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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #6776 on: August 07, 2026, 10:36:54 AM »
Re no. 5: when I was a kid, I had a "rich" friend whose parents took him to that establishment. It sounded so cool. My parents never took me there, so I figured we were too poor for it. Not so much--our local athletics and toys store was probably more expensive. Unless maybe it was for the sheer gimme factor--the indulgence--of being in a giant store focused almost entirely on toys.
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« Reply #6777 on: August 07, 2026, 10:51:31 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Hermine Braunsteiner Becomes First Nazi Extradited from the US (1973)
Nicknamed the "Stomping Mare" for her violent kicking of prisoners, Braunsteiner was a Nazi concentration camp guard during WWII. After the war, she spent a brief period in jail for war crimes before marrying an American and becoming a US citizen. In 1964, she was confronted at her home in New York by a reporter tipped off about her past by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. When her role in the war came to light, she was stripped of her citizenship and extradited to West Germany.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #6778 on: August 07, 2026, 01:31:28 PM »
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« Reply #6779 on: August 07, 2026, 04:06:52 PM »
Birthdays
1560 Elizabeth Báthory  the world's most prolific female serial killer
1742 Nathanael Greene
1872 Mata Hari
1945 Alan Page, American NFL football defensive tackle and Associate Justice Minnesota Supreme Court 
1975 Charlize Theron
1998 Jalen Hurts

Events
1606 First performance of Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" takes place in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I

1802 Napoleon orders the reinstatement of slavery in Saint-Domingue, Haiti

1882 Hatfields of southwest West Virginia and McCoys of eastern Kentucky feud, with 100 wounded or dead

1896 New Jersey fishermen George Harbo and Frank Samuelson are the first to row across the Atlantic, arriving in Le Havre after leaving Manhattan on June 6 - bad asses

1950 Police bar white players Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle from playing in the Negro League

1956 Boston Red Sox fine slugger Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at heckling Boston fans in the third incident in three weeks

1970 British keyboard playing singer-songwriter Christine McVie (née Perfect) joins rock band Fleetwood Mac

1987 Lynne Cox becomes the first woman to swim from the US to the Soviet Union,3.1 miles across the Bering Sea in water temperatures averaging 43-44°F

2018 China bans the release of the Winnie the Pooh movie "Christopher Robin" after the character is used to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping


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« Reply #6780 on: August 07, 2026, 09:00:05 PM »
Weird history was made today. 

Missouri was given a piece of the 1960 national championship by the US senate.  What in the actual fuck?!?

The story of the '60 Tigers is one you may have heard of.  Their only loss was 23-7 to rival KU, who allegedly played an ineligible player.  The conference ruled it a KU forfeit in December of that year and sent Mizzou to the Orange Bowl instead of the Jayhawks.

#5 Mizzou won the OB over #4 Navy 21-14 to finish 10-1, officially.  The NCAA didn't change anything and Mizzou finished #5 in the AP poll (before the bowls). 
Now, in 2026, the government is now crowning them champs. 

This is the year 2-loss Minnesota won the NC (but 1 loss was in the bowl, after the final poll) and undefeated-with-a-tie Ole Miss was kind of screwed out of a NC.  Also Iowa made it 3 teams with between 12-17 first-place votes (even though Iowa lost to Minnesota h2h).  The Gophers lost 2 of their last 3 games, but only 2 of them counted in the poll.

So it's already a mess, and Mizzou is just conjuring a new NC for themselves.

To be fair, it's not nearly as absurd as Alabama trying to claim 1941, where the finished 20th in the AP poll.
It's all so stupid.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #6781 on: August 08, 2026, 07:35:46 AM »
U.S. Senate adds Missouri to teams claiming 1960 national title - ESPN

Anything in Congress called a "resolution" is basically just talk, there is nothing behind it.
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« Reply #6782 on: August 08, 2026, 08:12:04 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
The Great Train Robbery (1963)
On the night of August 7, 1963, a postal train left Glasgow with a High Value Package (HVP) coach containing registered mail and a large sum of money. Before dawn the next morning, the driver sighted a red signal and, not knowing that the light had been tampered with, brought the train to a halt as was protocol. Fifteen robbers descended on the train, attacking the train's operators, restraining the postal workers in the HVP coach, and making off with £2.6 million.
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« Reply #6783 on: August 08, 2026, 10:25:27 AM »
Birthdays
1932 Mel Tillis

1936 Frank Howard, 4 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1963 LA Dodgers; NL Rookie of the Year 1960

1937 Dustin Hoffman

1947 Ken Dryden, Canadian Hockey HOF goaltender 6 x Stanley Cup;Montreal Canadiens, Member of Parliament, 2004-11

1970 Trev Alberts, Nebraska Football, NFL linebacker, 1994-96 Indianapolis Colts and all around douche nozzle

1981 Roger Federer

Events
1609 Galileo Galilei presents his telescope to the Venetian Senate in Venice

1709 First known ascent in a hot-air balloon by Bartolomeu de Gusmão

1786 Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard are the first to climb to the top of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe

1786 US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America

1876 Dan O'Leary completes a 500-mile walk in 139 hours and 32 minutes

1882 Snow falls on Lake Michigan

1945 Soviet Union declares war on Japan during World War II and invades Manchuria the next day (after 1 A-Bomb was aready dropped - thanx Uncle Joe)

1950 Florence Chadwick swims across the English Channel in a record time of 13 hours and 23 minutes

1960 Brian Hyland's recording of "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini", a novelty pop song written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100

1963 The Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie;" some radio stations ban it due to rumors of obscene content

1976 Chicago White Sox wear shorts for a game instead of traditional baseball pants

1992 The original US "Dream Team" wins the basketball gold at the Barcelona Olympics 117-85 over Croatia

2000 Confederate submarine CSS H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor off the coast of South Carolina

2022 FBI conducts a search of former US President Donald Trump's Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, over his handling of classified government documents. The case has been completely dismissed after Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional

2004 Fay Wray Canadian American actress (King Kong), dies at 96

2017 Glen Campbell dies at 81 Grammy Award-winning country-pop singer and actor (True Grit), dies at 81
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« Reply #6784 on: August 09, 2026, 08:08:58 AM »
1945 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan, destroying part of the city
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #6785 on: August 09, 2026, 08:28:29 AM »

Ground Zero Nagasaki.
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« Reply #6786 on: August 09, 2026, 08:38:33 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Nathan Ames Patents His "Revolving Stairs," Now Known as the Escalator (1859)
Although no working model of his design was ever built, Ames is credited with patenting the first escalator. His idea for the "revolving stairs" was largely speculative. It was not until the 1890s that the first working escalator—called the "inclined elevator"—was produced, based on another's designs. It was installed among the amusements at New York's Coney Island but did not remain a novelty for long.
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« Reply #6787 on: August 09, 2026, 09:27:05 AM »
So, dude got a patent, which expired long before it could be implemented.  
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« Reply #6788 on: August 09, 2026, 11:01:53 AM »
In 897 CE, Rome witnessed one of the strangest and darkest episodes in medieval history—the infamous Cadaver Synod.
Months after the death of Pope Formosus, his body was exhumed from its tomb and brought before a church council. The corpse was dressed in papal robes, placed upon a throne, and subjected to accusations as if the dead pope were still alive. A deacon was reportedly appointed to speak on behalf of the deceased.

The charges were deeply connected to the political battles that had consumed Rome. Formosus had been involved in bitter struggles among powerful factions, and his election and actions as pope became targets after his death. The bizarre trial ultimately declared him guilty, and his papal acts were annulled.

But the story became even darker. His corpse was stripped of its papal clothing, and his remains were eventually thrown into the Tiber River.
The Cadaver Synod revealed just how dangerous the struggle for power within medieval Rome could become. It was not simply a trial of a dead pope—it was a dramatic display of revenge, politics, and religious authority.


Formosus | Biography, Papacy, Trial, & Cadaver Synod | Britannica
Formosus | Biography, Papacy, Trial, & Cadaver Synod | Britannica

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« Reply #6789 on: August 10, 2026, 08:24:39 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
European Heat Wave: UK's Hottest Day on Record (2003)
The European heat wave of 2003 resulted in the deaths of more than 40,000 people. In France, where summers are usually very mild and many homes do not have air conditioning, nearly 15,000 people died from heat-related issues—at a time when many physicians were on summer holiday. So many died that undertakers ran out of room in their own facilities and had to keep corpses in off-site warehouses.
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