Not so notable Holidays

[litl rooster]

   
This Day in History

   




   
   

1778: Captain James Cook first sights the Oregon Coast at Yaquina Bay, near the current site of Newport, Oregon.
Learn more about James Cook.

1876: Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone.
Learn more about the telephone.

1901: The bluebonnet is adopted as the state flower of Texas.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Bluebonnet "Boss" Spearmen

[litl rooster]

  There's a little fella runs around here in a blue jeep cherokee with a golden retreiver in the back looks alot like him

[Trinity]

You gonna introduce me when I come up aren't you?

[Ozark Tracker]

You gonna introduce me when I come up aren't you?

the dog or the feller

[Trinity]

 

Ta Bluebonnet Spearman.

[Silver Creek Slim]

April 13, 1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California
April 13, 1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft. Sumter surrenders to Confederates
April 13, 1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins
April 13, 1865 Battle of Raleigh, North Carolina
April 13, 1873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)
April 13, 1883 Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism

Slim

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Slim, wouldn't the date for Sherman's march through Georgia be April 13, 1864???

[Silver Creek Slim]

April 13, 1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins
April 13, 1865 Battle of Raleigh, North Carolina

I am finding multiple website that have this info, which is incorrect because the surrender at Appomattox was on April 9, 1865. 
The Atlanta Campaign was May 1 - September 8, 1864.

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

On 4/22/2000, Elián González was seized by federal agents and sent to Communist Cuba. 

Slim

[Ozark Tracker]

On 4/22/2000, Elián González was seized by federal agents and sent to Communist Cuba. 

Slim

he was shown on a news program, just in the last day or so,  he looked all grown up and was shown hanging out at a party for Fidel.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Indoctrinated into the Communist party.  Janet Reno should have went with him.

Slim

[litl rooster]

he was shown on a news program, just in the last day or so,  he looked all grown up and was shown hanging out at a party for Fidel.

7 years in a labor camp will do that to you

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Yup!

[Lucky Irish Tom]

In 1791, the 15th president of the United States, James Buchanan, was born in Franklin County, Pa.

In 1896, the Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a screen was publicly demonstrated in New York City.

In 1899, Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg.

In 1940, about 200 people died in the Rhythm Night Club Fire in Natchez, Miss.

In 1954, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his record 755 major-league home runs, in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (The Braves won, 7-5.)

In 1968, the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged to form the United Methodist Church.

In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.)

In 1985, Coca-Cola Co. announced it was changing the secret flavor formula for Coke (negative public reaction forced the company to resume selling the original version).

In 1987, 28 construction workers were killed when an apartment complex being built in Bridgeport, Conn., suddenly collapsed.

In 1998, James Earl Ray, who'd confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and then insisted he'd been framed, died at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital at age 70.

[Delmonico]

Acually they didn't return to the original formula, the switched from sugar to High Frutose Corn Syrup when they changed back.

[Silver Creek Slim]

In 1968, the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged to form the United Methodist Church.

My maternal grandparents went to the Marshfield Methodist Church. My paternal grandparents went to the Marshfield Evangelical United Brethren Church. BTW, my maternal great-great grandfather was a minister for the Methodist Episcopal Church, forerunner of the Methodist Church.

Slim

[Delmonico]

On this day in history down in Loosy-anna on a dirt road Cldye Barrow and Bonnie Parker met a fella named Frank Hammer and some other fellas.  An inocent 1934 Ford 4 Door Sedan was also killed.

[litl rooster]

  I can remember paying 4 bits to go gawk at the car when I was a lad.

[Arcey]

Hehehehe.....

Shouldah seen the dope dealer's Camaro duh beach cops shot up just down the road not long ago.  Swiss cheese wouldn't hold a candle to it....