Historical Fact Of The Day

[Dedpop]

Aplir 30 (some year)...

AARP was invented by some guy

Failing memory ?
You're getting old...

 

[Dedpop]

April 30th, 1904
Ice cream cone makes its debut.

 

[Fungi]

April 30th, 1904
Ice cream cone makes its debut.

Good lord. Looks like I'm gonna need a new keyboard again.

 

[Dedpop]

Good lord. Looks like I'm gonna need a new keyboard again.

Again ?
Your keyboards retailer must be rich due to you.

 

[Dedpop]

This one's on me Fungi.

 

[Fungi]

Oh myyyy. I'll consider that a birthday gift. Thank you.

 

[Dedpop]

Oh myyyy. I'll consider that a birthday gift. Thank you.

It's ok.
But it can't be your birthday every day.
(The chocolate flavour makes me feel uncomfortable)

 

[workshed]

May 1st, 1994

Ayrton Senna died in a fatal accident at Imola. He was one of the greatest drivers in history and the last F1 driver to lose his life at an F1 race.

 

[Dedpop]

Idol of my youth...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpp7OCngXQM

 

[Dedpop]

May 1st, 1952
Mr Potato Head introduced.

 

[Biff]

Ben E King died yesterday at the age of 76.

 

[Dedpop]

May 2nd, 1929
Birth of Link Wray in North Carolina.

 

[Dedpop]

May 3rd, 1986
Dollywood (Dolly Parton's theme park) opened in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

 

[Dedpop]

May 4th, 2012
Death of Adam Yauch (MCA), Beastie Boys vocalist.

 

[Dedpop]

May 5th, 1862
Cinco de Mayo.
Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.

 

[Silverball67]

100 years ago the divinely Orson Welles was born

Hope, he found his Rosebud in heaven!

 

[neglectoid]

hehe 67

 

[Dedpop]

May 6th, 1868
Birth of Gaston Leroux, French novelist (The Phantom of the Opera).

May 6th, 1889
Exposition Universelle (World Fair) opens in Paris with the completed Eiffel Tower.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

May 6th, 1915

Babe Ruth hits the first home run of his career - for the Boston Red Sox against the New York Yankees. (For good measure he also pitched the entire game for Boston, though he wound up giving up the winning run in the bottom of the 13th inning. And sports stars today complain they're overworked.)

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA191505060.shtml

 

[Dedpop]

May 7th, 1969
Birth of Traci Lords (Nora Louise Kuzma), american actress.