March 5

1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.

1946 – Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.

1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.

1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.

Birthdays

1908 – Rex Harrison, 1927 – Jack Cassidy, 1929 – J. B. Lenoir, 1936 – Dean Stockwell, 1938 – Fred Williamson, 1939 – Samantha Eggar, 1954 – Marsha Warfield, 1955 – Penn Jillette, 1956 – Teena Marie, 1958 – Andy Gibb, 1963 – Joel Osteen, 1966 – Michael Irvin, 1970 – John Frusciante, 1974 – Eva Mendes

Last edited by TheNeverWas (3/05/2022 6:37 pm)

Despite what some in the Cellar say, this disaster is ongoing and the final cost years away from being known.

Diaphone Jim wrote:

Despite what some in the Cellar say, this disaster is ongoing ....

Anybody can make an empty accusation.  WHO said that?  A strawman?

 

Last edited by tw (3/11/2022 6:21 pm)

nevermind.

responding to a post that wasn't meant for me
disregard this post
i said nothing
i saw nothing
and i won't testify to anything

Last edited by TheNeverWas (3/11/2022 8:57 pm)

tw wrote:

Diaphone Jim wrote:

Despite what some in the Cellar say, this disaster is ongoing ....

Anybody can make an empty accusation.  WHO said that?  A strawman?

 

Undertoad, of course.
I'll look it up or you can.
Or he will do it here again.
 

Utoad:  You make me remember the meaningful discussions we had in the fourth grade. 

Undertoad wrote:

I don't give a fuck.

I've a hundred bucks that the lady of the house would testify otherwise.

March 25

1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

Birthdays

1867 – Gutzon Borglum, 1867 – Arturo Toscanini, 1901 – Ed Begley (not Jr.), 1918 – Howard Cosell, 1925 – Flannery O'Connor, 1926 – Gene Shalit, 1928 – Jim Lovell, 1934 – Gloria Steinem, 1938 – Hoyt Axton, 1942 – Aretha Franklin, 1943 – Paul Michael Glaser, 1946 – Stephen Hunter, 1947 – Elton John, 1950 – Ronnie McDowell, 1962 – Marcia Cross, 1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, 1966 – Jeff Healey, 1967 – Doug Stanhope, 1967 – Debi Thomas, 1971 – Sheryl Swoopes, 1976 – Wladimir Klitschko, 1982 – Danica Patrick, 1984 – Katharine McPhee

March 29

1886 – John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.

1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.

1927 – Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.  [First car to break 200 mph.]

1945 – World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.

1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.

2014 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.

Birthdays

1790 – John Tyler, 1867 – Cy Young, 1918 – Pearl Bailey, 1918 – Sam Walton, 1919 – Eileen Heckart, 1928 – Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante, 1939 – Terence Hill, 1942 – Scott Wilson, 1943 – Vangelis, 1943 – Eric Idle, 1943 – John Major, 1945 – Walt Frazier, 1946 – Billy Thorpe, 1948 – Bud Cort, 1955 – Earl Campbell, 1955 – Brendan Gleeson, 1957 – Christopher Lambert, 1959 – Perry Farrell, 1961 – Amy Sedaris, 1964 – Elle Macpherson, 1968 – Lucy Lawless
 

On the 1st January 1773, the Revd. John Newton gave his 'Amazing Grace' sermon and the hymn of the same name was first sung in public at St Peter and St Paul's Church, Olney, Buckinghamshire.

Olney Church. Amazing Grace 250.

Amazing Grace 250

I keep meaning to visit the church as it's not that many miles away in the north of the county.

Maybe I'll manage to get there one day.


 

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

… I think tw's right this time,..

It happens.

Gosh, I’ve almost missed tw’s comments or rants about bean counters killing everything good, right wing crazy people, and firearms.



 

Feb 23

Births

1915 – Paul Tibbets,1932 – Majel Barrett, 1940 – Peter Fonda, 1944 – Johnny Winter,1951 – Ed "Too Tall" Jones, 1951 – Patricia Richardson, 1952 – Brad Whitford,1955 – Howard Jones, 1962 – Michael Wilton, 1965 – Michael Dell