The Cellar / Today In History

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 3/01/2022 5:55 am

March 1

Birthdays

1904 – Glenn Miller, 1910 – David Niven, 1914 – Harry Caray, 1914 – Ralph Ellison, 1917 – Robert Lowell, 1917 – Dinah Shore, 1922 – Yitzhak Rabin, 1924 – Deke Slayton, 1926 – Pete Rozelle, 1927 – Harry Belafonte, 1935 – Robert Conrad, 1944 – Roger Daltrey, 1944 – Mike d'Abo, 1945 – Dirk Benedict, 1947 – Alan Thicke, 1952 – Nevada Barr, 1954 – Catherine Bach, 1954 – Ron Howard, 1956 – Tim Daly, 1969 – Javier Bardem, 1987 – Kesha

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 3/05/2022 6:36 pm

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)

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 3/11/2022 3:39 am

March 11

2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 3/11/2022 12:08 pm

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

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 3/11/2022 12:51 pm

What are we saying about it?

**Posted by tw** 3/11/2022 6:19 pm

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)

**Posted by BigV** 3/11/2022 8:19 pm

My guess is that DJ posted this post in this thread while his head was in a different thread.

I've done it. You have too.

oops.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 3/11/2022 8:43 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)

**Posted by griff** 3/12/2022 8:25 am

1945 March 12
General Fromm executed for plot against Hitler

Coming soon to a Kremlin near you.

Last edited by griff (3/12/2022 8:26 am)

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 3/12/2022 12:40 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.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 3/13/2022 8:10 pm

Hee!

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 3/14/2022 12:52 pm

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

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 3/14/2022 7:25 pm

See?

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 3/15/2022 5:18 am

Undertoad wrote:
I don't give a fuck.

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

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 3/20/2022 2:23 am

March 20

1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.

1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.

1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

1915 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".

1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.

1995 – The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and wounding over 6,200 people.

2003 – Iraq War: The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland begin an invasion of Iraq.

2015 – A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a supermoon all occur on the same day.

Birthdays

43 BC – Ovid, 1821 – Ned Buntline, 1828 – Henrik Ibsen, 1903 – Edgar Buchanan, 1906 – Ozzie Nelson, 1915 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 1917 – Vera Lynn (Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?), 1922 – Ray Goulding (Bob & Ray), 1922 – Carl Reiner, 1925 – John Ehrlichman, 1928 – Fred Rogers, 1931 – Hal Linden, 1937 – Jerry Reed, 1943 – Paul Junger Witt, 1945 – Pat Riley, 1948 – Bobby Orr, 1950 – William Hurt, 1951 – Jimmie Vaughan, 1957 – Spike Lee, 1958 – Holly Hunter, 1963 – Kathy Ireland, 1967 – Mookie Blaylock, 1976 – Chester Bennington

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 3/24/2022 11:40 pm

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

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 3/25/2022 10:39 pm

March 26

1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.

1997 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.

Birthdays

1874 – Robert Frost, 1875 – Syngman Rhee, 1911 – Tennessee Williams, 1916 – Sterling Hayden, 1919 – Strother Martin, 1923 – Bob Elliott, 1930 – Sandra Day O'Connor, 1931 – Leonard Nimoy, 1934 – Alan Arkin, 1940 – James Caan, 1941 – Richard Dawkins, 1942 – Erica Jong, 1943 – Bob Woodward, 1944 – Diana Ross, 946 – Johnny Crawford, 1948 – Steven Tyler, 1949 – Vicki Lawrence, 1949 – Fran Sheehan, 1950 – Teddy Pendergrass, 1950 – Martin Short, 1957 – Leeza Gibbons, 1960 – Marcus Allen, 1960 – Jennifer Grey, 1966 – Michael Imperioli, 1968 – Kenny Chesney, 1968 – James Iha, 1973 – Larry Page, 1985 – Keira Knightley

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 3/29/2022 3:56 am

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

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 6/25/2022 7:48 pm

Happy Birthday to Chesty Puller, the most-decorated Marine in US history.

Last edited by TheNeverWas (6/25/2022 7:49 pm)

**Posted by Carruthers** 1/01/2023 7:01 am

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.

**Posted by griff** 1/01/2023 9:21 am

Amazing Grace was my recently passed Mother-in-Law's favorite song, nice find.

**Posted by Slang** 1/12/2023 1:51 am

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.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 2/22/2023 8:40 pm

February 23, 1945

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 2/22/2023 8:53 pm

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

**Posted by tw** 2/23/2023 8:57 pm

TheNeverWas wrote:

I have always wondered (due to complications with the narrative) whether those were the original soldiers or a second group sent up to recreate the event. However some 1000 ships below all blew whistles simultaneously when it happened. Why? I cite the movie Casablanca to appreciate what Americans discovered they were getting (had to get) into. Movie paraphrases why that picture is significant. Casablanca was before Pearl Harbor. But illustrates the significance of that picture.