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Today in Cheap Trick history: 16 Feb – (1979) Performing at a show at Barbarella’s club in Birmingham, England, Cheap Trick were joined onstage during the encore by legendary British guests Dave Edmunds and Roy Wood.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

H. L. Hunley Becomes First Submarine to Sink an Enemy Warship (1864)
The US Civil War-era submarine Hunley required an eight-man crew—seven to power the propeller with a hand-crank and one to steer. Within months of its launch, the Confederate sub had sunk and been salvaged twice, taking the lives of five crewmen the first time and the entire crew the second. Manned with a new crew, Hunley became the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, yet the achievement was marred when the sub itself sank, killing all aboard yet again.

1219 Jerusalem is retaken by the Christian Crusader kingdom in a peace treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Egyptian ruler Al-Kamil

1685 Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay, forming the basis for France's claim to Texas

1804 Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, becomes the first U.S. land-grant college when it is chartered

1839 Detroit Boat Club forms and still exists

1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)

1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC

1878 John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jessie Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

1885 Mark Twain publishes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US

1893 The Barnum Museum opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut

1899 80°F recorded in San Francisco, California

1909 Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps

1922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his federal judgeship to give full attention to job as Major League Baseball Commissioner (not a bad move)

1927 US & Canada open diplomatic relations (good to get an early start i guess)

1943 Members of student non-violent resistance group "White Rose" arrested by Nazis after distributing pamphlets in Munich, Germany

1944 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall signs a contract to play baseball with the Cincinnati Reds just one day after playing in a high school basketball game; debuts later that year

1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania

1965 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting (not a bad move

1968 British guitarist David Gilmour joins progressive rock group Pink Floyd

1973 15th Daytona 500: Richard Petty wins his 4th Great American Race by more than 2 laps from Bobby Isaac

1979 -52°F (-47°C), Old Forge, New York (state record)

1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert

1981 Twenty-year-old Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky becomes the first player in NHL history to score five career hat tricks before age 21, scoring five goals and two assists in a 9-2 Oilers home win against St. Louis

1984 East German figure skater Katarina Witt wins first of 2 consecutive women's singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins gold in Calgary (1988)

1986 Anti-smoking ad airs for the first time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner; he dies of smoking-induced lung cancer on October 10, 1985

2004 A runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol, and fertilizer catches fire and explodes near Neyshabur in Iran, killing 295 people, including 182 rescue workers

2021 Nearly seven million people required to boil their water in Texas as unusually harsh winter storm in the state continues

2025 The royal tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose II (reigning from about 1493 to 1479 BC) is discovered west of the Valley of the Kings, the first tomb of a pharaoh found since Tutankhamun in 1922

can you imagine the cowboys speaking french?

SACRE' BLUE
Good thing they speak fluent redneck like the rest of us

1803 US Congress accepts Ohio's bid for statehood, but neglects to ratify their constitution; oversight not corrected until 1953 (so a state of confusion)

1878 Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his cylinder phonograph

1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages (not only bleeding Kansas but thirsty to)

1906 Will Keith Kellogg joins Charles D. Bolin in founding the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg's

1913 First prize is inserted into a Cracker Jack box

1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance

1942 FDR orders the detention and internment of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast

1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in two days on Ramree Island, Burma

1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines

1952 American defending champion Dick Button becomes 1st figure-skater to land a triple jump in competition

1970 AL Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking

1977 Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover of Bruce Springsteen's song "Blinded By The Light" goes to #1

1983 Baseball pitcher Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million

1984 26th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough wins for 2nd consecutive year and 4th time in career; last-lap pass to beat Darrell Waltrip

1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashes approaching Bilbao, Spain

2024 Brightest known object in the universe identified as a quasar, 500 trillion x brighter than the sun, powered by a supermassive black hole that devours a sun-sized mass every day (ruh - roh)

Just watch the musical Hamilton, it's got all the biography of Aaron Burr you'll ever need.