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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:04 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Da TOW'D wrote:
Elvis died today in 1977

It was during my first week of working for the IRS. Shocking news on the 19" motel TV that night.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 6:22 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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Last I heard was that Elvis was seen bagging groceries in the Detroit area.


I heard he has a show in Vegas as an Elvis impersonator. Guess he's not half bad.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 8:25 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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Last I heard was that Elvis was seen bagging groceries in the Detroit area.


I heard he has a show in Vegas as an Elvis impersonator. Guess he's not half bad.


In Reno,NV at the IGA Shocked
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 11:46 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

no,no,no - it's the guy who works down the chip shop Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:31 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Been 10 years since Neil Armstrong died. Interesting developments since.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/neil-armstrong-wrongful-death-settlement.html
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2022 5:10 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

21 years
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2022 7:26 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:28 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

I was disgusted to find NO stories about this on the L.A. Times online version, and even the N.Y. Times buried it 16 stories down.
Apparently, "never" is 20 years or less...
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 10:40 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

September 30, 1968

The Boeing 747 is rolled out and was shown to the public for the first time.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 8:20 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Oct. 3:
OJ acquitted for killings of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman.
OJ convicted of terrible acting.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 5:59 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

October 13, 1960: Bill Mazeroski hits home run in bottom of the ninth inning as the underdog Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the might Yankees in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series 10-9.

Game time for a game with 19 runs then: 2 hours 36 minutes.

The only world series game ever with zero strikeouts.

First World Series ending on a walk-off.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2022 8:56 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

on this date, the USS constitution was launched. 1797. Gilligan was not abord
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:16 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Today in 1970.

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Article by Dave Barry (1990):

I am absolutely not making this incident up; in fact I have it all on videotape.

The tape is from a local TV news show in Oregon, which sent a reporter out to cover the removal of a 45-foot, eight-ton dead whale that washed up on the beach. The responsibility for getting rid of the carcass was placed upon the Oregon State Highway Division, apparently on the theory that highways and whales are very similar in the sense of being large objects.

So anyway, the highway engineers hit upon the plan — remember, I am not making this up — of blowing up the whale with dynamite. The thinking here was that the whale would be blown into small pieces, which would be eaten by sea gulls, and that would be that. A textbook whale removal.

So they moved the spectators back up the beach, put a half-ton of dynamite next to the whale and set it off. I am probably not guilty of understatement when I say that what follows, on the videotape, is the most wonderful event in the history of the universe.

First you see the whale carcass disappear in a huge blast of smoke and flame. Then you hear the happy spectators shouting “Yayy!” and “Whee!” Then, suddenly, the crowd’s tone changes.

You hear a new sound like “splud.” You hear a woman’s voice shouting “Here come pieces of… MY GOD!” Something smears the camera lens.

Later, the reporter explains: “The humor of the entire situation suddenly gave way to a run for survival as huge chunks of whale blubber fell everywhere.”

One piece caved in the roof of a car parked more than a quarter of a mile away. Remaining on the beach were several rotting whale sectors the size of condominium units. There was no sign of the sea gulls, who had no doubt permanently relocated in Brazil. This is a very sobering videotape. Here at the institute we watch it often, especially at parties.

But this is no time for gaiety. This is a time to get hold of the folks at the Oregon State Highway division and ask them, when they get done cleaning up the beaches, to give us an estimate on the US Capitol.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 3:14 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Should of used 'C-4' and directed the Blast to the Sea Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:19 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Another excellent plan by the M.F.I.C.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:42 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

I’m embarrassed that we missed both the collapse of the Berlin Wall and KrystallNacht a few days ago, but we should not forget either one, ever.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 6:40 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

JFK, 1963.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:29 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

The end of American Camelot.
As posted in prior years, I remember as a kid watching the grainy B&W tv coverage of the procession, the sound of hoofs on the pavement. Our mom kept us home from school to watch.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:32 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

You’d be surprised how many people from all over the world are drawn to the book depository looking for answers even now.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:41 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

KTPhil wrote:
The end of American Camelot.
As posted in prior years, I remember as a kid watching the grainy B&W tv coverage of the procession, the sound of hoofs on the pavement. Our mom kept us home from school to watch.


Phil,
You must be just a little bit older than me. It is one of my earliest memories as a child not yet in school.

My mother was at the ironing board crying her eyes out and there was a long line of black cars on the TV. I was so young, I had no realization of what was happening, except that my mother was crying. Sad
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