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Monthly Archives: July 2013
July 31, 1992
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY in 1992, Georgia joined the United Nations. Then Governor Zell Miller showed up wearing a gigantus cowboy hat, bushy fake red eyebrows, a monstrously large red mustache, and two six-shooters strapped to his waist and during the acceptance speech started calling the other nations and their representative corn-sorting rabbits and … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged anime, cartoons, Georgia, governments, the japanese, united nations, yosemite zell
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July 30, 1419
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY in 1419, Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of the executed dictionary reformer, Jan Hus, stormed into Prague and threw all seven members of the Catholic Dictionary Council out the window of the Council House, killing most from the fall, with the rest being torn apart by the waiting crowd below. Jan Hus … Continue reading
Posted in 14th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged catholics, death, irony, languages, really cool words
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July 29, 1951/1961/1966/1978/1994/2020
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY in 1951, Bob Dylan was injured in a red-wagon accident when he drove it off a cliff. His stuff pet tiger was uninjured. On THIS DAY IN HISTORY in 1953 Bob Dylan was injured in a bicycle accident. His stuff pet tiger was uninjured, but it sarcastically commented on his … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, 21st Century, Historical Facts
Tagged accidents, alcohol, cartoons, drugs, music
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July 28, 1996
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY in 1996 – Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington. He was found in the remains of a prehistoric car that appeared to be foot-pedaled and that had ancient stone beer-cans strewn along the floorboard. Washington state patrolman, Sgt. Ian Walkerstein, after studying the … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, archeology, cartoons, the law
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July 27, 1999
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY on July 27th, 1999, the Space Shuttle Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center and made history as this was the first Space Shuttle mission with a woman commander, Air Force Colonel Eileen Collins. Immediately after landing, Pilot Jeffrey Ashby took over and parallel parked the shuttle at the landing … Continue reading
July 26, 1875
On THIS DATE IN HISTORY in 1875, the legend of “Black Bart” the Verse Slinging Bandit began. Old ‘Black Bart’ aka Charles E. Bowles spent years robbing Wells Fargo Stage coaches. The story is, one night in 1874 at an open-mike saloon in San Francisco, Charlie was slinging mad verbage at all the cool cats … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged crime, haiku, limerick, poets, the wild west
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July 25, 1946
On THIS DATE IN HISTORY in 1946, the U.S. detonated an underwater atomic bomb at the Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific and on the same day the first bikini bathing suit was displayed on a live model at a Paris, France fashion show. The French fashion designers went wild for the daring two piece … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged breasts, fashion, nukes, science, Texas, the french, vegetables
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July 24, 1977
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY! in 1977 the Libyan-Egyptian Four Day War came to an sputtering end. The War started because Libyan leader Mommar Gaddafi was jealous that all the hot Israeli chicks were hanging out in Cairo with Anwar Sadat and refused to party with him, even after he’d spent his oil money allowance … Continue reading
July 23, 1992
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY! in 1992, Abkhazia declared independence from Georgia and became a disputed free state. On August 1, 1992, the mayors of Toccoa, Dublin, and Columbus, Georgia wrote a letter to inform the Georgian governor, Zell Miller, that since Abkhazia was seceding, they were going to secede also. Zell Miller sent state … Continue reading
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Tagged communism, Georgia, secession, yosemite zell
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July 22, 1962
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY in 1962, NASA officially announced that the Mariner 1 spacecraft flew erratically several minutes after launch and had to be destroyed. Unofficially, Simon Beauchamp, one of the systems analysts that was on duty was later heard to be mumbling at one of the local bars outside Cape Canaveral that Mariner … Continue reading