This Day in History......

[oldandcrabby]

It's great how a funny old story could brighten another's day!
Glad it did for you friend ,, I'm sure you loved her very much and I'm glad I found a way to enlighten some strangers day,, maybe this is what Christmas is all about, not just a present under the tree!!

Yes I loved her we were very close and this is how we are supposed to treat each other always. I miss her the most this time of year as we would get together and bake dozens and dozens and did I say dozens of Christmas cookies the two weeks before Christmas.

 

[oldandcrabby]

Means here's a cold one to yah !!!!

Gotcha I myself prefer to knock back a Cap'n Morgan and coke myself lol.

 

[Covemastah]

Gotcha I myself prefer to knock back a Cap'n Morgan and coke myself lol.

Cap Morgan ,,, ahhhh nevah again for me. Lol

 

[oldandcrabby]

Cap Morgan ,,, ahhhh nevah again for me. Lol

With that response I will tell you about 3 young ladies sowing wild oats me being one of them. We went out bought 3 cases of beer on a fake ID and I took 1 pkg of Oreo cookies (family spent a lot of time camping) out of the motor home we went over to the sand pit drank all 3 cases of beer and ate all the cookies. Husband to be saw me staggering back to the motor home Daddy busted us and we scrubbed the top of his motor home at 5:00 a.m. next day.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 17, 1903
Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 18, 1620
On December 18, 1620, the British ship Mayflower docked at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers prepared to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 19, 1998
After nearly 14 hours of debate, the House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 20, 1957
On this day in 1957, while spending the Christmas holidays at Graceland, his newly purchased Tennessee mansion, rock-and-roll star Elvis Presley receives his draft notice for the United States Army.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 21, 1988
On this day in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground. A bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated in the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. The disaster, which became the subject of Britain’s largest criminal investigation, was believed to be an attack against the United States. One hundred eighty nine of the victims were American

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 22, 1900
On this day in 1900, the first car to be produced under the “Mercedes” name is delivered to its buyer: Emil Jellinek, the Austrian car racer, auto dealer to the rich and famous, and bon vivant. Jellinek had commissioned the Mercedes car from the German company Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft. It was faster, lighter, and sleeker than any car the company had ever made before, and Jellinek was confident that it would win races so handily that besotted buyers would snap it up. (He was so confident that he bought 36 of them, paying D-M-G 550,000 marks in all.) In exchange for his extraordinary patronage, the company agreed to name its new machine after Jellinek’s 11-year-old daughter, Mercedes.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 23, 1968
The crew and captain of the U.S. intelligence gathering ship Pueblo are released after 11 months imprisonment by the government of North Korea. The ship, and its 83-man crew, was seized by North Korean warships on January 23 and charged with intruding into North Korean waters.

 

[moreluck]

Dec.24, 1923
On this day in 1923, President Calvin Coolidge touches a button and lights up the first national Christmas tree to grace the White House grounds.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 25, 1914
Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the majority of German troops engaged in World War I cease firing their guns and artillery and commence to sing Christmas carols. At certain points along the eastern and western fronts, the soldiers of Russia, France, and Britain even heard brass bands joining the Germans in their joyous singing.

 

[Covemastah]

On this day December 25 0000
Jesus Christ was born !!

 

[wkmac]

Happy Birthday to Isaac Newton

 

[moreluck]

On December 26, 1946, in Las Vegas, Nevada, mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel opens The Pink Flamingo Hotel & Casino at a total cost of $6 million. The 40-acre facility wasn’t complete and Siegel was hoping to raise some revenue with the grand opening.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 27, 1932
At the height of the Great Depression, thousands turn out for the opening of Radio City Music Hall, a magnificent Art Deco theater in New York City. Radio City Music Hall was designed as a palace for the people, a place of beauty where ordinary people could see high-quality entertainment. Since its 1932 opening, more than 300 million people have gone to Radio City to enjoy movies, stage shows, concerts, and special events.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 28, 1895
On this day in 1895, the world’s first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 29, 1890
On this day in 1890, in the final chapter of America’s long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

 

[moreluck]

Dec. 30, 1922
In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Azerbaijan, and Armenian republics). Also known as the Soviet Union, the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.