This Day in History......

[oldngray]

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ turns 40 today, learn a little while you bang your head to it

http://thechive.com/2015/10/31/bohe...tle-while-you-bang-your-head-to-it-16-photos/

 

[Covemastah]

Party on Wayne !!

 

[Covemastah]

Party on Garth !!

 

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[moreluck]

Party on Wayne !!

That's Mr. Campbell now........with age comes respect!

 

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Party on Garth !!

That's Mr. Algar.

 

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Nov. 1, 1512
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo’s finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

 

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Nov. 2, 1947
The Hughes Flying Boat—the largest aircraft ever built—is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight. Built with laminated birch and spruce, the massive wooden aircraft had a wingspan longer than a football field and was designed to carry more than 700 men to battle.

 

[CaliforniaPaul]

Nov. 2, 1947
The Hughes Flying Boat—the largest aircraft ever built—is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight. Built with laminated birch and spruce, the massive wooden aircraft had a wingspan longer than a football field and was designed to carry more than 700 men to battle.

The Spruce Goose

 

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The Spruce Goose

I toured it when it was in a hangar in Long Beach next to the Queen Mary dock. Very cool.....but so was everything from 1947!

 

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Nov. 3, 1976
On this day in 1976, Carrie, a horror film starring Sissy Spacek and based on Stephen King’s 1974 best-selling first novel, opens in theaters around the United States. Directed by Brian De Palma, the film tells the story of high school outcast Carrie White, who uses her telekinetic powers to exact a violent revenge on her teenage tormenters on prom night.

 

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Nov. 4, 1928
Arnold Rothstein, New York’s most notorious gambler, is shot and killed during a poker game at the Park Central Hotel in Manhattan. After finding Rothstein bleeding profusely at the service entrance of the hotel, police followed his trail of blood back to a suite where a group of men were playing cards. Reportedly, Rothstein had nothing good in his final hand.

 

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Nov. 5, 1940
On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected for an unprecedented third term as president of the United States.

 

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Nov. 6, 1789
On this day in 1789, Pope Pius VI appoints John Carroll bishop of Baltimore, making him the first Catholic bishop in the United States

 

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Nov. 7, 1991
On this day in 1991, basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson stuns the world by announcing his sudden retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers, after testing positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. At the time, many Americans viewed AIDS as a gay white man’s disease. Johnson (1959- ), who is African American and heterosexual, was one of the first sports stars to go public about his HIV-positive status.

 

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Nov. 8, 1895
On this day in 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible. Rontgen’s discovery occurred accidentally in his Wurzburg, Germany, lab, where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass when he noticed a glow coming from a nearby chemically coated screen. He dubbed the rays that caused this glow X-rays because of their unknown nature.

 

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Nov. 9, 1872
On this day in 1872, a fire in Boston destroys hundreds of buildings and kills 14 people. In the aftermath, the city established an entirely new system of firefighting and prevention. The fire also led to the creation of Boston’s financial district.

 

[wkmac]

Much more than a comedy line from Blazing Saddles.

Happy 101st birthday to the late Hedy Lamarr

 

[oldngray]

The Great Lakes have claimed thousands of ships since European explorers began navigating the waters in the 1600s, but few have captured the public's imagination as has the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank on Nov. 10, 1975, in Lake Superior.

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-40-years-ago-edmund-fitzgerald-sinks-163115341.html

 

[moreluck]

Happy Birthday Marine Corps !!