October 30th 1980 the world was blessed with my presence...or cursed, depending on your point of view lol.

 

This Day in History: Oct. 31
Escape artist Harry Houdini dies; Work is completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial
By Bryan Robinson



On this day, Oct. 31 ...
1941: Work is completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.

Also on this day:

• 1926: Escape artist Harry Houdini dies in Detroit of peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix.
• 1941: The Navy destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States has not yet entered World War II.
• 1961: The body of Josef Stalin is removed from Lenin’s Tomb as part of the Soviet Union’s “de-Stalinization” drive.
• 1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hopes for fruitful peace negotiations.
• 1975: The Queen single “Bohemian Rhapsody” is released in the United Kingdom by EMI Records.
• 1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards.
• 1992: Pope John Paul II formally proclaims the Roman Catholic Church erred in condemning the astronomer Galileo for holding that the Earth was not the center of the universe.
• 1998: A genetic study is released suggesting President Thomas Jefferson did, in fact, father at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings.
• 1999: EgyptAir Flight 990, bound from New York to Cairo, crashes off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard.
• 2013: The Federal Aviation Administration issues new guidelines allowing airline passengers to keep their electronic devices turned on throughout the entire flight, but not to talk on their cellphones.

Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood, left, and Robin Wright as Clair Underwood in a scene from "House of Cards" (AP Photo/Netflix, Nathaniel E. Bell)

• 2017: Netflix says it is suspending production on “House of Cards” following sexual harassment allegations against its star, Kevin Spacey. (Spacey would later be fired from the show, and production would resume without him. The final season of “House of Cards” would be released in November 2018.)
• 2017: At least eight people are killed and 11 injured after a motorist drives a rented pickup truck onto a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center memorial in Lower Manhattan.

 

This Day in History: Nov. 1
The US detonates the first hydrogen bomb, code-named 'Ivy Mike'




View of a cloud plume after the nuclear detonation codenamed Mike, Enewetak, Marshall Islands, November 1, 1952. The detonation, the first of two in 'Operation Ivy,' was also the first successful hydrogen bomb. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

On this day, Nov. 1 ...


1952: The United States detonates the first hydrogen bomb, code-named “Ivy Mike,” at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Also on this day:

• 1604: William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” is first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
• 1765: The Stamp Act, passed by the British Parliament, takes effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
• 1945: Ebony magazine is first published.
• 1950: Two Puerto Rican nationalists try to force their way into Blair House in Washington, D.C., in a failed attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. (One of the pair is killed, along with a White House police officer.)

• 1968: The Motion Picture Association of America unveils its new voluntary film rating system: G for general, M for mature (which would later change to GP, then PG), R for restricted and X (which would later change to NC-17) for adults only.
• 1973: Following President Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” of Oct. 20, Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appoints Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox. Bork had fired Cox, under orders from Nixon, after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus both resigned, refusing to follow Nixon’s order.
• 1989: East Germany reopens its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the West.
• 1991: Clarence Thomas takes his place as the newest associate justice on the Supreme Court after contentious U.S. Senate confirmation hearings.
• 2001: The New York Yankees defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 in Game 5 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, in the first Series game ever played in November. MLB’s championship round had been delayed because of the terror attacks of Sept. 11. (Arizona went on to win the Series in Game 7 in Phoenix three nights later.)
• 2003: Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean stirs controversy within his party by telling the Des Moines Register he wanted to be “the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.” (The former Vermont governor would explain that he intended to encourage the return of Southern voters who had abandoned the Democrats for decades but were disaffected with the Republicans.)
• 2014: The United Nations’ expert panel on climate science, meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, finishes a report on global warming that the agency says offers “conclusive evidence” that humans are altering Earth’s climate system.
• 2018: Edmund Zagorski becomes the first man executed in Tennessee’s electric chair since 2007; his last words are “Let’s rock,” before he is executed for shooting two men and slitting their throats during a drug deal. (The rock band The Black Keys later uses Zagorski’s last words as the title of an album.)
• 2018: Thousands of Google employees around the world briefly walk off the job to protest what they say is the company’s mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations against executives.

• 2019: Former Texas Democratic congressman Beto O'Rourke drops out of 2020 presidential race.

 

Nov 1st 1870... 150 years ago... At 735am EST the National Weather Service was born... It began receiving reports from all over the nation on local weather activity and making predictions based off those reports...

 

Nov 1 1896 First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine

 

This Day in History: Nov. 2
Gen. George Washington issues his farewell address to the Army; Opioids fuel a record number of drug overdose deaths in US
By Bryan Robinson




(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

On this day, Nov. 2 ...


2018: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says drug overdose deaths in 2017 hit the highest level ever recorded in the United States, with most of the increase due to a record number of opioid-related deaths.

Also on this day:

• 1783: General George Washington issues his farewell address to the Army near Princeton, N.J.
• 1889: North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states with the signing of proclamations by President Benjamin Harrison.

Howard Hughes, industrialist, film producer and pilot, poses in the cockpit of his new racing plane after a test flight in Los Angeles August 17, 1935. The plane, nearly two years in construction at a cost believed to be more than $100,000, was to be piloted by Hughes in the Bendix race from Los Angeles to Cleveland. (AP Photo)

• 1947: Howard Hughes pilots his huge wooden flying boat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules (derisively dubbed the “Spruce Goose” by detractors), on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.
• 1948: President Harry S. Truman surprises the experts by winning a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
• 1962: President John F. Kennedy delivers a brief statement to the nation in which he says that aerial photographs have confirmed that Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being dismantled and that “progress is now being made toward the restoration of peace in the Caribbean.”

Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, depart the Plains, Ga., polling place, Nov. 2, 1976. The candidate was the fifth person to vote in his precinct. (AP Photo)

• 1976: Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter becomes the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeats incumbent President Gerald R. Ford.
• 1986: Kidnappers in Lebanon release American hospital administrator David Jacobsen after holding him for 17 months.
• 1994: A jury in Pensacola, Fla., convicts Paul Hill of murder for the shotgun slayings of an abortion provider and his bodyguard; Hill would be executed in September 2003.
• 2000: American astronaut Bill Shepherd and two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, become the first residents of the International Space Station.
• 2004: President George W. Bush is elected to a second term as Republicans strengthen their grip on Congress.
• 2014: Islamic State group extremists shoot dead at least 50 Iraqi men, women and children from the same Sunni tribe.
• 2014: A Taliban suicide bomber kills 60 in an attack on a paramilitary checkpoint in Pakistan close to the Wagah border crossing with India.
• 2014: Daredevil Nik Wallenda wows Chicago and the world with two hair-raising skyscraper crossings on high wires without a safety net or a harness.
• 2018: The Trump administration restores U.S. sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal but carves out exemptions for eight countries that would still be able to import Iranian oil.
• 2018: The oldest victim of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, 97-year-old Rose Mallinger, is laid to rest in the last of the funerals for the 11 victims.

 

That's interesting. I toured the Spruce Goose in Long Beach, and I had no idea the nickname was was meant as an insult.

 

This Day in History: Nov. 3
Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating President George H.W. Bush
By Bryan Robinson

On this day, Nov. 3 ...

1992: Democrat Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating President George H.W. Bush.

Also on this day:

• 1839: The first Opium War between China and Britain breaks out.
• 1911: The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. is founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant. (The company would be acquired by General Motors in 1918.)
• 1936: President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins a landslide election victory over Republican challenger Alfred “Alf” Landon.
• 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, the second manmade satellite, into orbit; on board is a dog named Laika, who would be sacrificed in the experiment.
• 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson soundly defeats Republican Barry Goldwater to win a White House term in his own right.
• 1979: Five Communist Workers Party members are killed in a clash with heavily armed Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis during an anti-Klan protest in Greensboro, N.C.
• 1986: The Iran-Contra affair comes to light as Ash-Shiraa, a pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, first breaks the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran.

• 1992: In Illinois, Democrat Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Senate, defeating Republican Richard S. Williamson.

• 1994: Susan Smith of Union, S.C., is arrested for drowning her two young sons, Michael and Alex, nine days after claiming the children had been abducted by a black carjacker.
• 1995: President Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to the 270 victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
• 1997: The Supreme Court lets stand California’s groundbreaking Proposition 209, which bans race and gender preference in hiring and school admissions.
• 2009: Chris Christie, a Republican former U.S. attorney, unseats New Jersey Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine.
• 2014: Thirteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the resurrected World Trade Center opens for business, marking an emotional milestone for both New Yorkers and the nation.
• 2017: Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and triggered a search that left some of his comrades severely wounded, is spared a prison sentence by a military judge in North Carolina; President Trump blasts the decision as a “complete and total disgrace.”

 

This Day in History: Nov. 4



On this day, Nov. 4 …

1980: Republican Ronald Reagan wins the White House as he defeats President Jimmy Carter by a strong margin.

Also on this day:

• 1862: Inventor Richard J. Gatling receives a U.S. patent for his rapid-fire Gatling gun.
• 1922: The entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb is discovered in Egypt.
• 1956: Soviet troops move in to crush the Hungarian Revolution.

• 1979: The Iran hostage crisis begins as militants storm the United States Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants; for some of them, it would be the start of 444 days of captivity.

Former Presidents, from left, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon shown in the courtyard during the dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Nov. 4, 1991. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)

• 1991: Ronald Reagan opens his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif.; President George H.W. Bush and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard Nixon all attend — the first-ever gathering of five past and present U.S. chief executives.
• 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by a right-wing Israeli minutes after attending a festive peace rally.
• 2001: Hurricane Michelle roars across Cuba, forcing the government to shut down power for much of the communist island and evacuate 750,000 people.
• 2001: The Arizona Diamondbacks won their first World Series by beating the New York Yankees 3-2 in Game 7.
• 2007: King Tutankhamen’s face is unveiled for the first time to the public more than 3,000 years after the pharaoh was buried in his Egyptian tomb.

• 2008: Democrat Barack Obama is elected the first black president of the United States, defeating Republican John McCain.
• 2008: California voters approve Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage, overturning a state Supreme Court decision that gave gay couples the right to wed just months earlier.

 

Guys this will be my last post on the forum for while. I've decided I'm focusing to much of my life on this place and need to get away. If someone else wants feel free to keep things going. Otherwise take care and good bye.

https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/this-day-in-history

This Day in History: Nov. 5
President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term in office; Saddam Hussein is convicted and sentenced for crimes against humanity


First lady Eleanor Roosevelt smiles President Franklin D. Roosevelt's side, as he waves a greeting to the crowd which cheered him as he left St. John's Church in Washington, Jan. 20, 1941, his third inaugural day. (AP Photo)

On this day, Nov. 5 …


1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term in office as he defeats Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.

Also on this day:

• 1911: Aviator Calbraith P. Rodgers arrives in Pasadena, Calif., completing the first transcontinental airplane trip in 49 days.

(REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration)

• 1935: Parker Brothers begins marketing the board game “Monopoly.”
• 1968: Republican Richard M. Nixon wins the presidency, defeating Democratic Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent candidate George C. Wallace.
• 1974: Democrat Ella T. Grasso is elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
• 1987: Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana several times in the 1960s and 70s, calling it a mistake. (Ginsburg would end up withdrawing his nomination.)
• 1992: Malice Green, a Black motorist, dies after he was struck in the head 14 times with a flashlight by a Detroit police officer, Larry Nevers, outside a suspected crack house. (Nevers and his partner, Walter Budzyn, would be found guilty of second-degree murder, but the convictions would be overturned; they were later convicted of involuntary manslaughter.)
• 1994: Former President Ronald Reagan discloses he has Alzheimer’s disease.

• 2006: Saddam Hussein is convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity.
• 2009: A shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas leaves 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, would be convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
• 2017: A gunman armed with an assault rifle opens fire in a small South Texas church, killing more than two dozen people; the shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley, is later found dead in a vehicle after he was shot and chased by two men who heard the gunfire. (An autopsy would reveal that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Sorry to here that, this can be a good distraction as well as a preoccupation, and sometimes the aggravation just isnt worth it,

Take care and be well, I look forward to your return, ....in moderation

 

12/08/1980
The tragic passing of John Lennon. And reported on MNF first.

https://www.newsday.com/sports/medi...oward-cosell-monday-night-football-1.50085327

 

White Island eruption tragedy
9-12-19
14.11 NZDT

remembering 22 lost RIP

and 25 with horrendous injuries , many with years of recovery ahead.

 

December 17th, 1903

Wright brothers first powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, NC.

I wonder if they had any idea what would follow.

 

December 17, 2020 the day that will live in forum infamy as the day @tenguy got his way.

 

117 years and we went from this;


to this;


And we've launched all of these in just 70 years;


And in the next 117 years, if earthlings can get a grip on fractals, they can go to this;

 

There's a nice museum in Kitty Hawk with a mock-up Wright Flyer, the runway where they took off. and markers as to how far they flew.
And some of the original things they used. I was really impressed that they designed a propeller that was <i think> 81% efficient, and today with computer
technology, we can only get 84%! Now that there is some fancy cyphering.

 

The Pima Air museum has the third wright flyer built, plus the only B 36 left, the B 52 that dropped the X 15 and a Russian B 29 (really) and a bunch of other really impressive stuff. Some of it even the Smithsonian doesn't have. Went there probably a dozen times while we lived in Tucson, never saw it all.

 

Hey guys even on the first page a Trump supporter turned it political so hey @tenguy you said when threads turned political the mods would move them to the Politics Section so tag him on this thread and get moved like you said.