US planes during such incidents.

1952 112°F (44°C) recorded in Louisville, Georgia (state record)

1958 Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again

1968 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game breaking Cy Young's record for pitching appearances

1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankees manager after saying "one is a born liar, the other a convicted one" about Steinbrenner and Jackson

1983 Pine Tar Game: George Brett's home run is disallowed against the Yankees (overturned)

2024 Wildfire destroys much of the historic Canadian town of Jasper, Alberta, inside Jasper National Park
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« Reply #5328 on: July 24, 2025, 02:06:52 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on July 24, 2025, 01:47:39 PM
1660 Great Fire of 1660 in Constantinople: two-thirds of the city is destroyed, including 280,000 wooden houses, with a death toll of around 40,000

1847 Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah

1866 Tennessee becomes the first Confederate state readmitted to the Union

1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas

1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, killing 852 people

1931 A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, kills 48 people

1936 118°F (48°C) recorded in Minden, Nebraska (state record)

1936 121°F (49°C) recorded near Alton, Kansas (state record)

1944 300 Allied bombers drop firebombs on German positions at Saint-Lô, France. But 77 planes released their bombs too soon & they dropped on their own positions killing General Lesley J. McNair by friendly fire during the bombing. 111 US soldiers were killed, including McNair, and another 490 were wounded. Among those who survived the bombing was famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle. He said it was “the most sustained horrible thing I've ever gone through”. The day before, another such incident had happened where 25 were killed and 130 wounded. It was not uncommon for enraged US infantry to fire on US planes during such incidents.

1952 112°F (44°C) recorded in Louisville, Georgia (state record)

1958 Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again

1968 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game breaking Cy Young's record for pitching appearances

1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankees manager after saying "one is a born liar, the other a convicted one" about Steinbrenner and Jackson

1983 Pine Tar Game: George Brett's home run is disallowed against the Yankees (overturned)

2024 Wildfire destroys much of the historic Canadian town of Jasper, Alberta, inside Jasper National Park
No it didn't.
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« Reply #5329 on: July 24, 2025, 02:11:38 PM »
Went to Canada a lot never there take it up with the site
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« Reply #5330 on: July 24, 2025, 02:17:55 PM »
It sank while docked in the Chicago River.
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« Reply #5331 on: July 24, 2025, 02:21:13 PM »
thought you were talking about the wildfire - that was huge
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« Reply #5332 on: July 24, 2025, 02:25:38 PM »
1944 300 Allied bombers drop firebombs on German positions at Saint-Lô, France. But 77 planes released their bombs too soon & they dropped on their own positions killing General Lesley J. McNair by friendly fire during the bombing. 111 US soldiers were killed, including McNair, and another 490 were wounded. Among those who survived the bombing was famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle. He said it was “the most sustained horrible thing I've ever gone through”. The day before, another such incident had happened where 25 were killed and 130 wounded. It was not uncommon for enraged US infantry to fire on US planes during such incidents.



We had lunch in St. Lo a while back, I was interested in seeing some history, our server nodded at me and said "It's all gone.".  
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« Reply #5333 on: July 25, 2025, 10:19:12 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Bob Dylan Plugs In (1965)
At the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, erstwhile acoustic folk musician Bob Dylan performed with an electric guitar for the first time, marking a major shift in his career. The move did not go over well. Expecting an acoustic set like his two previous ones at Newport, the audience was caught off guard by Dylan's apparent betrayal of the folk genre, and some fans booed him loudly. His first appearance at the festival, in 1963, constituted his premiere national performance.
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