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2009-04-07

Posted by Fred 2009-04-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Happy Birthday: April 7th

Walter Camp - died 1925 (65) "Father of American Football"

Allen Welsh Dulles - died 1969 (75) "Director of Central Intelligence"

Billie Holiday - died 1959 (44) "Eleanora Fagan - 'Lady Sings the Blues'"

James Garner - 81 "James Scott Bumgarner - Bret Maverick" (Now)

Wayne Rogers - 76 "M*A*S*H - Economist" (Now)

Francis Ford Coppola - 70 "Director, vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier." (Now)

Tony Dorsett - 55 "#33 Dallas Cowboys" (Now)

On this day in history: April 7th
1795 France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
1805 First public performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony (Eroica).
1827 John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match. He had invented it the previous year.
1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1927 First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1940 Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1945 The Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa.
1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
1964 IBM announces the System/360.
1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1990 Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction was reversed on appeal).

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-04-07 00:35|| 2009-04-07 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Page after Page of Gam after Gam

CT Alert

Carted off

Daily Gam shot

No, I'm not on a Water Polo team.

Two piece suit - Suit + Belt

Trial Ballons

The lace curtains are missing

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-04-07 01:26|| 2009-04-07 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, Billie Holiday. Fantastic voice, tragic life.

Posted by Pappy 2009-04-07 13:31|| 2009-04-07 13:31|| Front Page Top

#4 After looking at CT alert I realized that CT has nothing to do with computerized tomography.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-04-07 16:28|| 2009-04-07 16:28|| Front Page Top

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