tvashtarkatena Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 It's the 10th anniversary of the Asian Financial Crisis. I'm already warming up the sake. Quote
olyclimber Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 TOMORROW I GET FREE LAPDANCE WITH MY COFFEE AT BEST FRIEND EXPRESSO!!! Quote
jmace Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 is it Victoria day long weekend where hords of canadians come and seige american rock cause its raining here..? Quote
Billygoat Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 Not my Birthday because it is TODAY!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
G-spotter Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 Not my Birthday because it is TODAY!!!!!!!!!!! how old are you, old man? do you remember ww2? Quote
Billygoat Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 Not my Birthday because it is TODAY!!!!!!!!!!! how old are you, old man? do you remember ww2? Old enough to know better...... Quote
sk Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 Not my Birthday because it is TODAY!!!!!!!!!!! how old are you, old man? do you remember ww2? Old enough to know better...... and young enough not to care Quote
Billygoat Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 Not my Birthday because it is TODAY!!!!!!!!!!! how old are you, old man? do you remember ww2? Old enough to know better...... and young enough not to care Oh yeah! Muffy knows what time it is Quote
lI1|1! Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 It's going to be a happy day. GUESS! YOU TAKE YOUR SHOWER!!! Quote
lizard_brain Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 On March 16th: 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king 1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York; many Jews commit suicide rather than submit to baptism. 1249 - The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany. 1322 - Battle of Boroughbridge in the First War of Scottish Independence. 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. 1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." 1660 - The Long Parliament disbands. 1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded. 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. 1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established. 1812 - Battle of Badajoz (March 16 - April 6) - British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during Peninsular War. 1815 - Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands. 1818 - Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín. 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published. 1855 - Bates College in Lewiston, Maine is founded. 1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy. 1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet. 1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London. 1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete. 1912 - Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time." 1914 - Henriette Caillaux, wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmet, the editor of Le Figaro. 1916 - 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border to join the hunt of Pancho Villa. 1924 - The free port of Fiume formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime. 1926 - History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. 1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. 1939 - From Prague Castle Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. 1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran 1942 - History of Rocketry: First V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff) 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist. 1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record. 1956 - St. Urho's Day is first celebrated. 1958 - Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding. 1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing. 1963 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali - 11,000 dead 1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle. 1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers -- men, women, and children -- are killed by American troops. 1968 - General Motors releases its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. 1969 - A Venezuelan Airlines DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff in Maracaibo, Venezuela killing 155 1970 - Publication of complete New English Bible. 1971 - Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway 1972 - The first building of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex is demolished. 1976 - UK Prime Minister, Harold Wilson resigns. 1978 - Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing terrorists in Italy and is later killed by his captors. 1978 - Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history 1983 - Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood. 1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity. 1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would be released on December 4, 1991. 1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. 1988 - Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing thousands of people. 1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard of 1993). 1995 - Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. 1996 - Göran Persson is elected leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. 1997 - Sandline affair - On Bougainville, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International 1998 - Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust. 2001 - The only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves, according to a health survey. 2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against Iraq war. 2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control 2005 - Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, accused of the bombing of the Air India Flight 182 in 1985, are found not guilty on all counts. 2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council. 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Alpinfox Posted May 15, 2007 Author Posted May 15, 2007 1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded. DING DING DING! Finally somebody guessed it! Quote
lizard_brain Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 BUTT WHATT HAPPENED ON MAYY 16THH???!!11~@ I fergit. Quote
lizard_brain Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 BUTT WHATT HAPPENED ON MAYY 16THH???!!11~@ I fergit. ...Or was that in April...? Quote
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