There’s an entire subculture convinced that people shift around between “alternate realities” to explain why they remember things that didn’t happen.
A 13 year old girl from Louisiana is working to be a crew member on a Mars One.
Sony has a patent on making viewers yell product names out loud to end TV ads.
John Belushi would sabotage anything written by women when he was on SNL, because he believed women were ‘fundamentally not funny’.
Coke was sued for the “unwarranted health claims” on their product Vitaminwater. Coke’s defense was “no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage.”
4 percent of Americans believe that shape-shifting “Lizard People” are in political control of the US and the world. 7 percent were unsure.
4 states (Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine) have laws prohibiting the use of outdoor advertising with billboards.
In 1972 some of Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger’s crew carried out two-dozen acts of sabotage to prevent the ship from returning to Vietnam.
In 1972 some of Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger’s crew carried out two-dozen acts of sabotage to prevent the ship from returning to Vietnam.
1856 - The American Party (Know-Nothings) convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate its first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
1899 - SF named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
1899 - 80°F in SF
1900 - Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
1965 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1993 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
1642 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
1913 - Artur Axmann, nazi youth leader
1928 - Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 - Robin Bachman, Winnipeg, guitarist (BTO-You Aint Seen Nothing Yet)
1965 - Dr. Dre, [Andre Romelle Young], Compton, California, American rapper and record producer
1969 - Alexander Mogilny, Khavarovsk, 1st soviet to defect to NHL (Sabres)
999 - Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies
1748 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
1890 - Guyla Andr ssy Sr, earl/premier of Hungary (1867-71), dies at 66
1993 - Edward S "Ted" Haworth, US set designer (Sayonara, Marty), dies at 76
1998 - Harry Caray, sportscaster (Chicago Cubs), dies at 77
2008 - Mickey Renaud, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1988)
