Wednesday, November 25, 2015

This Date in History - November 25

November 25 is not a good day to be on planet Earth and you'll soon know why.

571 BC:  SERVIUS TULLIUS, KING OF ROME, CELEBRATES HIS VICOTRY OVER THE ETRUSCANS.

With, I am guessing, lots of vino.

1120:  THE WHITE SHIP SINKS IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.

White Ships Matter.

1343:  A TSUNAMI DEVASTATES NAPLES AND AMALFI.

And here we go.

1487:  ELIZABETH OF YORK IS CROWNED QUEEN OF ENGLAND.

Love her peppermint patties.

1667:  A DEADLY EARTHQUAKE ROCKS SHEMAKHA, KILLING 80,000 PEOPLE.

Hard to believe there were 80,000 people in a country I never heard of.

1783:  AMERICAN REVOLUTION - THE LAST BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE NEW YORK CITY.

Can you blame them for sticking around?

1826:  THE GREEK FRIGATE HELLAS ARRIVES TO BECOME THE FIRST FLAGSHIP OF THE HELLENIC NAVY.

Go to Hellas.

1833:  A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE ROCKS SUMATRA.

Now we're cooking.

1839:  A CYCLONE SLAMS INDIA, CLAIMING 300,000 LIVES.

Time to move.

1864:  AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE OPERATIVES TRY TO BURN DOWN NEW YORK CITY.

How the heck did they get past New Jersey?

1874:  THE US GREENBACK PARTY IS ESTABLISHED, CONSISTING PRIMARILY OF FARMERS.

A third party never works.

1914:  BASEBALL STAR JOE DIMAGGIO IS BORN.

Starting his consecutive day streak which ends in 1999.

1918:  VOJVODINA PROCLAIMS ITS SECESSION FROM AUSTR-AHUNGARY TO JOIN THE KINGDOM OF SERBIA.

Is there such a thing as a Volvodinian?

1920:  RACE CAR DRIVER GASTON CHEVROLET DIES.

See the USA...in a casket.

1926:  TWENTY SEVEN TORNADOS BREAK OUT ACROSS THE US ON THANKSGIVING DAY.

Good luck getting that Bullwinkle balloon up in the air.

1933:  ACTRESS KATHRYN CROSBY IS BORN.

Meanwhile, future hubby Bing's career is already in full swing.

1947:  RED SCARE - THE HOLLYWOOD TEN ARE BLACKLISTED BY MOVIE STUDIOS.

Commie pinkos.   A sad day for freedom.

1949:  DANCER BILL ROBINSON DIES.

Shirley Temple is heartbroken.

1950:  THE GREAT STORMS OF NOVEMBER 1950 DEVASTATE THE NORTHEAST.

Just in case you're wondering why Grandma didn't make it over for turkey.

1952:  AGATHA CHRISTIE'S "THE MOUSETRAP" PLAY OPENS IN LONDON.  IT WILL BECOME THE LONGEST RUNNING PLAY IN HISTORY.

Good seats now available at TKTS.

1960:  JOHN F. KENNEDY JR IS BORN.

Future journalist, lawyer, publisher, and lousy pilot.  Also will have a shitty birthday in 1963.

1974:  BURMESE DIPLOMAT U THANT DIES.

If Ella Fitzgerald had married U Thant, she'd be Ella...

1981:  POPE JOHN PAUL II APPOINTS JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER PREFECT OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH.\

The future Pope who quit.

1981:  ACTOR JACK ALBERTSON DIES.

Chico's man.

1984:  THIRTY-SIX MUSICIANS RECORD BAND AID'S "DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS."

The song was a great listen the first thousand times.   Not so much after.

1986:  IRAN-CONTRA - US ATTORNEY GENERAL EDWIN MEESE ANNOUNCES THAT PROFITS FROM COVERT WEAPON SALES TO IRAN WERE ILLEGALLY DIVERTED TO CONTRA REBELS IN NICARAGUA.

What guns?

1987:  TYPHOON NINA DESTROYS THE PHILLIPINES.

More doppler weather.

1996:  AN ICE STORY STRIKES THE CENTRAL US.

Global cooling.

1998:  COMIC FLIP WILSON DIES.

Sadly, he took Geraldine with him.

2000:  THE EARTH QUAKE OF BAKU.

Wherever the hell that is.

2008:  CYCLONE NISHA STRIKES SRI LANKA.

And the hits just keep coming.

2009:  FREAK RAINS SWAMP THE CITY OF JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA.

I don't know about you, but I'm hiding under my bed today.

Dinner last night:  Sandwich.




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