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[CigarBanter]

Tax day!  Hopefully you're getting a refund and are able to take advantage of any cigar deals made available on the various internet sites.  Did you find any deals that are worth talking about? Join in this hump day 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]

And another Tuesday bites the dust.

Not before we got to page 35 though.  Not too shabby.

[Travellin Dave]

And another Tuesday bites the dust.

Not before we got to page 35 though.  Not too shabby.

Thanks to various Dean aliases

[Travellin Dave]

And a humpday jam.

[A Friend of Charlie]

And a humpday jam.

How about some Trojans to go with this humpday jam?  ...Well MOW War Horses, anyway.

[LSUFAN]

Good morning guys.

[LSUFAN]

And a humpday jam.

How about some Trojans to go with this humpday jam?  ...Well MOW War Horses, anyway.

It sounds like they have been hanging around now for a couple of hours. 

[LSUFAN]

4 Legado de Pepin Robusto (5.0"x50)
         10/34.50
 3 Man O' War Ruination War Horse (Perfecto) (6.5"x64)
          5/29.99
 2 Romeo y Julieta Media Noche
         10/37.50
 1 Montecristo Classic
          5/27.50

[LSUFAN]

On this day in history ..
0069 - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
1045 - British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp
1205 - Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
1250 - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
1493 - -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella
1581 - Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
1594 - Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1595 - Willem I's daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth
1621 - Hugo the Great arrives in France
1632 - Swedish & Saxon army beat Earl Tilly
1654 - England & Netherlands signs peace treaty
1689 - French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1697 - Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1715 - Uprising of Yamasse-indians in South Carolina
1716 - Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1729 - Johann S Bachs "Matth„us Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1738 - Bottle opener invented
1776 - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1784 - 1st balloon flight in Ireland
1788 - England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1793 - Bank of England hands out 1st œ5-note
1800 - James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole
1817 - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 - City of San Francisco incorporated
1851 - Earl G Andr ssy sentenced to death in Hungary
1853 - Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops
1858 - Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
1861 - Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by Pres Lincoln
1864 - General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas
1865 - Otto von Bismarck elevated to earl
1865 - Pres Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
1870 - Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
1874 - NY legislature passes compulsory education law
1877 - 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass
1878 - Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 - General Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY
1895 - Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
1896 - 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece

[LSUFAN]

1900 - An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs
1900 - International Exposition opens in Paris
1901 - 1st British motorized burial
1902 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"
1909 - Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
1909 - NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
1910 - Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
1911 - Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
1911 - Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
1912 - Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
1915 - Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo," premieres in Madrid
1915 - NY Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Bkln, 2-0
1918 - Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
1920 - New Canadian small cent coin is released
1921 - Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1922 - Banting, MacLeod & Best discover insulin
1922 - Poodle Dog Restaurant closes
1923 - 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
1924 - Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead
1924 - WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions
1925 - NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
1927 - Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1928 - Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (SF) forms
1931 - 1st walk across American backwards begins
1937 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 3 games to 2
1939 - Albert Lebrun elected president of France
1940 - British troops land at Narvik, Norway
1941 - 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1942 - George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta
1943 - Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase
1945 - British & Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen
1945 - FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1945 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
1945 - US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
1947 - Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut

[LSUFAN]

1948 - 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated
1948 - Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
1948 - KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City, UT (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
1951 - Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Cura‡ao
1952 - 1st B-52 prototype test flight
1952 - Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
1952 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games
1952 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - Malans National Party wins South African elections
1953 - WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1
1954 - WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
1955 - Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1957 - Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1957 - KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO $41 million
1958 - 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt
1958 - 1st baseball game in Calif, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0
1959 - Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
1959 - US Sect of States John Foster Dulles resigns
1960 - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1961 - "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
1962 - US national debt above $300,000,000,000
1963 - "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
1964 - Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)
1964 - Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1965 - James Baldwin's "Amen Corner," premieres in NYC
1965 - NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
1966 - KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
1967 - "Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 perfs
1968 - Houston Astros beat NY Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
1969 - North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
1970 - "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
1970 - Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
1970 - WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez, PR ([M]) begins broadcasting
1970 - WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce, PR ([P]) begins broadcasting
1971 - "70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances
1971 - 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton," George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win
1972 - Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President
1973 - 2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1973 - Walt Disney Story opens
1974 - 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of Calif in 2:47:11
1974 - 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39

[LSUFAN]

1974 - Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed
1975 - 1st appearance of San Diego Chicken
1975 - Gabon amends constitution
1975 - Penguins 3-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead
1976 - Yankee stadium reopens, Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0
1977 - 1st baseball game at Montreal's Olympic Stadium
1978 - 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy
1978 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1979 - 43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
1981 - Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Wash Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1982 - Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, & landscape display
1983 - Rangers 0-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens
1984 - "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances
1984 - 48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277
1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 - Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06
1985 - 89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05
1985 - Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
1985 - S Africa will repeal sex & marriage laws against whites & non-whites
1986 - US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
1986 - Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket
1987 - "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 perfs
1987 - Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy," premieres in NYC
1988 - Meteorite explode above Indonesia
1988 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles," premieres in NYC
1989 - 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
1989 - South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
1989 - Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
1989 - Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
1989 - Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois
1990 - "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
1990 - Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v Eng), their best

[LSUFAN]

1991 - "Secret Garden" opens at St James Theater NYC for 706 performances
1991 - 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18
1991 - 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06
1991 - East-Europe Bank forms in London
1991 - Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against S Afr
1991 - Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
1991 - Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898
1991 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week
1991 - Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
1991 - Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
1992 - Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion
1992 - Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight
1992 - Lincoln Hospital in Bronx loses its accreditation
1992 - NY Islander, Al Arbour, coaches most NHL games (1,438)
1992 - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame
1994 - Indians loses 1st game at Jacobs Field, KC wins 2-1
1994 - Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
1994 - WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired
1996 - "Apple Doesn't Fall" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 1 performance
1996 - 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9
1996 - 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6
1997 - America On Line, begins service in Japan
1997 - Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM

[LSUFAN]

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary
1469 - Nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs
1588 - Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist
1637 - Valentin Molitor, composer
1651 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer
1682 - John van Huysum, Dutch painter (flowers/fruit)
1684 - Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)
1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer
1689 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant)
1741 - Charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington)
1757 - George Knowil Jackson, composer
1766 - Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic
1793 - Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers
1800 - James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic)
1809 - Hermann Gnther Grassmann, mathematician
1812 - Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter
1814 - John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep)
1820 - Evander McNair, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1821 - Emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894
1822 - Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Julius Tausch, composer
1829 - Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon
1837 - Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921
1843 - Carl Eilhardt, composer
1843 - Henry James, US/British writer/critic (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians)
1845 - Dave Gregory, cricketer (Australia's 1st Test captain)
1850 - John Munroe Longyear, US, capitalist/bank president
1856 - Jean Mor‚as, [Yannis Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet
1858 - Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch painter/lithographer/etcher
1858 - Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social)
1874 - Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
1875 - Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)
1878 - Robert Walser, writer
1882 - Giovanni Amendola, Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo)
1888 - Florence Bates, San Antonio Tx, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama)
1889 - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union)
1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
1891 - Alvin Carter, Virginia, vocalist (Carter Family)
1891 - Vaino Raitio, composer
1891 - Wallace Reid, St Louis MO, actor/dir/screenwriter (Every Inch a Man)
1894 - Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)
1895 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
1895 - Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
1897 - Marian Jordan, actress (Molly-Fibber McGee & Molly)
1898 - Nini de Bo‰l, Flemish operette singer (White Horse)

[LSUFAN]

1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker/billiards-world champ (1927-46)
1903 - Erich Arendt, writer [or Apr 16]
1903 - John Williams, England, actor (Niles-Family Affair, Dial M for Murder)
1906 - A J "Sandy" Bell, S Afr cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35)
1906 - Susan Walker, vice CEO (WRVS)
1907 - Gerald Abrahams, Liverpool, author (Teach Yourself Chess)
1907 - Nicholas Tinbergen, Neth/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973)
1908 - Eden Ahbez, songwriter
1908 - Louise Chaplin, actress
1910 - Lord Grey of Naunton, chancellor (Ulster University)
1911 - Jacob Fresco, Dutch architect (Antilles Brewery/Autonomy Monument)
1912 - Kim II Sung, pres of North Korea (1945-94)
1912 - Peter Menzies, CEO (British Electricity Council)
1914 - John Gregory, dancer
1915 - Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist
1917 - Hans Conried, Balt Md, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy)
1917 - Pietro Grossi, composer
1918 - John Baragrey, Haleyville AL, actor (Creeper, Colossus of NY)
1919 - Clive Beadon, airman
1919 - Elizabeth Catelett, sculptor/lithographer
1919 - Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer (Civil Prisoners)
1920 - Richard von Weizs„cker, baron/president (Germany, 1984-94)
1921 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
1921 - Norman Ewart Thurston, musician
1922 - Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87)
1922 - Michael Ansara, Lowell Mass, actor (Cochise-Broken Arrow, Centennial)
1923 - Douglas Wass, CEO (Equity & Law Life Assurance Company)
1924 - John Grigg, British historian
1924 - Neville Marriner, Lincoln England, conductor (Minn Orch 1978)
1927 - Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi
1928 - Norma Merrick Sklarek, 1st black woman architect in NY & Calif
1928 - Richard Evans, British diplomat
1929 - Adrian Cadbury, candy manufacturer (Cadbury, Schweppes)
1929 - Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person (British Broadcast Standards)
1930 - Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre (COSATU