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BIRTHDAY ALERT (YankeeClipper)
njretcop
Member Posts: 7,975
On Tuesday, April 1st., Birthday Club member YankeeClipper will be celebrating his birthday.
All of the members of the club join in wishing him a very
HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many happy returns
"It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
All of the members of the club join in wishing him a very
HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many happy returns
"It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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"The only way American citizens can adequately be protected from terror and violence is when" those in authority protect us from those who would harm us, instead of protecting us from ourselves.
YankeeClipper
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Today in History you share somethings in history with others
William Harvey England 1578
Otto Von Bismarck 1815
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873
Wallace Beery 1881
Lon Chaney 1883
Jagjivan Ram 1908
Abraham Maslow 1908
Art Lund 1920
Toshiro Mifune 1920
William Manchester 1922
Anne McCaffrey 1926
George Grizzard 1928
Jane Powell 1929
Grace Lee Whitney 1930
Gordon Jump 1932
Debbie Reynolds 1932
Don Hastings 1934
James Edward Brown (The Browns) 1934
Eddie King 1938
Ali MacGraw 1938
Rudolf Isley (Isley Brothers) 1939
Phil Margo (The Tokens) 1942
Alan Blakley (Brian Poole and The Tremeloes) 1942
Carol White 1944
Heather Young 1945
John Barbata (The Turtles) 1945
Ronnie Lane (Small Faces) 1946
Jimmy Cliff 1948
Gil Scott-Heron 1949
Billy Currie (Ultravox) 1952
Annette O'Toole 1953
Jeff Porcaro (Toto) 1954
Stan Ridgway (Wall of Voodoo) 1955
Mark White (ABC) 1961
Woody Lee 1968
Maradalena Maleeva 1975
Bijou Phillips 1980
Sam Huntington 1982
Josh Zuckerman 1985
Misc. History
0527 - Justinianus became the emperor of Byzantium.
1572 - The Sea Beggars under Guillaume de la Marck landed in Holland and captured the small town of Briel.
1578 - William Harvey of England discovered blood circulation.
1621 - The Plymouth, MA, colonists created the first treaty with Native Americans.
1724 - Jonathan Swift published Drapier's letters.
1748 - The ruins of Pompeii were found.
1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, created the "$" symbol.
1789 - The U.S. House of Representatives held its first full meeting in New York City. Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first House Speaker.
1793 - In Japan, the volcano Unsen erupted killing about 53,000.
1826 - Samuel Mory patented the internal combustion engine.
1853 - Cincinnati became the first U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary.
1863 - The first wartime conscription law goes into effect in the U.S.
1864 - The first travel accident policy was issued to James Batterson by the Travelers Insurance Company.
1865 - At the Battle of Five Forks in Petersburg, VA, Gen. Robert E. Lee began his final offensive.
1867 - Blacks voted in the municipal election in Tuscumbia, AL.
1867 - The International Exhibition opened in Paris.
1867 - Singapore, Penang & Malakka became British crown colonies.
1868 - The Hampton Institute opened.
1872 - The first edition of "The Standard" was published.
1873 - The British White Star steamship Atlantic sank off Nova Scotia killing 547.
1873 - Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premiered in Constantinople.
1876 - The first official National League (NL) baseball game took place. Boston beat Philadelphia 6-5.
1881 - Anti-Jewish riots took place in Jerusalem.
1881 - Kingdom post office in Netherlands opened.
1889 - The first dishwashing machine was marketed (in Chicago).
1891 - The London-Paris telephone connection opened.
1905 - The British East African Protectorate became the colony of Kenya.
1916 - The first U.S. national women's swimming championships were held.
1918 - England's Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air Force.
1924 - Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for high treason in relation to the "Beer Hall Putsch."
1924 - Imperial Airways was formed in Britain.
1927 - The first automatic record changer was introduced by His Master's Voice.
1928 - China's Chiang Kai-shek began attacking communists.
1929 - Louie Marx introduced the Yo-Yo.
1930 - Leo Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs broke the altitude record for a catch by catching a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles, CA.
1931 - An Earthquake devastated Managua Nicaragua killing 2,000.
1931 - Jackie Mitchell became the first female in professional baseball when she signed with the Chattanooga Baseball Club.
1933 - Nazi Germany began the persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses.
1934 - Bonnie & Clyde killed 2 police officers.
1935 - The first radio tube to be made of metal was announced.
1937 - Aden became a British colony.
1938 - The first commercially successful fluorescent lamps were introduced.
1938 - The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, NY.
1939 - The U.S. recognized the Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war.
1941 - The first contract for advertising on a commercial FM radio station began on W71NY in New York City.
1945 - U.S. forces invaded Okinawa during World War II. It was the last campaign of World War II.
1946 - Weight Watchers was formed.
1946 - A tidal wave (tsunami) struck the Hawaiian Islands killing more than 170 people.
1948 - The Berlin Airlift began.
1949 - "Happy Pappy" premiered. It was the first all-black-cast variety show.
1952 - The Big Bang theory was proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow.
1953 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Health Education and Welfare.
1954 - The U.S. Air Force Academy was formed in Colorado.
1955 - "One Man's Family" was seen on TV for the final time after a six-year run on NBC-TV.
1960 - France exploded 2 atom bombs in the Sahara Desert.
1960 - The U.S. launched TIROS-1. It was the first weather satellite.
1963 - Workers of the International Typographical Union ended their strike that had closed nine New York City newspapers. The strike ended 114 days after it began on December 8, 1962.
1963 - The Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premiered on television.
1970 - The U.S. Army charged Captain Ernest Medina in the My Lai massacre.
1970 - U.S. President Nixon signed the bill, the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, that banned cigarette advertisements to be effective on January 1, 1971.
1971 - The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on gold ownership.
1972 - North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops renewed their offensive in South Vietnam.
1973 - Japan allowed its citizens to own gold.
1976 - Apple Computer began operations.
1979 - Iran was proclaimed to be an Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the fall of the Shah.
1980 - A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz occurred.
1982 - The U.S. transferred the Canal Zone to Panama.
1983 - New York Islander Mike Bossy became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons.
1986 - The U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green ran aground in the Irish Sea.
1987 - Steve Newman became the first man to walk around the world. The walk was 22,000 miles and took 4 years.
1987 - U.S. President Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."
1991 - Iran released British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years.
1991 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that jurors could not be barred from serving due to their race.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved.
1992 - Players began the first strike in the 75-year history of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton threw out the first ball preceding a game between the Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles.
1997 - David Carradine received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - A federal judge dismissed the Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against U.S. President Clinton saying that the claims fell "far short" of being worthy of a trial.
1999 - In Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Anatoliy Onoprienko was sentenced to death for the deaths of 52 men, women and children. 43 of the killings occurred in a 6-month period.
1999 - The Canadian territory of Nunavut was created. It was carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories and covered about 772,000 square miles.
2001 - China began holding 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane. The EP-3E U.S. Navy crew had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead. The U.S. crew was released on April 11, 2001.
2001 - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour standoff with the police at his Belgrade villa.
God Bless our Troops
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Empty the clip!
"By the time you can make ends meet,they move the ends"
"It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
and many, many more.
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