Today in history

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Dec 31 1898

Joseph Vacher, known as "Jack the Ripper of France", guillotined. He had a hideous appearance and suffered from Bell's Palsy, a partial paralysis of the face. Vacher killed and mutilated at least 14 victims, young men and women, and committed necrophilia on many of their corpses.

Dec 31 1916

Forty-five retarded girls die in a fire at the St. Ferdinand de Halifax convent asylum in Canada.

Dec 31 1970

The Beatles break up, as Paul McCartney files suit to dissolve their partnership.

Dec 31 1973

Carlos the Jackal tries to assassinate Teddy Zeiff, Jewish owner of a major English department store chain. His gun jams. But we all learn his name when he takes the OPEC ministers hostage two years later.

Dec 31 1980

Author and media pundit Marshall McLuhan dead at age 69.

Dec 31 1982

A coordinated series of four bombs planted by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN explode in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan inside of 90 minutes, injuring three police.

Dec 31 1984

The drummer from Def Leppard, Rick Allen, has his arm torn off in a car accident. He continues with the band single-handedly.

Dec 31 1985

Rock musician Ricky Nelson dies in an airplane crash in De Kalb, TX at age 45.

Dec 31 1999

Paris intends the Eiffel Tower to lay "a gigantic egg" at midnight to honor the coming millennium. What do they smoke in Paris?

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Dec 30, 2006. Saddam Hussein takes the Big Drop.

Dec 31, every year.
Numerous people have decided that the position of the sun in relation to surrounding stars (see wikipedia, "sidereal time") somehow influenced, or should influence, their lives. One sidereal year, we are reminded, is 366.242 sidereal days. That this is somehow significant is an opinion shared by every astrologer. Astrology, of course, is a valuable art. It provides a good living to many astrologers.

Now, do we have a good reason to get drunk and set off firecrackers and sing obsolete Scottish jingles?

 

Jan 1

Annual Catholic Feast of the Circumcision, to celebrate the removal of the Holy Foreskin.

Jan 1 1943

Josef Stalin appears as Time's 1942 "Man of the Year".

Jan 1 1946

Emperor Hirohito descends from being a divine being to mere mortal man. General MacArthur insisted on it.

Jan 1 1959

Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba from Fulgencio Batista. "Don't worry, Castro's regime can't last."

Jan 1 1966

The Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 goes into effect. Cigarette companies are forced to label their product like so: "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health"

Jan 1 1976

Potheads alter the "HOLLYWOOD" sign to read "HOLLYWEED". Way to go!

Jan 1 1993

During Hong Kong's new year's festivities, a stampede kills 20 and injures many more.

Jan 1 1995

Fred West, accused of committing England's "House of Horrors" killings, suicides by hanging himself in his prison cell.

Jan 1 1998

Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, dies in Aspen of traumatic neck and head wounds resulting from an accident while playing "ski football".

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Jan 2 1611

Elizabeth Bathory is charged with the murder of 610 people, which she apparently committed as Countess of Csejthe Castle. Bathory had the theory that the blood of youth would give her everlasting youth. An eviscerated victim would have blood drained into a vat for her bathing.

Jan 2 1878

While hunting, farmer John Martin spies a rapidly moving flying disk high in the sky near Denison, Texas. He is the first to use the word "saucer" to describe a UFO phenomenon.

Jan 2 1935

Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, N.J., on charges of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of aviator Charles A. and Anne Lindbergh (Broken link for Lindbergh Baby). (He would later be found guilty and executed for that crime.).

Jan 2 1939

Time magazine named chancellor Adolf Hitler its "Man of the Year."

Jan 2 1971

Sixty-six soccer fans are trampled or fall to their deaths during a panic in Ibrox Park Stadium, Glasgow.

Jan 2 1995

Marion Barry inaugurated as mayor of Washington, D.C., four years after leaving the office in disgrace to serve a six-month sentence for smoking crack.

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Jan 3 1946

William Joyce, the "Lord Haw-Haw" who broadcasted Nazi propaganda to Britain during World War II, is hanged for treason in London.

Jan 3 1958

The editor of the scandal magazine Confidential, Howard Rushmore, murders his wife and then suicides in the back of a taxicab in NYC.

Jan 3 1961

Three technicians -- John Byrnes, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg -- are killed when the SL-1 experimental nuclear reactor explodes in Idaho Falls, Idaho. McKinley's corpse is found stuck to the containment dome ceiling, impaled on a control rod. The crewmen's radioactive bodies are so hot they have to be buried in lead-lined caskets.

Jan 3 1962

Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.

Jan 3 1967

Jack Ruby dead of natural causes.

Jan 3 1987

Four non-cancerous polyps are removed from President Ronald Reagan's colon.

Jan 3 1990

Manuel Noriega surrenders at the Papal Nunciature. He is brought to Miami and charged with drug trafficking and money laundering.

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Schrödinger is half dead today.

Jan 4 1964

The Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo kills his final victim, Mary Sullivan, age 19, at her Charles Street apartment.

Jan 4 1986

Phil Lynott, founder of heavy metal band "Thin Lizzy", dies from heart failure brought on by a drug overdose.

Jan 4 1997

Rumors run rampant through Israel, particularly over talk radio, that a UFO will land at Tel Aviv on the following day. The predictions are purported to have been made by spoonbender Uri Geller. Thousands flock to the beaches, but no saucers.

 

The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei is founded by Anton Drexler and others at the Furstenfelder Hof tavern in Munich. So much of early Nazi history seems to center around beer halls and homosexuals.

Jan 5 1967

Two buses of pilgrims collide south of Manila, Philippines, killing 83 in the worst traffic accident thus far.

Jan 5 1981

The Yorkshire Ripper, murderer of 13 women, is arrested. Peter Sutcliffe concentrated mostly on hookers, but still managed to terrorize mainstream England in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

Jan 5 1995

Connie Chung broadcasts Kathleen Gingrich's opinion of Hillary Clinton: bitch. We suspect it's merely a case of the pot calling the kettle black, and you can include Connie Chung in that.

Jan 5 1996

In Gaza, Israeli intelligence agents blow off the head of terrorist Yahya Ayyash, The Engineer, with a remote control cellphone bomb using plastic explosives. Ayyash purportedly ran the Hamas military wing, and was a proficient bomb maker; 100,000 people attended his funeral.

Jan 5 1998

Congressman Sonny Bono dead from blunt force trauma to his head after a direct collision with a pine tree at Heavenly Valley Ski Area. He is survived by his lesbian daughter Chastity and three other children.

 

Jan 6 1969

Future Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter sees an Unidentified Flying Object in Leary, GA. Also witnessing the craft are his fellow Lions Club members. But the strangest part about this is, it was Carter and not Governor Jerry Brown.

Jan 6 1977

The Sex Pistols lose their EMI recording contract after a television host encourages them to spout obscenities on the air.

Jan 6 1982

William G Bonin, the truck driving "Freeway Killer", convicted in Los Angeles. He had murdered 14 boys and young men.

Jan 6 1993

Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev dead from AIDS.

Jan 6 1994

Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked in the knees by a man in Detroit wielding a collapsible baton. It is later determined that her inferior rival Tonya Harding and her boyfriend were responsible for the attack.

Jan 6 1998

Vandals decapitate the bronze "Little Mermaid" statue in Copenhagen harbor. It is the first decapitation of the famous Edvar Eriksen statue since 1964, and the incident has the city horrified.

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Feb 12, 1809. Abraham Lincoln born.
Feb 12, 1809. Charles Darwin born.

 

February 18, 1229- "The Sixth Crusade", Emperor Frederick II signs a ten year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem, with no bloodshed, nor any support from the Pope. He is subsequently regarded with contempt by his European brethren.

February 18, 1478- Duke George of Clarence convicted of treason by his elder brother Edward IV, and consequently executed in the Tower of London.

February 18, 1797- the island of Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby.

February 18, 1814- The Battle of Montereau takes place. A French victory over the Austrians.

February 18, 1841- The first filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11th.

February 18, 1861- In Montgomery Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as provisional President of the CSA.

February 18, 1885- Mark Twain's, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.

February 18, 1930- While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto, now generally considered part of the Kuiper Asteroid belt.

February 18, 1943- The Nazis arrest members of the White Rose movement. Which called for active opposition to Adolf Hitler.

February 18, 1970- The Chicago seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

February 18, 1979- Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first time in recorded history.

February 18,1991- The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning, at both Paddington Station and Victoria Station in London, England.

February 18, 2001- FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

 

pttf.. best thing to ever happen in history on Feb 18th, Was the birth of John Travolta.. LOL...
Bend over and grease up..

 

Feb 19 Thomas Edison patents the Phonograph... Come on peoples..

First broadcast of Mister Rogers!

No way!

 

There was some homosexuality in the early Nazi movement, but Hitler shot Ernst Rohm and quite a few of his Sturmabteilung pretty boys in 1934 and put a stop to it. That didn't prevent various homos from aping the Nazis and their glitzy uniforms in later years. Who knows? Maybe if more of the Nazis had been homo, fewer foreign women would have been raped by them.

 

The Battle of Iwo Jima.. (beginning February 19, 1945–March 26, 1945).. Operation Detachment, was a battle when the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan..

 

February 21, 1613- Mikhail I is elected Tsar of Russia beginning the Romanov Dynasty.

February 21, 1804- The first self propelling steam locomotive makes it's outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales.

February 21, 1848- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.

February 21, 1878- The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.

February 21, 1916- In France the Battle of Verdun begins. It was a critical battle in World War I that lasted until December 15, 1916. It was a French victory over German forces. A very terrible and bloody battle, costing heavy casualties on both sides.

February 21, 1918- The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

February 21, 1937- Initial flight of the first successful flying automobile, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.

February 21, 1945- Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga.

February 21, 1952- The British government under Winston Churchill abolish identity cards.

February 21, 1953- Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.

February 21, 1958- The Peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapon Research Establishment.

February 21, 1965- Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.

February 21, 1971- The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna, Austria. This was a United Nations treaty signed to control the proliferation of psychoactive drugs. Adolf Lande under the direction of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, prepared the act.

February 21, 1972- The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20, successfully lands on the Moon.

February 21, 1973- Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114, killing 108 people.

February 21,1975- Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

February 21, 1995- Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon.