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The day you were born

Postby Captain Brittles » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:11 pm

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Postby The_Clincher » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:13 pm

Deep Purple were recording the "Machine Head" album in Montreaux, Switzerland when i was born. Great stuff. :wink:
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Postby Vinny the Mackem » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:39 pm

Battle of Culloden. Feast days of St Bernadette, St Magnus, St Paternus of Avranches, St Encratis, St Fructuosus Braga, St Turibius of Astorga, St Drogo, St Joseph Benedict Labre, and St Optatus and the Martyrs of Saragossa.

Birthdays of Charlie Chaplin, Spike Milligan, Peter Ustinov and Freddie Ljungberg, Ruth Madoc, Henri Mancini, Gerry Rafferty, and the current Pope!
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Postby Vladimir » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:42 pm

18th September

1961: The body of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is identified among the wreckage of a plane which crashed last night outside the Northern Rhodesian town of Ndola.

1978: Arab-Israeli breakthrough in US
The leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David in the US.

1970: Rock legend Hendrix dies after party
Rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix dies after collapsing at a party in London.

1972: Expelled Ugandans arrive in UK
The first Ugandan refugees fleeing the persecution of the country's military dictatorship arrive in Britain.

1987: Superpower treaty to scrap warheads
The United States and the USSR are to sign an agreement later this year to reduce the number of nuclear missiles.
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Postby paladin » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:47 pm

http://www.historychannel.com

This day in History when I was born (with a mask on my face 8O ) one of the best actors in the world (and the coolest 8) ) got married to Joanne Woodward.

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Postby HollowHorn » Sun Jun 19, 2005 9:25 pm

Why, yes, now that you mention it..............

10th SEPTEMBER
1881 Tensions grow in Tombstone, Arizona, after a stage coach robbery
On this day in 1881, tensions near the breaking point between the Earp brothers and the Clanton-McLaury families, the two major power centers in Tombstone, Arizona.

1940 British War Cabinet reacts to the Blitz in kind
On this day in 1940, in light of the destruction and terror inflicted on Londoners by a succession of German bombing raids, called "the Blitz," the British War Cabinet instructs British bombers over Germany to drop their bombs "anywhere" if unable to reach their targets.

1977 Serial-killing couple meets
Charlene Williams meets Gerald Gallego at a poker club in Sacramento, California, resulting in one of the worst serial killing teams in American history. Before they were finally caught, the Gallegos killed and sexually assaulted at least 10 people over a two-year period.

1989 Hungary allows East Germans refugees to leave
In a dramatic break with the eastern European communist bloc, Hungary gives permission for thousands of East German refugees to leave Hungary for West Germany. It was the first time one of the Warsaw Pact nations-who were joined in the defensive alliance between Russia and its eastern Europe satellites--broke from the practice of blocking citizens of the communist nations from going to the West.

Shared Birthday.
Henrik Larsson (1971)
Big Daddy Kane (1968)
Guy Ritchie (1968)
Colin Firth (1960)
Carol Decker (1957)
Siobhan Fahey (1957)
Cynthia Lennon (1949)
Margaret Trudeau (1948)
Judy Geeson (1948)
Larry Nelson (1947)
José Feliciano (1945)
Roy Ayers (1940)
Karl Lagerfeld (1938)
Arnold Palmer (1929)
Robert Wise (1914)

Quite spooky.......I watched "Citizen Kane" today, Robert Wise was Editor on the movie.
Roy Ayres performs in Scotland this week.
Colin Firth is the subject of a Thread over in the West End site at present.
Big Daddy Kane...Saying nothing.
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Postby yoker brian » Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:07 pm

29th March

1461 Edward IV secured his claim to the English thrown by defeating Henry VI’s at the battle of Towdon.
1638 First permanent European settlement in Delaware was established.
1848 For the first time in recorded history, Niagara Falls stopped flowing. Due to an ice jam.
1867 The British Parliament passed the North America Act to create the Dominion of Canada
1879 British victory at Kambula
1903 News service began between New York and London on Marconi's wireless.
1927 Major Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave became the first man to break the 200mph barrier
1939 Clark Gable & Carole Lombard marry
1945 General Patton takes Frankfurt
1950 The Mad Bomber strikes in New York
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Russians
1971 Filming starts on The Godfather
1971 Charles Manson sent to the Gas Chamber
1971 Lt. William Calley was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre.
1973 The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam.
1974 Mariner 10 visits Mercury
1981 First London Marathon
1996 Wall Street Feels the Power
1999 Hanratty family wins right to appeal
1999 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000 for the first time, at 10,006.78.
2002 Israel declared Yasir Arafat an enemy.
Milk Sucks, Got Beer?
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Postby duncan » Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:16 am

October 4:
* 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, otherthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
* 1535 - The first complete English language Bible is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
* 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15, skipping over 10 days.
* 1777 - Battle of Germantown - Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe
* 1824 - Mexico becomes a republic
* 1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands
* 1883 - First run of the Orient Express
* 1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
* 1895 - The first U.S. Open Mens' Golf Championship run by the United States Golf Association was played on a nine-hole course in Newport, Rhode Island.
* 1910 - Portugal becomes a republic. King Manuel II flees to Britain.
* 1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
* 1958 - Fifth Republic of France established.
* 1960 - An Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra flying from Boston crashes killing 62 people after a bird strike.
* 1963 - Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
* 1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
* 1988 - Jim Bakker indicted for fraud.
* 1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was opened for signature.
* 1992 - An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground. See Bijlmerramp
* 1993 - Doom press-release version is made available to journalists for review.
* 1993 - At the climax of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders army tanks to begin the storming of the Russian parliament building.
* 1998 - Leafie Mason of Hughes Springs, Texas is murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She is Angel's second victim in his second incident.
* 2001 - A Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
* 2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing: A female Palestinian suicide bomber, Hanadi Jaradat, exploded inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, were killed, and 51 others were wounded.
* 2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight

I share my birthday with:
* 1895 - Buster Keaton, American comedian, actor (d. 1966)
* 1924 - Charlton Heston, American actor
* 1946 - Susan Sarandon, American actress
* 1947 - Ann Widdecombe, British Member of Parliament
* 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, musician
* 1961 - Jon Secada, singer
* 1967 - Liev Schreiber, actor
* 1976 - Alicia Silverstone, American actress
* 1983 - Hooters restaurant first opened in Clearwater, Florida
* 1984 - Lena, Russian musician (t.A.T.u.)
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Postby paladin » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:19 am

Captain Brittles wrote: famous people born on the same day as you?


29th January:

Oprah Winfrey 1954

W.C. Fields 1879

Tom Selleck 1945

Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter 1885

William McKinley 1843

Germaine Greer 1939

Victor Mature 1913


The thing about my birthday is that it has more chance of snowing that day than on Christmas Day.

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Postby JayKay » Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:01 pm

September 18

Same as Vladimir and all the following:

1890 - Vladimir Ambros, composer
1895 - John Diefenbaker, thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)
1901 - Harold Clurman, producer and director (d. 1980)
1905 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, actor (d. 1977)
1905 - Greta Garbo, actress (d. 1990)
1905 - Agnes de Mille, dancer, choreographer (d. 1993)
1907 - Leon Askin, actor
1916 - Rossano Brazzi, actor (d. 1994)
1917 - June Foray, voice over actress
1918 - John Berger, politician
1920 - Jack Warden, actor
1923 - Peter Smithson, architect (d. 2003)
1925 - Harvey Haddix, baseball pitcher (pitched perfect game into 12th)
1926 - Bud Greenspan, documentary film producer, director
1928 - Adam Walacinski, composer
1928 - Phyllis Kirk, Syracuse NY, actress (Thin Man, Red Button's Show)
1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (d. 2002)
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, pop music singer, composer
1933 - Robert Blake, actor
1933 - Manfred Niehaus, composer
1937 - Norman Dinnerstein, composer
1939 - Fred Willard, Ohio, comedian (Fernwood 2 Night, Real People)
1939 - Kate (Katherine Jane) Westbrook, English painter, singer (jazz, cabaret), instrumentalist
1940 - Frankie Avalon, musician
1944 - Michael Franks, rocker
1949 - Peter Shilton, football goalkeeper
1950 - Anna Deavere Smith, conceptual artist
1950 - Shabana Azmi, Indian Actress
1950 - Darryl Sittler, NHL hockey player (mainly Toronto Maple Leafs)
1952 - Dee Dee Ramone, American musician, bassist with The Ramones (d. June 5, 2002)
1952 - Rick Pitino, basketball coach
1954 - Murtaza Bhutto, politician
1958 - John Aldridge, footballer
1959 - Ryne Sandberg, Baseball Hall of Famer
1960 - Kim Wilde, Chiswick England, vocalist
1961 - James Gandolfini, actor
1964 - Holly Robinson, actress
1967 - Jay Kay, Message board bandit and text monkey
1968 - Toni Kukoc, Croatian basketball player
1970 - Darren Gough, English cricketer
1971 - Lance Armstrong, cycling champion
1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith, model, actress
1974 - Ticha Penicheiro, WNBA basketball player
1975 - Anthony McPartlin, English television presenter
*value of posts can go down as well as up.
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Postby Alycidon » Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:20 pm

where does Jonathan Woss rank???


Probably anywhere that he wouldn't get caught doing it!! :twisted:
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Postby Captain Brittles » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:42 pm

The following is shite - much in line with the examples set by the site owner and her moderators.



June 18

1847 Alexander Murray departs for the Yukon


Planning to build a fort for trading furs with the local Indians, Alexander Murray leads a heavily armed party into the Yukon River region of North America.

By 1847, Murray was already an experienced fur trader and wilderness explorer. A native of Scotland, he emigrated to the United States in the 1830s. He found a job working for the rapidly growing American Fur Company, and in 1842 became the commander of the company's new fur trading post on the Yellowstone River in present-day southern Montana. Determined, strong-willed, and confident, Murray was well suited to the difficult and often dangerous task of trading furs on the frontier.

In 1845, Murray left the American Fur Company to join the Canadian-controlled giant of the North American fur industry, the Hudson's Bay Company. Murray's bosses immediately sent him north into the wild arctic regions straddling the border between the present-day Canadian Yukon and the American state of Alaska. There, he eventually became the commander of the company's Northern Department.

In 1847, the Hudson's Bay Company, determined to expand its fur-trading empire, ordered Murray to travel into the upper regions of the Yukon River and establish a new fort. On this day in 1847, Murray and a small party of men headed down the Porcupine River towards its confluence with the Yukon. Fearing attacks from hostile Indians--or perhaps from competing Russian fur traders--Murray insisted that his men carry a heavy supply of armaments in addition too the plentiful supplies they would need to establish the fort.

After a week of travel down the Porcupine, Murray reached the Yukon. "I never saw an uglier river," he wrote in his journal, "everywhere low banks, evidently lately overflowed, with lakes and swamps behind, the trees too small for building, the water abominably dirty and the current furious." The feared Indian attacks never materialized, but the party did come under constant assault from bloodthirsty mosquitoes.

Despite these drawbacks, Murray deemed the site suitable for a new fort. He began construction on June 26, and started trading with the local Native Americans. Unlike most frontier trading posts that were often only "forts" in name, Murray's new Fort Yukon was a genuine fortress. He built Fort Yukon to withstand a potential attack by any small party of Indians or Russians that might dare to challenge the right of the Hudson's Bay Company to dominate the Yukon fur trade.

Eventually joined by his young wife, Anne, Murray remained at Fort Yukon for four years. During that time, Anne gave birth to three daughters. The family returned to Canada in 1852, and Murray subsequently served at a variety of Canadian posts, always taking Anne and his growing clan of children with him. The couple eventually raised eight children in the isolated Canadian frontier.

Murray retired from the company in 1867 and bought a farm on the Red River in southern Manitoba, Canada. He lived for another seven years before dying at the age of 56. Anne, 10 years his junior, survived him by 33 years and died in 1907.


Embdy still awake ................. ?

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Postby paladin » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:53 pm

Captain Brittles wrote:Embdy still awake ................. ?

:D


Have ah missed the Davy Crockett bit?

Is this a distant (fur off) relative of yours Capt.?


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Postby Captain Brittles » Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:12 pm

Not sure whether he is or not, shall have to ask my big sis who's into that jeenieology lark. Its a coincidence that this chap has the same name as my old dad but.

A wee postscript to this story - and thats why I picked it actually, is that when I was 15 - and even though I had just started my apprenticeship - I applied for a job with the Hudson's Bay Co. (They used to recruit every year from Scotland as it has great Scottish traditions, for the far flung outposts in the Artic regions - & I hankering after some adventure & an Eskimo burd) and was accepted at the interview, however my mammy gave it some thought the next day and wouldn't let me go.
Such parental decisions are the real things that can decide your path in life.

Is that a bear ootside ? :roll:
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Postby paladin » Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:40 pm

Captain Brittles wrote: an Eskimo burd


Nose-rubbing can wait 'til the other departments have become redundant. ::):

Parents shaping their child's life?.........look no further than Oprah (born on the same day as moi), who was sexually abused as a child, went to live with her father who got her a job......the rest is quite something, as she is one of the richest women in the world.
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