ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

[trouble]

Welcome to the "On this day in History" thread.

Here you will find the most accurate facts of events that transpired in our past which have shaped the world in which we live today.

All are welcome to participate in this educational thread. The only thread rules are, there are none.

I shall go ahead & start the thread rolling by updating it to today, October 6th, 2010.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

OCT. 1 :

1962: Riots breakout in Mississippi as Alabama wins the "America's most racist state" award. Alabama's victory brought to an end Mississippi's 30-year winning streak.

1998: A children's petting-zoo in a South Chicago Walmart parking lot is destroyed by three US military cruise missiles, and repeated aerial bombardment in an attempt to contain a T-Virus out break.

OFFICIAL REMINDER: September has now ended. It would be an appropriate time for someone to wake-up Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day. WAKE-UP BILLIE!


OCT. 2:

1970: The king of Persia launches a surprise attack on Cuba with their "new & improved" rugs. Castro's army crushes the attack with his combined Pirate & Ninja navy fleet.

1971: Orlando, Florida founded after settlers discover Walt Disney World.

2001: Telegraph service finally reaches West Virginia.


OCT. 3:

1876: Six women are killed in test of the first steam-powered vibrator. It's inventor, Havelock Stumpstine, is never seen again.

1981: Popeye dies of typhoid fever after eating spinach contaminated with salmonella bacteria.

1995: OJ Simpson did it!


OCT: 4:

1870: The great Tomato War begins.

1963: Hippies invent "free love" & smoke pot!

2004: In a desperate bid to diversify it's business Microsoft engineers team-up with students from Wigan University, England, and invent the "Pineapple Chunk"


OCT. 5:


13: Jesus has his first wank.

22: Jesus gets his first home mortgage.

1993: Scientologist revolted. Nobody Cares!

2009: The Space Cow is discovered. The first space cow cheese is made & in stores within four days.


OCT. 6:


5988 BC: Pornography is invented. There are no wars for the next thousand years.

5987 BC: Lesbian porn is invented. The first case of carpal tunnel is documented the same year.

5986 BC: Lotion is invented.

1998: Monkey Butlers are invented, but those damn PETA activists won't let us have any.

2010: Osama Bin Laden is arrested by PETA police for having Monkey Butlers in his cave deep in Afghanistan.

 

[MrBluntfaced]

Great thread hehe! :thumbsup:

 

[BrainSellz]

OCt 6th 2010 this was announced:
"The Obama administration has announced plans to install solar panels on the White House"

And on the same note Jimmy Carter installed these when he was president but Ronald Reagan had them taken down.

 

[Tilt]

Oct. 6 2008 cast of jersey shore beach themselves on the jersey shore. Instead of trying push them back out to ocean they give them a reality tv show instead. Their carcasses are there to this day.

 

[arcticsun]

Oct 6th is actually the day Thomas Edison showed live pictures for the first time. TV was invented on this day


Oct 6, 1967. Hippies in Haight-Ashbury throw a mock funeral to mark the death of the hippie era.

The End of the Hippie Era

On October 6, 1967 dozens of mourners gathered in the panhandle of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to mark the death of Hippie, an imaginary character killed off by overexposure and rampant commercialism. A broadside distributed at the event stated, "H/Ashbury was portioned to us by Media-Police and the tourists came to the Zoo to see the captive animals and we growled fiercely behind the bars we accepted and now we are no longer hippies and never were." The mock funeral celebrated not the end of ideals and beliefs but hippie commercialism and its ultimate core site, the Haight-Ashbury. Two days later death would also mark the beginning of the demise of the East Village enclave when a hippie couple was found murdered in the basement boiler room of a tenement building at 169 Avenue B.

Following the murders, representations of an East Village liberated from the ghetto of the Lower East Side were replaced by those of urban decline. Fueled by dozens of articles and reports in the Village Voice, Newsweek, Time, The Daily News, and The New York Times, news of the murders evinced a nearly instantaneous reversal of the lionized identity of the East Village: youthful innocence became reckless naivete and racial harmony became racial fear. "There’s no love here anymore. Everyone is scared to death." The poverty, violence and danger of the minority ghetto reemerged in dominant representations of a threatening and marginal space. Prophetically, the majority of East Village hippies chose the course taken by hundreds of thousands of earlier residents and departed the neighborhood en masse. By 1969, the spatial foci of hippie culture was no longer the city but the countryside as hippie communities and communes popped up across upstate New York and Vermont and, on the west coast, in northern California, Oregon and Washington.

As hippies departed the East Village, one by one the landmarks of the counterculture disappeared from the landscape and were not replaced by any new uses. Andy Warhol’s Electric Circus closed in 1971 as did the Fillmore East after a final concert featuring Frank Zappa, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Storefronts along St. Marks’ Place and Second and Third Avenues were vacated and the increasingly empty streets took on a much seedier character. According to an owner of an East Village "head shop" and bookstore, "People are noticing the junkies in the area now, but they’ve always been here; its just in the absence of the suburban trendie they’ve become more visible."

It is also St.Brunos day.

 

[trouble]

On this day in History October 6th 1945.

An advertisement runs in a Pairs News Paper which read" For Sale, 100,000 French WWII Army Rifles, like new, never fired, dropped once"

 

[Miss Blunted]

On this day, October 6th, 1961, President Kennedy urged American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of nuclear war.

 

[Cookie monster]

October 6th 2008:
Tinky winky from the tele-tubbies came out of the closet.

October 6th 1984:
George Orwell wrote a book while stoned out of his gourd.

 

[Tilt]

oct 7 1779 George Washington and Thomas Jefferson got in arguement over who grew the best weed. Something about what fertilizer to use.

 

[Tronic]

Oct 7 2010 my ballot came in the mail. Prop 19 on it. This day is history.....

 

[trouble]

OCT. 7 :


0000: Al Gore created the world.

1901: Chicago women gives birth to Walt Disney, her new baby boy immediately sues her for copyright infringement.

1969: Satan invents Disco music.

1994: Tupac Shakur wins his first Grammy award for his new song, "Nigga! Fuck! Fuck! Bitch Nigga! Mothafuka Ho Bitch! I Be Killing Ya Ho Bitch Family!" Tupac Shakur thanks God in his award acceptance speech.


OCT. 8:

1901: Baby Hitler ties his own shoes for the first time with little Nazis.

1992: Face of Jesus is seen on a flour Tortilla in Mexico City. Millions of people from around the world make a religious pilgrimage to Mexico City to worship the Flour Tortilla.

2004: Mexican becomes the official language of California.

2005: President George W Bush declares " America is officially full"
Congress approves bypass through US waters for Haitian boat people to row to Canada.

 

[trouble]

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 9th
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1846 : The United States of America declares war on Mexico due to a shortage of "Taco Sauce"


1911 : People is some Gay country dance around some gay pole.


1917 : Three peasant teenagers claim to have seen a vision of the "Virgin Mary" near Fatima, Portugal. They deny it had anything to do with the Marijuana they found growing there. Much rejoicing took place!


1971 : Jesus Christ considers performing the second coming; Then decides he would rather get some "Taco Bell", stay home, and watch some porn.


1980 : Spain declares war on Pope " Eggs Benedict IV" for previous remarks.


1993 : Wile E. Coyote finally catches Road Runner. Coyote soon becomes depressed & grief-stricken, attempts suicide by jumping off a cliff, plummeting in slow-motion, and ultimately striking ground in a puff of smoke.


1995 : Two years after surviving his 1993 suicide attempt Wile E. Coyote sought professional help for his depression, received a medical-marijuana card, and is said to be smoking & living happily on the Southern California Coast.


2002 : MARS ODYSSEY SHIP FINDS SIGNS OF ROCKS ON THE PLANET MARS!!!!

I feel confident that one could argue without fear of successful contradiction, that the people behind the "Mars Odyssey" mission, were pissed-off big-time, when all they got from their multi-billion space program was a bunch of fucking rocks.


Tune in tomorrow for "On This Day in History" October 10th!

 

[ladygrey]

2011 : On this night Waldo finally slept like a baby for the first time in years, knowing his reign would continue unchallenged.

 

[trouble]

SUNDAY MAY 1st 2011:

Osama bin Laden arrives in "Radical Islam Heaven", only to find that the 72 beautiful virgins he was promised turned out to be nothing more than 72 'crack-whores" who all want a rock right now!.

 

[longearedfriend]

May 3


1568 - French forces in Florida slaughtered hundreds of Spanish.

1802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.

1855 - Macon B. Allen became the first African American to be admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts.

1859 - France declared war on Austria.

1888 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Works.

1916 - Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.

1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.

1926 - The revival of Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opened in New York.

1926 - U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua and stayed until 1933.

1926 - In Britain, trade unions began a general strike.

1927 - Francis E.J. Wilde of Meadowmere Park, NY, patented the electric sign flasher.

1933 - The U.S. Mint was under the direction of a woman for the first time when Nellie Ross took the position.

1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind."

1944 - Wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended in the U.S.

1944 - Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University.

1945 - Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.

1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.

1952 - The first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole.

1966 - The game "Twister" was featured on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.

1968 - After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retook Dai Do complex in Vietnam. They found that the North Vietnamese had evacuated the area.

1971 - Anti-war protesters began four days of demonstrations in Washington, DC.

1971 - National Public Radio broadcast for the first time.

1971 - James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, was caught in a jailbreak attempt.

1986 - In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff. Safety officers destroyed it by remote control.

1988 - The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities.

1992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King.

1997 - The "Republic of Texas" surrendered to authorities ending an armed standoff where two people were held hostage. The group asserts the independence of Texas from the U.S.

1998 - "The Sevres Road," by 18-century landscape painter Camille Corot, stolen from the Louvre in France.

1999 - Mark Manes, at age 22, was arrested for supplying a gun to Eric Harris and Dylan Kleibold, who later killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado.

1999 - Hasbro released the first collection of toys for the Star Wars movie "Episode I: The Phantom Menace."

1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 11,000 for the first time.

2000 - The trial of two Libyans accused of killing 270 people in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 (over Lockerbie) opened.

2006 - In Alexandria, VA, Al-Quaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was given a sentence of life in prison for his role in the terrorist attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.

 

[longearedfriend]

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