why do folks think I'm being dishonest. I did try to look it up but so much has changed it's hard to figure out the google search. Regardless, this was before google so people couldn't easily look up an Animal Housr reference.
Love you, amigo, but 30+ years ago Animal House was not a strange occurrence. We all watched it as kids, and repeatedly in Jr High
Again, this was why I found it so odd. Literally the post straight after was "Germans?" And they were being serious. I think R2K had to let them know the reference.
Aug 2 1876 Wild Bill Hickok was murdered In the spring of 1876, Hickok arrived in the Black Hills mining town of Deadwood, South Dakota. There he became a regular at the poker tables of the No. 10 Saloon, eking out a meager existence as a card player. On this day in 1876, Hickok was playing cards with his back to the saloon door. At 4:15 in the afternoon, a young gunslinger named Jack McCall walked into the saloon, approached Hickok from behind, and shot him in the back of the head. Hickok died immediately. McCall tried to shoot others in the crowd, but amazingly, all of the remaining cartridges in his pistol were duds. McCall was later tried, convicted, and hanged.
This day in History August 2, 1942 PT Boat 109 is split in 2 by a Japanese destroyer and sunk. After holding on to the sinking hull for 12 hours, LTJG John F Kennedy and the rest of the survivors swim 3 miles to an island that's about the size of a football field. Kennedy uses his teeth to tow a severely injured shipmate in a life vest. Over the next 3 days the crew makes swim of 2 miles, 3.5 miles and .5 miles against strong currents (again towing the shipmate) to various islands until they find a small group of native islanders who help them get rescued a few days later.
This Day in History August 4, 1949 The National Basketball Associatio is formed by the merger of the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America.
August 4/5, 1944: Anne Frank and her family were found and sent to Westerbork concentration camp, then later to Bergen-Belsen death camp.
The NBA merges with the ABA On August 5, 1976, the National Basketball Association (NBA) merges with its rival, the American Basketball Association (ABA), and takes on the ABA’s four most successful franchises: the Denver Nuggets, the Indiana Pacers, the New York (later Brooklyn) Nets and the San Antonio Spurs.
I got way very emotional while I was there. One of those things: glad I did it, you could not pay me to do it again.
