240 BC: FIRST RECORDED PERIHELION PASSAGE OF HALLEY'S COMET.
Ajax works best on kitchen sinks.
1420: HENRY THE NAVIGATOR IS APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF THE ORDER OF CHRIST.
Henry is Siri's husband?
1521: THE DIET OF WORMS ENDS WHEN CHARLES V, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR, ISSUES THE EDICT OF WORMS, DECLARING MARTIN LUTHER AN OUTLAW.
Somebody doesn't like the founder of my chosen religion.
1738: A TREATY BETWEEN PENNSYLVANIA AND MARYLAND ENDS THE CONOJOCULAR WAR.
Conojocular sounds like it pertains to the groin.
1819: THE ARGENTINE CONSTITUTION OF 1819 IS PROMULGATED.
Promulgated also sounds like it pertains to the groin.
1833: THE CHILEAN CONSTITUTION OF 1833 IS PROMULGATED.
What I just said.
1878: GILBERT AND SULLIVAN'S COMIC OPERA HMS PINAFORE OPENS IN LONDON.
Discount tickets for previews.
1895: PLAYWRIGHT/POET OSCAR WILDE IS CONVICTED OF COMMITTING ACTS OF GROSS INDECENCY WITH OTHER MALE PERSONS AND IS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS IN PRISON.
Where he can probably do more acts of gross indecency in the shower.
1898: PUBLISHER BENNETT CERF IS BORN.
So that's his line?
1921: SONGWRITER/COMPOSER HAL DAVID IS BORN.
Now Burt Bacharach can have a partner.
1925: SCOPES TRIAL - JOHN T. SCOPES IS INDICTED FOR TEACHING CHARLES DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
Inherit this wind.
1932: COMIC STEVE ROSSI IS BORN.
Hello dere.
1935: JESSE OWENS OF OHIO STATE BREAKS THREE WORLD RECORDS IN A TRACK AND FIELD MEET IN ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.
See you in Berlin in about a year.
1939: ACTRESS DIXIE CARTER IS BORN.
Nice lady.
1943: SINGER LESLIE UGGAMS IS BORN.
Sing Along with Mitch.
1947: ACTRESS KAREN VALENTINE IS BORN.
My first TV crush.
1950: THE GREEN HORNET DISASTER - A CHICAGO STREETCAR CRASHES INTO A FUEL TRUCK, KILLING 33.
Kato?
1953: THE FIRST PUBLIC TELEVISION STATION IN THE US OFFICIALLY BEGINS BROADCASTING AS KUHT IN HOUSTON.
Pledge Drive starts in a week.
1961: US PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ANNOUNCES HIS GOAL TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON BEFORE THE END OF THE DECADE.
Damn, he was right.
1968: THE GATEWAY ARCH IN ST. LOUIS IS DEDICATED.
Hmmm. I thought it was always there.
1977: STAR WARS IS RELEASED IN THEATERS.
Let the geeks be with us.
1979: IN CHICAGO, AN AMERICAN AIRLINES PLANE CRASHES DURING TAKEOFF, KILLING ALL 271 ON BOARD.
I still remember the newspaper photo of this happening. Chilling.
1979: ETAN PATZ, SIX YEARS OLD, DISAPPEARS FROM THE STREET JUST TWO BLOCKS AWAY FROM HIS HOME IN NEW YORK CITY.
Now officially called National Missing Children Day.
1985: BANGLADESH IS HIT BY A STORM SURGE, KILLING APPROXIMATELY 10,000 PEOPLE.
Who were hungry, too.
1986: HANDS ACROSS AMERICA TAKES PLACE.
Kumbaya.
2001: ERIK WEIHENMAYER, 32, BECOMES THE FIRST BLIND PERSON TO REACH THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT EVEREST.
How's the view?
2007: ACTOR CHARLES NELSON REILLY DIES.
Brilliant man. Never got the credit for being as funny as he was.
2011: OPRAH WINFREY AIRS HER LAST SHOW.
And the world still kept revolving.
Dinner last night: Leftover sausage, peppers, and onions.
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