On This Day in History

Red Lily wrote:

Daily Bread wrote:1903 Topsy and Edison - hard to watch 

I can't watch that DB!  

Yes . They had that poor animal all wired up and poisoned . Topsy even gave the impression that his human friends had turned and abandoned her .

Daily Bread wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:dont stop there. the Sibley tent was in production double time because Sibley was now denied his royalty per tent, as he now fought for the CSA. from the day of his enlistment into the CSA till the day he died, he never recieved another penny for the tent he held patend to.

His contract was he would be paid $5 for each tent made . The Army produced 44,000 and he never got a penny after he went with Lee to fight for the Confederacy . 
That's a pretty good buck for the time - he should have sued .

you think thats bad? Eads who built all the river gunboats wasnt given a cent either untill he took his claim to congress. i think the fed stiffed him for 8 armoured gun platforms. he also had to finance the entire caboot.

On this day in 1973 , I watched my neighbor and my younger brother kill a chicken roosting in a tree for high school biology class.

Wasn't the nabors chicken either.

Then, they peed on an electric fence. Lol.

Cops came to school the next day . Brother says he never squealed.
I believed him .


He did da shooting, though.

I was so proud of him at his formative age of 9 years old.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:On this day in 1973 , I watched my neighbor and  my younger brother kill a chicken roosting in a tree for high school biology class.

Wasn't the  nabors chicken either.

Then, they peed on an electric fence. Lol.

Cops came to school the next day . Brother says he never squealed.  
I believed him .


He did da shooting,  though.

I was so proud of him at his formative age of 9 years old.

I peed on an electric fence once and I squealed . I shoulda wore my rubber galoshes .

Daily Bread wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:On this day in 1973 , I watched my neighbor and  my younger brother kill a chicken roosting in a tree for high school biology class.

Wasn't the  nabors chicken either.

Then, they peed on an electric fence. Lol.

Cops came to school the next day . Brother says he never squealed.  
I believed him .


He did da shooting,  though.

I was so proud of him at his formative age of 9 years old.

I peed on an electric fence once and I squealed . I shoulda wore my rubber galoshes .

thats nothing. i walked one while grampa held my hand.

Daily Bread wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:On this day in 1973 , I watched my neighbor and  my younger brother kill a chicken roosting in a tree for high school biology class.

Wasn't the  nabors chicken either.

Then, they peed on an electric fence. Lol.

Cops came to school the next day . Brother says he never squealed.  
I believed him .


He did da shooting,  though.

I was so proud of him at his formative age of 9 years old.

I peed on an electric fence once and I squealed . I shoulda wore my rubber galoshes .

I was 13. I would never kill that old man's chickens!
I just stole the eggs. Damn, day wuz good too!
The instigator was 14 and in high school . He kinda used my younger brother. I never forgot, though.

I stole his weed years later .
It was better than the eggs!

jirqoadai wrote:

Daily Bread wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:On this day in 1973 , I watched my neighbor and  my younger brother kill a chicken roosting in a tree for high school biology class.

Wasn't the  nabors chicken either.

Then, they peed on an electric fence. Lol.

Cops came to school the next day . Brother says he never squealed.  
I believed him .


He did da shooting,  though.

I was so proud of him at his formative age of 9 years old.

I peed on an electric fence once and I squealed . I shoulda wore my rubber galoshes .

thats nothing. i walked one while grampa held my hand.

Mellancamp Electrified!  
You're lucky it didn't rain on the scarecrow that day!

jirqoadai wrote:

Daily Bread wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:On this day in 1973 , I watched my neighbor and  my younger brother kill a chicken roosting in a tree for high school biology class.

Wasn't the  nabors chicken either.

Then, they peed on an electric fence. Lol.

Cops came to school the next day . Brother says he never squealed.  
I believed him .


He did da shooting,  though.

I was so proud of him at his formative age of 9 years old.

I peed on an electric fence once and I squealed . I shoulda wore my rubber galoshes .

thats nothing. i walked one while grampa held my hand.

Jebe, I suspect no one knows what you're talking about . But you have some some rare moments of brilliance I find redeemable! Lololololol. I get it every now and then!

One of my favorite all-time videos.

January 5

1709
The Great Frost of 1709 begins during the night, a sudden cold snap that remains Europe's coldest ever winter. Thousands are killed across the continent and crops fail in France.

1776
The Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its first state constitution.

1781
A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia.

1804
Ohio legislature passes its first laws restricting free blacks' movement.

1815
Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution.

1834
Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell.

1836
Davy Crockett arrives in Nacogdoches, Texas, to aid the revolution.

1846
The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.

1854
The steamship San Francisco is wrecked off the US eastern seaboard, 300 die.

1859
The first steamboat, the North Star, sails up the northern Red River, America.

1861
Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan and Gaines at Mobile Bay.

1861
The merchant vessel Star of the West sets sail from New York to Fort Sumter, in response to a rebel attack, carrying supplies and 250 troops.

1875
President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1904
American Marines arrive in Seoul, Korea, to guard the U.S. legation there.

1914
Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year's profits.

1919
Left-wing Spartacus organization instigates a revolt in Berlin.  Terrified by the spread of Bolshevism, German troops brutally suppress the uprising.

1920
GOP women demand equal representation at the Republican National Convention in June.

1923
The U.S. Senate debates the benefits of Peyote for the American Indian.

1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman Governor in the United States.

1930
Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay's house.

1933
Work on the Golden Gate Bridge begins, starting on the Marin County side.

1942
U.S. and Filipino troops complete their withdrawal to a new defensive line along the base of the Bataan peninsula.

1943
William H Hastie, civilian aide to the Secretary of War, resigns to protest segregation in the armed forces.

1947
Great Britain nationalizes its coal mines.

1949
US President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal."

1951
Inchon, South Korea, the site of General Douglas MacArthur's amphibious flanking maneuver, is abandoned by the United Nations forces to the advancing Chinese Army.

1952
Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington to confer with President Harry S. Truman.

1957
Dodgers' Jackie Robinson announces his retirement rather than be traded to the NY Giants.

1957
US President Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Middle East.

1959
"Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV.

1959
Buddy Holly releases his last record, It Doesn't Matter.  He was killed in a plane crash 29 days later.

1964
Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel.

1968
U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Niagara I to locate enemy units around the Marine base at Khe Sanh.

1968
Dr Benjamin Spock is indicted for conspiring to violate the draft law.

1969
President Richard M. Nixon appoints Henry Cabot Lodge as negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks.

1971
President Richard M. Nixon names Robert Dole as chairman of the Republican National Party.

1971
The body of former world heavyweight boxing champion Charles "Sonny" Liston (40) is found by his wife Geraldine at their Las Vegas home.  He had been dead for an estimated 6 days.  Foul play is suspected.

1972
US President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on a manned space shuttle.

1979
Ohio officials approve an out of court settlement awarding $675,000 to the victims and families in the 1970 shootings at Kent State University, in which four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops.

1982
A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.

1991
The South Ossetia War (1991-92) begins as Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, capital of South Ossetia, Georgia.

1993
Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging.  The first legal hanging in America since 1965.

2001
A report reveals that doctor and former GP Harold Shipman has potentially killed hundreds of patients in Britain.  He was found guilty of the murder of fifteen patients under his care.  His total number of victims was approximately 250.

2005
Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System is discovered in images taken on October 21, 2003, at Palomar Observatory.

2021
In the Georgia Senate run-off elections Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Kelly Loeffler (R) and Jon Ossoff (D) defeats David Perdue (R) to give Democrats control of the US Senate.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.