So I really can't believe that no one has remembered to post what today is.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/e...r/pearlhbr.htm
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So I really can't believe that no one has remembered to post what today is.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/e...r/pearlhbr.htm
Maybe 'cause it happened in December and not JanuraryQuote:
Originally Posted by SNAFU
Um, yeah man, that was last month.
Is is just me or am I missing something? December 7th, not January 7th.
A swing and a miss!
One Month After Pearl Harbor Attack Anniversary? Clue me in!
I am not surprised- With the way they have been replacing "Pearl Harbor Day" on calendars with the first day of Rhama-dama-ding-dong it is easy to overlook.......
NOT!
MAY WE NEVER FORGET!
Had me worried for a minute-thought my senility had gone up a bar. [ROFL1]
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Originally Posted by Graves
Wait til January 25th.
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I thought it was bad when I forgot what the day of the week it is. Vacation makes time go slower.
Look at his handle / name. I think that would explain it.
754 - Pope Stefanus II arrives in PonthionQuote:
Originally Posted by SNAFU
1325 - Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal
1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 - Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
1566 - Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1566 - Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1579 - England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with Netherland
1584 - Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire
1598 - Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I
1601 - Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1610 - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede
1618 - Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
1622 - Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
1630 - Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
1654 - Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Neth, 1 dies
1698 - Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Neth to England
1714 - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1761 - Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
1782 - 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1784 - 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1785 - 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
1797 - The modern Italian flag is first used.
1817 - 2nd Bank of US opens
1822 - 1st printing in Hawaii
1822 - Liberia colonized by Americans
1830 - 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
1842 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris
1861 - Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St Augustine
1862 - Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
1862 - Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV
1868 - Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
1868 - Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
1879 - Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear" (BG)
1890 - W B Purvis patents fountain pen
1892 - Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Okla-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
1893 - Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin
1894 - Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
1896 - Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
1899 - Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
1903 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier" (BG)
1903 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel
1904 - Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st intl radio distress signal
1907 - Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in NYC
1908 - England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
1910 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games
1911 - 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF
1911 - Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
1913 - William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
1914 - 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
1916 - German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
1923 - Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
1925 - Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in NYC
1927 - Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London
1927 - Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Illinois)
1929 - "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
1929 - "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1929 - 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies
1930 - Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in NYC
1931 - Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1932 - 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
1933 - 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
1934 - "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
1934 - Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
1935 - Zoe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in NYC
1936 - Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
1939 - US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
1942 - WW II siege of Bataan starts
1944 - Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1945 - Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
1946 - Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
1947 - Aust v Eng at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Aust since 1882
1948 - US president Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
1949 - 1st photo of genes taken at U of S Calif by Pease & Baker
1950 - "Happy as Larry" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 3 performances
1950 - Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"
1950 - Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
1952 - French Plevin govt falls
1953 - Pres Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb
1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1955 - Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (NYC)
1955 - WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ, 413 opening stand with Roy
1958 - USSR shrinks army to 300,000
1959 - US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban govt
1961 - 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
1961 - Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps
1962 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27
1962 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails
1962 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
1963 - 1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents
1964 - Bahamas becomes self-governing
1964 - Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)
1965 - France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
1966 - Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
1966 - Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1967 - "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV
1968 - "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
1968 - 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents
1969 - US Congress doubles president salary
1970 - Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
1971 - -40°F (-40°C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)
1972 - Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die
1972 - LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
1972 - Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1972 - William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1972 - LA Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104
1973 - "Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 14 performances
1973 - British Darts Organisation founded in North London
1973 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1973 - Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 v Pakistan Never again
1973 - US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
1973 - WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 - Dutch rations gasoline
1975 - "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 1050 performances
1975 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
1975 - Gary Geld & Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah," premieres in NYC
1975 - Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
1977 - Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague
1978 - Angola revises its constitution
1979 - Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
1980 - Minn ends Phila Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends
1982 - "Fame" premieres on NBC TV
1982 - Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
1983 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win v England
1983 - Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala
1984 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1985 - "King & I" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
1985 - Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
1985 - KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
1985 - Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1986 - Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
1986 - STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
1986 - US president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1987 - French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
1987 - Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
1989 - Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
1989 - Intl Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
1989 - NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
1989 - Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
1990 - Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
1990 - Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
1991 - "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
1992 - AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
1992 - Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan
1992 - Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1993 - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
1994 - South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
1994 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
1994 - United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
1995 - "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 18 perfs
1995 - "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 280 performances
1996 - "Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1622 perfs
1996 - "Fool Moon" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after * performances
1996 - 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
1997 - Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House
1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton
1999 - President Bill Clinton begins his impeachment trial in the Senate.
Nope...don't see anything about Pearl Harbor.
Ah crap forgot to change a calander DUH SORRY
L O L
aw man and i just put the tree away!![LOL]Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.man
Quote:
Originally Posted by SNAFU
Last time that will ever happen...[Abused];)
And don't forget the BIG August 4th fireworks show.
That's my favorite!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.man
Oops [Swim]
Glad I'm not the only one that does $hiat like this. :rolleyes:
Crap-I need to buy more cards [ROFL1]Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.man
Quote:
Originally Posted by zteknik
I aint digging that shiney crap out from under the stairs!
Reminds me of the time the local hardware store gave out new calendars. Someone got into the wrong box and was giving out the previous years.
Nothing matched up. Took me a couple of days to figure it out. [Wink][Whacko]
Obviously you guys don't remember January 7th 1941 when there was the births of such renowned stars such as.....
and I also saw something about South Africa changing a finance minister.
- 1941 – Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
- 1941 – Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
- 1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 – Frederick D. Gregory, NASA astronaut
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Well damn we just ain't as old as you.
Wikipedia man![Coffee]Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.man
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Originally Posted by SNAFU
Have fun living that one down!
Better come up with a good thread to appease us all tomorrow! [Beer]
He was only off by a day. Tomorrow, January 8, 1935, is the anniversary of the greatest day in history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley
[ROFL1][ROFL1][ROFL1][ROFL1] I laughed so hard i think i peed myself a little. Wonder what my wife will do if i wait until march 14th to give her flowers and candy[ROFL2]
Hahaha, I was wondering what kind of phuq-tardedness had crept in...Quote:
Originally Posted by SNAFU
This one!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
Why would you give her flowers on Steak and BJ Day?Quote:
Originally Posted by 2008f450
Anyway, if you guys thought this was funny, you would have loved the time I showed up to work dressed like a Slutty Cheerleader on November 30th.
You worked at Hooters?
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Originally Posted by cstone
Zing!
Ain't that the truth!?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ah Pook
Doesn't anyone see the irony that this thread was started by a guy with the username SNAFU?
Funny stuff, man!
I'd like to say we're laughing with you, SNAFU, not at you. But I'd be lyin'!
Thanks for making my day. [Coffee]
this thread is great, hahaha
damn irving i so wanted to say that[Beer]Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart