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FACT OF THE DAY:

Oreo cookies are older than the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) officially introduced and sold the first Oreo cookie in March 1912, a month before the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Siemens & Halske Telegraph Construction Company Is Founded (1847)
Siemens AG is Europe's largest engineering conglomerate. It was originally founded to build telegraph installations, but under Werner Siemens and his three brothers, it expanded to produce cables, telephones, electric power, and electric lighting. The company built the first long-distance telegraph line in Europe, followed by the monumental Indo-European telegraph line that stretched from Calcutta, India, to London, England.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Night of Tlatelolco (1968)
Just 10 days before Mexico City hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics, government forces opened fire on student and civilian protesters gathered in a plaza in the Tlatelolco section of the city. The official government explanation was that students provoked the army's violence by firing at them from the buildings surrounding the plaza and that only four people had been killed. Investigations were thwarted until Vicente Fox became president in 2000.

 Born on this Date
1890 Groucho Marx
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member"
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."

1897 Bud Abbott of Abbott & Costello
1942 Steve Sabol NFL Films
1945 Don McLean, American singer and songwriter "American Pie"
1951 Sting, The Police

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T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant Explosion (1918)
On the night of October 4, 1918, an explosion rocked the T.A. Gillespie Company's ammunition plant in Sayreville, New Jersey, one of the largest such plants in the world at the time. The blast triggered a series of explosions, which continued for three days, killing 100 people. Sayreville and nearby South Amboy and Perth Amboy were evacuated, displacing about 62,000 people who thus became more vulnerable to the catastrophic flu epidemic of 1918.

1902 Ray Kroc was born "McDonalds"
1943 Steve Miller born
1951 Bob Geldof born (The Boomtown Rats) "I Don't like Mondays" & "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
1965 Mario Lemieux born He is the only person to have his name on the Cup as both a player and an owner (2009 Stanley Cup).


1869 A strong hurricane known as the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Maritime Canada. Incredibly, British naval officer Stephen Martin Saxby predicts the storm 10 months earlier in December 1868 through astronomy.

1877 Chief Joseph("I will fight no more forever") and his people surrender to the US Army, ending the Nez Perce War in the western United States

1892 The Dalton Gang ends in a shootout in Coffeyville, Kansas, during a bank holdup; four members are killed, and a fifth is captured

1905 Orville and Wilbur Wright make a circling flight on "Flyer III" of 24.2 miles (38.9 km) in 39 minutes and 23 seconds

1914 World War I's first aerial combat results in a kill

1916 Adolf Hitler is wounded in the left thigh by an exploding shell during the Battle of the Somme. Damn just a little bit higher.....

1951 Jackie Gleason debuts the character of bus driver Ralph Kramden in the first "The Honeymooners" skit on Cavalcade of Stars."One of the days Alice..."

1962 "Dr. No," the first James Bond film based on the novel by Ian Fleming and starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress, premieres in London

1965 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups

1969 TV sketch comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" premieres on BBC1

1996 Cleveland Indians strike out 23 Baltimore Orioles in 12 innings in a 4-3 ALDS win at Jacobs Field; Orioles win the series 3-1

2015 Floods in South Carolina, a "1,000-year storm," result in 12 deaths and the failure of 9 dams

2015 Governor of California Jerry Brown signs a bill granting terminally ill patients the "right to die"

2020 At least 14 million tonnes of plastic pieces are at the bottom of the ocean, 30 times more than on the surface, according to new research

2023 Record 961 migrating birds die after hitting McCormick Place Lakeside Center building in Chicago during fall migration. Do something you rich pricks