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trussell and Bethbg79 and FRiends of the Canteen
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To: Radix
Dang it RAdix -- you could at least have given us a hanky alert!
561
posted on
03/13/2004 6:16:22 AM PST
by
StarCMC
(God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on March 13:
1615 Innocent XII [Antonio Pignatelli] Pope (1691-1700)
1696 Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu French marshal
1733 Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
1741 Jozef II arch duke of Austria/Roman Catholic German emperor (1765-90)
1764 Charles Earl Grey (Whig), British Prime Minister (1830-34)
1770 Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death)
1798 Abigail Powers Fillmore 1st lady-Millard Fillmore (1850-53)
1818 Albion Parris Howe Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1820 Louis Herbert Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1855 Percival "Percy" Lowell US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)
1886 John "Home Run" Baker hall of famer (hit 2 homeruns in 1911 world series)
1901 Paul Fix Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
1908 Walter Annenberg Milwaukee WI, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)
1910 Sammy Kaye Lakewood OH, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1911 L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard sci-fi writer/Scientologist (Dianetics)
1913 William J Casey headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87)
1921 Allan Jaffee comic strip cartoonist/illustrator (MAD Magazine)
1931 Rosalind Elias Lowell MA, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
1933 Mike Stoller composer (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown)
1939 Neil Sedaka Brooklyn NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
1950 William H Macy Miami FL, actor (Homicide, Water Engine)
1955 Olga Rukavishnikova USSR, pentathlete (Olympics-silver-1980)
1958 Rick A Lazio (Representative-Republican-NY)
1971 Curtis Conway NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Chicago Bears)
1971 Tracy Wells actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere)
Deaths which occurred on March 13:
1202 Mieszko III the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies
1516 Vladislav II Jagiello king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60
1569 Louis Condé French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle
1619 Richard Burbage English actor (Shakespeare), dies
1879 Adolf Anderssen German world champion chess (1851..66), dies at 60
1881 Alexander II Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62
1901 Benjamin Harrison 23rd President (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
1906 Susan B[rownell] Anthony American suffragist, dies at 85
1938 Clarence S Darrow Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80
1946 Thomas Frederick Dunhill composer, dies at 69
1964 Kitty Genovese stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on
1975 Ali Sastroamidjojo Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71
1991 Jimmy McPartland US, jazz cornetist, dies
1993 Ralph Smith Fults US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82
1995 Abdul Ali Mazari Afghan shite leader, shot to death
1995 Leo Kaplan lawyer (ASCAP), dies at 89
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 DAVIS GENE E.---EVANSVILLE IN.
1966 DUVALL DEAN A.---MONTICELLO IN.
1966 HENNINGER HOWARD W.---HANFORD CA.
1966 MORGAN EDWIN E.---SALISBURY NC.
1966 OLSON GERALD E.---WINTER HAVEN FL.
1966 PASEKOFF ROBERT E.---PITTSBURGH PA.
1966 PAULEY MARSHALL I.---MILTON WV.
1966 PARKER UDON---PHENIX CITY AL.
1967 HARRIS PAUL WINIFORD---CHILLICOTHE OH.
1967 TERWILLIGER VIRGIL BYRON---MC CLURE OH.
1968 BYRNE JOSEPH HENRY---EVANSTON IL.
1968 COLLINS GUY FLETCHER---MIAMI FL.
1968 EVANS CLEVELAND JR.---HOT SPRINGS AR.
1968 HEITMAN STEVEN W.---INDIANAPOLIS IN.
1968 WATSON JIMMY L.---LUCAMO NC.
1968 WESTBROOK DONALD E.---SHERMAN TX.
1971 CREED BARTON S.---PEEKSKILL NY.
[MAY HAVE BEEN CAPTURED]
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0483 St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1519 Cortez lands in México
1569 Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1735 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
1861 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
1884 US adopts Standard Time
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
1913 Kansas legislature approves censorship of motion pictures
1918 1st NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York NY)
1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1928 450 die in St Franciso Valley Dam burst (California)
1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1933 Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda
1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain(Graded on the curve)
1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1947 19th Academy Awards: "Best Years of Our Lives", Frederic March, Olivia de Havilland win
1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes president of US Communist Party
1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1961 Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
1963 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1970 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded
1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Cuba : Attack on the Presidential Palace
Liberia : Decoration Day
US : Good Samaritan Involvement Day
Memphis TN : Cotton Carnival (held for 5 days) (Tuesday)
New Mexico : Arbor Day (Friday)
US : Aardvark Week Ends
USA] Federal Employees Recognition Week Ends
Gardening, Nature and Ecology Books Month
Religious Observances
Christian : Commemoration of St Ansovinus
Religious History
1687 Father Eusebio Kino, 42, an Italian-born Jesuit in the service of Spain, began missionary labors in the American Southwest. In all, Kino established 25 Indian missions in the area now divided between northern Mexico and Arizona.
1804 Birth of James W. Alexander, American Presbyterian clergyman and hymn writer. It was Alexander who, in 1830, rendered the English text of Paul Gerhardt's immortal German hymn, "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."
1868 Birth of Charles E. Cowman, American missionary pioneer. In 1901 he sailed to Japan with his wife Lettie (who later authored "Streams in the Desert"), where in 1910 they founded the Oriental Missionary Society.
1904 "The Christ of the Andes", a bronze statue of Christ located on the Argentina-Chile border, was formally dedicated.
1925 Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signed legislation prohibiting the teaching of evolution within the state's public school system. (A celebrated violation of this law led to the famous July Scopes Monkey Trial.)
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
Word of the day...
snorfing (snôrf'ing)
1. (n.) The little game waitresses love to play of waiting until your mouth is full before sneaking up and asking, "Is everything okay?"
New State Slogans...
Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free
Amazing fact #377...
Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.
562
posted on
03/13/2004 6:32:03 AM PST
by
Valin
(Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat)
To: alaska-sgt
Good morning, alaska-sgt!!
How are you today?
Have a fabulous day!!
*HUGS*
563
posted on
03/13/2004 7:00:37 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: bentfeather
Good morning, Queenie!!
You look absolutely smashing as usual!!
Thank you for the wonderful tunes you post everyday!!
*HUGS*
If you are up to it today, MoJo will call ya later!
564
posted on
03/13/2004 7:03:09 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: MeekOneGOP
Good morning, Meekie!!
How are you doing today?
Have a wonderful weekend!!
565
posted on
03/13/2004 7:03:46 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: Kathy in Alaska; txradioguy; HopeandGlory; All
Prayers for safe returns to America for all our Troops coming home!!
566
posted on
03/13/2004 7:04:42 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: E.G.C.
Good morning, E.G.C!!
How are you today?
*HUGS*
Have a fabulous day!
567
posted on
03/13/2004 7:05:31 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: Radix
Good morning, Radix!!
How are you today?
How's the computer issue coming along?
I might have at least one solution for you. If you'd like a solution, let me know!!!
*HUGS*
568
posted on
03/13/2004 7:06:31 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: darkwing104
Good morning, darkwing104!!
Let's Be Dangerous today.
Why?
Because we can!
Have a fabulous weekend!
569
posted on
03/13/2004 7:07:09 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: Radix
Nah!! I'm still up!! NO hangovers!
Now Brad's Gramma may have a different opinion.
570
posted on
03/13/2004 7:07:59 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: StarCMC
Good morning, Star!
How are you today?
Ready for me to offload some game consoles to your house? Hehe!!
Have a wonderful weekend!
571
posted on
03/13/2004 7:08:37 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: Valin
Who was Hernando Cortez?
He also wiped out the Aztec Empire.
572
posted on
03/13/2004 7:10:11 AM PST
by
Radix
(The Canteen? Yeah, it is for the Troops. Do you got a problem with that?)
To: Radix
WOOHOO!!
RADIX GOT 550!!
FEEL THE LOVE YET?
573
posted on
03/13/2004 7:10:58 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: Radix
Thank you for posting wonderful pictures of our heroes.
You do an awesome job everyday.
Thank you.
574
posted on
03/13/2004 7:13:51 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: Valin
Good morning, Valin!!
Thank you for the daily history logs!!
Have a fabulous weekend!
575
posted on
03/13/2004 7:14:32 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: Brad's Gramma
Nawp-
Not even the doctors son! LOL
576
posted on
03/13/2004 7:15:29 AM PST
by
mylife
To: Valin
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
Happy Birthday
577
posted on
03/13/2004 7:15:39 AM PST
by
Radix
(The Canteen? Yeah, it is for the Troops. Do you got a problem with that?)
To: Valin; MoJo2001
1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain(Graded on the curve)
No further comment....
578
posted on
03/13/2004 7:17:30 AM PST
by
Radix
(The Canteen? Yeah, it is for the Troops. Do you got a problem with that?)
To: Radix
Driving tests are someone else's trauma. Not MoJo's. Hehe!
579
posted on
03/13/2004 7:18:42 AM PST
by
MoJo2001
(I have a dream: DIR C: 965465065464984030373436 bytes free...)
To: alaska-sgt
580
posted on
03/13/2004 7:19:41 AM PST
by
Bethbg79
(God bless our Troops and their families!)
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