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FearlessF · « **Reply #5572 on:** September 07, 2025, 09:15:11 PM »

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
Tupac Shakur Is Shot (1996)
In 1996, Shakur, an American rap star and actor, was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting while stopped at a red light on the Las Vegas strip. He died six days later. The 25-year-old Shakur had been involved in a violent rivalry between the East and West Coast rap scenes and had survived another shooting less than two years earlier. His killer has never been identified. However, some suspect that it was a man who had been in a public altercation with Shakur hours before the shooting

FearlessF · « **Reply #5573 on:** September 08, 2025, 07:40:40 AM »

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
Star Trek Premieres (1966)
Though the original Star Trek series was cancelled in its third season, the groundbreaking show—in which William Shatner's memorable Captain Kirk leads the crew of the starship Enterprise—developed a cult following of "Trekkies." Over the next four decades, the influential science-fiction franchise spawned five more Star Trek series, more than 10 feature films, and myriad conventions. Its motto, "to boldly go where no man has gone before,"

MrNubbz · « **Reply #5574 on:** September 08, 2025, 09:11:38 AM »

Horace Prettyman(how's that for a name) (1857-1945) was a Michigan football hero in the 1880s, when the sport had scarcely begun. Tall and strong, he had movie-star looks before there were movies — dark eyes, brooding brows, and a full but well-regulated moustache. He scored Michigan’s first-ever home-field touchdown, and he was the only Wolverine ever elected captain for three years.

But his larger impact came later, as host and father figure to a generation of Michigan students.

Prettyman came to Ann Arbor from a farm in Bryan, Ohio, when he was already in his early 20s. For a year or two he attended Ann Arbor High. Then he entered Michigan, where he threw the hammer for the track team, boxed, and wrestled. But those were just for fun. Football was the main thing.

According to the Michigan Daily, he was the first Ohioan to play the sport for Michigan. And he soon was a leader, first as a “rusher” then a “forward.”

In true Michigan Football fashion he was attending High School in his 20s

MrNubbz · « **Reply #5575 on:** **Today** at 09:25:31 AM »

1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies)

1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his influential essay "Nature" in the US, outlining his beliefs in transcendentalism

1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek, NY, killing 300

1841 Tom Hyer beats George McChester in 101 rounds (2 hours and 55 minutes) at Caldwell's Landing, NY, to become the first American heavyweight boxing champion

1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first state of the Union

1904 The Boston Herald again refers to the NY baseball club as Yankees when it reports "Yankees take 2," although the Yankee name is not official until 1913

1908 Orville Wright makes the first hour-long airplane flight, lasting 62 minutes and 15 seconds at Fort Myer, Virginia

1909 Edward Henry Harriman, American leading railroad builder (Union Pacific Railroad Company), dies at 61

1915 A. G. Spalding, American Baseball HOF pitcher, manager and executive, dies at 66

1919 The hydrofoil designed by Alexander Graham Bell, his wife Mabel Bell, and F.W. Casey Baldwin sets a new water speed record of 114 km/h on Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia

1936 New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians, 12-9 at League Park to clinch AL pennant on the earliest date in history

1944 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg

1954 Indians become first Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season

1955 Don Zimmer hits the 4,000th home run for the Dodgers. I can't picture that,thought he was just a fat guy from the minors

1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, establishing the first federal safety standards for vehicles and roads

1969 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collides with a Piper Cherokee above Indiana, killing all 83 occupants

1971 Apple Records releases John Lennon's second solo studio album, "Imagine," in the US; it tops the charts in the US, UK, Australia

1976 Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), dies of a heart attack at 82

1986 Minnesota's Tommy Kramer passes for six touchdowns against Green Bay, 42-7

1987 Gary Hart admits on "Nightline" to cheating on his wife

1987 Larry Bird of the Celtics begins an NBA free throw streak of 59 consecutive successful shots

1987 MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter

1992 MLB player Robin Yount is the 17th to reach 3,000 hits

1997 Burgess Meredith,stage and screen actor, dies at 88

1997 Richie Ashburn, Baseball Hall of Fame infielder and sportscaster, dies of a heart attack at 70

2003 Hungarian-American physicist, father of the Hydrogen bomb (Manhattan Project), dies at 95

2003 Larry Hovis, American actor (Hogan's Heroes), dies at 67

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months

2018 Green Bay Packers start their 100th season with a historic 24-23 comeback win over the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field

2021 Tom Brady becomes the first player in NFL history to start 300 regular-season games as he guides the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an opening day 31-29 win at home against the Dallas Cowboys

2021 US President Joe Biden announces widespread COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal workers, contractors, and large employers, affecting 100 million people

2024 James Earl Jones, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, and Golden Globe winning actor, dies at 93

FearlessF · « **Reply #5576 on:** **Today** at 10:29:25 AM »

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
9-Month-Old Mary Stuart Is Crowned "Queen of Scots" (1543)
When King James V of Scotland died in 1542, his two sons had already died in infancy and his only surviving child—a daughter—was just a week old. The infant Mary Queen of Scots was crowned nine months later in an elaborate coronation at Stirling Castle, where she would spend her early years. Laden with regal robes, the tiny sovereign cried throughout the entire ceremony. Soon thereafter, King Henry VIII of England attacked Scotland

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