Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

I also remember it

never liked the Dodgers or Rick, but that was a great moment

Decided to watch Chernobyl today. Haven't watched it before.  Turns out it is the 40th anniversary of the disaster today

BIRTHDAYS
1791 Samuel Morse
1820 Herbert Spencer
1822 Ulysses S. Grant

EVENTS
1565 First Spanish settlement in the Philippines is founded in Cebu City

1773 British House of Commons passes the Tea Act (later led to the Boston Tea Party)

1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli

1810 Ludwig van Beethoven composes his famous piano piece "Für Elise"

1813 Americans under General Zebulon Pike capture York (now Toronto) from British regulars, militia and Ojibwe natives forcing a British withdrawal to Kingston; Pike is killed

1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston

1861 Confederate General Robert E. Lee orders Colonel Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson to take command of Harpers Ferry, Virginia(Ruh-Roh)

1861 US President Abraham Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus (US Civil War)

1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from Union (US Civil War)

1865 Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history; most are paroled Union POWs on their way home.

1877 Rutherford B. Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends(still have to get down there and tighten up MikeDeTiger)

1916 The British renew their assault on the Irish Volunteer position in Mount Street; shelling also sets the buildings on fire

1930 White Sox first baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns

1931 100°F, Pahala, Hawaii (state record)

1942 Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, killing 100, injuring 300

1953 Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term "Pencil neck geek"

1956 Undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retires from the ring

1959 Mao Zedong resigns as Chairman of the PRC after the disastrous failure of the Great Leap Forward

1961 NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio

1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth's orbit to study gamma rays

1965 Robert C. Duncan and Norma L. Baker are granted a patent for the "Pampers" disposable diaper on behalf of Procter & Gamble (they beat CD to it)

1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107

1978 Cooling tower collapses at a coal-fired power plant at Willow Island, West Virginia, kills 51

1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson

1984 Cleveland Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings

1999 Nevada State Museum discovers the oldest mummy in North America on the shelves of its own museum after the Spirit Cave Mummy is radiocarbon dated to more than 9,400 years old

2011 Deadliest day of the 2011 super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history

2011 U.S. President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false "birther" accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate

2017 NFL Draft: Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett is the first pick in it by the Cleveland Browns

1818 Rush-Bagot treaty signed between US President James Monroe and Great Britain, demilitarizing the US-Canada border

1881 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Lincoln, New Mexico

1922 WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station

1924 119 die in coal mine disaster at Benwood, West Virginia

1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO

1956 Cincinnati Reds outfielder Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 HRs

1961 Milwaukee Braves' future HOF pitcher Warren Spahn throws his second career no hitter at 41

1966 Cleveland ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day

1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the US Army and is stripped of his boxing title

1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France

1985 Fernando Valenzuela sets a record of 41 scoreless innings to start the season

1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess

1988 Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row

2019 American diver Victor Vescovo makes the deepest dive ever to the bottom of the Mariana trench at 10,927m (35,849ft), and finds a plastic bag

2020 US confirmed cases of COVID-19 pass 1 million, while death toll of 58,365 surpasses that of US soldiers killed in Vietnam War (Johns Hopkins)

Grounded Dreams: Kawasaki Ki-78 – A Japanese Idea to Reach 528mph in WWII

The Kawasaki Ki-78 was developed as a high-speed research aircraft to close Japan’s technology gap and target world speed records. Despite advanced features like laminar-flow wings and a powerful licensed Daimler-Benz DB 601A, it suffered from poor low-speed handling and failed to meet its projected performance. After 32 flights, the program was canceled in 1944 without reaching its design goals.

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/grounded-dreams/kawasaki-ki-78.html?shem=dsdf,sharefoc,agadiscoversdl,,sh/x/discover/m1/4

The Kawasaki Ki-78 was powered by a Daimler-Benz DB 601A V-12 inverted liquid-cooled piston engine, fitted with a water-methanol injection system, which helped it to produce 1,550 horsepower. The engine was built under license from Germany. The engine cooling system included two radiators, one on each side of the back of the fuselage. These radiators had large air intakes that protruded slightly from the fuselage. Flaps controlled airflow through each radiator by adjusting the outlet size. In addition, a small 60-horsepower turbine was fitted in the fuselage to drive a fan that helped with cooling. With a crew of one, the Kawasaki Ki-78 was 26.7 feet long, 10.1 feet high, with a wingspan of 26.3 feet and a wing area of 120 square feet. The empty weight of the aircraft was 4,255 pounds, and the gross weight was 5,071 pounds. The aircraft was intended to achieve a speed of 528 mph (850 km/h) at 11,500 feet. The Kawasaki Ki-78 had a range of 370 miles and a service ceiling of 26,000 feet. The Ki-78 first flew on December 26, 1942, and during this flight, the aircraft showed poor control at low speeds and severe stall characteristics. The aircraft was heavier than expected, which increased the wing loading.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

U-2 Crisis of 1960 Begins (1960)
After becoming Soviet premier in 1958, Nikita Khrushchev asserted a doctrine of peaceful coexistence with capitalist nations. He toured the US in 1959 and planned a Paris summit with the US, Britain, and France in 1960, but in May of that year, an American U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Khrushchev cancelled the conference, and the American pilot, F. Gary Powers, was tried in the Soviet Union and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

1955 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller tosses his record 12th 1-hitter in Indians' 2-0 win v Boston Red Sox at Cleveland Stadium

1991 Texas Rangers starter Nolan Ryan pitches MLB record 7th no hitter; beats Toronto, 3-0; at 44, Ryan is oldest to throw no-hitter

Robert William Andrew Feller, nicknamed "the Heater from Van Meter", "Bullet Bob", and "Rapid Robert", was a pitcher for 18 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians between 1936 and 1956. 
Born - November 3, 1918, Van Meter, IA

A prodigy who bypassed baseball's minor leagues, Feller made his debut with the Indians at the age of 17. His career was interrupted by four years of military service (1942–1945) as a United States Navy Chief Petty Officer aboard USS Alabama during World War II. Feller became the first pitcher to win 24 games in a season before the age of 21. He threw no-hitters in 1940, 1946, and 1951, and 12 one-hitters, both records at his retirement.

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Nolan Ryan threw 12 one-hitters in his MLB career, a record he holds along with Bob Feller. In addition to these 12 one-hitters, Ryan also recorded a record 7 no-hitters, 18 two-hitters, and 31 three-hitters over his 27-year career.