Monday, December 8, 2014
Thursday, October 16, 2014
October 16th or HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTIN!
1793 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France is executed.
1831 – Lucy Stanton, American abolitionist, is born.
1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrates ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright is born.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor is born.
1888 – American playwright and Nobel Prize laureate Eugene O’Neill is born.
1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States in Brooklyn, New York.
1923 – Roy & Walt Disney found the Walt Disney Company.
1940 – The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1947 – American singer-songwriter and guitarist Bob Weir is born.
1958 – Tim Robbins is born.
1962 – Flea is born.
1977 – John Mayer is born.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN LENNON!
(and Jackson Browne)
(and John Entwistle)
(and Nick swardson)
(and Sean Lennon……..)
Monday, September 29, 2014
September 29th…a day that will NOT live in infamy
1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis is born.
1966 – The Chevy Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor, dies at age 73.
today is also International Coffee Day!!
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
June 6th: Man, it’s a hot one…
1411 – King Charles VI grants a monopoly for the ripening of the Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they bad been doing for centuries.
1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage (because Massachusetts is the greatest state in the Union)
1919 – The U.S. Congress approves the 19thAmendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1969 – Horatio Sanz is born.
1974 – During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
1975 – Angelina Jolie is born.
2004 – Marvin Heemeyer’s eventually suicidal protest rampage with an improvised bulletproofed bulldozer destroys 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, including the town hall.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Short but Sweet
Saturday, May 3rd
• 3:09 p.m. — A resident came to the police station with concerns about a tenant who sent a text message threatening that while she was asleep she would shave off her eyebrows.
Sunday, May 4th
• 3:38 a.m. — People repeatedly calling an Amherst convenience store demanding free food told the clerk they would stand near the Dumpster until food was thrown into it. Police were unable to identify the people making the calls.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Doctor Who Appreciation Society
so I’ve started this club with a friend at school, called the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.
Our first meeting was Monday, and I had the kids fill out a two-page questionnaire. Some of the answers were so amazing, I felt like I needed to document them.
Here are some of the best…
Monday, April 28, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
It’s official. I am FUCKING OBSESSED
with Bastille.
Here are some amazing videos to get you me through the day…
Monday, March 31, 2014
March 31st: International Goodbye March Day
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1909 – Construction of the RMS Titanic begins.
1943 – Christopher Walken (who was pretty hot when he was younger) is born.
1948 – Al Gore (who was also pretty good looking as a young man) is born.
1948 – Rhea Perlman is born.
1971 – American animator, screenwriter and producer Craig McCracken is born.
1971 – Ewan McGregor, my future husband, is born.
1985 – The First WrestleMania takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York.
1995 – Singer Selena is murdered by friend and employee Yolanda Saldívar.
Friday, March 28, 2014
March 28th? More like March Twenty-meh
1979 – A coolant leak at the nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island (outside of Harrisburg, PA) leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
1836 – German-American brewer Frederick Pabst founds Pabst Brewing Company, ensuring that future hipsters would never be thirsty.
1941 – American composter composer Alf Clausen is born.
1956 – “American author” April Margera is born. Take a moment to imagine a world without Bam Margera…
1975 – “American author” Kate Gosselin is born. Take a moment to imagine a world without Kate Gosselin…
1986 – Lady Gaga is born.
(Happy Birthday to Matt Harvey of the New York Mets, whose birthday was yesterday…)
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