On this date in 1893, absolutely nothing happened. Anywhere.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Actually, there was no 1893.
It went 1892 - 1894.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Yeah! That's it!!!
And the country was split into two philosophical camps: Those who did NOTHING and those who didn't care.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Chicago is NOT going to be happy about y'all getting rid of 1893. Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Would that be the Know-Nothings?
(Blushes at her appalling lack of historical knowledge. )
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
There wasn't a Chicago.
In fact, there still isn't. It's a myth.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Oooh! I'm liking this already!
And in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and fell right off the edge of the world! The foo!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Actually, the ocean was purple.
And full of 100-foot-long sea monsters.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Some of my favorites:
Most of the founding fathers were Christians.
Darwin recanted evolution on his deathbed.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
There was no ocean.
It was all a mirage.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
You've almost got it right.
And in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean purple, and fell right off the edge of the world and joined Copernicus who also had some crazy ideas! The fools!
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
You know, I always wondered why Jesus' arrival came as such a surprise to people. I mean, they had to have expected it knowing that they'd just run out of "BC" years. It'd be like, "oh, we're at 0. The Christ must be here."
Sheesh, when they give you a countdown, how hard could it be?
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
It wasn't that they didn't expect the Messiah. They just didn't expect him to be a 33 year old carpenter!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: Darwin recanted evolution on his deathbed.
Well, that's just silly. He actually came back after his death in a dream. He appeared to William Spottiswood, who tried to carry the secret to his grave. But in a fit of guilty terror on his deathbed, Spottiswood confessed to the dream.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Be real careful what you do or say about Chicago.
Remember how we celebrate Valentine's Day here.
And they still haven't found Hoffa.
From the city known for slaughterhouses, mob wars, Blues, and high voter turnout at the cemeteries. Posted by Scythrop (Member # 5731) on :
*sings*
"It's my kind of town chi...errr...Delaware"
Also on this day in 1911, the British Apathy Political Movement disbanded due to lack of interest.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Wasn't there a political movement called "New Freedom" around that time, which later became a brand name of... one of those products that are the reason remote controls were invented?
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Maybe not in 1893, but 10 years later something was about to happen.
Who can name it?
msquared
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
pssst pooka. New Freedom were really adult incontinence products, till the French Revolution shut them down.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Didn't King George write in his diary "Nothing important happened today" the day the American Revolution started? Maybe it was the French, and it was Louis. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
quote: Maybe not in 1893, but 10 years later something was about to happen
Bob_Scopatz was born.
FG
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Also, the Dutch bought Manhattan Island for $24 in beads. Now, hundreds of years later, those beads sold on e-bay for 4x what the island of Manhattan is worth.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Btw, the Island of Manhattan is worth approximately $23.78, not counting tax.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
What happened 10 years after 1893?
The 1904 World's Fair?
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
That would be 1904. Try 1903.
Almost 100 years to the day.
msquared
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Well, The Wright Brothers first powered flight, for one..
still goggling...
FG
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Farmgirl gets it.
Dec. 17, the anniversary of the first powered flight by the boys from Dayton Ohio, the birthplace of aviation.(Not NC like some like to think.)
msquared
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Yeah -- it's been a big deal around here. The city is having a big celebration to honor the first powered flight (since Wichita is supposed to be "Air Capitol", home to Cessna, Boeing, Raytheon(Beech), etc. etc.. "we make 'em, you fly 'em"
FG
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Don't be fooled.
The Wright Brothers never got their bicycle to fly. It was all done with hollywood tricks, special effects, and mirrors. It was a test thing for that bogus trip to the moon.
Everyone knows that flight is impossible.
Everything in the air, short of angels, is a fake, a weather balloon, or an alien. Anyone who has ever supposedly flown anywhere was actually killed, and an imposter took their place at the other end.
I know because I've flown dozens of times, and I'm not me anymore.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
goggling or googling? Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
on this day in history 1775: Mick Jagger born
On this day in history 1981: Dan Quayle born
On this day in history 1950: Richard Nixon was taken aback by Picasso's use of patriotic imagery thru contrast of sharp edge and curve in his latest work. To which Picasso replied "Dick, it's just a square. Let it go."
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
Nope, contrary to "history" as it is taught, the Wright Brothers did not fly at Kittyhawk. At best, Flyer One was a ground-effect machine, not an aircraft.
Their first recorded flight was in Dayton a couple of years later in a redesigned craft.
Posted by asQmh (Member # 4590) on :
In which year was Bob_Scopatz named ruler of the Free World? 'Cause I had tickets, if I haven't misplaced them.
If it hasn't happened, it probaby should.
Q.
Posted by StigLarson (Member # 5579) on :
1893 must have happenned because it was in this year a forgetful welshman named Geoff left his bath running and created the Atlantic Ocean.
Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :
I guess Ohio is shopping for a new state motto now that the rivers don't burn anymore.
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
You mean like the Birthplace of Aviation? Which has been our motto for 10 years or so?
The city of Dayton, where the Wright Bros. did all of the research? Where they basically pionered the field of aeronautical engineering with their wing designs and developement of the wind tunnel? Where they invented wing warping? Where they learned to control flight? Read up on it some time and find out that the only reason they picked Kittyhawk was because it had a lot of wind and sand. The next year they were flying in Dayton.
msquared(who is sick and tired of NC getting all the credit for not doing anything.)
Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :
Well Utah was first to have women's suffrage but you don't hear us complaining. Though I guess "beehive" is a matriarchal system. Really odd if you think about it. We do have a woman governor now.
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Trisha
The problem is, is there another state claiming that they were first to have women's sufferage? If not you have nothing to complain about. You ask most people where flight was developed and they will say Kittyhawk, NC, and zero research was done there. They tested only, and did not go back after 1903. All of the work was done in Dayton and the surrounding area.
msquared
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I thought Montana granted women's suffrage before Utah.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
On this date in 1957:
Mick Jagger sold his soul to the devil. A transcript from the agreement reads:
Devil: Lemme get this straight, I'm going to turn you, a scrawny Cockney kid who can't dance, sing or play an instrument into a legendary rock star? And you want to sing the Blues, bed women all over the world and then be knighted by the Queen of England?
MJ: Yep, mate, that about sums it up.
Devil: Okay, but I'm going to have to play lead guitar. Keith, yeah, that's always been a good name...
And so a legend was made.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote:1893 must have happenned because it was in this year a forgetful welshman named Geoff left his bath running and created the Atlantic Ocean.
I laphed at this one.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Well, here's a real one...
quote:On Dec. 5, 1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.
So when anyone tips a glass today (I don't drink alcohol myself), remember you wouldn't have legal access to your beverage without Utah voters. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I thought Montana too on sufferage, but then it got over ruled somehow by congress, very much ticking off the women in that state.
The three states to have been independent countries are Hawaii, Texas and California
AJ
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
One year ago (too good to pass up):
quote:One year ago: Strom Thurmond, the oldest and longest-serving senator in history, celebrated his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill. (It was at this gathering that Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, in toasting Thurmond, seemed to express nostalgia for Thurmond's segregationist past; the resulting firestorm prompted Lott to resign his leadership position.)
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Has Thurmond keeled over yet? I vaguely remember something besides the lott commotion but I can't remember what.
AJ
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
Utah wasn't the first state to grant women's sufferage. Utah wasn't a state or even populated ('cept by injuns and they don't count) when New Jersey granted women's sufferage.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
AJ,
Yes, Strom Thurmond passed away in June at the age of 100, thereby disproving (cough) the adage "only the good die young."
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Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
In January of 1843 the United States Air Force was created. Which sat around for quite a while, waiting for the birth of aviation (which never happened). So, they sit around plucking away at their computers, looking busy.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
1872 Plastic surgery was invented and Cher (and Dolly Parton) were born.
AJ
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Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
On this date, today.
Still nothing happened.
I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I object.
Dolly Parton is natural, not plastic.
Now, Pamela Anderson--There is plastic.
And Brittney Spears.
And the Spice Girls.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Not necesarily boobs... Dolly has definitely had it on her face!
AJ
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
On this day, 10,000 years ago, the wheel was invented.
Two days later came the invention of the vehicular accident.
Later the same afternoon, lawyers invented themselves - both to sue the pants off the driver and the inventor, and of course another lawyer was needed to make the case that the victim was really at fault.
Lawyers, victims, and the wheel all had to be reinvented at a later date when an herd of mammoths stomped them all into the ground, a result of the poorly expressed rage they all felt from having been recently informed they were scheduled for imminent extinction.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Say, Dan, aren't I supposed to be stalking you? :takes a seat and starts munching on some celery:
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