This Day In History

Dec 16
My father, Robert Aubrey was born. Happy Birthday, dad!



Dec 16 1920
In Kansu, China, an 8.6 earthquake kills 180,000 people, mostly from building collapses. But 20,000 froze later because they were unwilling to reoccupy housing during the winter.

Dec 16 1943
At Auschwitz, Dr. Horst Schumann was radiating genitals of Jewish men and women. After a time their genitals were removed and sent to Berlin. Records from his experiments do not survive intact, but the daysheet for today indicates 90 castrations. What were they doing with all those balls?

Dec 16 1950
To fight "world conquest by communist imperialism" in Korea, President Truman declares a state of National Emergency. The order is still in effect, one of four current states of national emergency granting extraordinary powers. We must be fools.

Dec 16 1954
In San Carlos, Venezuela, a hairy dwarf creature attacks residents, then flees into a hovering disk shaped UFO. The creatures escape.

Dec 16 1977
The pinnacle of the Disco era attained with the release of the polyester-clad film Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta.



Dec 16 1985
John Gotti has Gambino boss Paul Castellano whacked at Spark's Steak House in Manhattan.

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Aug 29 1958

Michael Jackson born in Gary, Indiana.

...Coincidentally,

Aug 29 1996
California becomes the first state in the nation to require the surgical or chemical castration of persons who have committed two or more sexual assaults on minors.

Aug 29 2005
Category 3 storm Hurricane Katrina attacks the Gulf coast with 145-mph winds. Cities in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi are declared disaster areas. Parts of New Orleans are submerged, some residents are left to scramble to their rooftops awaiting rescue. News organizations report widespread panic and looting, crowds abandoned on elevated freeways, and rumors of rape in the Superdome.

(Amazing pictures here...)

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Aug 28 1985
Joseph DeCarlo III is born. BALLIN!! I love you, happy birthday baby.

Aug 28 1988
Three Italian fighter jets from the precision flight team Frecce Tricolori collide while attempting their "Pierced Heart" stunt during an air show at Ramstein Air Base in West Germany. The wreckage of one plane tumbles into the crowd and explodes, killing 40 spectators and seriously injuring hundreds more. The death toll reaches 69 two months later.

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Jun 1 1926
Gladys Baker gives birth to Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles.

Jun 1 1967
The Beatles officially release their new album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in both mono and stereo versions.

Jun 1 1968
Helen Keller -- America's all-time favorite deaf, dumb, and blind Socialist -- finally dies in Westport, Connecticut at the age of 87.

Only In Connecticut HAHAHA

State cops: Owner of construction company Tasered after driving drunk on Merritt
TRUMBULL -- An owner of one of the state's largest construction companies was arrested after police said he was driving drunk in his Cadillac and plowed through a construction site on the Merritt Parkway, forcing workers to leap out of the way to avoid being hit.

Police said that when they finally caught up with David Brennan officers had to Taser him to get him under control.

Brennan, 45, of Sconset Drive, Fairfield, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, reckless driving, running from police, first-degree reckless endangerment and resisting arrest. He was released after posting a $10,000 bond pending arraignment in Superior Court on May 10.

Brennan is an owner of John J. Brennan Construction of Shelton.

According to State Police, last Tuesday night Trooper Edmund Vayan was parked in a construction area in the right lane southbound near exit 48 on the Merritt Parkway when he heard some loud thuds coming from behind his patrol car. He said he looked in his rear view mirror and saw the headlights of a car traveling toward him knocking down the construction barrels and cones blocking the lane.

The car, a 2009 silver Cadillac, veered around Vayan's police car at the last minute and then continued driving along the closed lane at about 80 miles per hour, state police said.

They said construction workers began diving out of the way as the car sped through the construction zone, barrels and cones flying.

The trooper pursued the Cadillac as it sped along the parkway. As it reached the Fairfield rest area other troopers who were waiting for it, dropped stop sticks into the Cadillac's path blowing out two of its tires. But instead of slowing, police said the car accelerated, careening across the roadway.

Eventually police said they were able to box the Cadillac in with their patrol cars and bring it to a stop. But police said Brennan, who smelled of alcohol, refused officers' orders to surrender and they had to Taser him. As Brennan was being taken away police said he kept mumbling that it was his birthday. When police asked Brennan why his car had a Florida registration they said he replied that he claims residency in Florida to get discounts at Disney World.

HAHAHAHA!! I needed a good laugh.

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Mar 22 1931
William Shatner, the great actor, birthday.

Shared Birthdays Via Find A Grave.com

Find a grave is awesome. I did a search for people who shared my birthday, and a few famous people popped up I didn't know about:

Natalee Ann Holloway
We share the same birthday, and same middle name... She was a year younger and sadly taken away... But she's an angel.
Birth: Oct. 21, 1986
Clinton
Hinds County
Mississippi, USA
Death: Presumed
2005

-memorial here -


Lillian Gertrud Asplund
Birth: Oct. 21, 1906
Worcester
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 6, 2006
Shrewsbury
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA

RMS Titanic Disaster Survivor. At her death, she was the last American survivor of the sinking of the famed "RMS Titanic".

- memorial here -



Mel "King Malachi" Street

Birth: Oct. 21, 1933
Death: Oct. 21, 1978

Country music singer.

Cause of death: Suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound

Not good... And on his/my birthday! =[

- memorial here -


Alfred Nobel
Birth: Oct. 21, 1833
Stockholm
Jamtlands Lan, Sweden
Death: Dec. 10, 1896

Inventor. He was the inventor of dynamite, and the founder of the Nobel Prize. As a young man working in his father's munitions factory, he became fascinated with the newly invented substance called nitroglycerin.


- memorial here -



Then there are those who died on my birthday... =[


Shannon Hoon
Birth: Sep. 26, 1967
Lafayette
Tippecanoe County
Indiana, USA
Death: Oct. 21, 1995
New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Louisiana, USA

Musician. Born Richard Shannon Hoon in Lafayette, Indiana, son of Richard and Nel Hoon.
...Formed a band calling themselves Blind Melon

- memorial here -



Harry Griffith Cramer, Jr
Birth: May 24, 1926
Johnstown
Cambria County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Oct. 21, 1957, Vietnam

First United States military casualty in Vietnam, Southeast Asia. Name added to Vietnam Memorial in November 1983, one year after it was dedicated.
- memorial here -

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R.I.P. Meggie..

It was a bittersweet birthday for my sister today.. Our 14 year old doxen, Meggie passed away after midnight on Halloween, technically the morning of Kaitlyn's birthday.
R.I.P. Meggie, we'll always love you.

This Day In History

Jun 7 1954
Despondent over court-ordered estrogen treatments to cure his homosexuality, Alan Turing commits suicide by consuming an apple laced with cyanide. Turing is considered the founder of modern computing, a pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and a crucial member of the team that cracked Germany's Enigma cipher in World War II.

Jun 7 1958

Prince Roger Nelson is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The boy is destined to one day be known as the artist formerly known as Prince.

Jun 7 1982
In an effort to defray its $500,000 annual upkeep costs, Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public only five years after Elvis died in an upstairs bathroom. The bathroom is kept off-limits to tourists.

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Happy Birthday, Samuel Morse!

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Apr 22 1923
Kinky centerfold model Bettie Mae Page born in Nashville, Tennessee. As she describes herself, "I was never the girl next door."

Apr 22 1954
Porn star and onetime Ivory Snow model Marilyn Chambers is born in Westport, Connecticut.

Apr 22 1994
Richard M. Nixon suffers a fatal stroke. His body is laid to rest on the grounds of his Presidential Library.

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Apr 20 1889
In Braunau, Austria, Klara Hitler gives birth to a bouncing baby boy named Adolf.

Apr 20 1979
President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a Killer Swamp Rabbit, while on vacation in Plains GA. The rabbit swam menacingly towards him, and he had to repel the ferocious creature with a paddle. There were no injuries. Press Secretary Jody Powell leaked the story to the press, and the White House had a lot of explaining to do.

Apr 20 1992
Alone in his apartment watching TV, British comedic legend Benny Hill suffers a fatal heart attack. His body goes undiscovered for four days.

Apr 20 1999
After their homemade timebombs fail to detonate in the school cafeteria, the heavily-armed duo of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold decide to prowl through Columbine High School, indiscriminately gunning down classmates. A total of 15 are killed in their shooting spree. Contrary to news reports, their selection of victims is apparently random; they aren't hunting for jocks or blacks. Nor do they execute that Christian girl -- Valeen Schnurr in fact manages to crawl away and live to tell her story. They are not goths, they aren't gay, nor were they ever members of that dorky clique calling themselves the "Trenchcoat Mafia." They don't even listen to Marilyn Manson. Harris and Klebold are just a couple of extremely pissed-off kids with an arsenal.

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Apr 3 1882
Notorious outlaw Jesse James is shot and killed in his own home for a $5,000 reward. The assailants are Charles and Robert Ford, both members of the James gang.

Apr 3 1924
Brilliant actor and total loon Marlon Brando is born.

Apr 3 1936
Bruno Hauptmann executed via Electric Chair, for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby. (See April 2nd)

Apr 3 1996
US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's plane goes down in Dubrovnik (Croatia), killing 35. Although many who view Brown's body comment that he appeared to have been shot in the head, this is never fully investigated.

Apr 3 1996
The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski is arrested in his Lincoln, Montana cabin. It takes the FBI months to search the tiny 8 x 10 foot dwelling.

Time Magazine October 21, 1985

I was feeling interested in googling my birthdate, October 21 1985, and found that this was the cover of Time Magazine on that day:

Happy Birthday Mommy

Casey Anthony's Birthday

March 19th is not only the day of my mother's birthday, Bless her, but the birthday of the evil sociopath known as Casey Anthony.

Happy Birthday, Bitch! I hope you enjoy this day and the rest of your rotten days in jail. =] xx

The Skin

the story of

the skin


my mother has had a habit since a teenager or folding up legal pad pieces of paper lengthwise until it's as about two inches wide, and from there curl the paper until it's shaped like what you see above. she would keep the paper always in her hand as a comfort, and would rub at it, liking the feel. over the years she's made hundreds of them, and as far back as i can remember i'd find them in our cars, living room cushions, the bathroom, all kinds of random spots. it's a unique little habit she has, and i love her for it. =D
-originally written 3/22/07 Happy Birthday, Mom!

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Happy Birthday, Giovanni Schiaparelli

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I love when they change them up to a theme depending on what day it is, I'm going to use this blog to start posting the different ones I see.

Today, in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday, they came up with this one: