Would that thousands of threads would die should they yield life to a dear one, but thanks be to God, He gave us hope through... One (Scarlet).
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Would that thousands of threads would die should they yield life to a dear one, but thanks be to God, He gave us hope through... One (Scarlet).
National Cordova Ice Worm Day
February 3rd, 2012
Leave it to the people of Cordova, Alaska to throw a rockin' party! This quaint, rural town without any stop lights goes ice worm crazy with parades, talent shows and even a Miss Ice Worm pageant in this weekend long festival celebrating the glacier-dwelling worm. Traditional Ice Worm Day contests include the Oyster Shuck-n-Suck, the longest beard and the tastiest smoked salmon. Book our tickets; we are so there!
The Day the Music Died
February 3rd, 2012
The anniversary of the day that a small plane crashed and killed three American rock and roll legends: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson. Singer songwriter Don McLean wrote a song about the event, "American Pie," in which he dubbed February 3, 1965 the day the music died. A moment of silence is apropos.
That was before my time, thanks for sharing. Such a sad story. I pretty much stayed up all night last night after reading this story. Duplessis plus this story just got me to thinking about losing my mother three years ago to a stroke. She missed meeting her grandson by three months to the day. As much as losing my Mom hurt, the part that sticks with me is missing her reactions to Noah. I would have loved to see them together. 3 years later and I still get really sad thinking about it. Then I think about the experience of Willie Smith's father and the Duplessis family. I can't imagine losing my son, my brother, or my wife. A dose of reality that reminds us of what is really important.Quote:
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This Day in History (according to Wikipedia)
- 1112 Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
- 1377 More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
- 1451 Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1488 Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
- 1509 The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
- 1534 The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
- 1637 Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
- 1690 The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
- 1706 During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
- 1781 American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
- 1783 American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
- 1787 Shays' Rebellion is crushed.
- 1807 A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay.
- 1809 The Illinois Territory is created.
- 1813 Josι de San Martνn defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
- 1830 The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
- 1834 Wake Forest University is established.
- 1852 Justo Josι de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
- 1870 The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
- 1900 Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
- 1913 The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
- 1916 Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
- 1917 World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
- 1918 The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
- 1931 The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
- 1943 The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
- 1944 World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
- 1945 World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
- 1945 World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
- 1947 The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
- 1957 Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
- 1958 Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
- 1959 A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson in an incident that becomes known as The Day the Music Died.
- 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
- 1961 The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
- 1961 A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
- 1966 The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
- 1967 Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
- 1969 In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
- 1971 New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
- 1972 The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
- 1984 John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
- 1984 Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 1989 After a stroke two weeks previous, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
- 1989 A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
- 1995 Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- 1998 Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
- 1998 Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
- 2007 A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
- 2011 All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
On This Date
By The Associated Press via New York Times
The territory of Illinois was created. The 16th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified. The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, died in Washington, D.C., at age 67. Rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Edgar D. Mitchell landed on the lunar sufrace during the third successful manned mission to the moon. The U.S. House of Representatives rejected President Ronald Reagan's request for more than $36 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with a woman, Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, in the pilot's seat for the first time. Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker for the pickax killings of two people in 1983. An Egyptian passenger ferry sank in the Red Sea during bad weather, killing more than 1,000 passengers. Tens of thousands of protesters staged unprecedented demonstrations against Yemen's autocratic president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key U.S. ally in battling Islamic militants.
Today's Canadian Headline... 1947 BBRRRRR!!! Snag Yukon - Thermometers in Snag register -64C (-83F), the lowest temperature recorded in Canada; likely the lowest temperature on record in North America. 1916 http://www1.sympatico.ca/news/otd/im...98.02.03.a.gifAlso On This Day...
Ottawa Ontario - Fire destroys the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, killing seven. The gothic Parliamentary Library is saved by a quick thinking clerk, who closes the iron doors. The tragedy is widely blamed on German wartime saboteurs. The building, containing the Commons and Senate, will be rebuilt in the Gothic revival style, and completed in 1920.1843 And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
William Cornelius Van Horne 1843-1915 http://www1.sympatico.ca/news/otd/im...98.02.03.b.gif
railway builder, born on this day at Chelsea, near Joliet Illinois in 1843; died in Montreal Sept 11, 1915. Van Horne started working at age 14 as a telegraph boy on the Illinois Central Railroad. By 1880 he was manager of the Milwaukee Road, where he caught the eye of the CPR syndicate, who appointed him General Manager on Oct 1, 1882. Van Horne built the Winnipeg-Calgary section of the line by Aug 1883, and completed it to Port Moody by 1885. Three years later he replaced George Stephen as President. In 1991 he inaugurated the Canadian Pacific Empress line of steamships to the Orient. Van Horne was an accomplished amateur painter and architect, and helped plan the Banff Springs and Chateau Frontenac hotels.
Also Stephen McHattie
actor, was born on this day at Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Steve McHattie is currently playing Uncle Jimmy Murray in the new CBC/Salter Films production of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Emily of New Moon. He has appeared in many films and TV shows including Centennial, Law & Order and The X-Files. For more, consult the Internet Movie Database .
Also 'Stompin Tom' Connors 1936-
singer, was born on this day at Saint John New Brunswick in 1936. Connors grew up in Skinners Pond PEI. He started singing for a living in 1964, at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins Ontario, when he found himself broke. His foot stomping style was developed to keep the beat over the noise of the tavern. His trademark song is Bud the Spud, about a potato trucker from Prince Edward Island.
Also Robert Charbonneau 1911-1967
novelist and literary critic, was born on this day at Montreal in 1911; died in St-Jovite June 26, 1967. Charbonneau was leader of the postwar generation of French Canadian novelists.In Other Events... 1994 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court of Canada upholds human rights tribunal ruling on mandatory retirement in the Canadian Forces; recommends developing fitness standard instead of relying on an arbitrary age rule. 1981 Montreal Quebec - Petro-Canada offers to acquire control of Petrofina Canada Ltd. from foreign owners, at $120 a share. 1981 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Appeal rules as legal Ottawa's constitutional proposals and amendments. 1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa makes first allocations of $200 million Canada Works program to cut unemployment. 1975 Winnipeg Manitoba - New Syncrude agreement saves tar sands project: Alberta in for 10%, Ontario 5%, Ottawa 15%. 1972 Sapporo Japan - Canadian team attends opening of Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, the first held in Asia; with total 35 nations and 1,231 competitors; to Feb. 13. 1966 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 bans all imports of Rhodesian goods, and all exports of Canadian goods to Rhodesia; with limited exceptions. 1961 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Bank of Commerce merges with Imperial Bank of Canada; to form Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 1960 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $25 million to help subsidize the Commonwealth Transpacific Cable. 1959 Toronto Ontario - Gold bullion is traded on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange for the first time; today the TSE provides a market for gold futures. 1956 Toronto Ontario - Imperial Bank of Canada permitted to merge with Barclays Bank (Canada). 1941 Ottawa Ontario - Government extends compulsory military training from one month to four. 1932 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 appointed to the Senate by Bennett; made Government Leader in the Senate. 1927 Washington DC - William Phillips appointed first United States Ambassador to Canada. 1916 Ottawa Ontario - French-speaking teachers protest pay freeze, imposed after they refuse language restrictions; strike by 122 teachers closes 17 bilingual schools in Ontario. 1901 Sydney Nova Scotia - Dominion Iron and Steel Company starts up first of four new blast furnaces at Sydney. 1865 Quebec Quebec - Canadian legislature resolves in an Address to the Queen to ask for Union of the Provinces of British North America. 1831 Montreal Quebec - Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, Lord Aylmer 1775-1850 appointed Governor-General of British North America.
Today in Canadian History is written, compiled, edited and produced by Ottawa Researchers © 1984-2002.
I just passed 6000 posts
Damn...your fingers must be sore!Quote:
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Fingers? With a BM that size, I'd think some other body part.Quote:
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Sorry, I couldnt help myself. I've been starved for a little of humor after this week.
This thread is a waste of space. Don't just let it die....kill it, now!
National Create A Vacuum Day
February 4th, 2012
Another wonderful day to explore the world of science! Because we are pretty sure this day has nothing to do with keeping the carpets clean. Or does it???
National Stuffed Mushroom Day
February 4th, 2012
If ever you needed an excuse to stuff your mushrooms, this is it! Spice up your caps with something saucy. There are all sorts of things you can stuff your mushrooms with. But the greatest thing about this national day is that when you are done creating your masterful dish, you can stuff your face too!
Mushrooms are good for you.Quote:
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