This day in history

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50 years ago today, Jim Morrison dies in Paris.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/50-years-afte...story.html
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50 years ago this month. Yikes.


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Sometimes, these days, instead of "SHAFT!" my ears hear "CHEF!"
Can you dig it?
RIP Mr. Hayes...
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Who you gonna call?

( if you said “Ghostbusters” you are a NooB)
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42 years ago - Disco Demolition Night @ Comiskey Park in Chicago !! At the time we "Rockers" thought it was wild !! But looking back, it was a riot ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night
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My Pops:
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I know you will always be with me, rest in peace with no more pain. 8/13/14.....

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'86 Doublecab W/T
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'88 Dodge Ram pickup
'11 Jetta Wagon

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John Ringo, the famous gun-fighting gentleman, is found dead in Turkey Creek Canyon, Arizona.

Romanticized in both life and death, John Ringo was supposedly a Shakespeare-quoting gentleman whose wit was as quick as his gun. Some believed he was college educated, and his sense of honor and courage was sometimes compared to that of a British lord. In truth, Ringo was not a formally educated man, and he came from a struggling working-class Indiana family that gave him few advantages. Yet, he does appear to have been better read than most of his associates, and he clearly cultivated an image as a refined gentleman.

By the time he was 12, Ringo was already a crack shot with either a pistol or rifle. He left home when he was 19, eventually ending up in Texas, where in 1875 he became involved in a local feud known as the “Hoodoo War.” He killed at least two men, but seems to have either escaped prosecution, or when arrested, escaped his jail cell. By 1878, he was described as “one of the most desperate men in the frontier counties” of Texas, and he decided it was time to leave the state.

In 1879, Ringo resurfaced in southeastern Arizona, where he joined the motley ranks of outlaws and gunslingers hanging around the booming mining town of Tombstone. Nicknamed “Dutch,” Ringo had a reputation for being a reserved loner who was dangerous with a gun. He haunted the saloons of Tombstone and was probably an alcoholic. Not long after he arrived, Ringo shot a man dead for refusing to join him in a drink. Somehow, he again managed to avoid imprisonment by temporarily leaving town. He was not involved in the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881, but he did later challenge Doc Holliday (one of the survivors of the O.K. Corral fight) to a shootout. Holliday declined and citizens disarmed both men.


The manner of Ringo’s demise remains something of a mystery. He seems to have become despondent in 1882, perhaps because his family had treated him coldly when he had earlier visited them in San Jose. Witnesses reported that he began drinking even more heavily than usual. On this day in 1882, he was found dead in Turkey Creek Canyon outside of Tombstone. It looked as if Ringo had shot himself in the head and the official ruling was that he had committed suicide. Some believed, however, that he had been murdered either by his drinking friend Frank “Buckskin” Leslie or a young gambler named “Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce.” To complicate matters further, Wyatt Earp later claimed that he had killed Ringo. The truth remains obscure to this day.

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July 20th, 1969. Apollo 11 Lunar Module "Eagle" landed on the moon. I'm sure we all can remember that day. Most of us anyway.
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Germany passes controversial “Volkswagen Law”
On July 21, 1960, the German government passes the “Law Concerning the Transfer of the Share Rights in Volkswagenwerk Limited Liability Company into Private Hands,” known informally as the “Volkswagen Law.”

Founded in 1937 and originally under the control of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist (Nazi) Party, Volkswagen would eventually grow into Europe’s largest car manufacturer and a symbol of Germany’s economic recovery after the devastation of World War II. The Volkswagen Law, passed in July 1960, changed the company to a joint stock corporation, with 20 percent held each by Germany and Lower Saxony, the region in which Volkswagen is still headquartered. By limiting the share of any other stockholder to 20 percent, regardless of how many shares owned, the law effectively protected the company from any attempt at a hostile takeover.

By 2007, the controversial legislation had come under full-blown attack from the European Commission as part of a campaign against protectionist measures in several European capitals. The commission objected not only to the 20 percent voting rights cap but to the law’s stipulation that measures taken at the annual stockholders’ meeting must be passed by more than four-fifths of VW shareholders—a requirement that gave Lower Saxony the ability to block any such measures as it saw fit.

In March of that year, fellow German automaker Porsche announced that it had raised its stake in Volkswagen to 30.9 percent, triggering a takeover bid under a German law requiring a company to bid for the entirety of any other company after acquiring more than 30 percent of its stock. Porsche announced it did not intend to take over VW, but was buying the stock as a way of protecting it from being dismantled by hedge funds. Porsche’s history was already entwined with Volkswagen, as the Austrian-born engineer Ferdinand Porsche designed the original “people’s car” for Volkswagen in 1938.

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This Day In History: Niki Lauda Severely Injured In F1 Crash At The Nurburgring
Lauda's crash changed motorsport as we knew it at the time.
ByElizabeth Blackstock

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40 years ago today MTV debuts. Video killed the radio star.
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100 years ago today, the greatest tenor of all time, Enrico Caruso, died in Naples, too young, at 48.
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100 years ago today: first radio broadcast of a baseball game; in Pittsburgh, station KDKA.

On August 5, 1921, Harold Arlin of KDKA in Pittsburgh voiced the first MLB game on radio.
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Hiroshima 1945

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...and Nagasaki was August 9th. VJ Day is August 15th and WW2 ended on Sept. 2. Just thought I'd save you the future posts.
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"Someday the world is gonna be populated by nothing but Volkswagens'" Corporal Klairvoy

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Actually, the correct term is "hypocenter".

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki.

Let's hope it never comes to that again.
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On August 12, 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross, to encourage German women to have more children, to be awarded each year on August 12, Hitler’s mother’s birthday.

The German Reich needed a robust and growing population and encouraged couples to have large families. It started such encouragement early. Once members of the distaff wing of the Hitler Youth movement, the League of German Girls, turned 18, they became eligible for a branch called Faith and Beauty, which trained these girls in the art of becoming ideal mothers. One component of that ideal was fecundity. And so each year, in honor of his beloved mother, Klara, and in memory of her birthday, a gold medal was awarded to women with seven children, a silver to women with six, and a bronze to women with five.