DBKP Today in Weird History: February 29, 2008

WAR, DISASTER, REPORTS, QUICK-THINKING, MOVIES, VAVOOM, MUSIC, QUITTING, SCIENCE, RATINGS, POLITICS, KILLERS, UNUSUAL, BURNED, KINK, SPORTS, WHAT, RECORDS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

QUICK-THINKING

1504 Christopher Columbus, stranded in Jamaica during his fourth voyage to the West, used a correctly predicted lunar eclipse to frighten hostile natives into providing food for his crew.

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WAR!

1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease.

1944 US troops land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands.

DISASTER

1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds.

1996 A Peruvian commercial jetliner crashed in the Andes, killing all 123 people on board.

UNUSUAL

1904 Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberdorft Sr near Hamburg, Germany; had a Christian name for every letter in the alphabet, shortened it to Mr Wolfe Plus 585 Sr.

VAVOOM!

1960, the first Playboy Club, featuring waitresses clad in "bunny" outfits, opened in Chicago.

KINK

1784 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille.

RECORDS

1964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 meters.

WHAT?

1988 NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs.

POLITICS

1956 Islamic Republic established in Pakistan.

2000 George W. Bush won Republican presidential primaries in Virginia, Washington state and North Dakota, defeating John McCain; Vice President Al Gore crushed fellow Democrat Bill Bradley in Washington state.

SPORTS

1964 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime.

KILLERS

1996 Daniel Green was convicted in Lumberton, North Carolina, of murdering James R. Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan, during a 1993 roadside holdup. (Green and an accomplice, Larry Martin Demery, were sentenced to life in prison.)

2000 Six-year-old Kayla Rolland was fatally shot by a fellow first-grader at Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Michigan.

REPORTS

1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (also known as the Kerner Commission) warned that racism was causing America to move "toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal."

BURNED

1528 Patrick Hamilton Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake.

MOVIES

1940 "Gone with the Wind" won eight Academy Awards, including best picture of 1939.

2000 "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" won a record-tying 11 Academy Awards, including best picture; Sean Penn took the best-actor prize for "Mystic River" and Charlize Theron won best actress for "Monster."

SCIENCE

1968 the discovery of the first "pulsar," a star which emits regular radio waves, was announced by Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell in Cambridge, England.

MUSIC

1968 at the Grammy Awards, the 5th Dimension's "Up, Up and Away" won record of the year for 1967, while album of the year honors went to The Beatles for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

QUITTING

1984 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he was stepping down after more than 15 combined years in power.

2000 Facing rebellion, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned and left for exile in the Central African Republic.

RATINGS

1996 About 30 television and entertainment industry executives met with President Clinton at the White House, where they promised to devise a TV ratings system.

BORN

1908 The artist known as Balthus was born in Paris.

1936 Henri "Rocket" Richard NHL center (Montréal Canadiens).

1944 Dennis Farina Chicago IL, actor (Mike Torello-Crime Story).

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Michele Morgan is 88. Actor James Mitchell is 88. Actor Joss Ackland is 80. Actor Alex Rocco is 72. Former space shuttle astronaut Jack Lousma is 72. Actor Dennis Farina is 64. Actress Phyllis Frelich is 64. Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. is 36. Rapper Ja Rule is 32.

DEATH

1992 Johnny Mack British actor (Time Lord-Dr Who), dies at 70.

2000 Playwright Jerome Lawrence died in Malibu, California, at age 88.

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Now we can add Northern Illinois University, St. Valentines Day Massacre 2008

Northern Illinois University Shootings: St. Valentine's Massacre Redeaux 79 years to the day, another Chicagoland massacre occurred--this time Gun Free Zones, not gangsters dressed as policeman helped do in the victims.

Feb. 2, 1996

Moses Lake, Wash.
Two students and one teacher
killed, one other wounded when 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire
on his algebra class.



March 13, 1996

Dunblane, Scotland
16 children and one teacher killed
at Dunblane Primary School by Thomas Hamilton, who then killed himself.
10 others wounded in attack.


Feb. 19, 1997


Bethel, Alaska
Principal and one student killed,
two others wounded by Evan Ramsey, 16.


March 1997

Sanaa, Yemen

Eight people (six students and two
others) at two schools killed by Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri.


Oct. 1, 1997

Pearl, Miss.
Two students killed and seven
wounded by Luke Woodham, 16, who was also accused of killing his
mother. He and his friends were said to be outcasts who worshiped Satan.



Dec. 1, 1997

West Paducah, Ky.
Three students killed, five wounded
by Michael Carneal, 14, as they participated in a prayer circle at
Heath High School.



Dec. 15, 1997

Stamps, Ark.
Two students wounded. Colt Todd,
14, was hiding in the woods when he shot the students as they stood in
the parking lot.


March 24, 1998


Jonesboro, Ark.
Four students and one teacher
killed, ten others wounded outside as Westside Middle School emptied
during a false fire alarm. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11,
shot at their classmates and teachers from the woods.


April 24, 1998

Edinboro, Pa.

One teacher, John Gillette, killed,
two students wounded at a dance at James W. Parker Middle School.
Andrew Wurst, 14, was charged.


May 19, 1998

Fayetteville, Tenn.
One student killed in the parking
lot at Lincoln County High School three days before he was to graduate.
The victim was dating the ex-girlfriend of his killer, 18-year-old
honor student Jacob Davis.



May 21, 1998

Springfield, Ore.
Two students killed, 22 others
wounded in the cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip
Kinkel. Kinkel had been arrested and released a day earlier for
bringing a gun to school. His parents were later found dead at home.



June 15, 1998

Richmond, Va.
One teacher and one guidance
counselor wounded by a 14-year-old boy in the school hallway.


April 20, 1999


Littleton, Colo.
14 students (including killers) and
one teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in the
nation's deadliest school shooting. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold,
17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their
school. At the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned their guns
on themselves.


April 28, 1999

Taber, Alberta, Canada

One student killed, one wounded at
W. R. Myers High School in first fatal high school shooting in Canada
in 20 years. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, had dropped out of school
after he was severely ostracized by his classmates.


May 20, 1999

Conyers, Ga.
Six students injured at Heritage
High School by Thomas Solomon, 15, who was reportedly depressed after
breaking up with his girlfriend.



Nov. 19, 1999

Deming, N.M.
Victor Cordova Jr., 12, shot and
killed Araceli Tena, 13, in the lobby of Deming Middle School.



Dec. 6, 1999

Fort Gibson, Okla.
Four students wounded as Seth
Trickey, 13, opened fire with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at Fort
Gibson Middle School.


Dec. 7, 1999


Veghel, Netherlands
One teacher and three students
wounded by a 17-year-old student.


Feb. 29, 2000

Mount Morris Township, Mich.

Six-year-old Kayla Rolland shot
dead at Buell Elementary School near Flint, Mich. The assailant was
identified as a six-year-old boy with a .32-caliber handgun.


March 2000

Branneburg, Germany
One teacher killed by a 15-year-old
student, who then shot himself. The shooter has been in a coma ever
since.



March 10, 2000

Savannah, Ga.
Two students killed by Darrell
Ingram, 19, while leaving a dance sponsored by Beach High School.



May 26, 2000

Lake Worth, Fla.
One teacher, Barry Grunow, shot and
killed at Lake Worth Middle School by Nate Brazill, 13, with
.25-caliber semiautomatic pistol on the last day of classes.


Sept. 26, 2000


New Orleans, La.
Two students wounded with the same
gun during a fight at Woodson Middle School.


Jan. 17, 2001

Baltimore, Md.

One student shot and killed in
front of Lake Clifton Eastern High School.


Jan. 18, 2001

Jan, Sweden
One student killed by two boys,
ages 17 and 19.



March 5, 2001

Santee, Calif.
Two killed and 13 wounded by
Charles Andrew Williams, 15, firing from a bathroom at Santana High
School.



March 7, 2001

Williamsport, Pa.
Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14,
wounded student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann
High School; she was depressed and frequently teased.


March 22, 2001


Granite Hills, Calif.
One teacher and three students
wounded by Jason Hoffman, 18, at Granite Hills High School. A policeman
shot and wounded Hoffman.


March 30, 2001

Gary, Ind.

One student killed by Donald R.
Burt, Jr., a 17-year-old student who had been expelled from Lew Wallace
High School.


Nov. 12, 2001

Caro, Mich.
Chris Buschbacher, 17, took two
hostages at the Caro Learning Center before killing himself.



Jan. 15, 2002

New York, N.Y.
A teenager wounded two students at
Martin Luther King Jr. High School.



Feb. 19, 2002

Freising, Germany
Two killed in Eching by a man at
the factory from which he had been fired; he then traveled to Freising
and killed the headmaster of the technical school from which he had
been expelled. He also wounded another teacher before killing himself.


April 26, 2002


Erfurt, Germany
13 teachers, two students, and one
policeman killed, ten wounded by Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, at the Johann
Gutenberg secondary school. Steinhaeuser then killed himself.


April 29, 2002

Vlasenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina

One teacher killed, one wounded by
Dragoslav Petkovic, 17, who then killed himself.


October 28, 2002

Tucson, Ariz.
Robert S. Flores Jr., 41, a student
at the nursing school at the University of Arizona, shot and killed
three female professors and then himself.



April 14, 2003

New Orleans, La.
One 15-year-old killed, and three
students wounded at John McDonogh High School by gunfire from four
teenagers (none were students at the school). The motive was
gang-related.



April 24, 2003

Red Lion, Pa.
James Sheets, 14, killed principal
Eugene Segro of Red Lion Area Junior High School before killing himself.


Sept. 24, 2003


Cold Spring, Minn.
Two students are killed at Rocori
High School by John Jason McLaughlin, 15.


Sept. 28, 2004

Carmen de Patagones, Argentina
Three students killed and 6 wounded
by a 15-year-old Argentininan student in a town 620 miles south of
Buenos Aires.



March 21, 2005

Red Lake, Minn.
Jeff Weise, 16, killed grandfather
and companion, then arrived at school where he killed a teacher, a
security guard, 5 students, and finally himself, leaving a total of 10
dead.


Nov. 8, 2005


Jacksboro, Tenn.
One 15-year-old shot and killed an
assistant principal at Campbell County High School and seriously
wounded two other administrators.


Aug. 24, 2006

Essex, Vt.
Christopher Williams, 27, looking
for his ex-girlfriend at Essex Elementary School, shot two teachers,
killing one and wounding another. Before going to the school, he had
killed the ex-girlfriend's mother.



Sept. 13, 2006

Montreal, Canada
Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire with
a semiautomatic weapon at Dawson College. Anastasia De Sousa, 18, died
and more than a dozen students and faculty were wounded before Gill
killed himself.


Sept. 26, 2006


Bailey, Colo.
Adult male held six students
hostage at Platte Canyon High School and then shot and killed Emily
Keyes, 16, and himself.


Sept. 29, 2006

Cazenovia, Wis.
A 15-year-old student shot and
killed Weston School principal John Klang.



Oct. 3, 2006

Nickel Mines, Pa.
32-year-old Carl Charles Roberts IV
entered the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish School and shot 10
schoolgirls, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years old, and then himself.
Five of the girls and Roberts died.


Jan. 3, 2007


Tacoma, Wash.
Douglas Chanthabouly, 18, shot
fellow student Samnang Kok, 17, in the hallway of Henry Foss High
School.


April 16, 2007

Blacksburg, Va.
A 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed
two in a dorm, then killed 30 more 2 hours later in a classroom
building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting
rampage the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others were wounded.



Sept. 21, 2007

Dover, Del.
A Delaware State Univesity Freshman, Loyer D. Brandon, shot
and wounded two other Freshman students on the University campus.
Brandon is being charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless
engagement, as well as a gun charge.


Oct. 10, 2007


Cleveland, Ohio
A 14-year-old student at a Cleveland high school, Asa H.
Coon, shot and injured two students and two teachers before he shot and
killed himself. The victims' injuries were not life-threatening.


Nov. 7, 2007

Tuusula, Finland
An 18-year-old student in southern Finland shot and killed
five boys, two girls, and the female principal at Jokela High School.
At least 10 others were injured. The gunman shot himself and is in the
hospital in critical condition.



Feb. 8, 2008

Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A nursing student shot and killed two women and then herself
in a classroom at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge.


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DBKP Today in Weird History: January 21, 2008

KILLERS, WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, BEHEADING, SEWERS, NANNY STATE, INSANE, NUDITY, PATENTS, CENSUS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SUBWAYS, SOCIETIES, CLINTON, CIVIL RIGHTS, GOLD, SILVER, FINANCE, DEPORTED, CLIMATE, PARDONS, SPIES, JEWS, STRONGMEN, SUBS, VACCINES, POPES, PROGRESS, SPORTS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



KILLERS

On Jan. 21, 1958, Charles Starkweather, 19, killed the mother, stepfather and half-sister of his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, at her family's home in Lincoln, Neb. (Starkweather, who had also killed a gas station attendant the previous November, and Fugate went on a road trip which resulted in seven more slayings. Starkweather was executed in 1959; Fugate, who maintained she had been Starkweather's hostage, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life; she was paroled in 1976.)

WAR!

1941 Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya.

1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain.

1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca.

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad.

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk.

1944 447 German bombers attack London.

1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg.

1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma.

1968, the Battle of Khe Sahn began during the Vietnam War as North Vietnamese forces attacked a U.S. Marine base; the Americans were able to hold their position until the siege was lifted 2 1/2 months later.

DISASTERS

1821 Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die.

1960 Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning.

2003 A powerful earthquake shook west-central Mexico, killing 28 people and leaving 10,000 homeless.

1968, an American B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed in Greenland, killing one crew member and scattering radioactive material.

TERRORISM

1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java.

2003 A gunman ambushed two U.S. defense workers in Kuwait, killing one and wounding another.

2003 Colombian rebels kidnapped an American photographer and a British reporter, the first time foreign journalists were abducted in Colombia's four-decade-long civil war. (Scott Dalton and Ruth Morris were freed after 11 days in captivity.)

BEHEADED

1793 Louis XVI French king (1774-93), condemned for treason, beheaded by revolutionaries at 38.

SEWERS

1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN

NANNY STATE

1908, New York City's Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance prohibiting women from smoking in public. (However, the measure was vetoed by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. two weeks later).

NUDITY

1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ºF (3ºC), Indiana.



INSANE

1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis.

PATENTS

1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester MA

CENSUS

2003 The Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America's largest minority group.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1949 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman).

1971 "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV.

1973 Leslie Nielsen appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger".

SUBWAY

1981 Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for 1st time on a New York subway train.

SOCIETIES

1915, the first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.

1935 The Wilderness Society is founded.

CLINTONS

1998 President Bill Clinton angrily denied reports he had had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and then tried to get her to lie about it.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing.

GOLD

1974 Gold hits record $161.31 an ounce in London.

1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce.

1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce.

SILVER

1974 Silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London.

DEPORTED

1830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported.

CLIMATE

1962 Snow falls in San Francisco.

PARDONS

1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.

SPIES

1950, former State Department official Alger Hiss, accused of being part of a Communist spy ring, was found guilty in New York of lying to a grand jury. (Hiss, who always proclaimed his innocence, served less than four years in prison.)

JEWS

1941 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria.

STRONGMEN

2007 Venzuelan President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to "Go to hell, gringos!" and called Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "missy" on his weekly radio and TV show, lashing out at Washington for what he called unacceptable meddling in his country's affairs.

FINANCE

1994 Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20).

SUBS

1954, the first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn. (However, the Nautilus did not make its first nuclear-powered run until nearly a year later).

VACCINES

1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced.

POPES

1998 Pope John Paul II began a historic pilgrimage to Cuba.

PROGRESS

1976, the supersonic Concorde jet was put into service by Britain and France.

SPORTS

1979 Super Bowl XIII Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, Quarterback.

1990 John McEnroe becomes the 1st ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official.

2007 Lovie Smith became the first black head coach to make it to the Super Bowl when his Chicago Bears won the NFC championship, beating the New Orleans Saints 39-14; Tony Dungy became the second when his Indianapolis Colts took the AFC title over the New England Patriots, 38-34.

BORN

1924 Benny Hill Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill Show)

1933 William Wrigley III chewing gum mogul (Wrigleys)

1939 Wolfman Jack [Bob Smith], Brooklyn NY, DJ (Midnight Special)

BIRTHDAY

Actor Paul Scofield is 86. Actress Ann Wedgeworth is 73. Blues singer-musician Snooks Eaglin is 72. Golfer Jack Nicklaus is 68. Opera singer Placido Domingo is 67. Singer Richie Havens is 67. Singer Mac Davis is 66. Actress Jill Eikenberry is 61. Country musician Jim Ibbotson (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 61. Singer-songwriter Billy Ocean is 58. Actor Robby Benson is 52. Actress Geena Davis is 52. Basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon is 45. Actress Charlotte Ross is 40. Actor John Ducey is 39. Actress Karina Lombard is 39. Rapper Levirt (B-Rock and the Bizz) is 38. Rock musician Mark Trojanowski (Sister Hazel) is 38. Rock DJ Chris Kilmore (Incubus) is 35. Singer Emma Bunton (Spice Girls) is 32. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nokio (Dru Hill) is 29. Actress Izabella Miko is 27.

DEATH

1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin died at age 53.

1950 George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies from tuberculosis in London at 46.

1991 Howard "Red" Grange football's galloping ghost, dies at 87

1997 Colonel Tom Parker manager (Elvis Presley), dies at 87

1998 Actor Jack Lord of "Hawaii Five-O" fame died in Honolulu at age 77.

January 21, the 21st day of 2008. There are 345 days left in the year. This is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

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