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Champion Race Horse Abducted, Never to be Seen Again (1983)
Two years after his record-setting win at the Epsom Derby, the acclaimed Irish racehorse Shergar was loaded into a trailer at gunpoint and abducted by a gang of masked men. At that time, the retired 1981 "European Horse of the Year" commanded a stud fee upwards of £50,000 and was thus extremely valuable. The horse's owners refused to pay the demanded ransom, and police were unable to find him. Shergar was never seen again.

1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle at age 44 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot

1627 Gunpowder is used in a mining operation instead of mechanical tools in present-day Slovakia, reportedly the first time explosives had been used in mining

1855 The Smithsonian Institution Building 'The Castle' first opens to the public on the Mall in Washington D.C.

1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)

1896 Western Conference forms to be first Western college football season, later renamed Big 10 Conference

1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce

1915 "The Birth of a Nation" the first 12-reel film in America, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Mae Marsh, premieres at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles

1918 "Stars & Stripes,", weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published

1923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120

1930 "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1

1931 Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000

1936 First-ever NFL Draft: Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago is first pick by Philadelphia Eagles

1936 German alpine skier Christi Cranz wins the inaugural Olympic women’s combined gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games ahead of teammate Käthe Grasegger

1945 Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach

1948 Canada beats Switzerland 3-0, to regain the Olympic ice hockey title at the St. Moritz Winter Games; forward Walter Halder top scores with 29 points in Canada’s 5th Olympic title

1960 Boston Celtics center Bill Russell was the first NBA player to record 50 or more rebounds in a single game

1963 AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs

1965 President Johnson deploys 1st US combat troops to South Vietnam, with 3500 marines sent to protect key US airbase near Da Nang

1969 Last edition of American magazine "Saturday Evening Post"

1971 Royal Albert Hall cancels scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa, due to concerns about indecent lyrics

1974 Three US astronauts return to Earth after a 85 days in the US space station, Skylab

1982 Los Angeles Dodgers trade 2B Davey Lopes to Oakland A's, breaking up MLB's longest-playing infield (Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey) after 8 1/2 seasons

1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine

1996 NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to leave the Browns' name behind

2013 A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights, and loss of power for 900,000 people

February 10, 2021 - Joe Kelly, U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska, submitted his resignation in February 2021 after the Department of Justice and President Joe Biden asked for the resignation of all U.S. attorneys as they began the process of replacing appointees with those of the new administration.

Kelly was appointed U.S. attorney for Nebraska by President Trump and served for more than three years.

I was just playing that vinyl long playing album on the stereo hi-fi last night.

I first heard these songs when we went to see Black Sabbath. This unknown band from LA came out and we were all "who the F are these guys". They were awesome. So much energy. 

And then Ozzy came out. Talk about a bummer.

I liked Sabbath a lot. Ozzy just got sloppy and drugged out and got fired for it. His wife really saved his ass.

I liked his solo stuff very much, and I liked Sabbath with Dio and then even more with Ian Gillan.

Slight gap in our age makes all the difference.