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This Day In History
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This Day In History I don't even want to browse random blogs today. Not that I have lately, but that's not the point. Given that it's 4/20, I just know every pothead on the site has written a post about it. I did my post on that number two years ago. In February, as my sense of timing was definitely off. OK, I just didn't want to wait two months to post the research and I was in a mood. For those who never got to read it, here is that blast from the past. Dude, is it 420 Yet explains the origin of the term. But I don't want to leave you with a misleading title. So here are a few tidbits about today. Born on this day was Adolf Hitler. OK, I guess I can find something better than that. Today in 1980, Fidel Castro announced the Mariel Boatlifts. Sort of ending the open arms policy we had with Cuban refugees, as Castro decided to send us a number of criminals, mental patients and others the country just wanted to be rid of. Which really put a damper on Cuban/American relations that were just starting to improve. OK, that's not too happy either. Um... In 1999 two in Littleton Colorado decided to visit Columbine High School and... Oh shit! This day in history just keeps getting worse! Um... Johnson Space Center in 2007, disgruntled employee goes postal... Great. ATF raid on a white supremacist cult compound in Arkansas in 1985. The cult was called The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord. The head of the cult surrendered, lots of guns were taken, instead of a Waco like siege, after member Richard Snell killed a pawn shop owner he thought was Jewish and a black Arkansas State Trooper. So, it didn't get a lot of press. Motherfucker! The trouble this cult caused missed hitting 4/20 by one day. Richard Snell was tried, convicted and put to death by execution on 4/19/95. The same day fellow hate monger and known member of the Elohim City group Snell founded Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Which is the same day as the Waco Siege in 1993. Two cults, two days... I've got to find some happier stuff. Hold on. I'm looking. Well, there are a few things in the, "and just how is that working out for you?" category. In 1884, Pope Leo XIII published the Humanum Genus, which condemned among other things, Freemasonry, public education and the separation of church and state. The statements about Freemasonry in this publication still fuel conspiracy theorists to this day. Luckily for Catholics who wanted to join a secret society, the Knights of Columbus had been formed two years earlier. But we can all see how well the condemnation public education and separation of church and state is working out. Also in this category, in 1861, Robert E. Lee resigned from the U.S. Army to take a position with the Confederate Army. We all know how well that worked out for him. In 1961 this day brought us the Bay of Pigs invasion. Yeah, that worked out well too, didn't it? OK, I found some good stuff. Today isn't a total washout in history. Today is Patriots Day in Massachusetts, which means bunches of people are causing traffic tie-ups as they run the Boston Marathon. The day is to commemorate the Siege of Boston in 1775 during the Revolutionary War. Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard completed the first test on pasteurization on this day in 1862, which means our milk doesn't go bad before it reaches the store. That's good, right? OK, it's Don Mattingly's birthday. Meaningless unless you're a baseball fan. OK, a life-long Yankees fan. For you Red Sox fans, Fenway Park opened on this day in 1912. In 2001, China stepped into the 1980s and declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. Of course, they were more progressive than this country, when same gender sexual acts were decriminalized in 1997. The United States had to wait for the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas ruling to have such acts made legal by the Supreme Court. Which in turn, made Rick Santorum's obsession with dogs public. Which brings us to... Rick Santorum's famous interview with the AP was printed on this day in 2003. In which he came out against the right to privacy and a few other things. Here's the famous man on excerpt: SANTORUM: Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? . Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on , man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality – AP: I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out. SANTORUM: And that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. And we're seeing it in our society. You know, when the best things you can find in the history of a day are experiments into pasteurization and the start of political career suicide, maybe the Waldos were seers who could see well into the future. Who could see what hideous things would come to be associated with 4/20. So smoke 'em if you've got 'em. Looking at the history of this day, pot sounds like a good idea and I haven't gotten good and high in years. 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It's also Edie Sedgwick's birthday John Lee Hooker Recommended: [blog lucyjane78]
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Hey, the Mariel boatlifts gave you guys Alfredo Triff too, who must be one of the world's greatest violinists, so it wasn't all bad! AND THE WINNER IS ~~~~ [post 2692868]
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Throwing in two events from Norway: Our first female Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland was born on April 20th 1939, Hitler's 50th birthday... My home city Bergen suffered a great explosion April 20th 1944, killing 98 people, wounding 4800 and leaving plenty houses in ruins. It was a ship loaded with explosives that self-ignited.  Parts of it landed miles away, and a tugboat was thrown ashore.<- Profile photo courtesy of Bonding with coworkers
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A lot of bad shit happens on 4-20. No wonder all the potheads light up. Say, isn't 4-20 also an either Pagan or Satanic holiday? Or am I thinking of 4-30? Come into my realm! You aren't afraid...are you?
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OKAY.. if you were born on April 20, 2009..... Your date of conception was on or about 28 July 2008 which was a Monday. You were born on a Monday under the astrological sign Aries. Your Life path number is 8. Your fortune cookie reads: You will inherit some money or a small piece of land. Life Path Compatibility: You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22. You should get along well with those with the Life Path number 6. You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 1 & 5. You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 3, 7 & 9. The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2454941.5. The golden number for 2009 is 15. The epact number for 2009 is 3. The year 2009 is not a leap year. Your Native American Zodiac sign is Beaver; your plant is Wild Clover. You were born in the Egyptian month of Paony, the second month of the season of Shomu (Harvest). Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 27 Nisan 5769. Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 28 Nisan 5769. The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.19.16.4.17 which is 12 baktun 19 katun 16 tun 4 uinal 17 kin The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Monday, 24 Rabi'u'th-Thani 1430 (1430-4-24). The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 12 April 2009. The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 19 April 2009. The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 25 February 2009. The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 31 May 2009. The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 7 June 2009. The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Saturday, 19 September 2009. The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Thursday, 9 April 2009. The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 24 February 2009. As of 4/22/2009 8:21:53 PM EDT You are 0 years old. You are 0 months old. You are 0 weeks old. You are 2 days old. You are 68 hours old. You are 4,101 minutes old. You are 246,113 seconds old. Celebrities who share your birthday: Joey Lawrence (1976) Carmen Electra (1972) Don Mattingly (1961) Clint Howard (1959) Luther Vandross (1951) Jessica Lange (1949) Ryan O'Neal (1941) George Takei (1940) Nina Foch (1924) Lionel Hampton (190  Harold Lloyd (1893) Joan Mir¢ (1893) Top songs of 2009 Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 7.82778864970646E-04 years old. (You're just a pup!) Your lucky day is Tuesday. Your lucky number is 9. Your ruling planet(s) is Mars & Pluto. Your lucky dates are 9th, 18th, 27th. Your opposition sign is Libra. Your opposition number(s) is 6. Today is not one of your lucky days! There are 363 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 1 candles. Those 1 candles produce 1 BTUs, or 252 calories of heat (that's only 0.2520 food Calories!) . You can boil 0.11 US ounces of water with that many candles. In 2009 there were 4,091,063 births in the US. In 2009 the US population was approximately 281,421,906 people, 79.6 persons per square mile. In 2009 in the US there were approximately 2,181,000 marriages (7.4  and – divorces (3.7In 2009 in the US there were approximately 2,423,000 deaths (8.3 per 1000) In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds. In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds. Your birth flower is DAISY Your birthstone is Diamond The Mystical properties of Diamond Diamonds are said to increase personal clarity to help one see things clearly as well as be straight-forward and honest. Supposedly, the higher quality the diamond, the better it is supports these qualities. Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources) Opal, Quartz, White Sapphire Your birth tree is Maple, Independence of Mind Which means: No ordinary person, full imagination and originality, shy and reserved, ambitious, proud, self-respect, hungers for new experiences, sometimes nervous, many complexes, good memory, learns easily, complicated love life, wants to impress. There are 247 days till Christmas 2009! There are 260 days till Orthodox Christmas! The moon's phase on the day you were born was waning crescent.
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Also... 1769 Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered. 1841 The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published. 1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radium. 1912 The Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park. They beat the N.Y. Highlanders (who in 1913 would become known as the Yankees) 7-6. 1912 Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, died. 1971 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation.
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Ok, rdy2try4 gave me a bit of a headache.....I've been awake too long and it is too early in the morning to digest all of that, lol. The current boss of the ranch and the cutest pain-in-the-ass stud colt ever was born on 4-20-2004. Just my 2 cents....
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NEVERAGAIN80...so sorry. Forgive me.
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NEVERAGAIN80...so sorry. Forgive me. I promise to re-read it after I have my senses about me. 
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High!
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It's also Edie Sedgwick's birthday
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You just love that I managed to work in a Rick Santorum comment.
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Hey, the Mariel boatlifts gave you guys Alfredo Triff too, who must be one of the world's greatest violinists, so it wasn't all bad!
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Thanks, I think.
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Throwing in two events from Norway: Our first female Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland was born on April 20th 1939, Hitler's 50th birthday... My home city Bergen suffered a great explosion April 20th 1944, killing 98 people, wounding 4800 and leaving plenty houses in ruins. It was a ship loaded with explosives that self-ignited. Parts of it landed miles away, and a tugboat was thrown ashore.
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A lot of bad shit happens on 4-20. No wonder all the potheads light up. Say, isn't 4-20 also an either Pagan or Satanic holiday? Or am I thinking of 4-30?
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OKAY.. if you were born on April 20, 2009..... Your date of conception was on or about 28 July 2008 which was a Monday. You were born on a Monday under the astrological sign Aries. Your Life path number is 8. Your fortune cookie reads: You will inherit some money or a small piece of land. Life Path Compatibility: You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22. You should get along well with those with the Life Path number 6. You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 1 & 5. You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 3, 7 & 9. The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2454941.5. The golden number for 2009 is 15. The epact number for 2009 is 3. The year 2009 is not a leap year. Your Native American Zodiac sign is Beaver; your plant is Wild Clover. You were born in the Egyptian month of Paony, the second month of the season of Shomu (Harvest). Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 27 Nisan 5769. Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 28 Nisan 5769. The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.19.16.4.17 which is 12 baktun 19 katun 16 tun 4 uinal 17 kin The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Monday, 24 Rabi'u'th-Thani 1430 (1430-4-24). The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 12 April 2009. The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 19 April 2009. The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 25 February 2009. The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 31 May 2009. The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 7 June 2009. The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Saturday, 19 September 2009. The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Thursday, 9 April 2009. The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 24 February 2009. As of 4/22/2009 8:21:53 PM EDT You are 0 years old. You are 0 months old. You are 0 weeks old. You are 2 days old. You are 68 hours old. You are 4,101 minutes old. You are 246,113 seconds old. Celebrities who share your birthday: Joey Lawrence (1976) Carmen Electra (1972) Don Mattingly (1961) Clint Howard (1959) Luther Vandross (1951) Jessica Lange (1949) Ryan O'Neal (1941) George Takei (1940) Nina Foch (1924) Lionel Hampton (190 Harold Lloyd (1893) Joan Mir¢ (1893) Top songs of 2009 Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 7.82778864970646E-04 years old. (You're just a pup!) Your lucky day is Tuesday. Your lucky number is 9. Your ruling planet(s) is Mars & Pluto. Your lucky dates are 9th, 18th, 27th. Your opposition sign is Libra. Your opposition number(s) is 6. Today is not one of your lucky days! There are 363 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 1 candles. Those 1 candles produce 1 BTUs, or 252 calories of heat (that's only 0.2520 food Calories!) . You can boil 0.11 US ounces of water with that many candles. In 2009 there were 4,091,063 births in the US. In 2009 the US population was approximately 281,421,906 people, 79.6 persons per square mile. In 2009 in the US there were approximately 2,181,000 marriages (7.4 and – divorces (3.7In 2009 in the US there were approximately 2,423,000 deaths (8.3 per 1000) In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds. In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds. Your birth flower is DAISY Your birthstone is Diamond The Mystical properties of Diamond Diamonds are said to increase personal clarity to help one see things clearly as well as be straight-forward and honest. Supposedly, the higher quality the diamond, the better it is supports these qualities. Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources) Opal, Quartz, White Sapphire Your birth tree is Maple, Independence of Mind Which means: No ordinary person, full imagination and originality, shy and reserved, ambitious, proud, self-respect, hungers for new experiences, sometimes nervous, many complexes, good memory, learns easily, complicated love life, wants to impress. There are 247 days till Christmas 2009! There are 260 days till Orthodox Christmas! The moon's phase on the day you were born was waning crescent. Thanks for all these facts. I notice they left off the infamous birthday from the list.
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Also... 1769 Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered. 1841 The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published. 1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radium. 1912 The Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park. They beat the N.Y. Highlanders (who in 1913 would become known as the Yankees) 7-6. 1912 Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, died. 1971 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation.
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I have been to San Rafael quite often and what people don't know is that all the successful hippies in the San Francisco Haight Ashbury settled in Marin County. San Rafael, Berkeley, and San Francisco are the centers of western liberalism, it is just that in San Rafael they are more into the lifestyle than activism.
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Ok, rdy2try4 gave me a bit of a headache.....I've been awake too long and it is too early in the morning to digest all of that, lol. The current boss of the ranch and the cutest pain-in-the-ass stud colt ever was born on 4-20-2004. Just my 2 cents....
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And 4+6+9+8=27, which means... Wait, the Illuminati number is 23. 27 doesn't mean anything!
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Oh, I'll live....been working 12 hour night shifts for 2 weeks now and my brain is a bit fried.... I promise to re-read it after I have my senses about me.
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