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| 2009-05-26 |
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #11 plant in house |
| Posted by: kardozo 2009-05-26 18:59 |
| #10 Happy Birthday: May 26th Al Jolson - died 1950 (64) Norma Talmadge - died 1957 (64) "Old time Gam shot" John Wayne - died 1979 (72) "Marion Robert Morrison - The Duke" Jay Silverheels - died 1980 (67) "Harold J. Smith, Mohawk - Tonto" Peggy Lee - died 2002 (81) "Fever" James Arness - 86 "Purple Heart, Anzio(3rd ID, Audie Murphy) - Gunsmoke" (Now, left 2007) Stevie Nicks - 61 "Fleetwood Mac" (Now) Sally Ride - 58 "NASA Astronaut" (Now) Margaret Colin - 52 "Modern Gam shot - Independence Day" (Now) Helena Bonham Carter - 43 "The Wings of the Dove - Sweeney Todd" (Now) On this day in history: May 26th. 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later. 1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners. 1868 – The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote. 1889 – Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public. 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. 1938 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session. 1940 – Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France. 1970 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. 1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. 1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag. 1992 – Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. is kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California for $650,000 and is held hostage in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later. 2004 – The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-26 14:23 |
#9  Here's a treat for the Rantburg Philatelist club. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-05-26 11:28 |
| #8 Ginger or Mary Ann? Mrs. Howell for me! |
| Posted by: Flusoger Untervehr3060 2009-05-26 11:26 |
| #7 Ginger or Mary Ann? What - first, you mean? |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-05-26 10:55 |
#6  Didn't know whether she was comming or going Couch potato Daily Gam Shot Coconut Grove At 68 she is taken busted for reckless driving. Sweet 69  |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-26 10:21 |
| #5 Gilligan, could you leave us two alone for a while? Go, I dunno--go pick coconuts on the other side of the island or something. |
| Posted by: Mike 2009-05-26 08:19 |
| #4 Jeanie :) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-05-26 07:31 |
| #3 Yes. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-05-26 01:28 |
| #2 OK Gotta ask: Ginger or Mary Ann? (funny how you can ask that question and not even qualify it and everyone knows what your talking about.) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-05-26 01:13 |
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| Posted by: gorb 2009-05-26 00:53 |
