This Day in History - Jan 25

[PaulConrad]

This day in history:


January 25:

General Interest
1905 : World's largest diamond found
1924 : First Winter Olympics
1971 : Manson and followers convicted
1981 : Mao's widow sentenced to death
1995 : Near launching of Russian nukes
2006 : awful, terrible things

[General Apathy]

Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.

[_BullDog_]

so what happened last year on this day?

[General Apathy]

I already told you

[Frenchie]

This day in history:


January 25:

General Interest
1905 : World's largest diamond found
1924 : First Winter Olympics
1971 : Manson and followers convicted
1981 : Mao's widow sentenced to death
1995 : Near launching of Russian nukes
2006 : awful, terrible things

I get a different set of facts from my.msn.com

1787: Daniel Shays leads rebels to storm the arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, but they are defeated by government soldiers.

1890: Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world trip in record time, beating Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg's record of 80 days.

1947: Notorious Italian American gangster Al Capone dies in Miami.

1998: Pope John Paul II completes his visit to Cuba.

1999: An earthquake in western Colombia kills nearly 1,000 people.

[_BullDog_]

I already told you
how does that classify as :qunq: awful, terrible things:qunq:?

[rekrap]

This day in history:


January 25:

General Interest
1905 : World's largest diamond found
1924 : First Winter Olympics
1971 : Manson and followers convicted
1981 : Mao's widow sentenced to death
1995 : Near launching of Russian nukes
2006 : awful, terrible things

history.com (http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=01/25&categoryId=leadstory) is with you until last year.

[yanz]

Technically, Phileas Fogg took only 79 days. He was just sitting in jail that last day.

[General Apathy]

how does that classify as :qunq: awful, terrible things:qunq:?

depends on your perspective :qunq: perspective :qunq:

[Frenchie]

so what happened last year on this day?

Deaths -
2006 - Anna Malle, Adult film star (b. 1967)

[Jack Tupp]

Deaths -
2006 - Anna Malle, Adult film star (b. 1967)Pics?

[Jack Tupp]

What is "near launching or Russin nukes" mean anyway?

[General Apathy]

What is "near launching or Russin nukes" mean anyway?

Well there are these :qunq: nukes :qunq: that are in :qunq: Russia :qunq: and somebody almost :qunq: launched :qunq: them.

But then they did not.

[Frenchie]

Pics?

Not what you're talking about, but here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anna_Malle_00010727_cropped.jpg) is one. (SFW)

[Sam Adams]

Well there are these :qunq: nukes :qunq: that are in :qunq: Russia :qunq: and somebody almost :qunq: launched :qunq: them.

But then they did not.
I'm not buying it.

[Frenchie]

Well there are these :qunq: nukes :qunq: that are in :qunq: Russia :qunq: and somebody almost :qunq: launched :qunq: them.

But then they did not.

This is my official vote that we get rid of :qunq:

[Jables]

Well there are these :qunq: nukes :qunq: that are in :qunq: Russia :qunq: and somebody almost :qunq: launched :qunq: them.

But then they did not.
In Soviet :qunq:Russia:qunq:, :qunq:nukes:qunq: almost :qunq:launched:qunq: YOU!

Note to self: Meme within a meme hurts my head. Do not attempt again.

[ShakeNBakes]

This is my official vote that we get rid of :qunq:

umm.. you've been :qunq:vetoed:qunq: by the :qunq:higher-ups:qunq:.

:qunq:Sorry.:qunq:

[Frenchie]

umm.. you've been :qunq:vetoed:qunq: by the :qunq:higher-ups:qunq:.

:qunq:Sorry.:qunq:

:qunq:Damn:qunq:

[SamTheEagle]

I'm hungry. Does anybody have any nuts they can share? I could go for a dozen. No. Wait. Make that one less than a dozen.

[Jables]

This day in history:

January 25:

2006 : awful, terrible things
I'm hungry. Does anybody have any nuts they can share? I could go for a dozen. No. Wait. Make that one less than a dozen.
:qunq:R:qunq: N

[Chief Petosky]

Not what you're talking about, but here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anna_Malle_00010727_cropped.jpg) is one. (SFW)Clicked her link in Wiki (NINAE*) ... interesting. This should go in that other thread about what you learn from Wiki, but I learned that not all Wikipedia stuff is totally SFW. No pics but some explicit references. Measurements included in her bio stats. She turned 32 on 9/9/99. Not as a good as a milestone 8/8/88 birthday.

*My new acronymn:"No, it's not a euphemism"