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“Therefore I die in lounge” (5/25/12)

2012-05-25T04:29:03Z

735 historian/monk Bede dies
1085 Spanish forces take Toledo from the Muslims
1085 Pope Gregory VII dies. Last wrds: “I have loved righteousness & I have hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile”
1521 HRE Charles V ends Diet of Worms w/ the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw
1525 Peasants War ends with Battle of Frankenhausen
1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector following the restoration of the Long Parliament
1776 Continental Congress establishes a German Battalion in Cont. Army
1787 Constitutional Convention opens at Philly
1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson born
1810 Buenos Aires junta formed. Cornelio Saaverdra becomes its head
1812 General Hull musters 1,500 militia in Ohio: gives speech on Indians-hating to motivate, but also causes fear
1822 slave informs his master that someone tried to recruit him into the Vesey Plot - 1st whites have heard of it
1846 Louis Napolean escapes French jail
1865 300 die when ordnance depot explodes in Mobile, AL
1878 Bill “Bojangles” Robinson born
1889 Igor Sikorsky born, aviation pioneer
1892 Josip Broz Tito born
1895 John Halls & William Royce, both white, lynched in Danville, IL for rape
1895 Oscar Wilde convicted of homosexual & indecent acts
1897 Gene Tunney born
1912 Janos Kadar, Prime Minister of communist Hungary for 30+ years, born
1914 House of Commons passes Home Rule Act dealing with Ireland. Near civil war will break out over this - saved from it by WWI. (Then years later an Irish Civil War will break out instead).
1915 first U-boat in the Aegean sinks British battleship Triumph
1919 Abdullah’s army destroyed overnight by Ibn Saud’s army in fight for the Arabian peninsula
1920 Viceroy of India says that w/ “the greatest reluctance” he’s forced to take adverse view of Gen Dyer’s conduct in Amristar Massacre
1925 SCourt: Toyota V. United States: if Asian-American served in WWI, still can’t naturlize, regardless of congresional act to the contrary
1925 John T. Scopes indicted for teaching evolution in TN
1926 Miles Davis born
1927 Robert Ludlum born
1932 Goofy, cartoon character, debuts
1935 Jesse Owens breaks 5 world records & ties a 6th at Big Ten Conference Track & Field championship. (Ruth hits his three homers that same day, too).
1935 SS carry out total boycott of Jewish stores/shops in Munich. Burst into some shops & beat people up
1938 1,900 Jews from Vienna w/ any criminal convictions sent to Daucu by Third Reich from 5/25-27
1938 Alicante bombed in Spanish Civil War. 313 civilians die
1940 Battle of Dunkirk begins
1943 formation of Citizens Committee to Repeal Chinese Exclusion & Place Immigration on a Quota Basis. Awkward name, huh?
1943 White workers at Alabama Dry Docks in Mobile, AL have race riot, attack any black workers they can find
1944 Frank Oz born
1946 Parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king
1946 r-r strike ends after 2 days w/ a + of 18 1/2 cents/hour - same day Truman asks Cong for power 2 break strikes
1946 The Stranger released
1948 wrestler Sgt. Slaughter born
1953 US conducts its only nuclear artillery test. In Nevada.
1955 Udall, KS hit by tornado- 80 die & 273 wounded. Kansas’s deadliest ever
1960 Fight breaks out in Turkish parliament that leaves 15 members injured
1961 JFK calls for putting a man on the moon before the decade is out
1963 Mike Meyers born
1965 blues artist Sonny Boy WIlliamson dies
1965 Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in their rematch in Lewiston, ME
1965 Senate votes to close debate on Voting Rights Act
1966 The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming released
1967 Barefoot in the Park released
1967 Robert McNamara privately predicts Israel could win war vs. all opponents w/in a week
1969 Midnight Cowboy released
1970 Peter Green leaves Fleetwood Mac to join a religious order
1973 Molly Sims born
1973 Tubular Bells released
1975 Lauryn Hill born
1977 Star Wars released
1978 Brian Urlacher born
1978 Keith Moon’s last performance with the Who
1978 Powerage album by AC/DC released
1979 movie release of Alien
1979 worst airline accident in American history - 275 die when crash after take off at O’Hare
1980 2nd of 3 blasts from Mt. St. Helens
1981 Dan Goodwin climbs to the top of the Sears Tower
1982 HMS Coventry sunk in Falkland Islands war
1983 Dio album Holy Diver released (Rainbow in the Dark)
1984 Shawn Merriman born
1987 Cure album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me released
1988 Rambo III released
1989 Congress of People’s Deputies convenes in USSR - opposition harangues the gov’t
1990 Back to the Future Part III released
1993 Anthrax album Sound of White Noise released
1994 the last Ben Stone episode of Law & Order
1995 Bosnian Serb army kills 72 youngsters in Bosnian city of Tuzla
1997 Polish voters approve of new constitution by referendum
1999 Insane Clown Posse album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers released
1999 Korn single Freak on a Leash released
1999 Red Hot Chili Peppers single Scar Tissue released
2001 Pearl Harbor released
2002 225 die in plane crash of China Airlines Flight 611. Plunges into Taiwan straights
2002 train crash kills 197 in Tenga, Mozambique
2002 Pakistan begins series of missile tests
2003 Nestor Kirchner sworn in as Argentine president - first one to come from Patagonia
2003 Isreali cabinet officially accept Palestinian claims to eventual statehood for the first time
2004 army report fr 5/5 becomes public: says prisoner abuse in Iraq/Afgahn more widespread than previously known
2006 Ken Lay found guilty on 6 counts of conspiracy & fraud
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End releasd
2009 North Korea has the bomb
2010 45,000 items in TDiH
2010 Schilling’s Sprained Ankle announces he’s now employed
2011 72,000 items in TDiH & baseball addendum combined

Lounge Dungeons and Dragons Playtest

2012-05-24T22:59:48Z

More detail to come.

PARTICIPANTS:

RJ
squatto
Powderhorn
JGLB

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Infernal lounging contraption (5/24/12)

2012-05-24T04:49:28Z

1084 Robert Guiscard pitches his tents beneath the walls of Rome in campaign w/ Pope against HRE
1218 Fifith Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt
1408 Taejo, ruler of Korea, dies
1543 Nicolaus Copernicus dies
1621 Protestant Union in Germany officially dissovles
1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan
1689 English Parliament passe Act of Toleration - protects Protestants only
1738 John Wesley converted, launching the Methodist movement
1743 Jean-Paul Marat born
1798 Beginning of Irish rebellion of 1798
1819 Queen Victoria born
1822 Latin American forces defeat Spanish
1830 House of Reps passes the Indian Removal bill by a vote of 102-97, Jackson signs it
1830 publication of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Sarah Josepha Hale
1832 Kingdom of Greece declared at London Conference
1839 16 prominent opium traders finally allowed to leave Canton, as the 20,000 opium chests are coming in
1844 Samuel Morse sends first message over the telegram “What hath God wrought!”
1846 Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey
1852 sniper from city of Quanzhou shoots Feng Yunshan, South King of Taiping Rebellion. He’ll die later. Enraged Taiping forces slaughter town
1856 John Brown’s massacre at Osawatomie, Kansas
1866 Battle of Tuyuty: biggest battle in South American history. 8,000 dead (1/2 Paraguay; half allies) Surprise attack by Paraguay fails
1870 birth of Benjamin Cardozo, one of best regarded S Court justices; 1932-1938
1871 Commune forced to abandon the Hotel de Ville
1874 Bonapartists begin a series of electoral victories in Fance, calling for Louis Napoleon’s son to become ruler
1879 William Lloyd Garrison dies
1883 Brooklyn Bridge opens
1899 Suzanne Lenglen born
1900 UK annexes the Orange Free State
1915 Churchill exclaims “I am finished!”
1915 Allies decry Turkey’s policy w/ the Armenians as “mass murder”
1916 Senate Jud. Committee votes 10-8 in favor of Louis Brandeis for the Supreme Court
1921 Sacco & Vanzetti trial begins
1934 Jane Byrne born
1934 OH N.Guard called into Toledo - fighting continues - 2 protesters killed
1937 Edward Dunne, only Chicago mayor to also serve as governor (1905-07 mayor, 1913-17 governor) dies
1937 Supreme Court upholds Social Security Act
1938 Thomas Chong born
1940 Igor Sikorsy performs first successful helicopter flight
1940 Our Town released
1941 Bismark sinks HMS Hood - only 3 survive on it
1941 Bob Dylan born
1943 Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer at Auschwitz
1943 Gary Burghoff born
1945 Priscilla Presley born
1949 Chinese communists march into heart of Shanghi
1949 Russia ends Berlin Blockade
1955 FLN have most successful blow to date: attack 30 Arabs fighting for France: kill 6 and others disappear (some join FLN)
1955 Rosanna Cash born
1958 French paratroopers capture captial city of Corsica. Fear that Paris will be next & a military gov’t will run France
1958 United Press & International News Service merge to form UPI
1959 Papa Doc Duvalier has a massive heart attack
1959 John Foster Dulles dies
1960 Kristin Scott Thomas born
1961 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, MS for disturbing the peace
1962 Scott Carpenter orbits the earth 3 times in Mercury program. Lands nowhere near his supposed landing spot
1963 Elmore James, blues, dies
1963 Joe Dumars born
1967 release of Belle de Jour
1967 Kinks releases Mister Pleasant single in the US
1968 US consulate in Quebec City bombed by spearatists
1969 Get Back by the Beatles hits #1
1971 Man notices hole in ground early in day, filled later: cops called: in few days 25 bodies uncovered & Juan Corona arrested (5/26)
1974 DUke Ellington dies of lung cancer
1978 from 5/24 to 5/27 38 Iraqis executed in a clampdown
1979 Tracy McGrady born
1982 Topper Headon leaves The Clash
1985 A View to a Kill released
1986 AC/DC album Who Made Who released
1987 rLr attends his first game
1988 Van Halen album OU812 released
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade released
1991 Russian parliament agrees to a presidential election on 6/12/91, just what Yeltsin had watned
1991 Hudson Hawk released
1991 movie Backdraft released
1991 Thelma and Louis released
1992 Thai dictator General Suchinda Kraprayoon resigns following pro-democracy protests
1993 Eritrea proclaims itself independent
1994 Four men convicted in 1993 World Trade Center bombing each sentenced to 240 years in prison
1995 Law & Order: “Pride” gay city councilman killed by bigot ex-cop city councilman. Logan punches him out - that’s it for Chris Noth on the show
1995 Braveheart released
1997 warlord in Mazar-e Sharif forced to flee city
2000 Israel pulls virtually all of its troops out of Lebanon
2000 Law & Order: “Stiff” wealty women becomes comatose - case involves husband, daughter, & doctor
2000 Law & Order: “Vaya Con Dios” 1973 Chile murder - end of Adam Schiff
2000 China Trade Act passed - normalizes trade relations with China
2000 Mission Impossible II releaed
2000 new $10 & $5 in circulation
2001 Wedding Hall collapse in Jerusalem kills 23 and injures 200+ in Israel’s worst ever civil disaster
2001 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes youngest person to scale Everest
2001 VT Rep Senator James Jeffords leaves the party, & Reps lose their Senate majority
2004 North Korea bans mobile phones
2004 Bush speech outlines gen plan for transferring civilian authority to Iraqis by 6/30 & establish security there
2004 Killers single Mr. Brightside released
2004 Pentagon ofics say Lt Gen Sanchez wil be rplaced in Iraq, by dnied linked to Abu Ghraib scandal
2010 new girl starts working in DCW3’s office. Within 5 minutes on the job, she says she wants to shoot herself
2011 26,000 items in baseball TDiH

I have to be up in less than 6 hours so why am I Sporcling and 5/23/12 Lounging?

2012-05-23T04:06:36Z

Dag Nabbit apealing [sic] his own check swing - 23 May 2012 12:00 AM
I don’t feel like setting up the next lounge, so please note the following items:

1966 p-mob born
1975 Phil Coorey born
2010 Colin locks self out of house & has to break in, does a terrible job in the process:
I locked myself out of the house this morning. I have no idea how this happened - I distinctly remember unlocking the door before I went out to get the paper, since I was running the A/C and didn’t want to waste it. Since I had just gotten up, I didn’t have my phone or keys on me (that was my next stop after the paper). So I ran around the house, trying to find an open door or window. Nothing. Tessa was inside, laying on the couch to where I couldn’t see her. I knocked on the back door, called for her to come to the door for a minute - nothing. Tried to force a window or three, no dice. This went on for a few minutes, nothing really doing. Louder and more panicked calls for Tessa to come to the back door so I could at least SEE her and make sure she was okay. Finally - not my finest hour, but hey, this is how I’ve been trained to force entry into houses - I take a hammer and take a chunk out of the window to the back bathroom, chosen on the theory that it’s a small window and the whole room is under renovation anyway. So, with the help of my trusty hammer, I get the window open. The sink we’re getting rid of conveniently sat beneath the window, to catch all the glass and make sure it was right there when I needed to get in. Well… the window was small. And I’m not as spry as I used to be. The shower curtain rod fell out as I was using it as a support. Basically everything that went wrong could without me getting injured in some way. But I got into the bathroom without spraining or breaking anything or ending up with any glass in me. So I get out of the bathroom, shut the door behind me so that the open window doesn’t pose an immediate threat, and run into the living room. Tessa is sitting on the couch, watching TV. I ask her, “Are you okay, sweetie?” She looks up at me after a moment, thinks for a second, and goes, “There’s somebody at the door, daddy!” in a bright, cheery voice. “Uh, no, Tessa, that was me. I was trying to get you to let me back in the house.” “No it isn’t!” “...okay. It wasn’t.”

2012 Steve Treder becomes exactly as old as Abe Vigoda the day Barney Miller debuted

JOHN FREAKIN’ MABRY!?!?!?!? Lounge (5/22/12)

2012-05-22T04:38:53Z

-334 Alexander the Great beat Darius III of Persia at Battle of Granicus
337 Constantine the Great dies
1176 attempted murder of Salain near Aleppo
1192 Richard takes Darum from Muslims
1377 Pope Greogry XI issues 5 papal bulls to denounce ideas of John Wycliffe
1453 Lunar eclipse seen in Constaninople
1455 1st Battle of St Albans in War of the Roses. Henry VI captured
1542 Council of Trent begins
1629 Peace of Lubeck signed, ending the Danish portion of the 30 Years War with victory for Hapsburgs & loss for Danes
1640 Peasants armedy with scythes enter Barcelona & as the Catalan revolt begins
1790 National Assembly decrees France renounces undertaking war, and will never use force against liberty of other people. Doesn’t take.
1807 grand jury indicts Aaron Burr for treason
1809 Battle of Essling, continuation of previous day’s battle. Napolean defeats Austrians across the Danube
1842 Howe Caverns discovered when farmers stumble upon a gaping hole in the ground
1843 1000+ leave Independence, MO for Oregon Territory
1848 DNC begins - Barnburners vs. Hunkers
1854 KN-NB bill passes the House, 113-100 (called the death of the Whig Party)
1856 Preston Brooks beats the crap out of Senator Charles Sumner in response to the 5/19 speech Sumner gave
1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born
1864 Battle of North Anna begins
1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners except for 500 leaders
1885 Victor Hugo dies
1885 remaining Nez Perce exiles board trainin Kansas to go back to Wallula, Idaho.
1900 Boxers kill Manchu commander, Colonel Yang Futong. No reprisals. Encourages them to step up assaults on westerners
1903 Cuba accepts the Platt Amendment to get the US occupation troops to leave
1906 Summer Olympics begin in Athens
1906 Wright Bros granted patent for “flying machine”
1907 Sir Laurence Olivier born
1914 Sun Ra born
1915 5 trains collide in Quintinshill crash in Scotland. 227 die, 246 injured.
1915 Full mobilization begins in Italy. Expected to last 23 days (takes twice as long)
1915 War Powers Law sets out the score for military censorship of pres, post, telephones & telegrams in Italy
1915 eruption of Lassen Peak. One of only 2 continetal US volcanos 2 erupt in 20th century. Ghost doesn’t take a photo of this one either.
1916 French launch attack to retake Fort Douaumont at Verdun
1920 Ford’s Dearborn Independent publishes first in series of anti-Semitic articles on Protocols of Eldrs of Zion
1930 Harvey Milk born
1934 2nd straight day of fighting in Minneapolis central market - 2 Citzns Alliance’rs killed, including prominent busiman
1939 German-Italian alliance upgraded to “a pact of steel”
1940 Bernard Shaw born
1942 Ted Kaczynski born
1946 fed gov’t seizes mines, forcing coal miners to end their 400,000 person strike a few days later
1947 Truman Doctrine (aid to Greece & Turkey) signed into law
1948 Isrealis secure northern half of the West Bank
1950 Bernie Taupin born
1952 Nehru gives speech opposing the creation of linguistic provinces
1954 Bob Zimmerman has his bar mizvah
1960 Great Chilean Earthquake. 9.5 on richter scale.
1963 Pap Doc Duvalier as himself inaugurated as president again
1964 LBJ announces goals of Great Society
1965 Ticket to Ride hits #1
1967 department store in center of Brussles burnd down - 323 die or missing. Thus today is a state holiday in Missouri.
1967 Gen. Nassar cuts off Strait of Tirian, Isreal’s shipping lifeline into Red Sea
1968 Cynthia Lennon catches John in bed with Yoko. “Oh, hi” he says. Yoko just lays there
1968 John and Yoko first appear in public together as a couple
1968 US nuke sub USS Scorpion sinks - all 99 hands lost at sea
1969 Apollo 10’s lunar module flies within 8.4 miles of moon’s surface
1970 Naomi Campbell born
1972 Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka
1972 Nixon arrives in Moscow - 1st US president to do so
1976 Silly Love Songs by Wings hits #1
1980 US release of McCartney II album
1981 Atlanta PD hear splash on Chattahoochee River - Wayne Williams stopped on the bridge afterwards
1981 Bustin’ Loose released
1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II released
1988 Janos Kadar removed from power in Hungary after 32 yeas in Party Confer meeting
1989 after 3 day break to recuperate, reformer Zhao Ziyang returns to office and finds he has no work (he’s being sidelind)
1989 Young MC single Bust a Move released
1990 North & South Yemen unite as Republic of Yemen
1990 Madonna releases album I’m Breathless
1991 Lebanon-Syria treaty signed - Syria recognizes Lebanon as separate state
1992 Johnny Carson’s last Tonight Show
1993 Greg Jolin attends his first game
1996 Law & Order: “Aftershock” Claire Kincaid dies
1996 Mission Impossible movie comes out
1998 earthquakes in Bolivia kill 105
1998 voters in Irish Republic endorse North Ireland peace settlement of 4-10-98
1998 judge rules secret service men can be compelled to testify in the Lewinsky case
1998 The Opposite of Sex released
2001 Buffy episode The Gift ends the 5th season
2002 Bobby Frank Cherry found guilty of involvement of murder of 4 Birmingham girls in 1963 church bombing
2002 The coming out party for Baseball Primer
2002 remains of Cong intern Chandra Levy found
2003 UN Security Council votes 14-0 to lift sanctions on Iraq
2003 2nd of 12 public hearing of 9/11 commision begins (ends 5/23) (McCain, Lieberman, H.Clinton)
2003 first time in 59 years a woman, Annika Sorenstam, takes part in men’s golf tournyment
2004 Manmohan Singh sworn in as first non-Hindu prime-minster of India (he’s a Sikh)
2004 Hallam, NB destroyed by F4 tornado that was a record 2.5 miles wide. 1 dies
2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Cystal Skull released
2009 Chicago conservative radio DJ Mancow Mueller agrees to be waterboarded to show it ain’t torture. Doesn’t take.
2010 MGL threatens to ban Colin Wyers from his blog - but the post in question deleted after about an hour
2012 frao paolo becomes as old as Napoleon was the day he died

Canadian holiday Lounge (5/21/2012)

2012-05-21T10:23:57Z

Good morning everybody

Weekend Lounge of 5/19-5/20/2012

2012-05-19T08:49:32Z

Harold - 18 May 2012 11:49 PM
BWV 1129 - 18 May 2012 11:34 PM
Harold, I’m coming down to your stadium tomorrow. I’m taking my mother (anything to get her out of the house during the divorce process), so won’t be able to do any meet-ups or anything, but do you have any tips?

Plenty of tips, but it depends on what you guys are planning to do. You planning on eating at the game, or before? You already have tickets? Gonna walk around the park or the neighborhood?

I saw your recs, thanks. We’re field level on the first base side. Even a quick little meetup is not a good idea—I don’t really want to go through the travail of explaining imaginary friends to my mother, given how much she has on her mind right now.

And I thought Andy Sheets was going to work out for us.

Dark Night of the Soul Lounge (5/18/12)

2012-05-18T07:22:55Z

Tough night last night. Felt awful and had to put my work aside. Just woke up a few minutes ago and am getting back to it now.

Each successive day is getting tougher to just get through. Need a break, need a vacation, and the upcoming “long weekend” isn’t going to provide one.

Lloyd Zomeby Memorial Lounge 05172012

2012-05-17T10:20:48Z

We’re all dead men walking.

This lounge was just a dream (5/16/12)

2012-05-16T04:02:50Z

1532 Sir Thomas More allowed to regisn as Lord Chancellor after the submission of the clergy
1568 Mary Queen of Scots flees to England
1593 announcement that Henri IV will convert
1618 Ferdinand proclaimed new sovereign of Hungary by their Estates
1691 Jacob Leisler, colonial rebel leader, dies
1770 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, future Louis XVI
1777 Button Gwinett & Lachlan McIntosh shoot each other in a duel. Gwinnett, a DoI guy, dies on 5/19 as a result
1787 Benjamin Franklin hosts dinner for PA & VA delegates to the Constitutional Convetinon: helps unite them
1801 William Seward born
1811 Peninsular War: Allies (Spain, Portugal, & UK) beat French at Battle of Albuera
1822 Turks capture Greek tow nof Souli in Greek War for Independence
1832 Philip Danforth Armour, efficency king of Chicago meatpacking, born
1836 Edgar Allen Poe marries his 13-year-old-cousin
1857 50 Englsh POWs, mostly women and chilren, slaughtered in preseense of Bahadur Shah, implicating him in the mutiny
1862 Day of Fasting in the CSA
1863 Grant wins Battle of Chamion’s Hill
1866 Chalres Elmer Hires invents root beer - like beer, only tastes good
1866 Congress replaces old half-dime coin with new one called the nickel
1868 Andrew Johnson survives impeachment by 1 vote (wikipedia date)
1897 opening of Teatro Massimo in Palmero, largest opera house in Italy & 3rd largest in Europe
1902 Alphonso XIII becomes King of Spain
1905 Henry Fonda born
1912 Studs Terkel born
1915 Germans breakthrough new Russian line just 6 days after they fall back from their old one
1918 Pres. Wilson signs Sedition Act into law
1919 Liberace born
1920 Joan of Arc made a saint
1920 Maria “Yaska” Bochkareva, founder of Rus Wmn’s Battallion of Deth & later a white, is executed by Soviets
1926 last Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed VI, dies
1929 1st Academy Awards
1929 Rep. John Conyers born
1937 Yvonne Craig, Batgirl, born
1939 1st food stamp plan tried in Rochester, NY
1940 Churchill arrives in France for hurried conference w/ its leaders. “Utter dejection was written on every face” he later wrote
1940 FDR calls for lotsa money to mechanize & motorize the US army
1943 Dam Buster squadron bombs dams to disrupt water supply in the Ruhr area. Works very well
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. Germans blow up the main synagouge
1947 Billie Holliday arrested for possession of narcotics/drugs. Pleads guilty later that month
1948 Chaim Weizmann made 1st Israeli prime minister
1953 Pierce Brosnan born
1955 Olga Korbut born
1955 Debra Winger born
1957 Eliot Ness dies
1958 one of the stranger moments of the May 1958 events: 30,000 Muslims show up to join the pied noirs in support of DeGaulle
1960 Khrushchev demands apology for U-2 incident
1960 Peeping Tom released
1961 army coup in S. Korea: Park Chung Hee ends up in power
1964 “The Iceman Ducketh” last cartoon with both Bugs & Daffy
1965 Introduction of Spaghetti-Os
1965 Krist Novoselic born
1966 Chinese Communist Party issues is May 16 Notice, first circular of the Cultural Revolutoin
1966 Blonde on Blonde released
1966 Pet Sounds released in US
1966 Thurman Thomas born
1967 Nasser orders his army across the Suez Canal to mass near the Sinai by the Israeli fronteir
1969 Venera 5 - Soviet probe, lands on Venus
1969 David Boreanaz born
1969 John Lennon denied entry into the US due to his drug bust
1969 Pete Townsend arrested after an onstage scuffle w/ undercover cop - arrested & briefly jailed
1970 Gabriela Sabatini born
1970 Live at Leeds released
1970 Marty Balin busted for possesion of pot & contributing to delinquncy of some 12-yr-old girls
1973 Day of the Jackal released
1973 Tori Spelling born
1974 Tito “elected” president of Yugoslvia,again. This time for life
1975 India annexes Sikkim (the mountain state had previously had a popular refendum in favor of merging)
1975 1st woman reaches summit of Everest (Junko Tabei)
1975 Congress votes for $405 million in aid to South Vietnamese refugees
1975 Wings releases single Listen to What the Man Said
1978 Joe Walsh’s album But Seriously Folks released
1979 A. Phillip Randolph dies
1980 movie Fame released
1980 Ramones single Do You Remember Rock’n'Roll Radio? Released
1983 Iron Maiden album Piece of Mind released
1984 Andy Kaufmann dies
1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) found showering in season finale cliffhanger
1986 Megan Fox born
1986 Top Gun released
1988 C. Everett Koop says nicotine similarly addictive to coke & heroin
1990 Ice Cube’s AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted album released
1990 Sammy Davis Jr. dies
1990 Jim Henson dies. Sesame Street airs a pre-plannned special episode honoring the late Joe Raposo, the show’s main songwriter
1996 Yeltsin declares Russia would have all-volunteer army by 2000
1997 Joseph Mobutu flees, ending 30+ years of rule
1999 Brian enters a dog show but he argues w/ Peter Griffin over a trick gone bad
2000 2 ex-KKK members indicted in killing of 4 girls in Birmingham church bombing in ‘63
2000 album We Are Motorhead released
2000 Britney Speas album Oops! . … I Did It Again released
2000 Eminem single The Real Slim Shady released
2000 Pearl Jam album Binaural released
2002 Attack of the Clones released
2003 L. Paul Bremer bans 15-30,000 Baath leaders from holding gov’t jobs
2003 L. Paul Bremer tells Iraqi Leadership Council there will be no interim gov’t and no early handover of power
2003 5 nearly simultaneous bombs kill 12 of 14 bombers & 29 others in Casablanca. They even blow up Rick’s American Cafe.
2003 In May 16/17 referendum, Slovakian voters endorse joining the EU
2005 Kuwait National Assembly OK’s women suffrage
2006 large earthquake (7.4 on Richter scale) near New Zealand
2010 Ronnie James Dio, singer, dies