[rickmichaels]

July 17, 1996 - The very same day John Joubert was executed in Nebraska. Not related of course. I just remember the date.

[KamperKen]

"July 17, 1996 - The very same day John Joubert was executed in Nebraska. Not related of course. I just remember the date."

Also the date of the founding of the Baath party in Iraq; Saddam Hussein's calling card and part of his revenge for the Gulf War.

[CollegeRepublican]

July 17, 1996 - The very same day John Joubert was executed in Nebraska. Not related of course. I just remember the date.

I remember this day pretty clearly. I was coming home from a 2 week excursion to Italy with some high school classmates. I was flying TWA from Rome to JFK and then JFK to Washington National. My flight took off from JFK right before 800 and landed in DC without incident. But our parents were freaking out at the airport when we arrived, thinking that our plane was the one that blew up. I thought my parents just really missed me.

[NCC-1701]

Here’s something I found on IMDB.com in the trivia about the movie “Nine to Five”:

In the middle of the film, Dolly Parton and her colleagues send a nosy secretary to the Aspen Language Center in Colorado to learn French. The particular TWA 747 shown in the film later was used in reality on the ill-fated flight of TWA 800, which exploded off of Long Island, NY.

Kinda freaky, eh?