On this day..........

[Guest]

On this day............

We all have significant anniversaries and plenty of silly funny ones too. Some we want to celebrate, some make us sad, some may even pass us by until we suddenly remember them the following day As today is a significant date for me (and makes me feel fucking old!!!) I thought it would make a nice topic for a thread.

State the anniversary and explain why it is significant (unless of course it is too personal or painful to detail in which case you can just mark the day).



On this day in 1987 I married my ex!!! Having a 17 year old daughter doesn't make me feel old, knowing I was married 20 years ago today does!!!!

 

[wally2450]

April 26, 1985. The day I finished my active Navy service.

 

[koalabear]

Sept. 12 1962 6:45 P.M. wow some babysitter, I wonder if she gives head


Sept. 12 1962 7:33 P.M. WOW! SHE DOES!

 

[WantonWitch]

2nd september 1981.... met my husband


2nd October 2004... the day I lost him

 

[big salami]

25th October 1992 my dear mother passed on. I miss her still

11th November 1998 I lost my darling wife to that insidious disease Cancer.
The love of my life and my true soul mate we had been married for a few days short of 35 years, wish we could have made another 35!! I miss her even more!


31st January 2007 I lost my best friend, Hector, a wonderful canine friend, we were together for 11 years and I miss him too


I don't want any more days thank you!!

 

[minxy69]

31st March 2007 I walked into the frigging arsehole who killed my boyfriend over three years ago...and the bastard had the front to ask how I was

How I kept my hands off him I'm not sure, taking him by the throat and watching each breath till he took his final one would've been a pleasure.

Am busy falling into a large bottle of alcohol....s'pose once that's done, no more demons to face...

 

[MUSDAWG89]

May 20, 1993 day i married the love of my life

may 16, 2005 (12:05 pm) the day she died

this thread is depressing the hell out of me

 

[Guest]

31st March 2007

Spending time talking to Minxy to make sure she was okay

Telling the supervisor at my second (poorly paid and inconvenient) job to take me off the rota indefinately!!

 

[Guest]

May 20, 1993 day i married the love of my life

may 16, 2005 (12:05 pm) the day she died

this thread is depressing the hell out of me

Even a bad day can have a silver lining ((((((((((((((((MUSDAWG))))))))))))))))

Please try and think of the wonderful times you had together rather than the time you have missed out on. Since I have been on the road to recovery (from a breakdown) I have become a "glass half full" rather than "glass half empty" type of person.

Rejoice for what you two had together.

 

[Joey3308]

Today is Al Gore, Christopher Walken, Gabe Kaplan and Shirley Jones' birthday

 

[minxy69]

31st March 2007

Spending time talking to Minxy to make sure she was okay

Telling the supervisor at my second (poorly paid and inconvenient) job to take me off the rota indefinately!!

And I thank you for that babe

 

[aKlownkiller]

Forty years ago, I was born on this day.

 

[Guest]

Forty years ago, I was born on this day.

Happy Birthday

Welcome to the 40 club

 

[hdlynnette]

Events
April 1
1826 - Samuel Morey of Oxford, New Hampshire patented the internal combustion engine. It was pretty much the kind of engine we still use in cars and trucks, but not as complicated and needing less maintenance than those of today. That’s what we call progress.
1864 - The first travel accident policy was issued. The Travelers Insurance Company (the company with the red umbrella as a logo, remember?) issued the policy to James Batterson, who also received the first general insurance policy issued by the firm in July, 1864.

1930 - Leo Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs broke the altitude record for a catch by catching a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles, CA. He caught the ball cleanly, saying, “Eeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooowwwwwwww!” for posterity. Hartnett reportedly broke something else as well, this day ... his jaw. When catching the ball, the force shattered his jawbone. Please, do not try this stunt at home.

1931 - Pitcher Jackie Mitchell was signed by the Chattanooga Baseball Club. Yeah? So? Well, Mitchell was the first woman in organized baseball. Miss Mitchell was 19 years old. So there...

1949 - The first all-black-cast variety show was presented on WENR-TV in Chicago, IL. The show was called Happy Pappy.

1955 - One Man’s Family was seen on TV for the final time after a six-year stay on NBC-TV. The longtime popular radio show of the same name continued until 1959.

1956 - Chet Huntley began his successful news career with NBC. He started as a reporter and analyst of the Sunday news series, Outlook. Soon, he would be teamed with David Brinkley for election coverage. The duo would click and become coanchors of The Huntley-Brinkley Report nightly on NBC with Huntley presenting news from the New York studio while Brinkley reported from Washington, DC. John Chancellor, who would become the sole anchor of the NBC Nightly News years later, was also a part of the broadcast giving comment and analysis on the day’s top news. Huntley and Brinkley closed each news broadcast with the trademark, “Good night Chet. Good night David. And good night from NBC News.”

1957 - All of Great Britain was fooled this April Fool’s Day by England’s famous newscaster, Richard Dimbleby. The newscaster, wrapping up the day’s news on Panorama, the BBC’s current affairs program, reported about the “spring spaghetti crop in southern Switzerland.” The filmed report showed the spaghetti (some ten pounds of the stuff) being picked from a tree. Many Brits believed him, by Jove! One member of our staff remembers doing something similar by asking radio listeners to “send us $100 and we’ll send you 25 words or less.”

1960 - The first U.S. weather satellite was launched. TIROS I was put into orbit and soon meteorologists saw the first pictures of a midlatitude cyclone over the northeastern United States. Other, more powerful satellites launched since then provide pictures and more exact climatological data.

1963 - The daily TV serial, General Hospital, began its long and popular run on ABC-TV. Not to be left on the operating table alone, NBC-TV countered with its popular program, The Doctors.

1985 - George Plimpton played an April Fool’s joke on readers of Sports Illustrated this day. No, he didn’t appear as a Pam Anderson look-a-like in the swimsuit issue, he went a step further. Plimpton introduced the entire nation to Sidd Finch, a 28-year-old aspiring monk, who could throw a 168 MPH fastball! Whoa! Finch was said to be a free-agent pitcher in the New York Mets’ spring training camp; that he had learned the art of the pitch while playing the French horn in his spare time. Hmmm. Plimpton later admitted that Finch was the figment of a most active imagination. No such person existed. Still doesn’t.

1985 - Unranked Villanova defeated top-rated Georgetown 66-64 to win the NCAA basketball championship, ending the Hoya’s hopes for back-to-back wins.

1985 - The long-awaited album, We Are the World, was finally released. Eight rock stars donated previously unreleased material for the LP. Three-million copies of the award-winning single of the same name had already been sold. The song, We Are the World, was number five, and moving up, on the Billboard magazine pop single’s chart this day.

1987 - Steve Newman became the first man to walk solo around the world. No foolin’! The 15,000-mile trek took him four years and untold pairs of shoes to complete. His first words after completing the journey, “Man, my dogs are achin’!”




Birthdays
April 1
1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
musician: pianist, composer: Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Second Piano Concerto; died March 28, 1943
1883 - Lon (Leonidas F.) Chaney
actor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Bushwackers, The Phantom of the Opera, The Unholy Three, He Who Gets Slapped, Oliver Twist, West of Zanzibar, The Horror of it All; died Aug 26, 1930

1885 - Wallace (Fitzgerald) Beery
Academy Award-winning actor: The Champ [1931-1932], Grand Hotel, We’re in the Navy Now, Treasure Island, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Last of the Mohicans, China Seas; died Apr 15, 1949

1915 - Art Lund
singer: Mamselle, actor: The Most Happy Fella, Donnybrook, Black Caesar, Bucktown, The Last American Hero; died May 31, 1990

1920 - Toshiro Mifune
actor: Shadow of the Wolf, Shogun, Winter Kills, 1941, Midway, Paper Tiger, Red Sun, The Bad Sleep Well, Throne of Blood, Samurai series, Rashomon, Drunken Angel; died Dec 24, 1997

1922 - William Manchester
writer: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age

1928 - George Grizzard
actor: Advise and Consent, Bachelor Party, False Witness, The Stranger Within, Scarlett

1929 - Jane Powell (Suzanne Burce)
actress: Deep in My Heart, Hit the Deck, Small Town Girl, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

1932 - Gordon Jump
actor: WKRP in Cincinnati, Sister Kate, Growing Pains, Bitter Vengeance, Ransom Money, Making the Grade, Dirkham Detective Agency; died Sep 22, 2003

1932 - Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds)
actress: Singin’ in the Rain, Tammy and the Bachelor, The Tender Trap, The Unsinkable Molly Brown; singer: Tammy, A Very Special Love; mother of actress, Carrie Fisher

1934 - Jim Ed (James Edward) Brown
singer: group: The Browns: The Three Bells, Scarlet Ribbons; solo: Morning; CMA Country Duo of the Year [w/Helen Cornelius - 1977]: I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You

1936 - Ron (Ronald Peter) Perranoski
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1963, 1965, 1966], Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, California Angels; pitching coach: LA Dodgers [1981], SF Giants [1994]

1938 - Ali (Alice) MacGraw
actress: Goodbye Columbus, Love Story, The Getaway, The Winds of War

1939 - Rudolph Isley
singer: group: The Isley Brothers: Shout, Twist & Shout, It’s Your Thing, This Old Heart of Mine

1939 - Phil (Philip Henry) Niekro
baseball: pitcher: Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1969, 1975, 1978, 1982], NY Yankees [all-star: 1984], Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays

1941 - Guy Trottier
hockey: NHL: NY Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs

1942 - Alan Blakley
musician: guitar: group: Brian Poole and The Tremeloes: Twist and Shout, Do You Love Me, Someone Someone, Silence is Golden

1942 - Phil Margo
singer: group: The Tokens: The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Tonight I Fell in Love; Cross Country: In the Midnight Hour

1944 - Rusty (Daniel Joseph) Staub
baseball: Houston Colt .45’s, Houston Astros, Montreal Expos, NY Mets, Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers; restaurateur

1945 - Johny Barbata
musician: drums: groups: The Turtles: Happy Together, It Ain’t Me Babe, Let Me Be, You Baby, She’d Rather Be with Me, You Showed Me, Elenore; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Jefferson Starship: LP: Dragonfly, Red Octopus, Spitfire, Earth; Miracles, We Built This City, Sara, Tomorrow Doesn’t Matter Tonight, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now

1947 - Norm Van Lier
basketball: Cincinnati Royals, Chicago Bulls

1948 - Willie (Guillermo Naranjo) Montanez
baseball:California Angels, Philadelphia Phillies, SF Giants, Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1977], NY Mets, Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos, SD Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates

1948 - Doug Sutherland
football: Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle: Super Bowl VIII, IX, XI

1950 - Billy Currie
musician: synthesizer, keyboards, violin: group: Ultravox: Vienna, All Stood Still, The Thin Wall, The Voice

1952 - Annette O’Toole (Toole)
actress: Imaginary Crimes, Love Matters, White Lie, Broken Vows, Superman III, 48 Hrs., Cat People, Smile

1956 - Libby Riddles
dogsled racer: 1st woman to win Iditarod [1985]

1961 - Mark White
musician: guitar: group: ABC: Tears are Not Enough, Poison Arrow, Be Near Me, When Smokey Sings, King Without a Crown




Chart Toppers
April 1
1947The Anniversary Song - Dinah Shore
How are Things in Glocca Morra - Buddy Clark
Managua, Nicaragua - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Don
Rodney)
So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed - Merle Travis
1955The Ballad of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Dance with Me Henry (Wallflower) - Georgia Gibbs
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce

1963He’s So Fine - The Chiffons
South Street - The Orlons
Rhythm of the Rain - The Cascades
Still - Bill Anderson

1971Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) - The Temptations
Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner
After the Fire is Gone - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn

1979Tragedy - Bee Gees
What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
I Just Fall in Love Again - Anne Murray

1987Lean on Me - Club Nouveau
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - Genesis
Small Town Girl - Steve Wariner


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...

 

[aKlownkiller]

Happy Birthday

Welcome to the 40 club

Thank you, I think....... And this is my 100th post.

 

[Joey3308]

APRIL 30th BIRTHDAYS

Birthdays

Cornelius Vanderbilt 1898
Ellis Wilson 1899
George R. Stibitz 1904
Queen Juliana (Netherlands) 1909
Al Lewis 1910
Eve Arden 1912
Robert Shaw 1916
Percy Heath 1923
John (Johnny) Horton 1925
Cloris Leachman 1926
Willie Nelson 1933
Gary Collins 1938
Burt Young 1940
Johnny Farina (Santo & Johnny) 1941
Bobby Vee (Velline) 1943
Jill Clayburgh 1944
Richard Schoff (The Sandpipers) 1944
Don Schollander 1946
Perry King 1948
Merril Osmond 1953
Jane Campion 1954
Paul Gross 1959
Isiah Thomas 1961
Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks) 1962
Ian Ziering 1964
Turbo B (Snap) 1967
Clark Vogeler (Toadies) 1969
Chris "Choc" Dalyrimple (Soul for Real) 1971
J.R. Richards (Dishwalla) 1972
Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees) 1973
Johnny Galecki 1975
Kirsten Dunst 1982

 

[tnblondie]

June 30 2006- The first time I saw Rollin. He looked at me, smiled, and kissed me. I can still remember the tingle that went down my spine

 

[minxy69]

Rip

Today I said a farewell to a close friend, in another life he'd have been my brother in law, except his brother was taken from us November 2003. I hope they're together now, with my lovely godson Jason, and he other biker friends we've lost, riding highways in the sky, and always watching over us, cos we are always watching the stars for you....

And as long as we all remember you...you will always live forever.....

 

[John048]

May 15th 1998.... birthday.... built my first computer, first day on aol ... and the internet...... there is something else ... but don't know how to explain properly

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

May 9, 2007 - This was my 34th birthday, spent in the hospital, but... my kids made me a birthday cake and brought it to the hospital where they got to eat it with me. I got balloons and flowers too.

 

[omahaman2]

02/09/2002 - I fly to NYC and meet her, You CAN find anything on the internet! LOL! Thank God for LIT

10/09/2002 - The plane lands here. We begin to share our lives!

12/31/2003 - The question was asked] Will you marry me? The answer was YES!!

http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/sehrgrosse/large-smiley-032.gif

 

[Guest]

We took our lives back and stopped worrying about other people's problems.

Elsa (our older cat) discovered yet another new hiding place ~ the laundry basket in the teen's room.

The sun shone at Glastonbury *faints*

 

[geminirising]

I found this loitering in someone's sigline....

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand

How apt is that eh...

 

[minxy69]

On this day, June 27th 1977, I got married. I am still married...altho not with him...we are still friends...but effectively I have been married 30 years today....

 

[asian_princess]

oooh Foxylady! this is a great thread, i thought about starting something like this once... but laziness took over

lemme see...

mmm on this date (27th) 3 months ago, i made a very unprecedented move of PM-ing someone... just to say Hi

don't know why. just felt compelled.

...lol *holds tummy* and omgoodness has it been an interesting ride...


can't wait to see what the next three months holds.