This day in history THREAD...

[austrotard]

norman did once he got back to straya... straight to the bollocks.

[LTFI]

October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 passenger aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi...

[west_jay]

1983 Beirut Marine Barracks bombing:
241 US military
58 French military
6 civilians

Cunts.

(Filed under “Better late than Ever)

[Spicytuna]

First barrel ride down Niagara Falls
On this day in 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

After her husband died in the Civil War, the New York-born Taylor moved all over the U. S. before settling in Bay City, Michigan, around 1898. In July 1901, while reading an article about the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, she learned of the growing popularity of two enormous waterfalls located on the border of upstate New York and Canada. Strapped for cash and seeking fame, Taylor came up with the perfect attention-getting stunt: She would go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

Taylor was not the first person to attempt the plunge over the famous falls. In October 1829, Sam Patch, known as the Yankee Leaper, survived jumping down the 175-foot Horseshoe Falls of the Niagara River, on the Canadian side of the border. More than 70 years later, Taylor chose to take the ride on her birthday, October 24. (She claimed she was in her 40s, but genealogical records later showed she was 63.) With the help of two assistants, Taylor strapped herself into a leather harness inside an old wooden pickle barrel five feet high and three feet in diameter. With cushions lining the barrel to break her fall, Taylor was towed by a small boat into the middle of the fast-flowing Niagara River and cut loose.

Knocked violently from side to side by the rapids and then propelled over the edge of Horseshoe Falls, Taylor reached the shore alive, if a bit battered, around 20 minutes after her journey began. After a brief flurry of photo-ops and speaking engagements, Taylor’s fame cooled, and she was unable to make the fortune for which she had hoped. She did, however, inspire a number of copy-cat daredevils. Between 1901 and 1995, 15 people went over the falls; 10 of them survived. Among those who died were Jesse Sharp, who took the plunge in a kayak in 1990, and Robert Overcracker, who used a jet ski in 1995. No matter the method, going over Niagara Falls is illegal, and survivors face charges and stiff fines on either side of the border.

[augustwest]

47 years ago tonight

or if you only have about 21 minutes....

[Jed]

James Brown recorded Live at the Apollo

[austrotard]

90 years of vegemite, cunts.

eat it 'til you like it.
(may take up to 91 years)

[fatman]

sips continue to be poured....

then there's this:
https://www.kmbc.com/article/woman-who- ... -cX22LvrMY

it's no Caesar salad, mind

[LA Fly Guy]

Pablo was born today



a bunch of years ago.

[austrotard]

fact: no one ever said he was an asshole.

[rampant]

I bet a few of his wives would chime in on that comment

[cool manchu]

fact: no one ever said he was an asshole.