MikeyT Posted 12 March 2011 Author Posted 12 March 2011 Today in history, 12 Mar 1941: Winston Churchill thanked the US for "a new Magna Carta", referring to Lend-Lease
Zingari Posted 13 March 2011 Posted 13 March 2011 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 ) 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 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 "
MikeyT Posted 13 March 2011 Author Posted 13 March 2011 Today in history, 13 Mar 1940: Finland surrendered to the Soviet Union.
The Doctor Posted 13 March 2011 Posted 13 March 2011 2011 - zingari still fails to see people aren't interested.
Zingari Posted 15 March 2011 Posted 15 March 2011 march 15th "ides of march" zingari says bollox to it
FoxyPV Posted 15 March 2011 Posted 15 March 2011 march 15th "ides of march" zingari says bollox to it It's not over yet....
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