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[CigarBanter]

Let the long weekend be upon you all!  Otherwise, a good cigar deal on one of the various internet sites may help you get through it.  Join in this discussion and perhaps learn something along the way.  Warning: don't proceed if you have thin skin but don't be afraid to post either...  And welcome aboard!

[A Friend of Charlie]

hey!  That reminds me.  When you gonna get this banter set up with the Braille version, Tony?

No Braille but look for the audio version, coming soon.

[razgueado]

Morning, everybody.  Well, only 9:09pm here.  Still at work.  But at least we're winding down.  Might get out of here before 10pm.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Buona notte a tutti!

[razgueado]

Buona notte a tutti!

Do whatever you want with your nuts, just don't narrate it.

[razgueado]

Okay, we're in striking distance of done.  Time to shut down and put on the riding gear.  Catch y'all in the morning,

[LSUFAN]

Good morning guys.

[LSUFAN]

The Sis sure is proud of their deals this morning.

[LSUFAN]

On this day in history ..
0311 - St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1140 - Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht
1214 - Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers)
1214 - English king John begins siege around Lille France
1298 - Battle on Hasenb�hl (G”llheim) between German kings Adolf & Albrecht I
1576 - Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea
1600 - Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army
1644 - Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists
1681 - Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason
1687 - King James II disbands English parliament
1776 - NJ gave all adults who could show a net worth of 50œ right to vote
1776 - Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States"
1777 - Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery
1787 - De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
1794 - 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
1808 - Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
1843 - An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm
1847 - Envelope bearing 1st US 10› stamps, still exists today
1849 - Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike
1850 - Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
1858 - Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
1861 - Battle of Hoke's Run, WV - small Union victory
1862 - Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)
1863 - R Morgan's: Burksville, KY to Salineville, OH [->JUL 26]
1864 - Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Wash DC
1864 - Statuary Hall in US Capitol forms
1865 - William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)
1867 - 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC
1881 - Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker
1885 - Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear
1890 - Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act
1894 - Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers

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1900 - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies
1900 - Sibelius' "Finlandia," premieres in Helsinki
1901 - Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana
1902 - John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)
1903 - AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
1903 - Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs
1906 - Yanks win by forfeit, for their 1st time
1916 - Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
1916 - Russian offensive in Armenia
1917 - Riots in East St Louis Mo
1921 - 41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (46 26 61 60 75)
1921 - Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
1926 - US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized
1927 - 40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64)
1927 - Earthquake hits Palestine
1928 - British parliament accept female sufferage
1932 - 52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60)
1932 - FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
1933 - Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk
1934 - General Laz ro C rdenas elected president of Mexico
1935 - Great Britain boxers beat US team in 1st intl Golden Gloves
1937 - 57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (63 64 62)
1937 - Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean
1938 - 51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (64 60)
1940 - Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)
1940 - Hitler orders invasion of England
1940 - Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated
1940 - PM Churchill meets gen-mjr B Montgomery
1941 - DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)
1941 - Earthquake hits Palestine
1941 - Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
1941 - Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," premieres in London
1943 - Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
1943 - Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0
1943 - Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1944 - Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt
1946 - Dutch Beel govt forms
1946 - Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam & Amsterdam
1947 - Military coup discovered in France
1948 - 62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (75 06 62 36 75)
1949 - "High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater NYC after 727 perfs
1949 - "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1949 - 56th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 16 10-8)
1950 - Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit
1951 - Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt
1951 - Bob & Ray show premieres on NBC radio
1951 - Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester v Scotland
1951 - Island advisor of Cura‡ao installed

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1951 - Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
1952 - Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam
1952 - Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila
1954 - 68th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 46 62 97)
1954 - Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes v Pakistan
1955 - "7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances
1955 - "Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 16 performances
1955 - "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
1955 - 10th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker
1955 - 62nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (75 86)
1955 - Desmond Tutu marries Leah Nomalizo Shinxani
1956 - Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"
1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 - 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
1957 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pŠlerinage De Lourdes
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1959 - "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres
1959 - Prince Albert marries Princess Paola in Brussels
1960 - "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs
1961 - Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers
1962 - Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Ra£l Castro arrives in Moscow
1962 - Fidel Castro visits Moscow
1963 - Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves
1963 - Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings
1964 - Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano
1964 - Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers
1964 - Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law
1965 - 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64)
1966 - 1st France nuclear explosion on Mururoa atoll
1966 - 73rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Frasier (63 36 61)
1966 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1967 - 22nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste
1967 - Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) & 1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament
1969 - Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts
1969 - Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
1970 - 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels
1970 - NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days
1971 - 78th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats M Smith (64 61)
1971 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs
1972 - 27th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1972 - Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m
1972 - India & Pakistan sign peace accord

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1972 - India & Pakistan sign peace accord
1973 - James R Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA
1973 - Nation Black Network begins operation on radio
1974 - Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)
1976 - 83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86)
1976 - Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam
1976 - Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
1977 - 91st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bj”rn B”rg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)
1978 - Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
1979 - Susan B Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman
1980 - Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement
1980 - Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr
1982 - Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'
1982 - Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
1983 - 90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63)
1985 - Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR
1985 - European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1986 - After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year
1986 - General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile
1986 - Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
1987 - Jim Eisenreich, comeback after nervous disorder in 1984
1988 - 95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (57 62 61)
1989 - 10th US Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody
1989 - 17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green
1990 - Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering
1990 - Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death
1991 - Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St Louis
1992 - Braniff Airlines goes out of business
1993 - Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die
1993 - F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
1993 - Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder
1993 - Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27)
1993 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test
1994 - 101st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63)
1994 - 37 dies in US Air DC-9 crash in NC
1994 - John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
1994 - Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire
1994 - US Air DC-9 crash in NC, 37 killed
1995 - "Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square NYC after 80 perfs
1995 - 16th US Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf
1995 - Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election

[LSUFAN]

Famous birthdays for this day ..

0419 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55)
1489 - Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr
1581 - Johann Staden, composer
1589 - Guillaume van Messaus, composer
1636 - Daniel Speer, composer
1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar
1647 - Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English min of foreign affairs
1652 - Guillielmus "Willem" Kerricx, Flemish sculptor (Rozenkrans)
1714 - Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer (Il there pastore)
1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet
1737 - Fran‡ois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer
1746 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer
1756 - Christian G K”rner, German lawyer/father of Karl
1763 - Peter Ritter, composer
1793 - Antoine Prumier, composer
1810 - Robert Augustus Toombs, Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1885
1814 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer
1821 - Charles Tupper, (C) 6th Canadian PM (1896)
1822 - Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails/trains)
1830 - John Bordenave Villepigue, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Hendry P G Quack, lawyer/economist/secr Dutch Bank
1836 - Henry Eugene Davies, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1847 - Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology)
1857 - Francesco Spetrino, composer
1865 - Lili Braun, Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen)
1867 - Herbert Prior, England, actor (Caught Short, Slave of Desire)
1876 - Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor (1922-23)
1877 - Hermann Hesse, Switzerland, novelist/poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946)
1880 - Albert Szirmai, composer
1882 - Edgar Mayne, cricketer (Australian batsman, prolific for Victoria)
1884 - Otto B”hm, Prussia, scientist (helped create England Radar)
1887 - Marcel Tabuteau, CompiŠgne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54)
1888 - Selman Waksman, Russ/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
1889 - Cor Hermus, Dutch actor/director/writer (A Mother)
1892 - Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario (Crazy Passage Show)
1893 - August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Shylock-Hamlet)
1894 - Walter Brennan, Swampscott Mass, actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point)

[LSUFAN]

1901 - Arthur Rex Alston, sports commentator
1903 - Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, (C) British PM (1963-64)
1903 - Olav AFEC of Schleswig-Holstein-S-G, King Olav V of Norway (1957-91)
1904 - Carl Weinrich, composer
1904 - Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, Dutch (sculptress, if that word exists)
1905 - Jean-Rene Lacoste, France, US Open (1926)/alligator shirt designer
1906 - Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Taming of Shrew, Challenge of Lassie)
1906 - Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker
1906 - Robert Levine Sanders, composer
1907 - Eppo Doeve, Dutch cartoonist/painter
1907 - Leo O'Brien, cricketer (Australian batsman in 5 Tests 1932-36)
1908 - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, Md, 1st black Supreme Court justice (1967-91)
1909 - Hermann Bengtson, German historian (Greeks Ancient Times)
1910 - Earl Hawley Robinson, composer
1910 - Hans G�nther Adler, German writer
1910 - William Douglas Denny, composer
1911 - Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader (Vatican movie bureau)
1913 - Edith Heerdegen, Dresden Germany, actress (Serpent's Egg, Monpti)
1914 - Frederick Fennell, Cleveland Ohio, conductor (Time & Winds)
1915 - 8th duke of Wellington, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1915 - Bert Decorte, Flemish poet
1916 - Barry Gray, [Bernard Yaroslaw], interviewer (started call-in radio)
1916 - Ken Curtis, [Curtis Gates], Lamar CO, actor (Ripcord, Festus-Gunsmoke)
1917 - Pierre Dubois, Dutch literary
1918 - Imam Elissa, singer
1918 - Sheikh Iman, player/singer
1919 - Johnny Bradford, Long Branch NJ, actor (Ransom Sherman Show)
1920 - Eliseo Diego, latin American poet
1922 - Dan Rowan, Beggs Okla, comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in)
1922 - Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer
1924 - Rick Besoyan, composer
1925 - Marvin Rainwater, Wichita Ks, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1925 - Patrice E Lumumba, Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo
1925 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer
1926 - Billy Usselton, saxophonist
1926 - Lee Allen, Pittsburg, Ks, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr Lee)
1927 - Brock Peters, NYC, actor/singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird)
1927 - Jerome Meyer, horse trainer

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1927 - Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director
1928 - Estelita Rodriguez, Cuba, actress (Cuban Fireball, Havana Rose)
1928 - Pavel Kohout, Czech, director/author (Poor Murderer)
1930 - Carlos Sa£l Menem, president of Argentina (1989- )
1931 - Imelda Marcos, politician/shoe collector/1st lady of Philippines
1931 - Robert Ito, Vancouver BC, actor (Sam-Quincy ME)
1932 - Dave Thomas, founder (Wendy's Restaurants)
1932 - Ken McMillan, Bkln NY, actor (Malone, Concrete Beat)
1932 - Sammy Turner, Paterson NJ, vocalist (Lavender Blue)
1933 - David Benjamin Lewin, composer
1933 - Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner
1934 - Ivan Madray, WI cricket leg-spin all rounder, 2 Tests 3 runs 0-108)
1935 - Dick Dolman, economist/Dutch politician 2nd Chamber
1935 - Ed Bullins, Phila, playwright
1935 - Gilbert Kalish, Brooklyn NY, pianist/professor (SUNY Stony Brook)
1937 - Dick Berardino, baseball player
1937 - Polly Holliday, Jasper Ala, actress (Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo)
1937 - Richard Petty, auto race driver (Daytona 500-1979,81)
1939 - John H Sununu, US Secretary of State (R, 1989-91)
1939 - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster, US, sci-fi author (Gameplayers of Zan)
1939 - Michael N Castle, (Rep-R-Delaware)
1939 - Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations-My Girl)
1939 - Valeri Vasilyevich Illarianov, Russia, cosmonaut
1942 - Georgi Ivanov, Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33)
1945 - James Orville Fulkerson, composer
1947 - Ervin Hall, Phila, 100m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Larry David, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Fridays)/writer (Seinfeld)
1947 - Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of Pres LBJ
1949 - Roy Bittan, rocker (E Street Band)
1950 - Johnny Colla, Calif, rock sax (Huey Lewis & The News-Need a New Drug)
1951 - Joey Puerta, rocker (Ambrosia)
1952 - Johnny Coila, rocker
1952 - Linda M Godwin, Cape Girardeau Mo, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 59, 76)
1952 - Wayne Haner, rock bassist (Axe)
1953 - Tony Armas, baseball player
1954 - Wendy Schaal, Chicago Ill, actress (It's a Living, Julie-Fantasy Is)
1956 - Jeffrey Cooper, rock guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1956 - Jerry Hall, Mesquite Tx, model/Mrs Mick Jagger (Batman, Freejack)
1956 - Julie Montgomery, KC Mo, actress (Samantha-1 Life to Live, Kindred)
1956 - Leslie Reid, Vancouver BC, equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1957 - Mike Anger, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1959 - Eduardo Bengoechea, Argentina, tennis star
1959 - Hoogie Drexler, jockey