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  • shootbrownelk
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2026
    • 76

    #46
    June 11th. 1968. I had been married for 9 days. It just seems like an eternity.

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    • Hawg
      Hawg commented
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      Haha I can relate!

    • 1skrewsloose
      1skrewsloose commented
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      Like the lyrics from Meat Loaf song, I swear I'd love you till the end of time, now I'm praying for the end of time.
  • T-Man 1066
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2026
    • 902

    #47
    1923 - Charlton Heston was born.

    1927 - Work begins on Mt. Rushmore. The work took just over 14 years to complete and was declared finished on October 31, 1941.

    1957 - Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite, into an elliptical low Earth orbit.

    1970 - Janis Joplin died of an accidental overdose of heroin.

    2023 - Kevin McCarthy becomes the first Speaker of the US House of Representatives to be removed from office after fellow Republican hardliners, led by Matt Gaetz, vote for his ouster.

    Politicians can kiss my ass!!!

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    • shootbrownelk
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2026
      • 76

      #48
      Originally posted by T-Man 1066
      1923 - Charlton Heston was born.

      1927 - Work begins on Mt. Rushmore. The work took just over 14 years to complete and was declared finished on October 31, 1941.

      1957 - Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite, into an elliptical low Earth orbit.

      1970 - Janis Joplin died of an accidental overdose of heroin.

      2023 - Kevin McCarthy becomes the first Speaker of the US House of Representatives to be removed from office after fellow Republican hardliners, led by Matt Gaetz, vote for his ouster.
      They took out one RINO and replaced him with another RINO in 2023.

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      • T-Man 1066
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        The pool of non-rino's to pick from is very very small...
    • Sasquatch
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2026
      • 491

      #49
      Oct. 19th

      - 202 BC Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca and the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus, ending the Second Punic War.

      - 1781 British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 p.m., effectively ending the American Revolutionary War.

      - 1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.

      - 1987 Black Monday: Stock markets around the world crash, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which falls 508.32 points (22%), 4.5 times the previous daily record​​
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      • T-Man 1066
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2026
        • 902

        #50
        1836 - Sam Houston became the first elected president of the Republic of Texas.

        1906 - Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company.

        1934 - Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd was fatally shot in a field near East Liverpool, Ohio, by FBI agents.

        1962 - President John F. Kennedy alerted Americans to the Cuban missile crisis.

        1981 - US national debt tops $1 trillion.

        2018 - A pipe bomb is sent to George Soros' New York home.
        Politicians can kiss my ass!!!

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