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Real Housewives, Orange County version: Nice Guy Jeff Beitzel Passes Away Who's Throwing Stones?
It's season four of Housewives with two new additions: 30-yr-old Gretchen Rossi and Lynne Curtain. Curtain replaced Lauri Waring Peterson after Peterson opted to drop out of the show when her son was arrested for drug possession.
The storyline surrounding Gretchen has her dealing with her boyfriend Jeff's bout with leukemia. Jeff Beitzel, who was fifty-four, passed away in September.
Beitzel served as Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Quantuam Fuel System Technologies. A mechanical enigineer, Beitzel worked for Ford Motor Co. until 1983. After leaving Ford, Beitzel founded several automotive companies prior to working for Quantuam.
Jeff Beitzel's three children from a former marriage were on the most recent episode. The kids, all in their teens, had flown in to be with their father while he was in the hospital. All three of Jeff's children wanted to be there with their father. They also spoke highly of Gretchen and how she had been by their father's side during the eight months since he had been diagnosed with cancer.
Last week Gretchen took some time off and spent a couple of days with her family at Bear Lake for the Fourth.
So far new Housewife Lynne has been in a shopping mode on the show with her two teenage daughters. The latest trip on episode 5 had Lynne plunking down $1800 for eight articles of clothing and looking to buy a BMW for her oldest daughter when she turned 18.
Lynne met Gretchen for lunch where Gretchen tried to get Lynne to tell how old she was. Lynne, who keeps in great shape with activities such as surfing and kick boxing, wouldn't tell Gretchen her age. On the first show featuring Lynne she admitted she was "obsessed" with "staying young" even though raising her two daughters, ages 16 and 18, have probably put a few gray hairs on her head.
On tonight's show, Lynne's oldest daughter, Raquel, turned 18. Lynne and her husband of 18 years, Frank, held a luncheon for Raquel where they presented her with a cute little silver BMW. Earlier, before the party, Raquel demanded her younger sister Alexa take off the white dress she had chosen to wear. Raquel wanted to wear the white one and for Alexa to wear a blue dress that Raquel was supposed to wear. Such is the drama of having teens, as Raquel pouted her way into getting the white dress while Alexa wore the blue one.
Alexa was in tears at the party after she met her boyfriend in the parking lot of the restaurant and her boyfriend told her the dress made her look like a "stripper". Lynne was shocked at his comment as it was her dress. And yes, the dress did look as though it belonged more on a stripper than a 16-yr-old girl.
New Zealand: Car Modification for Aspiring Darwin Award Nominees
Everyone is familiar with the The Darwin Awards, wherein the Internet and publication celebrate the antics of idiots,convinced of they are geniuses, end their particular gene lines as a consequence of illogical behavior. But few can imagine the effort some will engage in to prove candidacy for this un-prestigious award.
We here at DBKP have found two such souls.
The late Matthew Shannon McDonald and an unidentified 19-year-old.
These two candidates from New Zealand were automobile enthusiasts. So they decided to put together a car from scraps.
Death trap on wheels
...the car had so many defects and modifications it was "a disaster waiting to happen".It had been ordered off the road in December 2005 due to a number of uncertified suspension modifications."On this occasion the vehicle had been towed to get it started. It had an RX7 motor for a Mazda 3 which is not compatible at all.
Wonderful. The lads put an engine on a frame and drive train which was entirely incompatible. The RX7 is a rotary motor, sometimes called a Wankel Engine. The entire engine rotates reaching high rpms very quickly. So it stands to reason that the drive train will be just for this particular engine. That would cause some problems. Might even be difficult to start the engine unless the starter were compatible with the engine. Of course that did not stop our lads.
"Mr Tooman said the car had been "tow started".
Of course steering could be a problem with a poor suspension and an engine more pwerful for its size and weight than the car irself was designed for.So ...
"The car's wheels were also mismatched with two mags on the front and two old steel-pressed wheels on the back."
And in order to ensure control: "Mr Tooman said somebody had fashioned a steering wheel using the rim from a wheel and the spokes of an old steering wheel." Now that is just frosting on the cake, there.
"The car failed to take a slight bend, crossed the centre line and crashed through a solid wooden barrier before coming to stop against a concrete power-pole used to supply electricity to the main trunk railway line. The pair were not wearing seatbelts and were thrown from the car on impact. Police said that fact made the job of identifying who was driving the car difficult.Sometime during the crash the rim has become detached from the spikes, he said. "The spikes were still on the steering column and they were like three knives sticking out from the steering column."
"Mr Tooman said the tragedy served a reminder for other car enthusiasts attempting to modify their car."
* When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
* Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
* Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
* You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.
* One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
* One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
* I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
* Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
* Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
* May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
* I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
* Women like silent men; they think they're listening.
* I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. "I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
* I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
* Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
* I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
* If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
* I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.
* There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
* The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
* Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
The NHRA lost a former World Champion yesterday in a deadly crash.
Funny Car driver Scott Kalitta, 46, died June 21 from multiple injuries suffered after his car went out of control and crashed in a high-speed racing accident at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park during the fourth and final round of qualifying at the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals. Kalitta was extracted from his car by NHRA emergency services officials and transported to Old Bridge Township Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Kalitta, a two-time NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Top Fuel champion and one of only 14 drivers in NHRA history to earn victories in both premier nitro categories, earned 18 victories during his career, his last coming in Chicago in 2005 in Top Fuel.
Tim Russert: Enough Already! Nancy Morgan RightBias.com June 14, 2008
NBC's Tim Russert died of a heart attack on Friday. Only the deaf, dumb and blind can be unaware of this fact. Ever since the unfortunate death of one of the major players in the field of media and politics, non-stop media coverage has drummed this fact home to millions of Americans. Enough, already.
This media coverage, still going strong, is becoming quite unseemly. Granted, Russert seemed an affable, good man. I could see this in his eyes the few times I saw him on television. Granted, his death was a shock. A shock that affected me personally, even though I never met the man, as it rudely reminded me of the fragility of life and the importance of time. He died too soon, and if it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Life is not fair.
That said, the continuing coverage of his death has turned into a circus. It is no longer about Tim Russert.
In a frantic rush to burnish their own social credentials, scores of B and C list players are desperately maneuvering to get coveted national face time. "Tim was a good friend of mine" is the pass word of the day as the networks fill hour after hour with the burnished recollections of has-beens, wanna-bes and actual sorrowing friends.
These tales, the cute stories, the hitherto unknown tidbits issuing forth ad naseum are less about Tim Russert than about the blind scramble by hangers-on to be considered part of the story, to be considered 'still relevant' by virtue of their association with a beloved media figure.
The coverage of Russert's death has ceased being about celebrating the life and mourning the death of Tim Russert. Instead, it has evolved into a platform designed to assure fragile egos that they, the media, are still relevant. Every morning talk show, every channel on every network is indulging in a mass celebration of their own importance. And they're using Tim Russert's death to do it.
This orgy of sentiment feels wrong to this writer. Sincere feelings of loss and sadness are to be expected when a respected personage dies before his time. But the orchestrated outpouring currently monopolizing the airwaves is saying more about the media itself than the death of Russert.
The rush to televise what should normally be private feelings of loss has cheapened Russert's passing. Just as it cheapens every celebrity who decided to use his passing to bolster their own credentials.
If I had been lucky enough to have known Russert personally and been his friend, I would hesitate to make hay from his death. I most certainly wouldn't use a personal tragedy to assure myself and the nation that I'm special by virtue of being part of his circle. Color me old fashioned.
I'd put my ego on hold out of respect. Respect for a man who accomplished much. Respect for a man who valued family and tried to be the best he could be. That's all I know about Tim Russert. The cute stories and humble monologues from Russert's supposed friends and colleagues tell me more than I want to know about them.
I'll remember Tim Russert because of the look in his eye. He looked happy and at ease with himself and the world. That is one of life's most important achievements. I'm sad for him and his family. His family that is rightly doing their mourning in private.
by Nancy Morgan
Nancy Morgan is a columnist and a news editor for RightBias.com She lives in South Carolina, where she writes "Culture Watch" weekly, as well as other articles.
"The best aphrodisiac is loving your partner". --Stefan Anitei, Science Editor, Softpedia
One man's search for the enhanced sexual performance and desire that only an aphrodisiac can give, ended with death instead of desire. Now New York health officials are warning residents to refrain from an illegal aphrodisiac made from--toad venom?
What won't humans do for love and sex?
The alert went out Friday after New York City's poison control center received a report from an area hospital that a 35-year-old man had died earlier this month after ingesting a small chunk of the hard, brown substance.
The product is sold at sex shops and neighborhood stores under names including Piedra, Love Stone, Jamaican Stone, Black Stone and Chinese Rock. It is banned by the Food and Drug Administration, but shipments from overseas suppliers still occasionally slip past customs.
According to Wikipedia:
An aphrodisiac is an agent which is used in the belief that it increases sexual desire. The name comes from Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of sensuality. Throughout history, many foods, drinks, and behaviors have had a reputation for making sex more attainable and/or pleasurable. However, from a historical and scientific standpoint, the alleged results may have been mainly due to mere belief by their users that they would be effective (i.e., the placebo effect). In particular, medical science has not substantiated claims that any particular food increases sexual desire or performance.
The most famous of aphrodisiacs is probably "Spanish fly". Made from crushed beetles, more than a little can kill a human. It works--on farm animals--by irritating the mucous glands, creating an urge to scratch the itch with sex.
If sex is what one thinks of when their mucous glands are afire, then "Spanish fly" might be the Ticket to Paradise.
Some of the many substances considered by people as useful in increasing sexual desire are listed below.
Powdered rhino horn, oysters and yohimbe bark are also big--so to speak--on aphrodisiac lists. Alcohol, porn and money were also mentioned--most frequently by teen-age boys with the car keys on a Friday night.
Back to the New York aphrodisiac warning.
Buyers may have no idea they are dealing with anything illegal or dangerous. The various types of ``stone'' are often sold packaged in plastic, with a barcode, a price tag and official-looking instructions for use.
City health officials said the 35-year-old victim developed an abnormal heart rhythm after eating some ``Piedra'' he purchased at a neighborhood store.
He was admitted to the hospital complaining of chest and abdominal pain. Doctors recognized the problem and treated him for two days but couldn't save his life. His name was not released.
Health officials say the culprit was a hardened resin, made at least partly from venom collected from toads of the Bufo genus, containing chemicals known as bufadienolides that can disrupt heart rhythms. The aphrodisiac was supposed to have been applied to the skin, not eaten, but authorities said even that use can be harmful.
In case anyone is thinking, "But, I'll bet there's a safe way to do that," one poison control official had a few cautionary words.
``There is no definitely safe way to use it,'' said Dr. Robert Hoffman, director of the city's poison control center. ``Don't buy it. Don't sell it. If you have it, don't use it. Throw it out.''
Our advice to anyone thinking of buying black-market "aphrodisiacs": DON'T.
The New York man is only the latest in a long line of deaths associated with the pursuit of pleasure that aphrodisiacs promise.
If one is determined to pursue pleasure, a word to the wise:
WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, ASSASSINATION, FLAGS, WILE E. PELOSI, IMPEACHED, PC VICTIM, PATENTS, JEWS, REVENGE, 1984, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH
ASSASSINATION
1968 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death as he stood on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.; the killing sparked a wave of riots across the U.S. (James Earl Ray later pleaded guilty to assassinating King, then spent the rest of his life claiming his innocence and attempting to withdraw his guilty plea; he died in prison in 1998.)
WAR!
1945 During World War II, U.S. troops on Okinawa encountered the first significant resistance from Japanese forces at the Machinato Line.
2003 U.S. forces seized Saddam International Airport outside Baghdad.
TERRORISM
2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the surprise release of 15 captive British sailors and marines.
DISASTER
1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000.
1933 US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die.
1975 More than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crash-landed shortly after takeoff from Saigon.
1994 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed.
1998 Sixty-three people were killed in an explosion inside a Ukrainian coal mine.
PATENTS
1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam).
REVENGE
1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes.
1984
1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary.
JEWS
1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem.
1949 Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement.
WILE E. PELOSI
2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad despite White House objections.
FLAGS
1818 Congress decided the United States flag would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state.
PC VICTIM
2007 Radio host Don Imus made offensive on-air remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. (Despite a subsequent apology, Imus was fired by CBS Radio and cable network MSNBC; he was hired elsewhere by year's end.)
IMPEACHED!
1988 The Arizona Senate convicted Gov. Evan Mecham of two charges of official misconduct, and removed him from office. (Mecham was the first governor to be impeached and removed from office in nearly six decades.)
Author-poet Maya Angelou is 80. Sen. Richard Lugar, R.-Ind., is 76. Recording executive Clive Davis is 76. Bandleader Hugh Masekela is 69. Author Kitty Kelley is 66. Actor Craig T. Nelson is 64. Actor Walter Charles is 63. Actress Caroline McWilliams is 63. Actress Christine Lahti is 58. Country singer Steve Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers) is 57. Writer-producer David E. Kelley is 52. Actor Phil Morris is 49. Actress Lorraine Toussaint is 48. Actor Hugo Weaving is 48. Rock musician Craig Adams (The Cult) is 46. Actor David Cross is 44. Actor Robert Downey Jr. is 43. Actress Nancy McKeon is 42. Actor Barry Pepper is 38. Country singer Clay Davidson is 37. Rock singer Josh Todd (Buckcherry) is 37. Singer Jill Scott is 36. Rock musician Magnus Sveningsson (The Cardigans) is 36. Magician David Blaine is 35. Singer Kelly Price is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer Andre Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 34. Actor James Roday is 32. Actress Natasha Lyonne is 29. Actress Jamie Lynn Spears is 17.
DEATH
1841 President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office.
1979 Edgar Buchanan actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77.
1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto former Pakistani President, hanged in Pakistan at 51.
April 4, the 95th day of 2008. There are 271 days left in the year.
WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, NUKES, HOSTAGES, IMMIGRATION, SWAP, PATENTS, SUICIDE, TRIAL LAWYERS, JEWS, BAGGED, ZULUS, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH
BAGGED
1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down.
WAR!
1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear).
2003 American-led forces in Iraq dropped thousand-pound bombs on Republican Guard units guarding the gates to Baghdad and battled for control of the strategic city of Nasiriyah. President Bush warned of "further sacrifice" ahead in the face of unexpectedly fierce fighting.
TERRORISM
1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India.
2007 Iran aired a video of 15 captured British sailors and marines; the lone female captive, shown in a white tunic and a black head scarf, said the British boats had "trespassed." (The crew members were released April 4, 2007.)
1970 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey).
TRIAL LAWYERS
1866 1st ambulance goes into service.
PATENTS
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine.
NUKES
1979 America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.
HOSTAGES
2007 In the Philippines, dozens of children were taken hostage on a bus by a day-care center owner armed with grenades and guns; the crisis ended peacefully 10 hours later with the hostage-taker's surrender.
SUICIDE
1941 Filling her pockets with stones, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf walked into a river near her home and died in Lewes, England.
IMMIGRATION
1898 The Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.
SWAP
1930 The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.
JEWS
1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities.
ZULUS
1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed.
BIRTHDAYS
Former White House national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is 80. Country musician Charlie McCoy is 67. Movie director Mike Newell is 66. Actress Conchata Ferrell is 65. Actor Ken Howard is 64. Actress Dianne Wiest is 60. Country singer Reba McEntire is 53. Olympic gold-medal gymnast Bart Conner is 50. Actress Tracey Needham is 41. Actor Max Perlich is 40. Movie director Brett Ratner is 39. Country singer Rodney Atkins is 39. Actor Vince Vaughn is 38. Rapper Mr. Cheeks (Lost Boyz) is 37. Actor Ken L. is 35. Rock musician Dave Keuning is 32. Actress Julia Stiles is 27.
DEATH
1953 Athlete Jim Thorpe died in Lomita, Calif.
1958 W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues," died in New York at age 84.
1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, died in Washington at age 78.
March 28, the 88th day of 2008. There are 278 days left in the year.
WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, PATENTS, IMMIGRATION, LEVIATHAN, GUILTY, NOT GUILTY, SPIES, POLITICS, JEWS, TOP TEN, NICE GUYS, CLINTONS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH
TOP TEN
1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins.
WAR!
1951 During the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.
TERRORISM
1991 a British court overturned the convictions of the "Birmingham Six," who had spent 16 years in prison for an Irish Republican Army bombing, and ordered them released.
2007 The Pentagon released the transcript of a military hearing in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said he "was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z."
DISASTER
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX.
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA.
1980 A Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80.
1998 An earthquake killed at least five people and left some 10,000 homeless in southeastern Iran.
NICE GUYS
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA.
PATENTS
1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry.
NOT GUILTY
2003 Actor Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail, 11 months after he was arrested on charges of murdering his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. (Blake was later acquitted at trial.)
IMMIGRATION
1907 President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese laborers from immigrating to the United States as part of a "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan.
CLINTONS
1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery.
LEVIATHAN
1923 President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax return.
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes.
JEWS
1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany.
GUILTY
1964 A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.
POLITICS
1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island).
SPIES
2003 Christopher Boyce, whose Cold War spying was immortalized on film in "The Falcon and the Snowman," was released from a halfway house in San Francisco after a quarter-century in prison.
BORN
1879 Albert Einstein Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel 1921).
BIRTHDAYS
Former astronaut Frank Borman is 80. Singer Phil Phillips is 77. Actor Michael Caine is 75. Composer-conductor Quincy Jones is 75. Former astronaut Eugene Cernan is 74. Actor Raymond J. Barry is 69. Movie director Wolfgang Petersen is 67. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey is 63. Rock musician Walt Parazaider (Chicago) is 63. Actor Steve Kanaly is 62. Comedian Billy Crystal is 60. Country singer Jann Browne is 54. Actor Adrian Zmed is 54. Prince Albert II, the ruler of Monaco, is 50. Actress Tamara Tunie is 49. Actress Penny Johnson Jerald is 47. Producer-director-writer Kevin Williamson is 43. Actor Gary Anthony Williams is 42. Actress Megan Follows is 40. Rock musician Michael Bland is 39. Country singer Kristian Bush is 38. Rock musician Derrick (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) is 36. Actor Jake Fogelnest is 29. Actor Chris Klein is 29. Actress Kate Maberly is 26. Singer-musician Taylor Hanson (Hanson) is 25. Actor Jamie Bell is 22.
DEATH
1883 German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London.
1932 George Eastman US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77.
1961 Akiba Rubinstein Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78.
March 14, the 74th day of 2008. There are 292 days left in the year.
1789 Electors chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. They also elected John Adams as Vice-President. (However, the results of the balloting were not counted in the U.S. Senate until two months later).
WAR!
1783 Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.
1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery AL. Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi & South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy.
1945 President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.
TERRORISM
1990 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo.
1994 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan.
DISASTERS
1783 Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy).
1971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil.
1976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras.
1977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt).
1997 73 Israelis die when army copters collide.
1998 More than 2,300 people were killed when an earthquake hit northeast Afghanistan with a magnitude of 5.9, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
RECORDS
1982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47 meters) Tacoma WA.
1984 Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168 meters) Las Vegas.
RIOTS
1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC.
CHIMPS
1974 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months.
BOOMS
1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City OK.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
2003 A rare television interview with Saddam Hussein aired in which the Iraqi leader charged that U.S. claims of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in his country were a pretext to seize Iraq's oil fields.
EDUCATION
1849 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students.
BANKRUPT
1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt.
DEPORTED
1972 Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported.
NAZIs
1938 Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts.
RELIGION
1866 Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible.
ASSASSINATION
1949 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia.
JEWS
1855 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela.
1959 Israel begins exporting copper ore.
1997 Secretary of State Madeline Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish.
SPORTS
1932 New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid.
1969 John Madden is named head coach of the NFL's Oakland Raiders.
PATENTS
1913 Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim.
PROGRESS
1824 J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public.
1930 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans.
1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY).
EXECUTIONS
1699 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow.
BORN
1902 Charles A Lindbergh Detroit MI, pilot (1st fly solo across Atlantic).
1904 MacKinlay Kantor Webster City IA, novelist (Andersonville).
1913 Woody Hayes [Wayne], college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of year).
BIRTHDAYS
Actor William Phipps is 86. Actor Conrad Bain is 85. Actor Gary Conway is 72. Movie director George A. Romero is 68. Rock musician John Steel (The Animals) is 67. Singer Florence LaRue (The Fifth Dimension) is 64. Former Vice President Dan Quayle is 61. Rock singer Alice Cooper is 60. Actor Michael Beck is 59. Actress Lisa Eichhorn is 56. Rock singer Tim Booth is 48. Rock musician Henry Bogdan is 47. Country singer Clint Black is 46. Country musician Dave Buchanan (Yankee Grey) is 42. Actress Gabrielle Anwar is 38. Singer David Garza is 37. Actor Michael Goorjian is 37. Rock musician Rick Burch (Jimmy Eat World) is 33. Singer Natalie Imbruglia is 33. Rapper Cam'ron is 32. Rock singer Gavin DeGraw is 31. Olympic gold medal gymnast-turned-singer Carly Patterson is 20.
DEATH
1957 Joseph Hardaway creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66.
1983 Karen Carpenter singer/drummer (Carpenters), dies of anorexia at 32.
1987 Pianist Liberace died at his Palm Springs, Calif., home at age 67.
1989 Kenneth "Jethro" Burns country singer (Homer & Jethro), dies at 69.
2003 Opera singer Jerome Hines died in New York at age 81.
2007 Singer-actress Barbara McNair died in Los Angeles at age 72.
February 4, the 35th day of 2008. There are 331 days left in the year. Get a DBKP Weird History Widget for your webpage or blog Click on "Get Widget" below to get the code.
A truly reasoned view of Fred Thompson, as told by a hard-bitten veteran pundit.
"In the Fred Thompson administration, there will be no need for the leaders of terrorist states to visit Ground Zero; Ground Zero will be visiting them."
and
"If strangling Socialists with their own intestines is wrong, Fred Thompson doesn't want to be right."
as well as
"In a fight between John Wayne and Chuck Norris, Fred Thompson would win."
1904 James Longstreet Confederate General, dies at 82 1963 Dick Powell actor/director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58 1974 Tex Ritter country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67 1977 Erroll Garner jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53 1990 Alan Hale Jr actor (Skipper Jonas Grumby-Gilligan's Island), dies of cancer at 71 1994 Caesar Romero actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86
January 2, 2008, the 2nd day of the year. There are 364 days left in the year.
In 1862, Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks off Cape Hatteras NC.
In 1946, President Truman officially proclaims end of WWII. DISASTER
In 1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97 ECONOMICS
In 1600, British East India Company chartered.
In 1776, Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70¢ a day for carpenters, 42¢ for tailors.
In 1896, 25th auto built in US.
In 1961, Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion.
In 1974, Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panamá's Gold 100 balboa coin.
In 1991, Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83. SMOKING
In 1910, US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910. In 1930, US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930. POLITICS
In 1857, Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada.
In 1862, President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union.
In 1897, Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898).
In 1945. Ratification of UN Charter completed.
In 1984, US leaves UNESCO.
In 1978, Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US.
In 1999, Control of Panamá Canal reverts to Panamá. DICTATORS
In 1958, Cuban dictator Batista flees from advancing rebels led by Fidel Castro. IMMIGRATION
In 1890, Ellis Island (New York NY) opens as a US immigration depot. COMPUTERS
In 1997, Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268.
In 1997, Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service. SCIENCE
In 1879, Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.
In 1911, Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize.
In 1923, 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester.
In 1924, Edwin Hubble announces existence of distant galactic systems.
In 1958, International Geophyscial Year (IGY) ends.
In 1968, 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian Tupolev TU-144). SERIAL KILLERS
In 1977, Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado. CULTURE
In 1907, for the 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year.
1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired.
In 1923, BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID.
In 1935, Charles Darrow patents Monopoly.
In 1990, The Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting.
In 1995, Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip. 2nd AMENDMENT
In 1984, NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in New Hampshire. MAINSTREAM MEDIA
In 1981, CNN Headline News debuts. COUP
In 1961, failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon. NANNY STATE
1938 Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer", 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana ROCK AND ROLL
In 1963, Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time.
In 1966, Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks. DEMOGRAPHY
1997 More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809 BORN
1880 George C Marshall Uniontown PA, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953) 1892 Jason Robards Sr Hillsdale MI, actor (Acapulco) 1908 Simon Wiesenthal Polish/Austrian nazi hunter (Wiesenthal Center) 1921 Rocky Graziano New York NY, boxer (Middleweight champion)/actor (Miami Undercover) 1942 Andy Summers Blackpool England, rock guitarist (Police-Roxanne) 1943 Ben Kingsley Scarborough England, actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice) 1943 John Denver [Henry John Deutschendorf Jr] Roswell NM, singer/songwriter/actor (Rocky Mountain High, Thank God I'm a Country Boy, Oh God!) 1946 Patti Smith Chicago IL, singer (Radio Ethiopia) 1947 Burton Cummings rock guitarist (Guess Who-These Eyes) 1947 Tim Matheson California, actor (Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek) 1948 Donna Summer Boston MA, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio) 1959 Val [Edward] Kilmer actor (The Saint, Top Gun, The Doors) 1959 Bebe Neuwirth Princeton NJ, actress (Lilith-Cheers, Damn Yankees) 1970 Bryon Russell NBA forward (Utah Jazz) DEATH
0192 Lucius Aurelius Commodus Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31 1384 John Wycliffe English religious reformer/bible translator, dies 1862 Joshua Woodrow Sill US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31 1972 Roberto Clemente Pittsburgh Pirate slugger, dies in a plane crash at 38 1980 Marshall McLuhan Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69 1985 Rick Nelson singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45 1990 George Allen US football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins), dies 1995 Calvin/Hobbes (comic strip), dies 1996 61 law enforcement officers killed by felons in US this year 1997 76 law enforcement officers killed by felons in US this year HOLIDAYS
Austria : Imperial Ball Benin : Feed Yourself Day Congo : National Day Japan : Omisoka Day/Grand Purification Scotland : Hogmanay Day World : New Year's Eve/Watch Night December 31, 2007, the last day of the year. There are no days left in the year.
In 1922, Vladimir I. Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
WAR!
In 1813, Danzig surrenders to allied armies.
In 1813, the British burned Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812.
In 1935, Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia.
In 1941, Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization
In 1972, the United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
TERRORISM
In 1994, a gunman walked into a pair of suburban Boston abortion clinics and opened fire, killing two employees and wounding five other people (John C. Salvi III was later convicted of murder; he committed suicide in prison).
In 1997, a massacre in Algeria's insurgency began in four mountain villages as armed men killed 412 people in an attack that lasted from dusk until dawn.
DISASTER
In 1703, Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die.
In 1836, Lehman-theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100s die.
In 1903, about 600 people died when fire broke out at the recently opened Iroquois Theater in Chicago.
CULTURE
In 1731, 1st US music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston).
In 1809, wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston.
In 1877, Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna.
In 1879, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" premieres.
In 1940, California's first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena, was officially opened.
In 1948, the Cole Porter musical "Kiss Me, Kate" opened on Broadway.
In 1980, "Wonderful World of Disney" last performance on NBC-TV.
LABOR
In 1869, Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms.
In 1936, the United Auto Workers union staged its first "sit-down" strike, at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in Flint, Mich.
POLITICS
In 1853, the United States bought some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase for $10 million; Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico.
In 1906, Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy.
In 1911, Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China.
In 1965, Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as President of the Phillipines.
In 1985, President Zia of Pakistan ends martial law.
In 1987, Premier Mugabe elected President of Zimbabwe.
In 1993, Vatican recognizes Israel.
CIVIL RIGHTS
In 1892, Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal.
In 1952, Tuskegee Institute reports 1952 as 1st year in 71 with no lynchings in US.
In 1989, 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000.
In 1990, 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000.
SCIENCE
In 1973, 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab).
AGRICULTURE
In 1817, 1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona).
SPORTS
In 1978, Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach.
PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
In 1984, Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) & Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed.
BORN
0039 Titus 10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem 1865 Rudyard Kipling Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907) 1867 Simon Guggenheim philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic) 1869 Stephen Leacock Canada, economist/humorist/professor 1880 Alfred Einstein German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein 1883 Lester Patrick NHL pioneer 1914 Bert Parks [Jacobson] Atlanta GA, TV host (Miss America) 1928 Bo Diddley [Ellas Bates] Mississippi, rock 'n' roll pioneer (Bo Diddley) 1928 Jack Lord New York NY, actor (Steve McGarrett-Hawaii 5-0, God's Little Acre) 1932 John Hillerman Denison TX, actor (Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles, Audrey Rose) 1935 Jack Riley Cleveland OH, actor (Carlin-Bob Newhart, Ocassional Wife) 1935 Sandy Koufax Dodger pitcher (Cy Young '63, '65, '66, perfect-1967) 1939 Del Shannon [Charles Westover] Coopersville MI, rocker (Runaway) 1940 James Burrows TV producer/director (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers) 1942 Michael Nesmith Houston, rocker/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville) 1945 [David] Davy Jones Manchester England, singer/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville) 1947 Jeff Lynne rocker (ELO-Telephone Line, Travelling Wilburys) 1957 Matt Lauer New York NY, TV host (Today Show) 1959 Tracey Ullman Slough England, comediennesinger/actress (Tracey Ullman Show) 1972 Kerry Collins NFL quarterback (Carolina Panthers) 1975 Tiger Woods golfer 1983 Rachel & Ross Trudeau twins of Jane Pauley & Gerry Trudeau
DEATH
1525 Jacob Fugger German banker/merchant, dies at 66 1591 Innocent IX [Giovanni Facchinetti] Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72 1931 Tyrone Power Sr actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62 1979 Richard Rodgers composer (Rogers & Hammerstein), dies at 77 1992 Ling-Ling 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23
HOLIDAYS
Italy : New Year's Eve Philippiines : Rizal Day (anniversary of his death) (1896)
December 30, the 364th day of the year. There is one day left in 2007.
In 1916, Grigory Rasputin, the so-called "Mad Monk" who'd wielded great influence with Czar Nicholas II, was murdered by a group of Russian noblemen in St. Petersburg. WAR!
In December 29, 1890, the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.
In 1940, during World War II, Germany dropped incendiary bombs on London, setting off what came to be known as "The Second Great Fire of London." TERRORISM
In 1975, a bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people.
In 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell, making the rounds of the Sunday TV talk shows, said there was still time to find a diplomatic resolution to North Korea's development of nuclear weapons, and that the situation hadn't yet reached the crisis stage. POLITICS
In 1845, Texas was admitted as the 28th state.
In 1989, playwright Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia by the country's Federal Assembly, becoming the first non-Communist to attain the post in more than four decades. EXECUTION
In 2006, word reached the United States of the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (because of the time difference, it was the morning of December 30th in Iraq when the hanging took place). In a statement, President Bush called Saddam's execution a milestone on Iraq's road to democracy. DISASTER
In 2006, more than 400 people died when a crowded Indonesian ferry sank in the Java Sea. DISEASE
In 1997, Hong Kong began killing 1.4 million chickens to stem the spread of a mysterious bird flu that had already killed four people. DEATH
In 2006, Gerald R. Ford's flag-draped casket was carried into a church in Palm Desert, California, for a public viewing that marked the start of six days of mourning for the former president. MURDER
In 1170, Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in England by knights loyal to King Henry II. BIRTH
In 1808, the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. CULTURE
In 1851, the first American Young Men's Christian Association was organized, in Boston.
In 1957, singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were married in Las Vegas, Nevada. BIRTHDAYS
Actor Clarence Swensen ("The Wizard of Oz") is 90. Actress Inga Swenson is 75. ABC newscaster Tom Jarriel is 73. Actress Mary Tyler Moore is 70. Actor Jon Voight is 69. Country singer Ed Bruce is 68. Rock musician Ray Thomas is 66. Singer Marianne Faithfull is 61. Jockey Laffit Pincay Junior is 61. Actor Ted Danson is 60. Actor Jon Polito is 57. Singer-actress Yvonne Elliman is 56. Actress Patricia Clarkson is 48. Comedian Paula Poundstone is 48. Rock singer-musician Jim Reid (The Jesus and Mary Chain) is 46. Rock singer Dexter Holland (The Offspring) is 42. Actor-comedian Mystro Clark is 41. Actor Jason Gould is 41. Movie director Andy Wachowski is 40. Actress Jennifer Ehle is 38. Rock singer-musician Glen Phillips is 37. Actor Kevin Weisman is 37. Actor Jude Law is 35. Actor Mekhi Phifer is 33. Actor Shawn Hatosy is 32. Actor Diego Luna is 28. Country singer Jessica Andrews is 24. December 29, the 363rd day of 2007. There are two days left in the year.
In 1832, John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson.
WAR!
1n 2006, in Somalia, troops of the U.N.-backed interim government rolled into Mogadishu unopposed, putting an end to six months of domination of the capital by a radical Islamic movement.
In 2006, President Bush worked nearly three hours at his Texas ranch to design a new U.S. policy in Iraq.
TERRORISM
In 2002, the U.N. nuclear watchdog decided to pull its inspectors out of North Korea by New Year's Eve, a step demanded by the North.
POLITICS
In 1846, Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.
In 1945, Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.
EXECUTIONS
In 2006, Saddam Hussein's lawyer made a last-ditch effort to impede his client's execution.
TURBULENCE
In 1997, one woman was killed, more than 100 other people hurt, when a United Airlines jumbo jet en route from Narita, Japan, to Honolulu encountered severe turbulence over the Pacific.
CRIME
In 1987, the bodies of 14 relatives of Ronald Gene Simmons were found at his home near Dover, Ark., following a shooting rampage by Simmons in Russellville that claimed two other lives. (Simmons was later executed.)
RIOTS
In 1982, Nevell Johnson Jr., a black man, was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of race-related disturbances that left another man dead.
CULTURE
In 1897, the play "Cyrano de Bergerac," by Edmond Rostand, premiered in Paris.
In 1917, the New York Evening Mail published "A Neglected Anniversary," a facetious essay by H.L. Mencken supposedly recounting the history of bathtubs in America. (For example, Mencken "claimed" the first American bathtub made its debut in the Cincinnati home of grain dealer Adam Thompson on Dec. 20, 1842, and that the first White House bathtub was installed in 1851 at the order of President Millard Fillmore.)
In 1973, Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system.
DEATH
In 1694, Queen Mary II of England died after more than five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.
In 1937, composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris at age 62.
BIRTH
In 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton, Va.
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Lou Jacobi is 94. Bandleader Johnny Otis is 86. Comic book creator Stan Lee is 85. Former United Auto Workers union president Owen Bieber is 78. Actor Martin Milner is 76. Actress Dame Maggie Smith is 73. Rock singer-musician Charles Neville is 69. Rock singer-musician Edgar Winter is 61. Rock singer-musician Alex Chilton (The Box Tops; Big Star) is 57. Actor Denzel Washington is 53. Country singer Joe Diffie is 49. Country musician Mike McGuire (Shenandoah) is 49. Actor Chad McQueen is 47. Country singer-musician Marty Roe (Diamond Rio) is 47. Actor Malcolm Gets is 43. Actor Mauricio Mendoza is 38. Comedian Seth Meyers is 34. Rhythm-and-blues singer John Legend is 29. Actress Sienna Miller is 26. Actor Thomas Dekker is 20. Actress Mackenzie Rosman is 18.
Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2007. There are three days left in the year.
