CigarBanter

Advanced search  
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 ... 21

Author Topic: 9/17/2014  (Read 42099 times)

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2014, 02:40:58 AM »

In 1944, during World War II, Allied paratroopers launched Operation Market Garden, landing behind German lines in the Netherlands. (After initial success, the Allies were beaten back by the Germans.)
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2014, 02:41:17 AM »

In 1954, the novel "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding was first published by Faber & Faber of London.
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2014, 02:41:50 AM »

In 1964, the James Bond movie "Goldfinger," starring Sean Connery, premiered in London. The fantasy sitcom "Bewitched," starring Elizabeth Montgomery, debuted on ABC-TV.
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2014, 02:42:18 AM »

In 1971, citing health reasons, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, 85, retired. (Black, who was succeeded by Lewis F. Powell Jr., died eight days after making his announcement.)
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2014, 02:42:40 AM »

In 1978, after meeting at Camp David, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (men-AH'-kem BAY'-gihn) and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed a framework for a peace treaty.
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #20 on: September 17, 2014, 02:43:09 AM »

In 1984, Progressive Conservative leader Brian Mulroney (muhl-ROO'-nee) took office as Canada's 18th prime minister.
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #21 on: September 17, 2014, 02:43:35 AM »

In 1994, Heather Whitestone of Alabama was crowned the first deaf Miss America.
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #22 on: September 17, 2014, 02:44:01 AM »

In 2011, a demonstration calling itself Occupy Wall Street began in New York, prompting similar protests around the U.S. and the world.
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #23 on: September 17, 2014, 02:44:36 AM »

Ten years ago: President Vladimir Putin said Russia was "seriously preparing" for pre-emptive strikes against terrorists, as Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev took responsibility for a school hostage-taking and other attacks that had claimed more than 430 lives. San Francisco's Barry Bonds hit the 700th home run of his career, joining Babe Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755) as the only players to reach the milestone (San Francisco beat San Diego, 4-1).
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #24 on: September 17, 2014, 02:45:02 AM »

Five years ago: President Barack Obama abruptly canceled a long-planned missile shield for Eastern Europe, replacing a Bush-era project that was bitterly opposed by Russia with a plan he contended would better defend against a growing threat of Iranian missiles. An 18-year-old man armed with an ax, knives and Molotov cocktails attacked his high school in Ansbach, Germany, injuring nine students and a teacher before being shot and arrested. Police in New Haven, Connecticut, charged Raymond Clark III, a Yale animal lab technician, with murdering graduate student Annie Le (lay). (Clark later pleaded guilty to the killing, and was sentenced to 44 years in prison.)
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #25 on: September 17, 2014, 02:45:27 AM »

One year ago: Engineers declared success as the Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright during an unprecedented, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it had capsized off Tuscany in 2012. Eiji Toyoda (cq), 100, a member of Toyota's founding family who helped create the super-efficient "Toyota Way" production method, died in Toyota city, Japan. Singer-songwriter Marvin Rainwater, 88, died in Minneapolis.
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #26 on: September 17, 2014, 02:46:11 AM »

Today's Birthdays: Actor David Huddleston is 84. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, is 81. Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter is 75. Singer LaMonte McLemore (The Fifth Dimension) is 79. Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni is 71. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson is 69. Singer Fee Waybill is 64. Actress Cassandra Peterson ("Elvira, Mistress of the Dark") is 63. Comedian Rita Rudner is 61. Muppeteer Kevin Clash (former voice of Elmo on "Sesame Street") is 54. Director-actor Paul Feig is 52. Movie director Baz Luhrmann is 52. Singer BeBe Winans is 52. Actor Kyle Chandler is 49. Director-producer Bryan Singer is 49. Rapper Doug E. Fresh is 48. Actor Malik Yoba is 47. Rock musician Keith Flint (Prodigy) is 45. Actor Matthew Settle is 45. Rapper Vinnie (Naughty By Nature) is 44. Actor Felix Solis is 43. Rock singer Anastacia is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Marcus Sanders (Hi-Five) is 41. Actress-singer Nona Gaye is 40. Singer-actor Constantine Maroulis is 39. NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson is 39. Pop singer Maile (MY'-lee) Misajon (Eden's Crush) is 38. Country singer-songwriter Stephen Cochran is 35. Rock musician Chuck Comeau (Simple Plan) is 35. Actor Billy Miller is 35. Country singer Desi Wasdin (3 of Hearts) is 31. Rock musician Jon Walker is 29. Actress-singer Denyse Tontz is 20.
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #27 on: September 17, 2014, 02:46:48 AM »

Thought for Today: "The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love." — W. Somerset Maugham, English author and dramatist (1874-1965).
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #28 on: September 17, 2014, 02:47:37 AM »

Gas Can
-------------------------


A nun was in a hurry on her way to her job at the local Catholic Charity
Hospital when her car suddenly runs out of gas. Luckily, she was only a
block and a half from a gas station, so she got out of her car and
quickly walked there.

At the station, she asked the attendent to give her a quart of gasoline
so that she could start her car and drive it over to fill it up. The
attendent told her that he only had one gas can, and he just loaned it
to someone else.


She told the attendent that she was in a hurry and would look in her
car to find something to hold the gas. When she got back the the car, the
only suitable container she found was a bedpan, which looked like it could
easily hold a quart of gas.


She brought the bedpan to the station and the attendent filled it with
gas. The nun got back to her car and started to pour the gas from the
bedpan into her car.


Just as she started pouring, two men walked by. One of the men said to
the other "If that car starts, I'm converting to catholicism forever!"
Logged

LSUFAN

  • Founding Member
  • Esteemed Status
  • *****
  • Posts: 16579
  • Geaux Tigers!
Re: 9/17/2014
« Reply #29 on: September 17, 2014, 03:01:30 AM »

Time to hit the road for work guys, enjoy your day.
Logged
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 ... 21