Historical Fact Of The Day

[Dedpop]

The Python skit is classic but I hate Spam. Had a roommate in college that loved to put it on the grill. Gives me shivers just thinking about it

I think I wouldn't even serve this thing to my cat...

 

[Dedpop]

July 7th, 2006
Death of Syd Barrett (original guitarist and vocalist of Pink Floyd).

 

[Dedpop]

July 8th, 1865
C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

July 8th, 1865
C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.

There's a machine gun in that GIF? I hadn't noticed.

 

[Dedpop]

Look closer.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

Look closer.

Believe me, I've been looking very closely quite a lot.

 

[Dedpop]

July 9th, 1946
Birth of Bon Scott.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

July 9th, 1946
Birth of Bon Scott.

Coincidentally, today the former drummer from his band was sentenced for trying to emulate one of the band's songs a little too closely....

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33457380

 

[Dedpop]

July 20th, 1969
Man walks on moon.

 

[Dedpop]

July 21th, 1987
Guns N' Roses released their debut album "Appetite For Destruction".

 

[Dedpop]

July 23th, 1973
Birth of Monica Lewinsky.

 

[Silverball67]

In 1965, on July, 24th, Robert Allen Zimmerman, better known as Bob Dylan released "Like a rolling stone",
from the milestone album "Highway 61 Revisited".
In my opinion one of the ten most influential songs of last century and also one of the best songs ever written.
The Rolling Stone magazine elected it as "greatest song of all time".

Composed for the "common man". So here´s a common man covering this song:

 

[Dedpop]

July 26th, 1991
Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater.

 

[Dedpop]

July 27th, 1940
Bugs Bunny made his official debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon "A Wild Hare".

 

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July 28th, 1900
Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut.

 

[Dedpop]

July 30th, 1948
Birth of Otis Taylor.

 

[Naildriver74]

Hiroshima

 

[Dedpop]

August 7th, 1984
Death of Esther Phillips at 48.

 

[Silverball67]

Nagasaki

 

[Dedpop]

August 9th, 1859
The escalator was patented by Nathan Ames.