1564 - Battle on Gotland: Lubeck and Denmark beat Sweden
1696 - John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
1914 - Chicago White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1
1977 - Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - Tornados in Penn, Ohio, NY and Canada kill 88 and injured more than 1,000
1889 - Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink)
1902 - Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor/conductor
1911 - Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector
1943 - Sharon Gless, Los Angeles California, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney and Lacey)
1962 - Joe Orsulak, Glen Ridge NJ, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1977 - Scott Klopfenstein, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1246 - Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England
1504 - Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies
1947 - Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39
1957 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
1986 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
2004 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1941)
In 1983, an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel above Gimli, Manitoba. Canada had switched to the metric system in 1970, and the plane is reported to have been Air Canada’s first aircraft to use metric measurements. The plane’s on-board fuel gauge was not working, so the crew used measuring “dripsticks” to check how much fuel the plane took on during refuelling. Things went wrong when they converted this measurement of volume into one of weight. They got the number right, but the unit wrong – mistaking pounds of fuel for kilograms. As a result the plane was carrying about half as much fuel as they thought. Luckily, the pilot was able to land the plane safely on the Gimli runway, giving the plane the nickname “Gimli Glider”.
ESPN won an Emmy for the creation of the superimposed yellow line representing the first down line for American football games.
When Canadian reporter Mellissa Fung was kidnapped by bandits in Afghanistan, Afghan intelligence identified the kidnapper, kidnapped his family, and then demanded Fung’s release with no ransom paid.
Swedish 20 year old once bought a military uniform with the sergeants grading still on. He managed to attend a live fire exercise for three days.
The 50-Cent Party is a group of trained internet commentators who are paid 50 cents per post by the Chinese government to sway public opinion in their favor.
The body fat of a 440 lbs woman caught fire during cremation and almost destroyed the entire facility. Because of this, new crematories are being built to hold individuals weighing up to 1,000 lbs.
Physicists have discovered an exotic new type of particle that they call a quantum droplet. In the experiments using an ultra-fast laser emitting about 100 million pulses per second, the quantum droplet appeared for only about 2.5 billionths of a second.
In 2012 a dad in Canada was arrested and strip searched after his 4 year old daughter drew a picture of a gun in school. She said he used it to shoot “bad guys and monsters.” He didn’t own a gun.
Veteran Don Karkos lost his eyesight due to shrapnel from a grenade in WWII. 64 years later he was kicked in the head by a horse in the exact spot the shrapnel had been. Which cause him to regain his eyesight.
After the conclusion of the hit TV Show Breaking Bad, US Police noticed a distinct increase in the popularity of crystal meth, and manufacturers would actually dye their meth blue using dangerous chemicals just to resemble the meth seen in the show.
Hope you don’t mind I didn’t wrap.
Photo courtesy of Isak Larborn.
Seen at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1584 - Earl Adolf of Nieuwenaar and Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1921 - Indianapolis 500: Tommy Milton wins in 5:34:44.578 (144.231 km/h)
1925 - Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
1941 - British Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1942 - US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1954 - Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca" premieres
1846 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
1904 - Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panama (1956-60)
1942 - Lenny Davidson, London, rock guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj Swed, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love)
1964 - Nhi Lan Le, Vietnam, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1971 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
1718 - Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63
1778 - Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42
1951 - Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64
1954 - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67
1994 - Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79
1996 - Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92
Some of my favorite posts I’ve done on this site involves amazing pieces of art. Lately, I’ve been posting up some 3D chalk art optical illusions, but I’ve realized that it’s been quite some time since I’ve posted up a 3D sketch art optical illusion. Well, I found an amazing piece of art today that I just can’t wait to share with you. This amazing artists puts his skills on display in this piece of art and you can check it out by scrolling down.
I told you that this person had some amazing artistic abilities and I don’t think that can be disputed whatsoever. Just look at the way the shapes flow together from top to bottom and the illusion continues even between the pages.
As usual, I’m going to refer to an old post on the site here that some of you may have missed that I really think deserves your attention. However, this one is a little bit different. The illusion I’m going to link you to today is actually a compilation of some accident smiley face pictures. In other words, it should definitely keep you busy for a while and I’m sure you’ll like it. Check out the post I’m talking about by clicking here and enjoy!
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We’re probably going to put the cup up for adoption…
Photo courtesy of Jason Agutter.
Found at grocery store in Bali, Indonesia.
