Today in History

[Frank the Tank]

Originally Posted by Burninator

Welcome to the disgusting state of popular music.

Ummm, hello, we have Good Charlotte!

[Looger]

Originally Posted by Burninator

Welcome to the disgusting state of popular music.

thanks.

do i get a t-shirt, or something?

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by Looger

damn shame what happened to filter...

the lead singer has a new band out now. Their single is played a lot on the new X radio station. It sounds pretty crappy IMO

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Frank the Tank

Ummm, hello, we have Good Charlotte!

I was at the Billy Talent concert last night and the opening bands were Anti-Flag and Rise Against. Punk is dead. It died when Rancid was in a Good Charlotte video.

[Reggie Dunlop]

On this day, in 2007, Jarome Iginla skated for the first time since a knee sprain, setting into motion events leading up to a most glorious story in hockey history!

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Looger

thanks.

do i get a t-shirt, or something?

No you get a lifetime supply of My Chemical Romance cd's!

[Looger]

Originally Posted by Burninator

No you get a lifetime supply of My Chemical Romance cd's!

huh. well, it's been a slice but i think i'll shove off this mortal coil.

goodbye cruel world!

[Frank the Tank]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

On this day, in 2007, Jarome Iginla skated for the first time since a knee sprain, setting into motion events leading up to a most glorious story in hockey history!

See the previous page Reggie! Get with it man!!

[TimSJ]

Jan 26 1948
A man with a "Sanitation" armband enters Teikoku Bank in Tokyo and injects the staff with a potassium cyanide solution, claiming to be administering immunizations for amoebic dysentery. Twelve people die, and the bank is robbed of a mere $500. Artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later found guilty of the killings.

Jan 26 1962
Mafia boss Lucky Luciano dead of natural causes at the Naples airport, where he was to meet a film producer to discuss his life story. Luciano dropped dead as he was about to shake hands.

Jan 26 1979
Dukes of Hazzard premiere, titled "One Armed Bandits". A shipment of slot machines is hijacked. High comedy.

Jan 26 1979
70-year-old multi-billionaire Nelson Rockefeller is stricken by a massive heart attack while engaging his 27-year-old research assistant, Megan Marshak. The former Vice President dies during the ambulance ride. Rockefeller's will leaves Marshak $50,000 and the deed to a Manhattan townhouse.

Jan 26 1984
Michael Jackson's hair is ignited by a magnesium flash bomb at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during the filming of a Pepsi television commercial, causing third-degree scalp burns.

Jan 26 1996
Insane madman millionaire John E. du Pont shoots Olympic wrestler David Schultz three times, killing him. A two day police standoff follows at the Foxcatcher estate and wrestling compound, with SWAT teams biding their time under the assumption that du Pont, an expert marksman, possessed an arsenal at his disposal.

Jan 26 1998
Residents of the Japanese town of Ito are attacked by a pack of raving wild monkeys. A total of 26 were injured and had to receive rabies shots. It remains unclear why the monkeys chose to attack.

[JBR]

Originally Posted by TimSJ

Jan 26 1998
Residents of the Japanese town of Ito are attacked by a pack of raving wild monkeys. A total of 26 were injured and had to receive rabies shots. It remains unclear why the monkeys chose to attack.

Do they ever really need a reason?

[Looger]

Originally Posted by TimSJ

Jan 26 1948
A man with a "Sanitation" armband enters Teikoku Bank in Tokyo and injects the staff with a potassium cyanide solution, claiming to be administering immunizations for amoebic dysentery. Twelve people die, and the bank is robbed of a mere $500. Artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later found guilty of the killings.

wow, that's bizarre, even for japan.

Originally Posted by TimSJ

Jan 26 1962
Mafia boss Lucky Luciano dead of natural causes at the Naples airport, where he was to meet a film producer to discuss his life story. Luciano dropped dead as he was about to shake hands.

natural causes... sure... like his heart stopping!

Originally Posted by TimSJ

Jan 26 1979
Dukes of Hazzard premiere, titled "One Armed Bandits". A shipment of slot machines is hijacked. High comedy.

the dukes of hazzard formed my early opinions of the south, whiskey runnin' and dirt roads and boss hawg. yee-haw!

Originally Posted by TimSJ

Jan 26 1979
70-year-old multi-billionaire Nelson Rockefeller is stricken by a massive heart attack while engaging his 27-year-old research assistant, Megan Marshak. The former Vice President dies during the ambulance ride. Rockefeller's will leaves Marshak $50,000 and the deed to a Manhattan townhouse.

these guys are rich, like richie rich rich. that's all i've got, sorry...

Originally Posted by TimSJ

Jan 26 1984
Michael Jackson's hair is ignited by a magnesium flash bomb at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during the filming of a Pepsi television commercial, causing third-degree scalp burns.

THAT'S what happened to his face!

Originally Posted by TimSJ

Jan 26 1996
Insane madman millionaire John E. du Pont shoots Olympic wrestler David Schultz three times, killing him. A two day police standoff follows at the Foxcatcher estate and wrestling compound, with SWAT teams biding their time under the assumption that du Pont, an expert marksman, possessed an arsenal at his disposal.

i wouldn't want to be the first SWAT guy going into a gun nut's compound. i'll drive the APC, thank you.

Originally Posted by TimSJ

Jan 26 1998
Residents of the Japanese town of Ito are attacked by a pack of raving wild monkeys. A total of 26 were injured and had to receive rabies shots. It remains unclear why the monkeys chose to attack.

sounds like the old man finally let the monkeys loose...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEByH9Y-G1g

[TimSJ]

Jan 27 1343
A papal bull by Clement VI expresses the doctrine that indulgences gain their validity and power from the accumulation of merit in the manifestation of the Catholic Church.

Jan 27 1880
Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

Jan 27 1945
Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Nazi occupied Poland.

Jan 27 1951
In the U.S., atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats.

Jan 27 1967
Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chafee become the first Americans to die inside a spacecraft (Apollo 1). A faulty electric wire is later blamed as the cause of the launch pad fire that killed the three astronauts during launch simulation tests.

Jan 27 1992
Falsetto Mike Tyson on trial for rape.

Jan 27 1992
Candidate Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers mutually accuse each other of lying about whether or not they had a 12 year affair. Of course from Clinton's testimony in 1998 we know they did have such an affair, but that is the least of the President's problems. Can you say "sperm soaked dress"?

Jan 27 1992
Prostitute Aileen Wuornos found guilty after she killed seven "johns". She claimed self defense but is still sentenced to death. Oddly, prosecutors had arranged movie deals before an arrest had even been made.

Jan 27 1997
Pat Boone goes heavy metal.

[TimSJ]

Jan 28 814
Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne dies at the age of 71. Though he had conquered much of Europe, his legacy was considerably reduced after his death from mismanagement and incompetence.

Jan 28 1958
Brooklyn Dodger catcher Ray Campanella paralyzed in a car wreck.

Jan 28 1977
Star of TV's "Chico and the Man" Freddie Prinze blows his brains out at age 23.

Jan 28 1978
"Vampire of Sacramento" Richard Chase is arrested. Miscellaneous human organs are found in his refrigerator. He managed to kill six people, drinking the blood of two of his victims.

Jan 28 1986
U.S. Space Shuttle, Challenger, explodes only 74 seconds into its flight. All seven members of the crew perish, including school teacher, Christa McAuliffe. The U.S. space program's worst disaster, Challenger's ill-fated flight occurs exactly 19 years and a day after the Apollo 1 tragedy that killed three astronauts.

[TimSJ]

Jan 29 1919
Prohibition begins, and with it the rise of organized crime.

Jan 29 1943
Nazi police discover necrophiliac Bruno Ludke committing a crime against nature on the fresh corpse of a young female victim. He confesses that he has murdered no fewer than 85 and committed indecencies with most of their corpses. Ludke is committed to a hospital in Vienna for experiments, where he is killed in April of 1944.

Jan 29 1964
Premiere of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Jan 29 1975
The men's room in a U.S. State Department office in Washington, D.C. explodes causing extensive damage to four floors. A group calling themselves the "Weather Underground Organization" takes responsibility for the blast by giving advance warning of the bomb to major news organizations earlier in the day.

Jan 29 1979
"I don't like Mondays" killing -- Brenda Spencer fires repeatedly at the school across from her residence in San Diego, killing 2 and wounding 8 children. The reason she gave inspired the Boomtown Rats song.

[Bobblehead]

Tim, I'm not sure where you get these, but, while interesting, they are all really depressing. Could you perhaps sprinkle a few upbeat moments in history?

Kind of like these:

1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.

[Frank the Tank]

Originally Posted by TimSJ

Jan 29 1979
"I don't like Mondays" killing -- Brenda Spencer fires repeatedly at the school across from her residence in San Diego, killing 2 and wounding 8 children. The reason she gave inspired the Boomtown Rats song.

How nuts do you have to be to open fire on a bunch of kids going to school? Wow.

[TimSJ]

Jan 30 1649
Oliver Cromwell beheads the British monarch King Charles I, at Whitehall.

Jan 30 1835
Andrew Jackson is the subject of the first recorded assassination attempt on a U.S. president. After a man fires shots at him, Jackson beat the **** out of his would-be assassin.

Jan 30 1945
The largest maritime disaster in history leaves 7700 dead after a Soviet submarine torpedoes the Nazi ship Wilhelm Gustoff.

Jan 30 1948
Mohandas K. Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse.

Jan 30 1962
Two of the Flying Wallendas die when their human pyramid of seven people collapses in Detroit.

Jan 30 1968
North Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive, in which they suffer a defeat and 46,000 dead, but shocks the complacent American television viewer who had been led to believe the war was won.

Jan 30 1972
British troops kill 13 unarmed marchers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This incident becomes known as "Bloody Sunday" and marks the beginning of a new extended round of violence.

Jan 30 1973
G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges.

Jan 30 1976
George HW Bush becomes directory of the Central Intelligence Agency, a position which he holds until 1977. Perhaps he knows who killed Kennedy.

[TimSJ]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

Tim, I'm not sure where you get these, but, while interesting, they are all really depressing. Could you perhaps sprinkle a few upbeat moments in history?

Kind of like these:

1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.

They are depressing a lot of them unfortunatly i just copy them from a freind so he is the sick one.

BTW.. We can still sell you a working replica of the 1886 MB 3 wheeled motorwagen that was the worlds first car for about $60,000 euros.. It is pretty cool they have one at the MB Museum in Stuttgart and it still runs.

[TimSJ]

Jan 31 1945
Private Eddie Slovik executed by firing squad in France during World War II. He is the first U.S. soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. The order for execution, signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, is not applied to other deserters. It is not known why Private Slovik was singled out.

Jan 31 1950
President Truman gives the go-ahead for the development of Edward Teller's hydrogen bomb.

Jan 31 1961
The United States sends its first monkey into space, Ham the chimpanzee. His Mercury/Redstone 2 achieves an altitude of 158 miles, a 19-minute ride that subjects Ham to a force of 16 times gravity. The space ape splashes down safely, his capsule is plucked from the ocean by the USS Donner.

Jan 31 1974
Ted Bundy commits what is sometimes regarded as his first murder, Lynda Ann Healy, a 21 year old senior at the University of Washington. Her skull is not found until a year later. By the time he was executed, Bundy had committed nearly 30 murders, mostly women with dark long hair. It is believed that he may have murdered as early as 1961, when he was 15, but proof is at best circumstantial.

Jan 31 1989
Copies of the March Playboy with LaToya Jackson posing with... snakes! hit the newsstands. She also has a snake tattoo. Face it, the lady really really likes snakes.

[TimSJ]

Feb 1 1861
Texas secedes from the Union, becoming independent once again. Since the articles of statehood passed by the U.S. Congress give Texas this right, it is perhaps the only state whose secession was legal.

Feb 1 1964
Governor Matthew Welsh of Indiana declares "Louie, Louie" as recorded by The Kingsmen (originally by Richard Berry & The Pharaohs) "pornographic". And while the FCC couldn't figure out the lyrics, the governor's move backfires by making the song one of the most covered titles in existence.

Feb 1 1968
In Saigon, South Vietnam's national police chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan summarily executes an accused Viet Cong spy with a bullet to the head. Unfortunately for the general, he happens to shoot him right in front of NBC cameraman Vo Suu and Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams.

Feb 1 1970
US Government report reveals that 31% of college students have tried pot, man.

Feb 1 1974
A fire on the 12th floor of the 25 story Joelma Bank Building in Sao Paulo Brazil, killing 177 and seriously burning 293. A crowd of 10,000 spectators hampered firefighters near the building. The new building's cheap construction was primarily at fault.

Feb 1 1976
Heisenberg may have died today.

Feb 1 1998
Michael King of Clayton, Georgia is charged with the baseball bat beating death of Kenneth Paul Smith. King urinated in Smith's front yard, and after the property owner complained, he was severely beaten with a bat kept in King's Ford Mustang.

Feb 1 2003
The Space Shuttle Columbia blows up on re-entry, with its debris hitting homes and businesses in Nacogdoches Texas.

Feb 1 2004
During the MTV-provided halftime show of the Superbowl, former boy band member Justin Timberlake conducts an obviously pre-scripted move to expose Janet Jackson's right tit, which oddly sports a ninjitsu-style throwing star as a pasty. The nation is shocked, simply shocked, that a pristine, noncommercial event such as the Superbowl could be ruined by a Jackson.

Feb 1 2006
Singer Mary J. Blige reveals on The Oprah Winfrey Show that she was molestered by a family friend when she was a child.