Tag: today in history
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January 15, 2007 03:22 AM EST --
0708 - Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later)
0946 - Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted
1346 - Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
1535 - Henry VIII declares . . .
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March 23, 2007 01:52 PM EDT --
1026 - Koenraad II crowned himself king of Italy.
1066 - The 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1490 - The first dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" was published. . . .
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October 17, 2006 12:45 PM EDT --
October 17, 1967 - "Hair", the slighly irreverent and extremely controversial play "Hair", begins its great annoying tour. Featuring a plethora of naked souls, with unshaven armpits . . .
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August 27, 2006 10:12 PM EDT --
August 27, 1883 After 3 massive explosions spanning 16 hours, the volcanic island of Krakatoa suffers a final, inconceivably destructive blast. The resulting noise is reported to have been . . .
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October 15, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
October 15, 1981 - Mearth is born!!! Yes, that's right, she's an alien child, the child of the neurotic Mork and his human concubine Mindy.
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September 04, 2006 02:01 PM EDT --
September 4, 1976 - My hero George Duyba Bush, (for the record - NOT MY HERO!) is arrested in the hamlet of Kennebunkport, Maine for driving with a blood-alcohol level of over 0.10 percent. He subsquently . . .
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September 06, 2006 05:24 PM EDT --
September 6, 1951 - While enjoying himself during a drinking party in Mexico City, author William S. Burrougs tells his wife Joan to balance a glass of gin on her head. After taking careful aim with . . .
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September 09, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
Elvis Presley makes his 1st ever appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, performing 4songs for guest host Charles Laughton. Ed himself! had vowed never to have Mr. Presley on his show, but Mr. Sullivan was . . .
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September 13, 2006 07:43 PM EDT --
September 13, 1848 - A 11-pound chunk of metal is blown through the head of railroad construction foreman Phineas P. Gage, entering beneath the left cheekbone and exiting the top of his skull. The metal . . .
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September 24, 2006 02:11 PM EDT --
September 24, 1988 - After sucking down a pipe full of PCP and buying a shotgun, the legendary Godfather of Soul, James Brown interrupts an insurance seminar next door to his business office in Augusta, . . .
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August 21, 2006 08:07 PM EDT --
August 21, 1964 - The ruler of Transylvania, Erzsebet Bathory, dies at the age of 54. She had sought immortality by killing young virgins and then bathing in their blood. (See Everyone......killing virgins . . .
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August 23, 2006 05:42 AM EDT --
August 23, 1305 - Braveheart, aka Scottish patriot William Wallace, was hanged, his corpse was then given a "spa treatment" - disemboweled, drawn, and quartered. His head was later displayed . . .
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August 24, 2006 03:58 AM EDT --
August 24, 79 A.D. The lovely city of Pompeii becomes buried by the wrath of Mt.Vesuvius. (In the form of black rain! neat-o) Tens of thousands of people perished. (Not so neat-o) Thank God we have humanitarians . . .
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September 03, 2006 03:34 PM EDT --
September 3, 1941 - In the lovely city of Auschwitz, pathetic Germans conduct a live trial on approximately 600 Russian prisoners of war and 298 other sick prisoners to test the lethality of an insecticide . . .
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September 14, 2006 07:07 AM EDT --
September 14, 1982 - Glamorous Grace Kelly, the famous American-born princess of Monaco, dies after a high speed car wreck suffered on the previous day. She and daughter Princess Stephanie were badly injured . . .
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September 18, 2006 09:07 PM EDT --
September 18, 1970 - A slightly comatose (self-medicated I suppose) and/or sleeping Jimi Hendrix dies in a London hotel room from of a concoction of barbiturates and chunks of vomited tuna sandwich, . . .
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September 25, 2006 12:27 PM EDT --
September 25, 1997 - In possibly the most bizarre sports related event ever, NBC sportscaster Marve Albert pleads guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery in exchange for dropping the charges of forcible . . .
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August 28, 2006 04:47 AM EDT --
August 28, 1995 - The famous designer, Calvin Klein, withdraws his ad campaign after drawing wide criticism for mimicking the look and feel of child pornography. Although all the models . . .
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September 21, 2006 01:39 AM EDT --
Septerber 20, 1990 - Ten months prior to the crazed Bobbitt "hot-dog" hacking incident, a delightful Los Angeles resident named Aurelia Macias castrates her husband's you know whats! with . . .
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October 18, 2006 08:37 PM EDT --
October 18, 1974 - In the era of quality cinema, the artfully delight and wonderfully original horror (slash love story hummmmm) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre debuts in theatres accorss the country. As one . . .
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