This date in history
 

:hmmm::timeout:Post any interesting event that happens on or near today's date. Since we're all the end-users of the historic events that get us to the moment of posting in this forum, try to point out how such an event may have personally affected, afflicted, or otherwise influenced your existence on the spinning mudball...humor is emphasized??!:D :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

Hide under the duvet until it's all over. Still, only 1hr 12mins to go...

Wait, what was that apocalyptic klonk above your head, it's not the roof falling in is it?

No, you're ok, it was just a fat sea gull landing on the loose chimney stack.

:har:

Yeah, it's good luck if it doesn't land on you! :doh:

1958. privateer is born.
:D

Same day the British were wiped out at Islandlwana. Coincidence?

Happy Birthday!

On this date Bob Keesham, Captain Kangaroo, died 10 years ago; age 76...the only man most of us really trusted...:Kaleun_Salute:

I never trusted him because he always had that shifty Mister Greenjeans hanging around. Not to mention his snobiness with the mentally handicapped Mister Moose and the mute Bunny Rabbit too. He seemed to have complete dis -R E S P E C T for his elders by always waking Grandfather Clock. I hear BR got a new gig whispering sweet nothings into the ear of Nelson Mandela's statue.:up: Which was heard muttering... "Could somebody get this little pecker out of my ear?"

And the cartoons just plain sucked, when the captain wasn't clowning around with the rest of the retards that is.

Who gave you the trivia calendar?:D

The man is a Hamms swillin' fountain of useless information BBY!:haha:

That's a symptom, not an excuse.:O:

^:har::har:

THIS day in history"

1986 – Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi) of Uranus.

Laugh if you thought it was hilarious. Say that out loud, and slow. :har:

That's why they built Saturns...better marketing ploy!:up:

Chevrolet Nova. Grand plan was to market them in Mexico...
Until they figured out No Va was Spanish for "Won't go":haha:

!/30/2014
 

On this date in history: 1649; annointed King Charles I is beheaded:/\\chop for treason just outside Parliament...a practice sadly gone lacking. His last thoughts must have been on his Great Auntie, Elizabeth I, who established the precedent of royal executions when she signed the death warrant for her anointed cousin (Charles paternal grandmother) Mary, Queen-of-Scots, executed 1587. Nothing like a little regal stare decises in British common law!:dead: 1862: the Monitor is launched from the Continental Iron Works of Greenpoint NY...the British navy begins remodeling anew...as the old expression "Not worth a continental is reviewed....Hmmm, turrets and armor...ya think! Strangely, the German observers picked up on the extensive use of railroads in the Civil War, welded it to Von Clausewitz...and lost two two-front world wars to the Royal Navy!:doh: 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany...democracy in action!!? The first episode of the Lone Ranger and Tonto is aired on radio...Move over Old Shatterhand and Winnetou!(written in the 1890's and read by every young German, including young Adolf). Fiery steed Silver replaces Hatatitla (Lightning) and the silver-bullet revolvers replaced redoubtable rifles: Bärentöter and Henrystützen!:rock: 1962: The Flying Wallendas discover gravity is not their friend at the State Fair in Detroit Michigan:doh:; 1948: Nathuram Godse kills one of the better men on the planet: Mohandas K. Gandhi,(Inshallah BBY!) and it's now a nuclear mess between India and Pakistan to boot. We moderate very discreetly from Diego Garcia. :down: 1968: the TET offensive; a massive surprise attack, all-out offensive began against South Vietnam...the beginning of the end for the post-colonial American empire.:dead: That's how it all looks in hindsight; 2014-today: I'm off to shoot my Henrystützen .44 mag. "golden boy"...one of the Sioux/Cheyenne positions at Little Big Horn ain't called "Henry Hill' fer nuthin...is it Winnetou?!:DHOKA HEY!

thx bby. I was going to post it yesterday but couldn't find the topic. (so much spam on subsim and the mods are sleeping:O:)

1/31/14 politics by other means meets comfort food!
 

THE OFFICIAL BIRTH OF SUBSIM!!! 1917: Germany declares "a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare"...The game(as we luv it) is on! All :subsim:ers can have the day off...sort of like opening of deer season in Utah. Without the Kaiser's brilliant "politics by other means", there IS no US:doh:...oh and 1606: poor Guy Fawkes is executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot against good King James I...his "politics by other means" having failed! 1865: GEN R. E. LEE is appointed General-in-Chief of all Confederate armies...as "politics by other means" are about to fail...1929: Leon Trotsky is trotted out of the Soviet Union...his "Politics by other means " having failed...They will fail more in Mexico City when he's really axed from the party:dead: 1958: The US successfully launches its first satellite into orbit; the Explorer I...move over Comrade Sputnik!;:o 1961; NASA launches HAM(what was he drinkn'?) the CHIMP into orbit for 16.5 minutes of primate glory:up:...No monkeying around now Comrade Sputnik!:huh: 1971: Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blast off for the moon(ALICE!) on Apollo 14...game long over Comrade Sputnik:doh: 1990: McDonald's opens it's first fast food restaurant in Moscow...Кетчуп с фри? Move over Napoleon and Adolf...what "politics by other means" is really all about...he who eats last eats best! :yeah: hey! what's on the Soyuz menu today... Comrade Sputnik!? :salute:and thanks for leading the way too!:rock:von Clauscewitz ON WAR: "All warfare is politics by other means"...

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