T.D.I.H. thread

[BRabbiT]

I'll start this off w/today's date:






two historical figures, one born on this day, one murdered on this day...





10/9/1967



http://forum.tayyar.org/members/nadnoud-albums-various-picture1059-after-execution-che.jpg






...Che's band was trapped in a ravine by pursuing Bolivian rangers, who had been trained by U.S. Special Forces experts On Oct. 8, 1967, as the guerrillas attempted to fight their way out of the encirclement, Che was hit in the left thigh by a bullet and his M-l carbine was shot out of his hands.

Taken alive to a nearby village, Che was executed the next day. After his hands were cut off for further fingerprinting, Che's body was burned beyond recognition and buried in a secret grave.

The man was dead, the myth born.

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,942333,00.html






...Guevara remains both a revered and reviled historical figure, polarized in the collective imagination in a multitude of biographies, memoirs, essays, documentaries, songs, and films. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photograph of him entitled Guerrillero Heroico, was declared "the most famous photograph in the world."





10/9/1940



http://www.rollingstone.com/files/content/mounts/sambamount/images/LISTS/Singers/005_john_lennon.jpg



[QUOTE]
Born October 9th, 1940; Key Tracks "I Feel Fine," "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Imagine," "Instant Karma" ;

He had a confidence, a certainty about what he was feeling that carried over into everything he sang. One of the things about John Lennon and the Beatles that went by a lot of people was how unusual it was for people in their class, from Liverpool, to be catapulted into the higher reaches of entertainment and society, without disguising their working-class roots and voices.

It was such an audacious thing to do, not to change who they were. That was the heart of John Lennon's singing

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(Reuters) - John Lennon's son Julian and first wife Cynthia unveiled a monument to the late singer Saturday, the 70th anniversary of his birth, and said the time for mourning the former Beatle was over.

The presentation of a $350,000 18-foot structure, designed to promote peace, was one of several events being held around the world to celebrate one of pop music's most influential singers and songwriters who was murdered in New York in 1980 at the age of 40.

Internet search site Google paid tribute to Lennon with a hand-drawn logo and mini-video based on his hit "Imagine."

Manhattan planned a benefit concert and Lennon's widow Yoko Ono was to perform alongside their son Sean as the Plastic Ono Band in Reykjavik.

Cynthia, 71, and Julian Lennon, 47, looked on in Lennon's birthplace Liverpool as a choir performed his music. A crowd of several hundred people gathered in Chavasse Park for the event.

Lennon remains big business, and the anniversary, just months before the 30th anniversary of his death, has seen the release of a new wave of Lennon-related merchandise and music.

Ono oversaw the making of a digitally remastered Lennon catalog that includes eight studio albums and several newly compiled titles on the EMI Music label.



http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01735/lennonMonument_1735737c.jpg








here's "Cold Turkey" :rockon:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8GOIsmzVkI&feature=related

[BRabbiT]

10/10/2001


The White House (Pres. George W. Bush) announcs updated FBI Most Wanted List that includes 22 suspected terrorists.

Here's an update:



Caught/Dead



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Imad Mughniyah (Assassinated 2/12/'08)


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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (Captured 3/1/'03)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Atef.jpg

Muhammad Atef (Assassinated 11/14''01)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Mustafa_Mohamed_Fadhil.jpg

Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil (believed to be captured in '04)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Termsalam.jpg

Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam (Assassinated 1/1/'09)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Ghailani.jpg

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (Captured 7/24/'04)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Terswedan.jpg

Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan (Assassinated 1/1/'09)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Abdelrah1.jpg

Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah (Killed 4/12/'06)

[BRabbiT]

At Large



Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali


Saif Al-Adel


Anas Al-Liby


Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah


Fazul Abdullah Mohammed


Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser


Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub


Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie


Ahmad Ibrahim al-Mughassil


Abdul Rahman Yasin


Ali Atwa


Hassan Izz-Al-Din


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Ayman_al_Zawahiri.jpg

Ayman al Zawarihi


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wE_IExw1ZiU/SE-fNFFVtbI/AAAAAAAABgA/MNOJwqCUieM/s400/Osama_bin_Laden.jpg

Osama bin Laden







October 10, 2001

The White House released Wednesday a "most wanted" list of 22 suspected terrorists that includes not only Osama bin Laden and some of his top allies, but those thought responsible for a range of other deadly strikes.

The names include bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Al-Zawahiri is thought to be a top adviser to bin Laden and living in Afghanistan. The list also includes several suspects in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa already named in U.S. court filings.

Bush announced the list formally Wednesday morning at FBI headquarters, accompanied by FBI Director Robert Mueller, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of State Colin Powell.

"We list their names, we publicize their pictures, we rob them of their secrecy," the president said at the FBI headquarters that has been at the epicenter of the massive investigation into the September 11 suicide hijackings that killed thousands in New York and Washington.

On the list are bin Laden, his two top deputies and several members of his al Qaeda network implicated in earlier bombings overseas against U.S. interests.

"They have blood on their hands from September 11 and from other acts against America in Kenya, Tanzania and Yemen," said Powell, who also announced a State Department reward program offering large bounties for assistance that leads to the terrorists' arrest.

The 22 indicted suspects are the most dangerous terrorists, Bush said, "the leaders, key supporters, planners and strategists. They must be found, they will be stopped."


Ashcroft said the new "most wanted" list will boost global publicity for the United States' manhunt and leave terrorists "no place to hide."

The list identifies only earlier-indicted defendants and not suspects in the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

http://articles.cnn.com/2001-10-10/politics/inv.most.wanted_1_embassy-bombings-egyptian-islamic-jihad-terrorist-list?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

[Abd El-Krim]

cool names.

[BRabbiT]

10/10/1987


Bruce Springsteen releases 8th studio album, Tunnel of Love







In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Tunnel of Love the 91st greatest album of all time. In 1989, it was ranked #25 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 greatest albums of the 1980s". In 2003, the album was ranked number 475 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

After the success of Born in the U.S.A., Springsteen looked to do something different. The deeply conflicted songs - "Brilliant Disguise," "Two Faces," "Tunnel of Love," "One Step Up" - seem to have been written as reflections of Springsteen's failing marriage to Julianne Phillips.

Similarly, the opening song, "Ain't Got You", is about being a famous rock star, while the closing "Valentine's Day" inverts the chords of "My Funny Valentine" to produce a death-haunted narrative full of the nature imagery he would pursue further in the early 1990s. "Walk Like a Man" is, like many previous Springsteen songs, about his relationship with his father.


The New York Times' Jon Pareles wrote that Tunnel of Love "turned inward, pondering love gone wrong. His first marriage, to the actress Julianne Phillips fell apart; he also decided to part ways with the E Street Band."

"Brilliant Disguise" has been called "a heart wrenching song about never being really able to know someone," and "a song about the doubts and struggles of married life."

Members of the E Street Band were used sparingly on the album; Springsteen recorded most of the parts himself, often with drum machines and synthesizers.

Commercially the album went triple platinum in the U.S., with "Brilliant Disguise" being one of his biggest hit singles, peaking at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, "Tunnel of Love" also making the Top 10, reaching #9, and "One Step Up" just falling short.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/TunnelOfLove1987.JPG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_of_Love_%28album%29





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idnJnjV_8rg&ob=av2e

"Brilliant Disguise"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkFQHScyti0&ob=av2e

"One Step Up"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF2Y8umAyaI&feature=related

"Tunnel of Love"




decent music. takes me back:lol

[BRabbiT]

10/10/1969


Brett L. Favre is born in Gulfport, Mississippi.




[QUOTE]
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/features/favre/timeline/1983_lg-01.jpg


* Only player to win the AP MVP three consecutive times (1995

[PowerGlove]

Does anyone think that Osama is still alive? I haven't seen one of his movies in a while. I remember he used to crank out new ones with regularity.

[JtotheIzzo]

10/10/1911

The Date of the Wuchang Uprising which lead to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the founding of the Republic of China, ending millenniums of imperial rule in the Middle Kingdom.

http://papundits.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/republicofchina-flag800px.png


The Republic of China was established in 1911, replacing the Qing Dynasty and ending over two thousand years of imperial rule in China. It is the oldest surviving republic in East Asia. The Republic of China on mainland China went through periods of warlordism, Japanese invasion, and civil war between the Kuomintang led Central Government and the Communists. With the loss of the mainland in the civil war the ROC government resettled to Taiwan, an island that had not been ruled by the republic, which sought to reclaim it until the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty in Taipei ended the half-century Japanese Colonial period of Taiwan after World War II. During the latter half of the twenty century, the Republic of China on Taiwan has experienced rapid economic growth, industrialization, and democratization.


http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/roc_administrative_and_claims.jpg

[BRabbiT]

^ interesting. sure as hell more significant than Brett Favre's b-day:lol






双十节

雙十節

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Double-tenth-symbol.svg/300px-Double-tenth-symbol.svg.png

[BRabbiT]

10/11/1925


Elmore Leonard is born.


[QUOTE]
Novelist Elmore Leonard was born on this day in New Orleans in 1925. His father worked for General Motors, and the family moved frequently during Leonard's childhood, finally settling in Detroit.

During World War II, Leonard served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, then graduated from the University of Detroit with a degree in English in 1950. He decided to write either westerns or detective novels, whichever would generate the most income. After he sold a western for $1,000, he quickly churned out eight more. One of his books, Hombre (1961), was voted one of the best 25 westerns of all time by the Western Writers of America. It was made into a film in 1967.

Elmore Leonard, the

[BRabbiT]

10/11/1968


Apollo 7, the 1st manned Apollo mission, is launched and conducted an 11-day orbit of Earth, during which the crew transmitted the 1st live television broadcasts from orbit.






http://www.farthestreaches.com/images/apollo7.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Walter_Schirra_on_Apollo_7.jpg/600px-Walter_Schirra_on_Apollo_7.jpg

Walter Schirra looks out the rendezvous window in front of the commander's station on the ninth day of the mission.







these guys are brave.

maybe i'm naive, but the equipment in '68 must've been so primitive compared to today.

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10/12/1492



Christopher Columbus arrives in the "new world."







On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. On October 12, the expedition reached land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas. Later that month, Columbus sighted Cuba, which he thought was mainland China, and in December the expedition landed on Hispaniola, which Columbus thought might be Japan. He established a small colony there with 39 of his men. The explorer returned to Spain with gold, spices, and "Indian" captives in March 1493 and was received with the highest honors by the Spanish court. He was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century.


http://www.cksinfo.com/clipart/holidays/columbusday/columbus-day-2.png





the "new: world, huh??:rolleyes:








10/12/1997





John Denver dies in an ultra-light aircraft accident




Denver was killed when his Experimental Rutan Long-EZ plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Pacific Grove, CA.

http://dev.john-denver.org/images/Animations/Front-02.gif





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN86d0CdgHQ

"Take Me Home"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AbxQ2Q4HeU

"Sunshine On My Shoulder"





this dude made a tonne of music. damn.

[BRabbiT]

10/12/1999



Wilt Chamberlain dies in Bel-Air, CA.







Chamberlain had a history of heart trouble.

In 1992, he was hospitalized for three days following an irregular heartbeat, and in 1999, his condition deteriorated rapidly. During this time, he lost 50 pounds. After undergoing dental surgery in the week before his death, he was in great pain and seemed unable to recover from the stress.

On October 12, 1999, Chamberlain died in Bel-Air, California. He was cremated. His agent Sy Goldberg stated Chamberlain died of congestive heart failure, and for about a month, doctors had been draining his legs of fluid that had accumulated because of the heart problem.

Considered by his contemporaries as one of the greatest and most dominant players in the history of the NBA.

Chamberlain holds numerous official NBA all-time records, setting records in many scoring, rebounding and durability categories.


http://www.blackhistory4ever.com/bh2_Wilt_Chamberlain.jpg





:pimp:

[BRabbiT]

10/14/1863


Alfred Nobel is granted his 1st patent, a Swedish patent for the preparation of nitroglycerin.




http://www.alfrednobel.info/Pictures/Dynamite%20Patent%20Edited.jpg




Nobel's father ownedd a factory that manufactured war materiel. Studying chemistry, Alfred learned of the powerful new explosive, nitroclycerine.

Around 1860, Alfred conducted repeated experiments involving great risks. He succeeded in manufacturing sufficient quantities of nitroglycerine without any mishaps. His father had been making similar experiments, but with less success. When his father realized his son's greater discoveries, he assisted Alfred patent the explosive that he aptly called "blasting oil."

Later, in 1868, Nobel patented dynamite as a form for safer handling.





:bowdown:

[BRabbiT]

10/15/1965



Jimi Hendrix signs his first recording contract, he received $1 and a 1% Royalty on all of his recordings.





The contract is between Hendrix and PPX, signed by Hendrix "Jimmy Hendrix" in blue ballpoint pen. The contract, for $1, was for Hendrix to play and/or sing exclusively for three years from the date of the contract.

In addition to the $1 that was to be paid to Hendrix he would receive "one (1) percent of retail selling price of all records sold for his production efforts, minimum scale for arrangements he produces."



http://www.gottahaverockandroll.com/LotImages/4/3495a_med.jpeg


http://www.gottahaverockandroll.com/LotImages/4/RR09_366a_med.jpeg




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2wBPix-nmg

"Night Train"

* he's in the back:lol



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-pbOH0E8Ro

"Voodoo Child"

[BRabbiT]

10/16/1969


Miracle Mets win World Series.





The Mets prevailed in 5 games to accomplish one of the greatest upsets in Series history, as that particular Orioles squad was considered to be one of the finest ever.

The Mets were considered 100-1 shots to beat Baltimore
& win the 66th World Series.




http://mitchellarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/mets-world-champs-ff.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9hBVPDk8E






Who's the biggest underdog this October? The Giants?

[Bird]

10/16/1969


Miracle Mets win World Series.









Who's the biggest underdog this October? The Giants?

Biggest underdog is EASILY the Rangers. The Giants have the 2nd best (some would argue THE best) pitching staff in baseball.

[BRabbiT]

10/17/1777


Surrender of Burgoyne (Saratoga, NY).



[QUOTE]
American troops defeated British forces in Saratoga, NY. It was the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.

At 1AM, Burgoyne's army laid down its arms. As the surrendered army passed between lines of the victorious army, there was no indication of exultation

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10/17/1971



Pittsburgh beat Baltimore in game 7 of the 68th World Series.


[QUOTE]
The defending champion Baltimore Orioles lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in seven games.

The two teams proved to be evenly matched, with the Pirates' Steve Blass pitching a complete game 4-hitter Game #7, 2

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10/18/1974



Al Green attacked in his bathtub by an ex-girlfriend.





In the early morning hours, Mary Woodson burst in on Al Green in the bath.

She poured a pot of scalding-hot grits on his back. Woodson then etreated to a bedroom and shot herself dead with Green's own gun.

Al Green is widely renowned as one of the greatest voices in soul-music history and was at the absolute height of his powers in 1974.

He had 7 critically and commercially successful major-label albums behind him. He also, in the words of Davin Seay, who collaborated with Green on his autobiography, had a "basic animal appeal to women" that attracted many admirers, including Woodson.

On the night of the attack, Woodson had shown up unexpectedly at Green's Memphis home after he returned from a concert appearance in San Francisco. What exactly prompted her to act is unclear, but her actions not only left Al Green with severe burns that would require months of hospitalization, they also left him severely shaken emotionally and spiritually. "He likes to distance the facts of his [religious] conversion from the terrible events of that night," says Seay, "but I think the Woodson incident kind of crystallized his need to move on, to sort of shut down one part of his life and open up another.''



http://popwife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/allgre.jpg




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sr-3VwUWS0

"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"





ironic song title:eek:

what a crazy bitchh:facepalm

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10/21/1975



Carlton Fisk hits a homer off the left-field pole to beat the Cincinnati Reds in the sixth game of the World Series.




[QUOTE]


Before Game 6 began, the Sox were trailing the Reds three games to two. They took an early lead

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10/22/2000



Roger Clemens throws a broken bat at Mike Piazza during game #2 of the World Series.







The barrel of Piazza's splintered bat landed near Clemens' feet. In one motion, the pitcher picked it up and hurled it toward the first base line. The projectile skittered in Piazza's path as he ran out his foul ball. A foot to right and it would have nailed Piazza in the leg.....


Even before the World Series began, even before either the Mets or Yankees had qualified to play in it, the hottest topic Subway Series topic was Clemens vs. Piazza Round 2. The men had not faced each other since Piazza took a Clemens shot to the head during the two-stadium doubleheader in July. FOX replayed the incident numerous time during game one (there's lots of time to fill in a 4 hour, 51 minute game), which only ramped up the anticipation for their impending confrontation even further.





Piazza began to walk toward Clemens, the nub of his bat handle still in his hand, stunned by what just happened.

"What is your problem?" he repeated, with no reply.

On replays, Clemens appeared to say, "I thought it was the ball," a protest he would repeat in the years to come despite all sane evidence to the contrary.

But he said it not to Piazza by way of apology, but to home plate umpire Charlie Reliford, for fear of getting ejected. Both Joe Buck and Tim McCarver were shocked, almost beyond words (if only).

"Clemens, in essence, throws a jagged wooden object that lands, what, two feet from Piazza?" Buck said. "It's basically a weapon."


http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/files/2008/05/roger-clemens-mike-piazza-bat_nc.jpg





skip to the 2 minute mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZjj5SLgDkM


Clemens was/is nuts:wtf:

[BRabbiT]

10/23/2002


50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 700 people hostage during a sold-out performance of a popular musical.






The second act was just beginning when an armed man walks onstage and fires a machine gun into the air.

The terrorists—including a number of women with explosives strapped to their bodies—identify themselves as members of the Chechen Army.

They have one demand: that Russian military forces begin an immediate and complete withdrawal from Chechnya, the war-torn region located north of the Caucasus Mountains.




http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38384000/gif/_38384981_theatre_seige2_inf300.gif



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2360583.stm









10/23/2002





Kanye West is injured shortly after leaving a recording studio at about 3 a.m. Wednesday morning. Details about his condition were not released by the hospital.

Manager Gee Roberson said that West's life is not in danger, and that he is in stable condition with a fractured jaw. West is expected to be released from the hospital within the next few days, and his jaw will be wired shut for the next six weeks.

While the LAPD could not disclose any details, sources close to West said he was in L.A. working on music for State Property's Beanie Sigel and Peedi Crakk, and after the studio session, West crashed his rented vehicle near the W Hotel in West Hollywood, where he was staying. No other people were involved in the incident, the sources said.



http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/celebdatabase/kanyewest/kanye_west4_180_240.jpg

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1458308/20021023/jay_z.jhtml




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvb-1wjAtk4



:pimp:

[BRabbiT]

10/24/1962



James Brown records his legendary 'Live At The Apollo' album






Live at the Apollo was recorded on the night of October 24, at Brown's own expense.

Brown's record label, King Records, originally opposed releasing the album, believing that a live album featuring no new songs would not be profitable.

To King's surprise, Live at the Apollo was an amazingly rapid seller. It spent 66 weeks on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, peaking at #2. Many record stores, especially in the southeast U. S., found themselves unable to keep up with the demand for the product, eventually ordering several cases at a time. R&B disc jockeys often would play side 1 in its entirety, pausing (usually to insert commercials) only to return to play side 2 in full as well.

Brown went on to record several more albums at the Apollo over the course of his career, including:
- Live at the Apollo, Vol. II
- Revolution of the Mind: Recorded Live at the Apollo, Vol. III
- Live at the Apollo 1995


The album was listed at No.24 in Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MX27JtV0Lsg/SMhqcmmGCwI/AAAAAAAABSs/FBnceEr7GUM/s320/40+-+James+Brown+-+Live+At+The+Apollo+-+1963.jpg




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsxEfmhmDXg&feature=related
"I'll Go Crazy"



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNyLGZs1w4Q

"I Don't Mind"





this album was/is legendary.

[BRabbiT]

10/26/1881



Shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ.







The Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout.

After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest. Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town marshal, represented "law and order" in Tombstone, though they also had reputations as being power-hungry and ruthless.

The Clantons and McLaurys were cowboys who lived on a ranch outside of town and sidelined as cattle rustlers, thieves and murderers.

In October 1881, the struggle between these two groups for control of Tombstone and Cochise County ended in a blaze of gunfire at the OK Corral.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral
http://www.christianlogic.com/images/uploads/christianlogic_image_site_of_ok_corral_fight.png

http://www.christianlogic.com/images/uploads/christianlogic_image_tombstone_newspaper_article.p ng

http://vintagetexas.com/blog/pics/OKCorral.jpg








i doubt any event has been reenacted/dramatized more than this one:D

[BRabbiT]

11/7/1991



Magic Johnson announces his sudden retirement from the NBA.






http://www.findingdulcinea.com/docroot/dulcinea/fd_images/news/on-this-day/November/Magic-Johnson-Reveals-That-He-Has-HIV/news/0/image.jpg



Johnson was one of the first sports stars to go public about his HIV-positive status.

Revered as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Johnson spent his entire 13-season NBA career with the Lakers, helping them to win 5 championships in the 1980s.

* 17,707 points (19.5 ppg)
* 6,559 rebounds (7.2 rpg)
* 10,141 assists (11.2 apg)

[jbot]

http://www.hrw.org/en/sites/default/files/imagecache/scale-300x/media/images/photographs/Ahmed-Khakfan-Ghailani.jpg

this guy looks just like ray allen w/ hair.

the nobel peace prize is named after a dude who invented TNT. how ironic is that?

also, christopher colombus was a damn pirate.

[gts]

Today is Sunday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2010. There are 54 days left in the year.

Today

[BRabbiT]

11/14/1851


Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is published by Harper & Brothers in NYC.




Moby-Dick is a novel about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod.

Moby-Dick is now considered a great classic of American literature and contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: "Call me Ishmael."

Initially, though, the book about Captain Ahab and his quest for a giant white whale was a flop.

Melville had promised his publisher an adventure story similar to his popular earlier works, but instead, Moby-Dick was a tragic epic, influenced in part by Melville's friend and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, neighbor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose novels include The Scarlet Letter.

After Moby-Dick's disappointing reception, Melville continued to produce novels, short stories (Bartleby) and poetry, but writing wasn't paying the bills so in 1865 he returned to New York to work as a customs inspector, a job he held for 20 years.

Melville died in 1891, largely forgotten by the literary world. By the 1920s, scholars had rediscovered his work, particularly Moby-Dick, which would eventually become a staple of high school reading lists across the United States.


http://www.brendanmcginley.com/wordpress/comics/2009-05-23-Dose-01-Page-7-Moby-Dick-Sure-Blame-the-Victim.png








never did read this in HS. i saw the movie, though. lol.

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4/3/1882


Jesse James is murdered.


James is shot to death by fellow gang member Bob Ford. For 16 years, Jesse & his brother, Frank, committed robberies & murders throughout the Midwest.

His tombstone reads, "Jesse W. James, Died April 3, 1882, Aged 34 years, 6 months, 28 days, Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here."


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Yz8UrquOEG8/TOKzAiwKxsI/AAAAAAAABPc/qoUA0Iev-tw/s1242/Jesse-James-Outlaw-Hero.jpg

........

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4/4/1968

Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated


King is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. A sniper's bullet struck him in the jaw & severed his spinal cord.

A Remington .30-06 hunting rifle was found on the sidewalk beside a rooming house one block away.

King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.

As word spread, riots broke out in cities all across the U.S. The National Guard troops were deployed in Memphis & Washington, D.C.

The rifle, eyewitness reports, & fingerprints all implicated a single suspect: escaped convict James Earl Ray. Ray confessed in order to avoid the electric chair. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

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