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7 December 1957 - Future internet sensation Naraku is born in Tampa, Florida. A date that will truely live in infamy.
Sadge, on a run !
Gibbs505
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It is cold and snowing here as well!!
sorry old chap that i forgot to note it in the regular miles, but even the Tampa newspaper didn't report it.................7 December 1957 - Future internet sensation Naraku is born in Tampa, Florida. A date that will truely live in infamy.
Happy B-day!!!
1541. Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. The means of death was to be particularly gruesome. They were both to be hanged by the neck, cut down while still alive, castrated, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered. Both men pleaded for leniency, and Culpeper, presumably due to his former closeness to the King, received a commuted sentence of simple beheading. Dereham received no such mercy.
Culpeper was executed along with Dereham at Tyburn and their heads put on display on London Bridge. The Queen, Catherine Howard, was subsequently executed on February 13, 1542.
1542. Mary Queen of Scots is born only to be beheaded in 1587. Mary I of Scotland was the Queen of Scots from December 14, 1542 to July 24, 1567. She also sat as Queen Consort of France from July 10, 1559 to December 5, 1560. Because of her tragic life, she is one of the best-known Scottish monarchs.
Although the Stuart family had gained the Scottish throne through Marjory (daughter of Robert the Bruce), Mary became Queen only because all male alternatives had been exhausted. The six-day-old Mary became Queen of Scotland when her father died at the age of thirty. When Mary was only nine months old she was crowned Queen of Scotland in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on September 9, 1543. Because the Queen was an infant and the ceremony unique, Mary's coronation was the talk of Europe.
A devout Catholic, Mary was distrusted by Scotland's Protestant majority and a disappointment to her fellow Catholics because, unlike her English namesake "Bloody Mary," the Queen of Scots was tolerant. She was forced to abdicate in favor of her infant son when she came under suspicion for the murder of her second husband. Fleeing to England, she sought the protection of her cousin Elizabeth I who had her locked up, fearing she would be a rival. The pope had declared that Elizabeth was a bastard and unfit to rule; Mary was in the line of English succession. Accused of plotting against Elizabeth, Mary was tried and condemned to death.
The execution was badly carried out. It is said to have taken three blows to hack off her head. The first blow struck the back of her head, the next struck her shoulder and severed her subclavian artery, spewing blood everywhere. She was alive and conscious after the first two blows. The next blow took off her head save some gristle, which was cut using the axe as a saw.
Various improbable stories about the execution were later circulated. One which is thought to be true is that, when the executioner picked up the severed head to show it to those present, it was discovered that Mary was wearing a wig. The headsman was left holding the wig, while the late queen's head rolled on the floor. Another well-known execution story concerns a small dog owned by the queen, which is said to have been hiding among her skirts, unseen by the spectators. Following the beheading, the dog rushed out, terrified and covered in blood. It was taken away by her ladies-in-waiting and washed, but it did not survive the shock. Another tale claims that Mary's head lived for a short time after it was hacked off, and that her lips could be seen moving as she tried to speak.
Mary's body was embalmed and left unburied at her place of execution for a year after her death. She was initially buried at Peterborough Cathedral in 1588, but her body was exhumed in 1612 when her son, King James I of England, ordered she be reinterred with honors in Westminster Abbey.
Culpeper was executed along with Dereham at Tyburn and their heads put on display on London Bridge. The Queen, Catherine Howard, was subsequently executed on February 13, 1542.
1542. Mary Queen of Scots is born only to be beheaded in 1587. Mary I of Scotland was the Queen of Scots from December 14, 1542 to July 24, 1567. She also sat as Queen Consort of France from July 10, 1559 to December 5, 1560. Because of her tragic life, she is one of the best-known Scottish monarchs.
Although the Stuart family had gained the Scottish throne through Marjory (daughter of Robert the Bruce), Mary became Queen only because all male alternatives had been exhausted. The six-day-old Mary became Queen of Scotland when her father died at the age of thirty. When Mary was only nine months old she was crowned Queen of Scotland in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on September 9, 1543. Because the Queen was an infant and the ceremony unique, Mary's coronation was the talk of Europe.
A devout Catholic, Mary was distrusted by Scotland's Protestant majority and a disappointment to her fellow Catholics because, unlike her English namesake "Bloody Mary," the Queen of Scots was tolerant. She was forced to abdicate in favor of her infant son when she came under suspicion for the murder of her second husband. Fleeing to England, she sought the protection of her cousin Elizabeth I who had her locked up, fearing she would be a rival. The pope had declared that Elizabeth was a bastard and unfit to rule; Mary was in the line of English succession. Accused of plotting against Elizabeth, Mary was tried and condemned to death.
The execution was badly carried out. It is said to have taken three blows to hack off her head. The first blow struck the back of her head, the next struck her shoulder and severed her subclavian artery, spewing blood everywhere. She was alive and conscious after the first two blows. The next blow took off her head save some gristle, which was cut using the axe as a saw.
Various improbable stories about the execution were later circulated. One which is thought to be true is that, when the executioner picked up the severed head to show it to those present, it was discovered that Mary was wearing a wig. The headsman was left holding the wig, while the late queen's head rolled on the floor. Another well-known execution story concerns a small dog owned by the queen, which is said to have been hiding among her skirts, unseen by the spectators. Following the beheading, the dog rushed out, terrified and covered in blood. It was taken away by her ladies-in-waiting and washed, but it did not survive the shock. Another tale claims that Mary's head lived for a short time after it was hacked off, and that her lips could be seen moving as she tried to speak.
Mary's body was embalmed and left unburied at her place of execution for a year after her death. She was initially buried at Peterborough Cathedral in 1588, but her body was exhumed in 1612 when her son, King James I of England, ordered she be reinterred with honors in Westminster Abbey.
...Off with her head!!! Those damn Scots are always complaining when I call them 'English'.
Tree
...yes, Ulrika, I know Eul is Scottish...
Tree
...yes, Ulrika, I know Eul is Scottish...
December 8 has seen murders, massacres, and at least one gruesome execution. But this is also the birthday of a classical poet, a self-styled polemicist, two award-winning thespians, and a star-crossed monarch who became a queen while she was still in the cradle.
65 BC. The Roman poet Horace is born at Venosa or Venusia, as it was called in his day, a small town in the border region between Apulia and Lucania, Horace was the son of a freedman, but he himself was born free.
After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Horace joined the army, serving under the generalship of Brutus. He fought as a staff officer in the Battle of Philippi. Alluding to famous literary models, he later claimed that he saved himself by throwing away his shield and fleeing. When an amnesty was declared for those who had fought against the victorious Octavian (the later Augustus), Horace returned to Italy, only to find his estate confiscated; his father had probably also died. Horace claims that he was reduced to poverty but he had the means to purchase a profitable life-time appointment as an official of the Treasury, which allowed him to get by comfortably and practice his poetic art.
Horace was a member of a literary circle that included Virgil and Lucius Varius Rufus; they introduced him to Maecenas, friend and confidant of Augustus. Maecenas became his patron and close friend, and presented Horace with an estate near Tibur in the Sabine Hills, contemporary Tivoli. Upon his death bed, having no heirs, Horace relinquished his farm to his friend and Emperor Augustus, to be used for Imperial needs. His farm is there today and is a spot of pilgrimage for the literary elite.
He wrote many Latin phrases that remain in use (in Latin or in translation) including carpe diem, "seize the day"; aurea mediocritas , the "golden mean"; and Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, which can be rendered in English as: "It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country," or: "It is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland."
1660. Margaret Hughes becomes the first actress to appear on an English public stage, playing the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
During the Renaissance women had been almost exclusively banned from appearing as actresses on the stage, and there was a history of embarrassing incidents occurring for male actors in female roles. One famous incident occurred when a play which King Charles II was watching suddenly stopped. When he sent servants to see what the problem was it was found that the male that was supposed to play one of the female parts was still shaving. There were also concerns over this practice encouraging "'unnatural vice," which added to Charles' decision to issue a royal warrant in 1662 declaring that all female roles should be played only by female actresses.
Hughes may have been the first professional actress in England. Hughes was famous for her charms as an actress; diarist Samuel Pepys considered her "a mighty pretty woman," and she was said to be a "a great beauty, with dark ringletted hair, a fine figure, and particularly good legs." (See picture.) Pepys suggested that she was a lover of Sir Charles Sedley, a noted dramatist and "famous fop," in the 1660s; she was reportedly also involved with Charles II himself, if only briefly. Most famously, however, Hughes became associated with Prince Rupert, Duke of Cumberland (sometimes known as "Rupert of the Rhine") as his morganatic wife. (A morganatic marriage is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which prevents the passage of the husband's titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage.)
1775. Colonel Benedict Arnold and General Richard Montgomery lead an American force in the siege of Quebec. The Americans hoped to capture the British-occupied city and with it win support for the American cause in Canada.
In June, Congress decided to send two columns of 1,000 men each towards Canada. General Richard Montgomery proceeded up Lake Champlain and successfully captured Montreal in November before reaching Quebec City. Colonel Benedict Arnold led his men through the forests of Maine, approaching the city directly. On November 14, Arnold arrived on the Plains of Abraham outside the city of Quebec; his men sustained themselves upon dog meat and leather in the cold winter. The 100 men defending the city refused to either surrender to Arnold or leave their defenses to fight them on open plains, so Arnold waited for Montgomery to join him with his troops and supplies at the beginning of December.
The royal governor general of Canada, Sir Guy Carleton, had managed to escape Montgomery's early successful attacks. He sneaked into Quebec, organized 1,800 men for the city's defense, and prepared to wait out the Patriots' siege. But Arnold and Montgomery faced a deadline as their troops' enlistments expired at the end of the year. On December 7, Montgomery fired arrows over the city walls bearing letters demanding Carleton's surrender. nWhen Carleton did not acquiesce, the Americans began a bombardment of the city with Montgomery's cannon on December 8. They then attempted a disastrous failed assault on December 31, in which Montgomery was killed and Arnold seriously wounded.
1776. George Washington's retreating army crosses the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War.
1854. Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
1881. A fire at the Ring Theater in Vienna, Austria, kills at least 620 people and injures hundreds more.
1914. The Battle of the Falkland Islands takes place during World War I. The Kaiserliche Marine (German Imperial Navy) under the command of Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee is engaged by the Royal Navy. The result was a decisive victory for the British.
1927. The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
1940. The Chicago Bears defeat the Washington Redskins 73-0, in the NFL Championship Game. This is the most lopsided game in NFL history.
1941. It is a busy day in World War II, with declarations of war flying like shrapnel. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. Congress passes a declaration of war against Japan. The Republic of China officially declares war against Japan, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Netherlands issues a proclamation in which it declares war against Japan, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in China issues a proclamation which declared war against Japan and Germany on behalf of Korean people, who were under Japanese occupation since 1910. Last but not least, the Japanese invade the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong less than eight hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1949. At the close of the Chinese Civil war between Communists and Nationalists, the capital of the Republic of China is moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.
1953. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace speech, and the U.S. launches its "Atoms for Peace" program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
1953. American actress Kim Basinger is born. (See photos.) When Basinger was 16 years old, she started her modelling career by entering and winning the Athens. Georgia, Junior Miss contest. She followed that up by winning the title of "Junior Miss Georgia." Basinger then headed to New York City to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant. It was there that Basinger was approached by fashion modeling mogul Eileen Ford, who offered the young beauty queen a modeling contract with Ford Modeling Agency.
In 1976, after a five-year stint as a cover girl, Basinger decided to put her modeling career on hold and move to Los Angeles to begin a career in acting. Her most prominent appearances include 9½ Weeks (1986), Batman (1989) and L.A. Confidential (1997) for which she received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
From 1993 to 2002, she was married to actor Alec Baldwin. They share a daughter, Ireland Eliesse (born October 23, 1995). In the years after their divorce, she and Baldwin have engaged in a contentious custody battle.
1961. Conservative gadfly Ann Coulter is born. Author, lawyer, and pundit, she frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events. Known for her controversial style and unabashedly conservative views, she has been described by The Observeras "the Republican Michael Moore," and "Rush Limbaugh in a miniskirt." Coulter has described herself as a "polemicist" who likes to "stir up the pot" and makes no pretense at being impartial or balanced. Coulter is the author of five books. All have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, Coulter has advocated a more warlike response to terror and fanatic terrorists, and has called on airlines to adopt ethnic profiling. She has said that one airline charged with racial profiling should be bragging instead of denying any of the charges of discrimination brought against them. In an interview with the The Guardian she quipped, "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When the interviewer replied by asking what Muslims would do for travel, she responded, "They could use flying carpets."
One comment that drew criticism from fellow conservatives was made during a speech in February 2006, where she said, referring to the prospect of a nuclear-equipped Iran, "What if they start having one of these bipolar episodes with nuclear weapons? I think our motto should be, post-9/11: raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences."
Coulter has become too hot to handle for mainstream media outlets and even the conservative National Review dropped her column. She now writes for Human Events; her column is available free online.
1962. Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days. The strike began at 2:00 AM on December 8, when workers from the New York Typographical Union, led by their president Bert Powers, walked out from the Daily News, New York Journal American, The New York Times, and New York World-Telegram & Sun. In addition, the New York Daily Mirror, New York Herald Tribune, New York Post and both the Long Island Star Journal and Long Island Daily Press all suspended operations on a voluntary basis. WABC-FM adopted a prototypical all-news radio format during the 114-day strike, preceding WINS as the first station with an all-news format in New York City.
1963. Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
1964. Desperate Housewife Teri Hatcher is born.
An author as well as an actress, Hatcher has been nominated for an Emmy and has won a Golden Globe Award. She first gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-starring with Dean Cain. (In the mid-1990s, a publicity photo of Hatcher wearing Superman's cape became the most downloaded image on America Online.) Hatcher has achieved her greatest fame to date starring in the show Desperate Housewives, as Susan Mayer, a charming, accident-prone divorcée. (See photo -- I couldn't find that Superman's cape pic but I think I like these costumes better.)
1966. The Greek ferry Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
1969. An Olympic Airways DC-6B crashes near Athens during a storm, killing 93 people.
1972. United Airlines Flight 533 crashes near Chicago Midway Airport, killing 45 people.
1976. The Eagles release the album Hotel California.
1980. John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles, the rock group that transformed popular music in the 1960s, is shot and killed by an obsessed fan in New York City. The 40-year-old artist was entering his luxury Manhattan apartment building when Mark David Chapman shot him four times at close range with a .38-caliber revolver. Lennon, bleeding profusely, was rushed to the hospital but died en route. Chapman had received an autograph from Lennon earlier in the day and voluntarily remained at the scene of the shooting until he was arrested by police. For a week, hundreds of bereaved fans kept a vigil outside the Dakota -- Lennon's apartment building -- and demonstrations of mourning were held around the world.
1987. The Queen Street Massacre unfolds as Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the offices of the Australia Post in Melbourne, Australia before being killed himself.
1991. The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1993. The North American Free Trade Agreemet (NAFTA) is signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton, selling out American workers with a stroke of the pen.. Thanks a pantload, Bill.
1995. The Grateful Dead announce they are breaking up after 30 years of making music. The news came four months after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia.
1998. The Tadjena massacre erupts as 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria. The manner of killing is reported to have been notably sadistic, mutilating victims and burning corpses; CNN quoted a survivor as saying that "attackers slashed the throats of children, cutting the arms and legs off one of them and throwing the body in a boiling pot." In addition, 20 women (8 according to initial reports) were kidnapped. Another 7 people had been killed there on the previous night. The massacre took place about ten days before the beginning of Ramadan.
2007. Benazir Bhutto, first and only female former Prime Minister of Pakistan, has her PPP Office stormed by unidentified gunmen. Three supporters are killed.
2009. Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448.
2011. Former CEO of MF Global, Jon Corzine, testifies to a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that he doesn't know what happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars of customers' money, supposedly in segregated accounts, that appears to be missing. A Democrat, Corzine was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006 and was the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. He was defeated for re-election in 2009 by Republican Chris Christie.
Meanwhile, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Xyulo - wanted by criminal international court in The Hague accuses the United States of sponsoring the opposition in the country, following protests over the outcome of the recent elections.
65 BC. The Roman poet Horace is born at Venosa or Venusia, as it was called in his day, a small town in the border region between Apulia and Lucania, Horace was the son of a freedman, but he himself was born free.
After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Horace joined the army, serving under the generalship of Brutus. He fought as a staff officer in the Battle of Philippi. Alluding to famous literary models, he later claimed that he saved himself by throwing away his shield and fleeing. When an amnesty was declared for those who had fought against the victorious Octavian (the later Augustus), Horace returned to Italy, only to find his estate confiscated; his father had probably also died. Horace claims that he was reduced to poverty but he had the means to purchase a profitable life-time appointment as an official of the Treasury, which allowed him to get by comfortably and practice his poetic art.
Horace was a member of a literary circle that included Virgil and Lucius Varius Rufus; they introduced him to Maecenas, friend and confidant of Augustus. Maecenas became his patron and close friend, and presented Horace with an estate near Tibur in the Sabine Hills, contemporary Tivoli. Upon his death bed, having no heirs, Horace relinquished his farm to his friend and Emperor Augustus, to be used for Imperial needs. His farm is there today and is a spot of pilgrimage for the literary elite.
He wrote many Latin phrases that remain in use (in Latin or in translation) including carpe diem, "seize the day"; aurea mediocritas , the "golden mean"; and Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, which can be rendered in English as: "It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country," or: "It is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland."
1660. Margaret Hughes becomes the first actress to appear on an English public stage, playing the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
During the Renaissance women had been almost exclusively banned from appearing as actresses on the stage, and there was a history of embarrassing incidents occurring for male actors in female roles. One famous incident occurred when a play which King Charles II was watching suddenly stopped. When he sent servants to see what the problem was it was found that the male that was supposed to play one of the female parts was still shaving. There were also concerns over this practice encouraging "'unnatural vice," which added to Charles' decision to issue a royal warrant in 1662 declaring that all female roles should be played only by female actresses.
Hughes may have been the first professional actress in England. Hughes was famous for her charms as an actress; diarist Samuel Pepys considered her "a mighty pretty woman," and she was said to be a "a great beauty, with dark ringletted hair, a fine figure, and particularly good legs." (See picture.) Pepys suggested that she was a lover of Sir Charles Sedley, a noted dramatist and "famous fop," in the 1660s; she was reportedly also involved with Charles II himself, if only briefly. Most famously, however, Hughes became associated with Prince Rupert, Duke of Cumberland (sometimes known as "Rupert of the Rhine") as his morganatic wife. (A morganatic marriage is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which prevents the passage of the husband's titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage.)
1775. Colonel Benedict Arnold and General Richard Montgomery lead an American force in the siege of Quebec. The Americans hoped to capture the British-occupied city and with it win support for the American cause in Canada.
In June, Congress decided to send two columns of 1,000 men each towards Canada. General Richard Montgomery proceeded up Lake Champlain and successfully captured Montreal in November before reaching Quebec City. Colonel Benedict Arnold led his men through the forests of Maine, approaching the city directly. On November 14, Arnold arrived on the Plains of Abraham outside the city of Quebec; his men sustained themselves upon dog meat and leather in the cold winter. The 100 men defending the city refused to either surrender to Arnold or leave their defenses to fight them on open plains, so Arnold waited for Montgomery to join him with his troops and supplies at the beginning of December.
The royal governor general of Canada, Sir Guy Carleton, had managed to escape Montgomery's early successful attacks. He sneaked into Quebec, organized 1,800 men for the city's defense, and prepared to wait out the Patriots' siege. But Arnold and Montgomery faced a deadline as their troops' enlistments expired at the end of the year. On December 7, Montgomery fired arrows over the city walls bearing letters demanding Carleton's surrender. nWhen Carleton did not acquiesce, the Americans began a bombardment of the city with Montgomery's cannon on December 8. They then attempted a disastrous failed assault on December 31, in which Montgomery was killed and Arnold seriously wounded.
1776. George Washington's retreating army crosses the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War.
1854. Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
1881. A fire at the Ring Theater in Vienna, Austria, kills at least 620 people and injures hundreds more.
1914. The Battle of the Falkland Islands takes place during World War I. The Kaiserliche Marine (German Imperial Navy) under the command of Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee is engaged by the Royal Navy. The result was a decisive victory for the British.
1927. The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
1940. The Chicago Bears defeat the Washington Redskins 73-0, in the NFL Championship Game. This is the most lopsided game in NFL history.
1941. It is a busy day in World War II, with declarations of war flying like shrapnel. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. Congress passes a declaration of war against Japan. The Republic of China officially declares war against Japan, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Netherlands issues a proclamation in which it declares war against Japan, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in China issues a proclamation which declared war against Japan and Germany on behalf of Korean people, who were under Japanese occupation since 1910. Last but not least, the Japanese invade the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong less than eight hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1949. At the close of the Chinese Civil war between Communists and Nationalists, the capital of the Republic of China is moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.
1953. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace speech, and the U.S. launches its "Atoms for Peace" program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
1953. American actress Kim Basinger is born. (See photos.) When Basinger was 16 years old, she started her modelling career by entering and winning the Athens. Georgia, Junior Miss contest. She followed that up by winning the title of "Junior Miss Georgia." Basinger then headed to New York City to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant. It was there that Basinger was approached by fashion modeling mogul Eileen Ford, who offered the young beauty queen a modeling contract with Ford Modeling Agency.
In 1976, after a five-year stint as a cover girl, Basinger decided to put her modeling career on hold and move to Los Angeles to begin a career in acting. Her most prominent appearances include 9½ Weeks (1986), Batman (1989) and L.A. Confidential (1997) for which she received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
From 1993 to 2002, she was married to actor Alec Baldwin. They share a daughter, Ireland Eliesse (born October 23, 1995). In the years after their divorce, she and Baldwin have engaged in a contentious custody battle.
1961. Conservative gadfly Ann Coulter is born. Author, lawyer, and pundit, she frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events. Known for her controversial style and unabashedly conservative views, she has been described by The Observeras "the Republican Michael Moore," and "Rush Limbaugh in a miniskirt." Coulter has described herself as a "polemicist" who likes to "stir up the pot" and makes no pretense at being impartial or balanced. Coulter is the author of five books. All have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, Coulter has advocated a more warlike response to terror and fanatic terrorists, and has called on airlines to adopt ethnic profiling. She has said that one airline charged with racial profiling should be bragging instead of denying any of the charges of discrimination brought against them. In an interview with the The Guardian she quipped, "I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.'" When the interviewer replied by asking what Muslims would do for travel, she responded, "They could use flying carpets."
One comment that drew criticism from fellow conservatives was made during a speech in February 2006, where she said, referring to the prospect of a nuclear-equipped Iran, "What if they start having one of these bipolar episodes with nuclear weapons? I think our motto should be, post-9/11: raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences."
Coulter has become too hot to handle for mainstream media outlets and even the conservative National Review dropped her column. She now writes for Human Events; her column is available free online.
1962. Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days. The strike began at 2:00 AM on December 8, when workers from the New York Typographical Union, led by their president Bert Powers, walked out from the Daily News, New York Journal American, The New York Times, and New York World-Telegram & Sun. In addition, the New York Daily Mirror, New York Herald Tribune, New York Post and both the Long Island Star Journal and Long Island Daily Press all suspended operations on a voluntary basis. WABC-FM adopted a prototypical all-news radio format during the 114-day strike, preceding WINS as the first station with an all-news format in New York City.
1963. Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
1964. Desperate Housewife Teri Hatcher is born.
An author as well as an actress, Hatcher has been nominated for an Emmy and has won a Golden Globe Award. She first gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-starring with Dean Cain. (In the mid-1990s, a publicity photo of Hatcher wearing Superman's cape became the most downloaded image on America Online.) Hatcher has achieved her greatest fame to date starring in the show Desperate Housewives, as Susan Mayer, a charming, accident-prone divorcée. (See photo -- I couldn't find that Superman's cape pic but I think I like these costumes better.)
1966. The Greek ferry Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
1969. An Olympic Airways DC-6B crashes near Athens during a storm, killing 93 people.
1972. United Airlines Flight 533 crashes near Chicago Midway Airport, killing 45 people.
1976. The Eagles release the album Hotel California.
1980. John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles, the rock group that transformed popular music in the 1960s, is shot and killed by an obsessed fan in New York City. The 40-year-old artist was entering his luxury Manhattan apartment building when Mark David Chapman shot him four times at close range with a .38-caliber revolver. Lennon, bleeding profusely, was rushed to the hospital but died en route. Chapman had received an autograph from Lennon earlier in the day and voluntarily remained at the scene of the shooting until he was arrested by police. For a week, hundreds of bereaved fans kept a vigil outside the Dakota -- Lennon's apartment building -- and demonstrations of mourning were held around the world.
1987. The Queen Street Massacre unfolds as Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the offices of the Australia Post in Melbourne, Australia before being killed himself.
1991. The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1993. The North American Free Trade Agreemet (NAFTA) is signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton, selling out American workers with a stroke of the pen.. Thanks a pantload, Bill.
1995. The Grateful Dead announce they are breaking up after 30 years of making music. The news came four months after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia.
1998. The Tadjena massacre erupts as 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria. The manner of killing is reported to have been notably sadistic, mutilating victims and burning corpses; CNN quoted a survivor as saying that "attackers slashed the throats of children, cutting the arms and legs off one of them and throwing the body in a boiling pot." In addition, 20 women (8 according to initial reports) were kidnapped. Another 7 people had been killed there on the previous night. The massacre took place about ten days before the beginning of Ramadan.
2007. Benazir Bhutto, first and only female former Prime Minister of Pakistan, has her PPP Office stormed by unidentified gunmen. Three supporters are killed.
2009. Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448.
2011. Former CEO of MF Global, Jon Corzine, testifies to a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that he doesn't know what happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars of customers' money, supposedly in segregated accounts, that appears to be missing. A Democrat, Corzine was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006 and was the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. He was defeated for re-election in 2009 by Republican Chris Christie.
Meanwhile, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Xyulo - wanted by criminal international court in The Hague accuses the United States of sponsoring the opposition in the country, following protests over the outcome of the recent elections.
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The Tampa newspaper barely reports anything at all.sorry old chap that i forgot to note it in the regular miles, but even the Tampa newspaper didn't report it.................
It's cold & snowing in Canada? Alert the media!
Happy Xmas
great Naraku thxThe Tampa newspaper barely reports anything at all.
It's cold & snowing in Canada? Alert the media!
Happy Xmas
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that sounds much better isn't Ulrike
Dec 9th: a couple of virgin martyrs today –
Valeria (Valerie) of Limoges (c250?): she is supposed to have been converted by St Martial, who introduced Christianity to the Limousin region. A later legend introduces an anachronistic Duke of Aquitaine named Stephen (a Christian name, although for the story he has to be a pagan) – he, of course, lusted after her, she refused him, he had her beheaded, she got up and carried her head to St Martial. The usual VM routine. Her remains were enshrined with those of St Martial in the Abbey of St Martial, and subsequently in the church of St Michel des Lions in Limoges. Her cult was popular in the middle ages, her legend often portrayed on Limoges enamels.
Leocadia of Toledo (303 or 4): she was the daughter of Christian parents, inspired to court arrest and seek martyrdom by hearing of the sufferings of of Eulalia of Mérida (watch this space!), so she gave herself up to the Governor Dacian. She was obstinate when he questioned her in court, he had her savagely scourged, imprisoned and tortured. She prayed eagerly for her own death, and died of her injuries before her persecutors could arrange a proper execution. A church was built over her martyrium, which by the 7th century was the major basilica in Toledo. Her relics were removed to safety during the time of Muslim rule, and returned to Toledo in 1589. She is still patron of the diocese.
Valeria (Valerie) of Limoges (c250?): she is supposed to have been converted by St Martial, who introduced Christianity to the Limousin region. A later legend introduces an anachronistic Duke of Aquitaine named Stephen (a Christian name, although for the story he has to be a pagan) – he, of course, lusted after her, she refused him, he had her beheaded, she got up and carried her head to St Martial. The usual VM routine. Her remains were enshrined with those of St Martial in the Abbey of St Martial, and subsequently in the church of St Michel des Lions in Limoges. Her cult was popular in the middle ages, her legend often portrayed on Limoges enamels.
Leocadia of Toledo (303 or 4): she was the daughter of Christian parents, inspired to court arrest and seek martyrdom by hearing of the sufferings of of Eulalia of Mérida (watch this space!), so she gave herself up to the Governor Dacian. She was obstinate when he questioned her in court, he had her savagely scourged, imprisoned and tortured. She prayed eagerly for her own death, and died of her injuries before her persecutors could arrange a proper execution. A church was built over her martyrium, which by the 7th century was the major basilica in Toledo. Her relics were removed to safety during the time of Muslim rule, and returned to Toledo in 1589. She is still patron of the diocese.