This day in history.

[Sasquatch]

Sas, what the hell is that? I know we ain't got anything like that in Hellinois. Looks like JB Pritzker's butt plug!!

Ain't you never seen Close Encounters before? That's Devils Tower in WO. Yes, JB used it right after Hillary. I was going to say after Hawgrider but that's just too mean.

[T-Man 1066]

Ain't you never seen Close Encounters before? That's Devils Tower in WO. Yes, JB used it right after Hillary. I was going to say after Hawgrider but that's just too mean.

Son, you ain't right!!!

[T-Man 1066]

1789 - French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille.

1850 - Florida Doctor invents the ice machine.

1881 - Billy the Kid was shot to death.

1933 - All political parties in Germany were banned except for one. You guessed it. Nazi.

1968 - Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run.

[T-Man 1066]

1935 - The world's first parking meters were installed in OKC.

1946 - First successful explosion of an atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project

1969 - Apollo 11 launched what would become the first lunar landing.

1999 - JFK Jr. killed in a plane crash

[T-Man 1066]

1918 - The Carpathia, the ocean liner that rescued the survivors of the Titanic in 1912, was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I.

1969 - That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong

1996 - TWA flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, NY

2009 - Walter Cronkite died.

[T-Man 1066]

1832 - First railroad accident in US history. Quincy, Mass.

1898 - US forces invade Puerto Rico. - Now Puerto Rico invades the US with inner tubes and one legged Puerto Ricans

1943 - Benito Mussolini falls from power.

1978 - World's first baby born by IVF. aka Test Tube Baby

2000 - Air France Concord jet crashes, kills 109 passengers, the crew, and 4 on the ground.

[Sasquatch]

For the kid in all of us.

July 27th, 1940: Huntsman Elmer J. Fudd meets "that pesky wabbit" for the first time in 'A Wild Hare,' an animated short subject from Warner Bros. What's up, Doc? For Bugs Bunny, it'll be crazy popularity, decades of movie releases, an Oscar win, and a TV compilation show that runs for 40 years.

[Texas PO]

I love me some Bugs Bunny. I loved all those old cartoons. The Roadrunner, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, etc. Funny shit.

[Chiefster23]

Ehhhhh! What’s up Doc?

[T-Man 1066]

1914 - Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia, which was the beginning of WWI.

1929 - Jacqueline (Kennedy) Onassis was born.

1945 - A US Army B-25 got disoriented in the fog and crashed into the Empire State Building, killing 14 people.

1976 - An earthquake struck Tangshan, China, killing over 240,000 people.

[T-Man 1066]

1492 - Christopher Columbus set sail for Asia, ended up in the Carribean, and subsequently discovered America.

1914 - Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I.

1958 - The U.S. atomic submarine Nautilus passed beneath the thick ice cap of the North Pole, an unprecedented feat.

[Sasquatch]

August 3rd, 1977: Through Radio Shack Tandy announces one of the first mass-market home computers, the TRS-80, to be sold in its Radio Shack stores. It features 4K of RAM and sells for $399 (or $599 with a monitor and tape recorder for storage). Upgrades will keep various TRS-80 models on the market until 1991.

[Sasquatch]

In 1977 I was six years old. I didn't get my first computer until I was 25 yo.

[1skrewsloose]

On this day in August 13, 1961, construction of the Berlin wall began. To stop folks from leaving the commie state. It started in Germany, now the US has the opposite to contend with. Not people leaving communism, but, stopping communism from coming here.

[1skrewsloose]

I love me some Bugs Bunny. I loved all those old cartoons. The Roadrunner, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, etc. Funny shit.

I still watch, lounging in the recliner, watching TV, the wife walks by, Cartoons? she says. Yep, I enjoy some mindless stuff, news is just too damn serious all the time.

[T-Man 1066]

1871 - Orville Wright was born.

1909 - The first race held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

1953 - CIA-assisted coup overthrows the government of Iran

[1skrewsloose]

And here we are, (the world) doing a 2.0 in Iran. Can't those towel heads keep their shit together?

[T-Man 1066]

Sexy goats keep distracting them...