A Very Auspicious Day Tomorrow

[NousDefionsDoc]

Anyone know why?

[BMT (RIP)]

WAG!!

Columbus Day??

BMT

[sharkmanII]

Anyone know why?
Is it because my mother-in-law, who has lived with me for 15 years, is going to turn 75? :confused:

[longrange1947]

The day NDD learned to spell his name at the age of 25? :munchin

[Bill Harsey]

NDD,
No I don't know.

Longrange, Age 25? That's early where I come from.

[Kyobanim]

Is it one of these?

0314 - Battle at Cibalae: emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius
0451 - Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
0876 - Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare
1085 - San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
1492 - Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1600 - San Marino adopts constitution
1604 - Supernova "Kepler's nova" 1st sighted
1625 - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz
1633 - Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government
1690 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1712 - French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast
1740 - Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia
1775 - Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army
1806 - British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
1813 - Treaty of Ried between Bayern and Austria
1815 - Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo Italy
1818 - 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
1822 - 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago
1840 - 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1842 - Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach
1856 - Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower Brit flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War
1860 - Telegraph line between LA and SF opens

[Kyobanim]

Or these?

1862 - Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted
1862 - Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor
1865 - Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
1871 - Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin
1871 - Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation
1873 - 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" (BG)
1887 - Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
1892 - Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
1895 - Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
1896 - Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
1897 - Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
1898 - 1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
1903 - J M Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen," premieres in Dublin
1904 - 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
1906 - Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London
1908 - NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
1909 - Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1912 - 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1912 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
1915 - Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed
1915 - Phillies win their 1st and only World Series game before 1980, beating
1915 - Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
1917 - Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet
1918 - Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1922 - NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
1924 - British Labour govt of MacDonald falls to Communists
1927 - NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
1927 - Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
1928 - Cole Porter and E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris," premieres in NYC
1928 - Eastern Soccer League forms in US
1929 - A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs
1929 - Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi
1930 - Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
1933 - Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters
1933 - Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish govt
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
1935 - Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie and Harriet)
1938 - G Kaufman and Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid," premieres in NYC
1939 - Germany annexes Western Poland
1939 - NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
1940 - Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
1940 - German troops occupies Romania
1941 - Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built
1942 - Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
1943 - Great-Britain establishes bases on Azores
1944 - "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio
1944 - Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto," premieres
1945 - Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
1946 - Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China
1946 - Milt plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
1950 - 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit
1950 - Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17
1951 - "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances
1951 - Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League
1952 - 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
1952 - Chinese offensive in Korea
1953 - Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group
1953 - WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins
1955 - Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
1956 - Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1957 - Procter and Gamble-director N McElroy becomes US Min of Defense
1957 - Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
1957 - Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire
1958 - Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
1958 - Dr Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker (Stockholm)
1958 - KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 perfs
1959 - Conservatives win British election
1959 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
1960 - Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
1961 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin's Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1961 - US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - Whitey Ford breaks Babe Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, running his streak to 32
1962 - Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
1962 - N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1963 - Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1964 - Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st US chief engraver to retire (than die)
1964 - Ringo Starr takes and passes his driving test
1965 - Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter
1965 - London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England
1965 - Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
1968 - Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina
1970 - Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1971 - John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1972 - Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1972 - In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher
1972 - Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended
1973 - NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins' Pete Rose and NY Met Bud Harrelson
1973 - Spyris Markezinis forms govt in Greece
1976 - Sex Pistols sign with EMI
1977 - Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
1978 - Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)
1978 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
1979 - "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs
1979 - 13th Country Music Assn Award:[Approx]
1979 - J McHugh and A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies," premieres in NYC
1980 - Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital
1980 - British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
1980 - USSR and Syria sign peace treaty
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test
1981 - 1st broadcast of "Cagney and Lacey" on ABC-TV
1981 - USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Al Unser
1981 - Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1982 - NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
1982 - Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions
1983 - 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
1983 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
1984 - 18th Country Music Assn Award: Alabama wins
1985 - "Rembrandt and Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
1985 - Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's "Les Mis‚rables," premieres in London
1985 - Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
1986 - Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
1986 - RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
1988 - Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
1988 - Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
1989 - Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
1990 - 24th Country Music Assn Award: George Strait wins
1990 - Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 - US doctors Joseph E Murray and E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1992 - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
1992 - Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game
1992 - Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
1993 - Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"
1993 - Qn Elizabeth's nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24)
1993 - UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
1994 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
1995 - Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record
1995 - Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series

[ghuinness]

Or maybe one of these...

680 Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom
1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
1446 Korean Hangual alphabet devised
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1820 Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
1837 Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
1855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope
1876 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1877 American Humane Association organized in Cleveland
1888 Public admitted to Washington Monument
1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Red-Headed League"
1903 11" rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
1910 Nap Lajoie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a world series game (World Series #12)
1916 Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1
1921 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1928 NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game - NY Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series
1930 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1934 St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series
1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
1938 Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
1938 NY Yankees sweep Cubs in the 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win
1944 St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series
1946 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1947 1st telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
1949 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series
1951 Gil McDougald's world series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1 (World Series #48)
1958 NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series - NY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series
1960 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
1961 NY Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series
1961 Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth
1961 Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
1961 Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning
1962 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
1963 Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth
1965 Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1966 Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series
1968 Government seizes oil fields in Peru
1969 Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together"
1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
1973 Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1973 Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
1974 Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak
1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at MSG
1975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1976 Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
1977 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
1977 Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
1980 1st consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)
1980 Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot
1983 4 South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space
1986 Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him the 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1988 Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
1989 Penthouse Magazine's hebrew edition hits the newstands
1989 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1990 Radio stations around the world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
1990 Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile

[CoLawman]

Your Wedding Anniversary?

[Martin]

8th SFG
8th SFG cut the lines
Cut the lines on Che's elevator
Che was falling
Falling
Flying all to hell
Crash landing
Landing on Lucifer's fork
Che's swinging
Swaying over fire
Breathing dust of coal
Smoke of death
The cheering of 8th SFG
In his poor bastage head
Che's down there
Far down there
Forever burnin' in hell

And everybody else lived happily ever after.

Martin

[Weazle23]

Obviously it's this one:

...
1995 - Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series :lifter

[The Reaper]

I think that we have a winner, Martin.

TR

[stone]

Anyone know why?

The Battle of Quebrada de Yuro?

[moobob]

Around this time in 2001 is when OEF started.

[Ambush Master]

On October 9th, 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was put to death by Bolivian soldiers, trained, equipped and guided by U.S. Green Beret and CIA operatives. His execution remains a historic and controversial event; and thirty years later, the circumstances of his guerrilla foray into Bolivia, his capture, killing, and burial are still the subject of intense public interest and discussion around the world.


http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB5/

[NousDefionsDoc]

Martin has been paying attention in class...

Well done.

[Doc]

Good job AM.

Wasn't it the 8th GP that was on the ground for this operation?

[Team Sergeant]

Good job AM.

Wasn't it the 8th GP that was on the ground for this operation?

That's what I was also thinking, it was an 8th Gp operation.

[Martin]

Oops then!

Corrected.

Martin

[NousDefionsDoc]

The Battle of Quebrada de Yuro?
Yes, but not much of a battle. More like a rout.

[longrange1947]

Hmmm missed the second page.

[longtab]

Anyone know why?

Oh... I thought ya'll were wishing me "congratulations" for completing 10th Group's Static-Line Jumpmaster Course...

[stone]

Yes, but not much of a battle. More like a rout.

True.

[The Reaper]

Oh... I thought ya'll were wishing me "congratulations" for completing 10th Group's Static-Line Jumpmaster Course...

Case of beer!

First time?

TR

[Team Sergeant]

Case of beer!

First time?

TR

This is the internet, we all heard him say it at the same time..... :rolleyes:


We should have a calendar event for "US Army Special Forces, providing dirt naps to terrorists, despots and the like for over fifty years."

TS

[longrange1947]

Case of beer!

First time?

TR

This is the internet, we all heard him say it at the same time.....

This could get expensive. :boohoo

[NousDefionsDoc]

This is the internet, we all heard him say it at the same time..... :rolleyes:


We should have a calendar event for "US Army Special Forces, providing dirt naps to terrorists, despots and the like for over fifty years."

TS
I put it in there and now it's gone.

[Team Sergeant]

I put it in there and now it's gone.

we'll have to fix that.....

[Team Sergeant]

fixed, how's that look?

[NousDefionsDoc]

LOL - looks great!

[longtab]

Case of beer!

First time?

TR

Ah crap... walked right into that one... got it this morning as I walked into the team room too... :eek:

OT... shouldn't we have a "beer-mug smiley" in this forum? ESPECIALLY for this forum?

[NousDefionsDoc]

Che Guevara should be scorned — not worn

By Ryan Clancy

Che Guevara is everywhere these days. Not literally. He is, after all, dead. But 38 years after meeting his demise in the Bolivian jungle, the communist revolutionary has re-emerged as a pop culture icon. In dorm rooms, on the runways of Paris and on merchandising kitsch, the legendary Alberto Korda image of a beret-clad Guevara is the epitome of cool. Don't be surprised if during tonight's trick-or-treating, Che shows up among the goblins. He's that ubiquitous.

Hollywood has taken notice, too. Last year's indie hit The Motorcycle Diaries, which traced Che's youthful wanderlust trip across South America, is soon to be followed by a major studio production featuring Benicio Del Toro.

Che's rock star status will probably be fleeting. Just ask Motley Cre. But long after Jay-Z stops rapping, “I'm like Che Guevara with bling on,” Che will retain the exalted position he has held since the Vietnam War as a symbol of peace and justice. And that is a problem.

Che demanded worldwide revolution, even if it meant a stream of death and misery. He said the utopia that could be built on the ashes of the old world would make the suffering worthwhile. That's why he advocated a nuclear exchange during the Cuban missile crisis.

In fact, if you read through Che's speeches, with his constant refrain of glorious martyrdom, they're remarkably similar to another well-known “revolutionary” — the tall, bearded one holed up somewhere on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Che hated the United States and the global free market system that sustained it. Just ask him. “Let us sum up our hopes for victory: total destruction of imperialism by eliminating its firmest bulwark, the oppression exercised by the United States of America.”

If Che's world vision had prevailed, it's safe to say that Apple founder Steve Jobs would have never brought us the iPod. After all, it's tough to innovate when you're stuck behind a donkey farming turnips for the proletariat.

For those who sell Che merchandise, this history is beside the point. Yakov Grinberg, a 20-year-old clerk at Freaks, a shop in Manhattan's trendy East Village, freely concedes: “Most of these people obviously have no idea what they're wearing.”

Che isn't the only erstwhile commie scoring cool points either. Chairman Mao and the Soviet hammer-and-sickle are showing up on hipster gear as well. Who knew that bread lines were the new black?

Against this backdrop of ignorance, it's not surprising that Che, as a populist symbol of uncompromising defiance who stood up for the poor and oppressed, transcends the real Che — the one who said judicial review for executions was an “archaic bourgeoisie detail.”

What then are we to make of Che Guevara? Che apologists insist he fought “for the people.” But when it came to the basics of helping “the people,” such as not killing them, he was less than stellar.

Most historians agree upon one fact, however, that can shape our understanding of Che. He was a loser. Big time. I'm talking McGovern in '72, Saddam in '91 and the Chicago Cubs every year since '08.

Che fomented unrest in Argentina, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Haiti, Panama and the African Congo, and every expedition was an abject failure. His single enduring political achievement, Cuba, is not even threatening enough to make the Axis of Evil.

So, instead of Che being held up as a beacon of peace and justice, let us hereafter revel in his futility. He'll be an exemplar of the idea that hard work does not always pay off. In fact, I already have a new shirt in mind. Take the same iconic picture of Che and just add the heading, “I tried to conquer the evil Yankee imperialists and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.”

Ryan Clancy is a freelance writer living in New York City.

[stone]

True, but isn't the argument itself redundant... the very fact that he lives on as merchandise would seem to be the ultimate slap in the face to his revolution. We absorbed him, turned him inside-out and sold him for $9.99 at the t-shirt stand next to the food court.... certainly not what he had in mind when he was making his mighty speeches before the U.N. ;)

[longrange1947]

Afraid I have to rather agree with stone on this. Most of the idiots that wear his wares have not a clue of his true writtings, philosphies nor where he stood. Nor do they understand what they would lose under his plan for gov't.

Now they buy into commercial Che and it is a mockery of his ideals. I find it deliciously ironic. :D

[The Reaper]

Just in time, new Che t-shirts for us!

TR

[Bravo1-3]

A few of my favorites:

[longrange1947]

And, we rest our case! :lifter

[stone]

:D