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MikeyT

The "On This Day" Thread

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Today in history, 12 Mar 1941: Winston Churchill thanked the US for "a new Magna Carta", referring to Lend-Lease

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March 13th

1639 – Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.

1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.

1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.

1925 – Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.

( try to watch the film "Inherit the Wind" with Spencer Tracey ) :thumbup:

1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.

1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.

1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

1992 – An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.

1996 – Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.

2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.

2005 – Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.

born today;

nobody i've ever heard of born today except the thinner one in "Birds of a Feather"

deaths:

1938 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney died (b. 1857)

Spencer Tracy played him brilliantly in film recommended above :thumbup:

1988 – John Holmes, American porn star died (b. 1944)

one day , "going 1 foot deep into a hole "

next day, " going 6 foot deep into a hole "

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march 15th

"ides of march"

zingari says bollox to it

It's not over yet.... :ph34r:

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