rockhopper penguin 2,264 Posted August 13, 2015 Not singing in Berkeley Square, Florence Nightingale died 115 years ago aged 90. I think you're losing track of time just like I have recently. I can't even remember what happened to the last 10 years. She died in 1910, so just 105 years ago. I'm an old man my legs are grey my ears are gnarled my eyes are old and bent. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 14, 2015 August 14, quite the prolific date for death anniversaries! Aye, Duncan I of Scotland: 975 years 8/14/1040 Admiral David Farragut - 145 years (1st Admiral of the US Navy, famous for the phrase "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!")Michael McGivney - 125 years ago (Founded the Knights of Columbus) Herbert Putnam - 60 years (Librarian of Congress and founder of storied publishing house) Dorothy Stratton - 35 years ago (murdered Playboy model, subject of 'Star 80') I have the original copy of her centerfold issue. Gotta be worth something. I mean besides a look-see once and again. SirC Edit: And she's a little easier on the eyes than Ms. F.Nightengale, all due respect. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,824 Posted August 14, 2015 Admiral David Farragut - 145 years (1st Admiral of the US Navy, famous for the phrase "Damn the torpedoes") And there was me thinking it was Tom Petty. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 15, 2015 Will Rogers - 80 years ago 8/15/1935 ...and John Cameron Swayze, 35 yrs ago, who took a licking and didn't keep on ticking. (Is that a reference that crosses the Pond?) SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 16, 2015 Bobby Thomson (5 years ago) hitting the 'Shot Heard Round the World'. SC (Edit: WOO HOO Sir Creep posted at the top of page 100!) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,824 Posted August 17, 2015 the 'Shot Heard Round the World'. I never heard it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 17, 2015 the 'Shot Heard Round the World'. I never heard it. Neither did I. I wasn't born yet SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,467 Posted August 17, 2015 the 'Shot Heard Round the World'. I never heard it. I think when they mean "heard round the world" they mean "heard around 'murca" or by anyone that cared about baseball. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 18, 2015 Getting my Pope on today (and breaking the 5 year rule): Pope Sixtus III - a whole bunch of years (read: 1575 years ago) Pope Adrian V - 739 years ago Pope Alexander VI - 512 years ago Pope Paul IV - 456 years ago. SirC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,091 Posted August 18, 2015 Getting my Pope on today (and breaking the 5 year rule): Pope Sixtus III - a whole bunch of years (read: 1575 years ago) Pope Adrian V - 739 years ago Pope Alexander VI - 512 years ago Pope Paul IV - 456 years ago. SirC get that shit out of here its now only 5 years becuase of you and you break the rule immediately. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,467 Posted August 18, 2015 Getting my Pope on today (and breaking the 5 year rule): Pope Sixtus III - a whole bunch of years (read: 1575 years ago) Pope Adrian V - 739 years ago Pope Alexander VI - 512 years ago Pope Paul IV - 456 years ago. SirC get that shit out of here its now only 5 years becuase of you and you break the rule immediately. The 5-year rule is only in SC's head. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,467 Posted August 18, 2015 Genghis Khan died on this date in 1227 at the age of 65 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,467 Posted August 21, 2015 Robert Moog died 10 years ago at the age of 71 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 560 Posted August 24, 2015 Film director and actor Richard Attenborough, who starred as John Hammond in Jurassic Park, died one year ago today aged 90. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 24, 2015 Cmon people. Today we have a couple of composers. Oscar Hammerstein II (55 years) who co-wrote the greatest musicals of all including the best of all, South Pacific. And David Rose (25 years) who wrote The Stripper, and for that is immortalized. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,605 Posted August 25, 2015 A lot of famous deaths on August 25th. August 25, 1984 Truman Capote August 25, 2001 Aaliyah August 25, 2009 Ted Kennedy August 25, 2012 Neil Armstrong 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 26, 2015 Lon Chaney (8/26/1930) - 85 years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,264 Posted August 28, 2015 I'm back from hols (access to the site in Turkey is restricted - related to violence!). So today is 60 years since the good folks of MIssissippi lynched 15 year old Emmett Till. The lynchings may have stopped... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 560 Posted August 28, 2015 Éamon de Valera, former President of Ireland, carked it 40 years ago today aged 92. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 29, 2015 Éamon de Valera, former President of Ireland, carked it 40 years ago today aged 92. ZOINKS! My father had a framed signed letter from Eamon in our basement as long as I can remember. Thus, I now have it! SirC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,264 Posted August 29, 2015 25 years since the sun wasn't coming out tomorrow for Sandy the dog from Annie. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,397 Posted August 29, 2015 Today in 1935 Astrid of Sweden, Queen consort of the Belgians, was killed in a car crash, aged 29. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,840 Posted August 29, 2015 Ingrid Bergman didn't have a very good birthday on this day 1982 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,264 Posted August 30, 2015 His electrons stopped spinning (go with the literary allusion quantum physicists) 75 years ago, J J Thomson aged 83. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
