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Offline Sirgod

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What Happened on your Birthday?
« on: September 19, 2004, 12:08:57 pm »
I was Perusing the History Channel, and in the Upper Right hand side there's a Place you can Plug in you B-day. It's kinda Interesting and Thought I'd share It with you guys.

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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2004, 01:08:02 pm »
so who is at to do with your question ???
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Offline Capt. Mike

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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2004, 01:19:47 pm »
Gotta link? or do I stumble through it while cooking Sunday dinner?

Mike   :)

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Summum ius summa iniuria.

The more law, the less justice.

Cicero, De Officiis, I, 33

"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"
FZ, 1974

My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
 --Les Paul

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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2004, 01:27:45 pm »
Doh! That's only about the millionth Time I've done that.

http://www.historychannel.com/

Sorry Guys.

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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2004, 01:33:03 pm »
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1519 Magellan sets out
1565 First European battle on American soil
1946 First Cannes Film Festival


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1984 Vehicles Of Terror



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1863 Second day of the Battle of Chickamauga



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1963 Kennedy proposes joint mission to the moon



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1984 Marvin Gaye's father accepts a plea bargain



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1975 David Bowie's first chart-topper



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1878 Upton Sinclair is born



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1806 The returning Lewis and Clark reach the first white settlement on the Missouri



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1943 British launch Operation Source
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Offline Capt. Mike

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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2004, 04:31:46 pm »
 
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1851 Fire ravages Library of Congress
1865 KKK founded



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1801 Steam Propels Carriage In Cornwall



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1864 Bombardment of Fort Fisher begins



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1994 Islamic terrorists hijack a French plane



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1922 Ava Gardner born



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1881 Nobel Prize-winning poet Juan Ramn Jimınez is born



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1809 Kit Carson born in Kentucky



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1972 Bob Hope gives his last show in Vietnam



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1905 Happy Birthday, Mr. Hughes



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1942 French Admiral Jean Darlan is assassinated

 
 
Guess that's what happens when you are born on Christmas Eve...24 Dec, 1955

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Summum ius summa iniuria.

The more law, the less justice.

Cicero, De Officiis, I, 33

"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"
FZ, 1974

My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
 --Les Paul

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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2004, 04:47:07 pm »
You know what's the most bothersome of these?  Look a the very end under WWII.

1789 The first presidential inauguration
1939 New York World's Fair opens


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1948 Land Rover


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1864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas


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1948 Organization of American States established


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1927 The first federal prison for women opens


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1997 Ellen comes out


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1945 Annie Dillard is born


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1867 Arizona Ranger Burton Mossman is born


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1975 South Vietnam surrenders


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1803 That Land Grab in Louisiana


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1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker


And do you know why he chose that day?  I'm sure no one knows for sure, but it DOES happen to land on a satanic holiday. 
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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2004, 05:17:12 pm »
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1864 Fighting begins on the North Anna River, Virginia



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1949 Federal Republic of Germany is established



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1934 Bonnie and Clyde are killed by police



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1810 Margaret Fuller is born



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1941 Lord Mountbatten, cousin to a king, sunk by German dive-bombers

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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2004, 10:39:26 am »
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1930 Gandhi leads civil disobedience
1933 First "fireside chat"
1938 Germany annexes Austria
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1864 Red River Campaign begins


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1947 The Truman Doctrine is announced


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1969 London police conduct drug raid on George Harrison's house


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1923 First movie with sound recorded on film


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1922 Jack Kerouac is born


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1888 Chinese laborers excluded from U.S.


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1901 Carnegie Hands Out More Money


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1938 Hitler announces an Anschluss with Austria
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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2004, 12:04:16 pm »
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1919 Prohibition takes effect
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1936 The "Moon Maniac"



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1963 Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens



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1933 Susan Sontag is born



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1847 Fremont appointed Governor of California



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1964 Johnson approves Oplan 34A



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1997 Raytheon Acquires Hughes Electronics



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1945 Hitler descends into his bunker

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Lol, this kind of reminds me of trumps. My Prohibition and Persian Gulf War should be good cards.  :P
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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2004, 02:29:21 pm »
Yeah, but I got the KKK...no wait, that's a real looser card....Ava Gardner and I share a birthday..whew...I knew something good happened  :D

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Summum ius summa iniuria.

The more law, the less justice.

Cicero, De Officiis, I, 33

"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"
FZ, 1974

My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
 --Les Paul

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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2004, 08:15:35 am »
September 20

General Interest
1946 First Cannes Film Festival
1565 First European battle on American soil
1519 Magellan sets out

Automotive
1984 Vehicles Of Terror
1979 The Chrysler Comeback Kid
1945 War Production Halts

Cold War
1963 Kennedy proposes joint mission to the moon

Entertainment
1975 David Bowie's first chart-topper

and....on this day from the BBC News Website
1999 UN force arrives in East Timor
1984 US Embassy Blast kills 20
1978 Police hunt Bridgewater killers
1967 Historic Cruise liner takes to the waves
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Re: What Happened on your Birthday?
« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2004, 01:07:33 pm »

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1966 The world stopped being pointless history, and actually started to matter.

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