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| 2009-04-07 | |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #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 |
| #3 Ah, Billie Holiday. Fantastic voice, tragic life. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-04-07 13:31 |
#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 |
| #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 |
