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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 8:09 pm
Pearl Harbor - 65 years ago http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 8:29 pm
I just spent 15 minutes browsing the site. Thanks, Rosie.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 8:50 pm
Besides the historical significance, Pearl Harbor had a significant role in our family. My aunt/uncle's wedding day was the day before Pearl Harbor. Because of the attack, he had to report to base the day after his wedding day. They were able to spend a little time together back East, but he was subsequently shipped out and stationed in New Guinea. Because of the war, my uncle did not lay eyes on his firstborn son till he was almost three years old. My aunt is still doing fine. We lost Uncle Bob a few years ago though. RIP Uncle Bob. I think of you every year during this time, and of the sacrifices you made for our country.
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 12:17 am
Thats a wonderful "true life" story.. Thanks for sharing.. I have family that I too also remember during those trying times... I volunteer in one of the rest homes here in my town, and I am always in awe of the stories these folks still can share....amazing really.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 10:33 am
http://www.boston.com/news/history/articles/2006/12/27/today_in_history___dec_28/ Today is Thursday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2006. There are three days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: One hundred and fifty years ago, on Dec. 28, 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton, Va. On this date: In 1694, Queen Mary II of England died after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III. In 1832, John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson. In 1846, Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union. In 1897, the play "Cyrano de Bergerac," by Edmond Rostand, premiered in Paris. In 1917, the New York Evening Mail published a facetious essay by H.L. Mencken on the history of bathtubs in America. In 1937, composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris. In 1944, the musical "On the Town," with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, opened on Broadway. In 1945, Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1973, Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system. In 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American "test-tube" baby, was born in Norfolk, Va. Ten years ago: Leftist rebels in Peru released 20 more hostages, including two ambassadors, from Japan's embassy residence, following the first face-to-face talks between guerrillas and the government's negotiator. Five years ago: The National Guard was called out to help Buffalo, New York, dig out from a paralyzing, five-day storm that had unloaded nearly seven feet of snow. Lawrence Singleton, a rapist and killer whose most notorious crime was chopping off a teen-age hitchhiker's forearms in California in 1978, died at a prison in Starke, Fla., at age 74. One year ago: Former top Enron Corp. accountant Richard Causey pleaded guilty to securities fraud and agreed to help pursue convictions against Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling. A U.S. immigration judge ordered retired auto worker John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, deported to his native Ukraine. (Demjanjuk is appealing the deportation order.) Today's Birthdays: Actor Lou Jacobi is 93. Bandleader Johnny Otis is 85. Comic book creator Stan Lee is 84. Former United Auto Workers union president Owen Bieber is 77. Actor Martin Milner is 75. Actress Dame Maggie Smith is 72. Rock singer-musician Charles Neville is 68. Rock singer-musician Edgar Winter is 60. Rock singer-musician Alex Chilton (The Box Tops; Big Star) is 56. Actor Denzel Washington is 52. Country singer Joe Diffie is 48. Country musician Mike McGuire (Shenandoah) is 48. Actor Chad McQueen is 46. Country singer-musician Marty Roe (Diamond Rio) is 46. Actor Malcolm Gets is 42. Actor Mauricio Mendoza is 37. Comedian Seth Meyers is 33. Rhythm-and-blues singer John Legend is 28. Actress Sienna Miller is 25. Actress Mackenzie Rosman is 17. Thought for Today: "More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing nothing, than by believing too much." -- Phineas T. Barnum, American showman (1810-1891).
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 5:21 pm
Rosie, thank you for this thread. When I saw it, I just had to smile. 
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 5:26 pm
It's not mine but glad you enjoy it.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 6:14 pm
thanks rosie 
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, December 28, 2006 - 7:23 pm
Legal, that is a beautiful gif! What happened to the history thread that you started? I couldn't find it. I liked what Barnum said.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 3:19 pm
Found a very unusual history of New Year's Eve - lol http://www.party411.com/newyears-history.html
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 9:04 pm
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 9, the ninth day of 2007. There are 356 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 9, 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, was born in Yorba Linda, Calif. On this date: In 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia and Woodbury, N.J. In 1861, Mississippi seceded from the Union. In 1861, the Star of the West, a merchant vessel bringing reinforcements to Federal troops at Fort Sumter, S.C., retreated after being fired on by a battery in the harbor. In 1945, during World War II, American forces began landing at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines. In 1957, Anthony Eden resigned as British prime minister; he was succeeded by Harold Macmillan. In 1964, anti-U.S. rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and three U.S. soldiers. In 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface. In 1972, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, said a purported biography of him by Clifford Irving was a fake. In 1987, the White House released a memorandum prepared for President Reagan in January 1986 that showed a definite link between U.S. arms sales to Iran and the release of American hostages in Lebanon. Ten years ago: A Comair commuter plane crashed 18 miles short of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing all 29 people on board. Five years ago: A U.S. military tanker plane crashed in western Pakistan, killing all seven Marines on board. Two Islamic militants stormed an Israeli army post near the Gaza Strip, killing four soldiers before being shot dead in a gun battle. The Bush administration and the auto industry agreed to promote development of pollution-free cars and trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells. One year ago: Confirmation hearings opened in Washington for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. "The Phantom of the Opera" leapt past "Cats" to become the longest-running show in Broadway history. Actor Don Stewart died in Santa Barbara, Calif., at age 70. Today's Birthdays: Author Judith Krantz is 79. Football Hall-of-Famer Bart Starr is 73. Sportscaster Dick Enberg is 72. Actress K. Callan is 71. Folk singer Joan Baez is 66. Actress Susannah York is 66. Rock musician Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) is 63. Singer David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter) is 57. Singer Crystal Gayle is 56. Actor J.K. Simmons is 52. Rock musician Eric Erlandson is 44. Actress Joely Richardson is 42. Rock musician Carl Bell (Fuel) is 40. Rock singer Steve Harwell (Smash Mouth) is 40. Rock singer-musician Dave Matthews is 40. Actress-director Joey Lauren Adams is 39. Singer A.J. McLean (Backstreet Boys) is 29. Thought for Today: "One's lifework, I have learned, grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it, and first thing you know, you'll have made a life out of it. A good life, too." - Theresa Helburn, American theatrical producer (1887-1959). http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/16412839.htm
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 9:07 pm
thanks rosie - alway like to know presidents' birthdays
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 9:09 pm
ETA: Did you hear about the Elvis/Nixon meeting?
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 5:17 am
We're All Shook Up For Elvis, RN Birthday Exhibit Includes Lecture by White House Staffer Bud Krogh, Author of The Day Elvis Met Nixon The President and the King January 4, 2007 The historic 1970 White House meeting of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon will be commemorated in a special exhibit opening on Elvis’ birthday, Monday, January 8, highlighted with the sartorial choices of the President and the King. Opening day events include a lecture by special guest Egil “Bud” Krogh, the assistant to President Nixon who staffed the Elvis-RN meeting and recalled the events in his book, The Day Elvis Met Nixon, writing: “I had prepared a memo for the President with a summary of Elvis’ letter and some talking points for their visit, but who knew where this was going to go? We got the memo back from Bob Haldeman – he’d written on it, ‘You Must Be Kidding,’ but approved the meeting anyway, and I called Elvis back over.”
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 12:15 pm
1809 Edgar Allen Poe was born: http://www.history.com/tdih.do
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 4:52 pm
This Day in History 1935: First canned beer goes on sale ------------------------------ 1924 : First Winter Olympics On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by the ski jump and bobsled as well as 12 other events involving a total of six sports. The "International Winter Sports Week," as it was known, was a great success, and in 1928 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially designated the Winter Games, staged in St. Moritz, Switzerland, as the second Winter Olympics. Five years after the birth of the modern Olympics in 1896, the first organized international competition involving winter sports was staged in Sweden. Called the Nordic Games, only Scandinavian countries competed. Like the Olympics, it was staged thereon every four years but always in Sweden. In 1908, figure skating made its way into the Summer Olympics in London, though it was not actually held until October, some three months after the other events were over. In 1911, the IOC proposed the staging of a separate winter competition for the 1912 Stockholm Games, but Sweden, wanting to protect the popularity of the Nordic Games, declined. Germany planned a Winter Olympics to precede the 1916 Berlin Summer Games, but World War I forced the cancellation of both. At the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, ice hockey joined figure skating as an official Olympic event, and Canada took home the first of many hockey gold medals. Soon after, an agreement was reached with Scandinavians to stage the IOC-sanctioned International Winter Sports Week. It was so popular among the 16 participating nations that, in 1925, the IOC formally created the Winter Olympics, retroactively making Chamonix the first. In Chamonix, Scandinavians dominated the speed rinks and slopes, and Norway won the unofficial team competition with 17 medals. The United States came in third, winning its only gold medal with Charles Jewtraw's victory in the 500-meter speed-skating event. Canada won another hockey gold, scoring 110 goals and allowing just three goals in five games. Of the nearly 300 athletes, only 13 were women, and they only competed in the figure-skating events. Austrian Helene Engelmann won the pairs competition with Alfred Berger, and Austrian Herma Planck Szabo won the women's singles. The Olympics offered a particular boost to skiing, a sport that would make enormous strides within the next decade. At Chamonix, Norway won all but one of the nine skiing medals. http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=6787
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 6:32 pm
First canned beer picture 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 9:47 pm
Yay canned beer!
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 9:22 am
1959 The Big Bopper [Jiles Perry Richardson] rocker (Chantilly Lace), dies in a plane in Iowa crash at 28 1959 Buddy Holly rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash in Iowa at 22 1959 Richie Valens rock vocalist (Donna, La Bamba), killed in plane crash in Iowa at 17 1690 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Massachusetts) 1948 Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US 1951 Dick Button win US skating title for 6th time 1951 "Victor Borge Show" debuts on NBC TV 1951 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 11:18 am
the day the music died
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 11:20 am
That was a loss. American Pie is such an interesting song.
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 2:19 pm
I'm old enough to remember the day that crash happened. I was 12 and was crushed.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 2:23 pm
I remember that someone had a cold and didn't someone give up their seat on that flight? Did the switch have anything to do with the cold?
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 2:33 pm
Here's an accounting:
quote: February 2nd, 1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper play their last show as part of the "Winter Dance Party" tour, stopping this night at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, IA. Admission: $1.25. The last song of the night: The Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace." February 3rd, 1959: Within minutes of takeoff from the Mason City, IA Airport, at around 1:00 AM CST, the chartered Beech-Craft Bonanza airplane No. N3794N containing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper crashes into the Iowa countryside, killing all three in addition to pilot Roger Peterson. The plane, headed for the next "Winter Dance Party" tour stop in Fargo, ND, had been chartered by Holly in order for the band members to travel in heated comfort and to arrive early for their next gig. When he learned that band member Waylon Jennings, who would eventually become a country star in his own right, had decided to take the freezing bus instead, Holly had joked, "Well, I hope your old bus freezes up." Jennings joked back, "Well, I hope your plane crashes." Another Holly band member, Tommy Allsup, flipped a coin with Valens for the last available seat, losing the coin toss. Valens exclaimed, "That's the first time I've won anything in my life!" Pilot Peterson, not having been informed of worsening weather conditions, decided to fly "on instruments," meaning without visual confirmation of the horizon, which led to the crash. The tragedy was later immortalized as "The Day The Music Died" by Don McLean in his famous song "American Pie."
from About.com I remember the radio station playing all their songs all day. Loved Victor Borge so much, we have a couple tapes of his performances.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 5:48 pm
The Big Bopper's son has started an investigation into the crash to find out exactly what happened. Link
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Monday, March 19, 2007 - 8:56 am
March 19th 1953: The Academy Awards are televised for the first time. 1945: The USS Franklin, an aircraft carrier, launches an attack on Japan. The Japanese retaliate with a defensive air attack on the ship, killing 724 crew members and setting the ship on fire.
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