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Cusser
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Jan. 12, 1975
Pittsburgh Steelers, the worst team in the NFL through the 1960s, won the first of their 6 Super Bowls.
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iowegian 
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:16 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Abscate wrote: |
12 years ago today…
“Cactus 1549, turn right for Runway 4 Teterboro.”
“ Unable. we are going to be in the Hudson”
Listening to the ATC and cockpit VCR gives me great comfort when I fly out of any port but especiallyLGA
Fun fact, Jeff Skiles , the co-pilot , had type certified on the A320 the previous Friday. That’s training. |
HUH???? 
In any event-----another fun fact: Cap't Sullenberger was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Membership in the Seaplane Pilots Association. 
https://www.aviationpros.com/home/press-release/10...llenberger |
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HMVWNAB
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:34 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Batman the TV series in '66 and All in the Family in '71 debuted on this date.
Na na na na na na na na,na na na na na na na na.........BATMAN! |
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Xevin
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:48 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| HMVWNAB wrote: |
Batman the TV series in '66 and All in the Family in '71 debuted on this date.
Na na na na na na na na,na na na na na na na na.........BATMAN! |
Meathead says POW!!!
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Glenn
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2024 2:04 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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01/24/1984
Link
Were you alive then?
The original Macintosh cost $2500. Today you can buy a new Macbook Pro 16 for the same price.
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74 Beetle Specs | 74 Beetle Restoration | 2180cc Engine
"You may not get what you pay for, but you always pay for what you get"
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Abscate
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2024 3:58 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Glenn wrote: |
01/24/1984
Link
Were you alive then?
The original Macintosh cost $2500. Today you can buy a new Macbook Pro 16 for the same price. |
And that $1984 2500 is $2024 7500
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slayer61
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| Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:53 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Happy Birthday to "our" Bruce Meyers
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/back-to-the-beach
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... Most folks are idiots when it deals with electrical !!! |
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3/4 race cam? What's missing, one of the lobes? |
Paul
'68 Manx clone... Sears??
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:02 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Fourth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic in the US. |
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Xevin
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jeffrey8164
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Albert Einstein was born 1879
Stephen Hawking died 2018.
Two great minds.
And it’s Pi day.
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Turning owners into mechanics since 1938.
“Let he that is without oil throw the first rod”
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56Cabrio
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Who.Me?
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| Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:21 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| KTPhil wrote: |
| Fourth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic in the US. |
Fourth anniversary of the UK going in to its first lockdown.
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Tram
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| Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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30 years ago today Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home.
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Tram
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| Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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A couple days late on this one but 50 years ago on Weds 3. April 1974 an EF5 tornado wiped out Xenia, Ohio near Dayton. Early warning systems were in their infancy then. It was only when WHIO TV's meteorologist Gil Whitney noticed a "hook echo" on the weather radar heading right at town and frantically broke into programming to tell people to "take shelter NOW!" did anyone have any warning unless they were one of the few outside or at windows looking SW that saw the huge funnel.
The Xenia tornado was one of 148 tornadoes spawned during the still infamous 1974 super outbreak of April 3-4 1974.
People who went through it that are still alive today still react badly to storms and wind. Thankfully it hit at 4:45 PM after school let out because several schools got direct hits- the high school got totaled and a bunch of school buses got tossed ON TOP of what used to be the high school.
Another tornado (or likely the same one) also hit the Sayler Park area of Cincinnati, causing much destruction. In January of 1974 we moved from Cincinnati to Akron. We lived probably about 20 minutes from Saylor Park. In Akron we got severe thunderstorms, hail, and wind, but thankfully no tornado.
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HMVWNAB
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markswagen
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on april 11th 1909, tel-aviv was founded.
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Abscate
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| Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:24 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Today
First shot of the Civil War
Second shot of the Cold War
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HMVWNAB
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Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004.
The news stunned his fellow Americans. He was one of the most famous soldiers since Elvis Presley and perhaps the most famous American killed in combat since legendary war correspondent Ernie Pyle in World War II.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39954768/nfl-cardinals-tillman-afghanistan-9-11 |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:39 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Killed by friendly fire, then turned into a narrative for recruitment
The first casualty of war is the truth
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jwp67
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4/19 Happy Bicycle day! Albert Hofmann took the first dose of LSD and bicycled home through the streets of Belgium in 1943.
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