September 19th: Today in 1982 Scott Fahlman is credited with the birth of the smiley emoticon in a posting to BBS. I am not a huge emoticon fan, but if they have to be there I always prefer the semi-clever ascii ones to the more common gif ones you see now.
I read it on the internet, it must be true! Finally news you can trust on the Internet as the World Weekly News is now available online. This week we learn that a planet destroying dust cloud is headed right at us!
September 18th: Today in 1978 Isreal and Egypt reach the Camp David Peace Agreement. This agreement was beacon of hope for peace in the Middle East but it was to prove a short lived hope. Two years after the agreement President Anwar al-Sadat was assasinated in Egypt and it was widely believed this was for [...]
This is a pretty wild story about a light airplane with a land gear problem that is fixed for them by guys on the ground driving under the flying plane and fixing the stuck gear with a pole. Pretty incredible.
September 17th: Today in 1859 Joshua A. Norton proclaimed himself Emperor Norton I of the United States. He reigned in San Fransico (where else?) until his death in 1880 which ended the Norton Dynasty. Long live the Emperor!
I have gotten a ton of comment spam today from an online poker place and diet pills place. I just don’t approve them for posting and delete them, but if any of you are desperate for an online poker place or possibly shady diet pills let me know and I can hook you up.
This is an interesting story about a man who was using Google Maps to browse his town and found a long lost Roman Villa. I use Google Satellite maps to try and find a parking space in my neighborhood myself, very handy.
September 16th: Today in 1893 the US Government opened the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma to settlers looking to claim land. The result was 100,000 people rushing at breakneck speed on horses and wagons to claim a peice of the 58 by 225 mile strip. Needless to say, most were disappointed. It would be interesting to [...]
September 15th: Today in 1864 John Hanning Speke was killed in what was described as a hunting accident. Speke was with the first documented European to see Lake Victoria, which he correctly surmised was the source of the Nile. He was however unable to prove his theory and died the day before he was to [...]
September 14th: Today in 1752 England switched to the Gregorian calendar which meant that September 2nd was followed by September 14th. This supposedly led to riots by workers who were robbed of pay for the missing days. No word on whether they got to sleep in an extra hour or not….