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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:01 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

50 years ago yesterday, The Beatles released The Magical Mystery Tour film for its first broadcast on BBC1.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 7:19 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Willie O'Ree broke the color barrier in the NHL on this day in 1958.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_O%27Ree
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:54 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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Willie O'Ree broke the color barrier in the NHL on this day in 1958.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_O%27Ree

And he played many years for the minor league San Diego Gulls. A very good "triple-A" player and a fine gentleman.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 1:39 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

1978 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:21 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Yesterday...all the artist got together and recorded (we are the world)
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2018 12:19 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

2/3/59- RIP Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper. Waylon Jennings lucky day.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:17 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Happy birthday to Abe Lincoln a wild and crazy guy Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:54 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

25 years ago today- February 26, 1993. The World Trade Center is bombed by terrorists just after noon killing six and injuring thousands.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 9:40 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

On this day in 1983, the final episode of MASH aired on television.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 3:35 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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On this day in 1983, the final episode of MASH aired on television.


And I think I've watched at least one episode every night since then, lol. It never gets old to me.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:57 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Pink Floyd released Dark Side of the Moon 45 years ago.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 7:58 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

On this date (24 March 1945) the 17th. Airborne Infantry participated in Operation Varsity, the largest airborne operation in history ever conducted on one day. Many "students" of WW2 have never heard of the 17th. or Varsity. Look em' up.
I am proud to have had a good friend who was with the 17th. both at the Bulge and this jump. God Bless you Dick!! "Thunder From Heaven."
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 11:57 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

March 30, 1981. President Reagan was shot by John Hinckley.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2018 12:40 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

50 years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Also, 45 years ago today, the World Trade Center was officially opened/dedicated.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 4:07 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Adolf killed himself, 1945. Time to celebrate !
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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2018 12:15 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

on this day in 1992 ( a full 7 years before Columbine) , my former High School was the location of a mass school shooting/ hostage situation.

http://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/houston-eric.htm


I had graduated 6 years prior, but it's still my school
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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2018 7:49 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

May 4th. 1970...Kent State (Ohio) shooting. 4 dead in O H I O...
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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2018 4:54 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

I missed this yesterday, sorry for the late post:

On May 13 (2016), Albert "Rabbit" Kekai, one of the greatest of Hawaiian surfing, passed away at age 95. From an obit at the time:

Born in 1920 in Honolulu, the young Rabbit quickly earned a reputation as one of the city’s most gifted natural athletes; he was reportedly as fast on land as he was adept in the water, which caught the attention of Duke Kahanamoku during Rabbit’s formative years as a beachboy, a vocation he continued for decades. Throughout his life, Rabbit worked a myriad of maritime jobs.

During the Second World War, he served in the Navy as a UDT swimmer, the precursor for the modern-day Navy SEALs, helping to clear beaches of Japanese defenses in Micronesia. After the war, he worked construction and as a longshoremen in Honolulu. Through it all, his passion for surfing remained.

But his energetic, high-performance surfing — a strange, exhilarating sight, compared to the conservative angled approach of surfing’s early history — led to a renowned influence on the sport and its epoch-turning figures, like Phil Edwards and Donald Takayama.

On a competitive level, Rabbit held the titles in both the Peruvian and Makaha International events. Up until recently, he served as the beach marshall for the Triple Crown and was a stalwart figure at the competition.

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I met him 20 years ago in Malibu. Still very active and a character, with a young lady at his side who went by the name "Summer"!
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PostPosted: Wed May 16, 2018 8:11 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Pet Sounds, the eleventh studio album by the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2018 7:31 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

June 25, 1876 George Custer and 261 men killed at The Battle of the Little Big Horn (River). Also known until recently as the Custer Massacre. One of the few indian victories in what were known at the time as The Indian Wars.
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