… the day Pibbur keeps his promise and explains why he likes Wow (no longer in the "good image hosting site" thread). And a day when the sport which shall not be mentioned is .. not mentioned.
1492. Enisheim meteorite strikes outside the village of Ensisheim, killing all - if any - remaining dinosaurs there.
1893: Women gains right to vote in Colorado
1910: First air fright shipment. Using a plane. By the Wright brothers.
1916: First woman elected to the US congress: Jeanette Rankin
1957: Gaither Report calls for more American Missiles and Fallout shelters. War never changes.
1967: First African American mayor of a major American city: Carl B. Stokes@Cleveland
1989: First African American governor in the US: Douglas Wilder@Virginia
2000: Just to prove my lefty attitude: Hillary Clinton is elected senator.
Notable first appearances
1665: London Gazette (for the time being called "Oxford Gazette"), the oldes surviving English language newspaper.
1867: Maria Sklodowska-Curie
1874: Elephant as symbol for the US. Republican Party. One question: Why?
1885: Niels Bohr
1907: Delta Sgma Pi
1929: Museum of Modern Arts in New York (A collection of exhibited pictures can be found on
Wikipedia
1979: Mike Commodore, an american computer
Notable disappearances
1872: Mary Celeste departs from New York
1908: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Resurrected in 1969
1940: Galloping Gertie
1991: Magic Johnson's first retirement from NBA, due to being HIV infected. Notice that I don't say "infected by HIV virus". "HIV" stands for "Human Immunodeficiensy Virus". Hah!
Even if she's lost, "Mary Celeste" is known on 248 000 google sites, recduced to 117 000 sites if "Bermuda Triangle" is included in the search. For "Pibbur" and the Bermuda triangle there's 1 reference, expanding to 8 if I change my name to "Pibber". WHICH I WILL NOT DO!!!