August 9

[swag]

1959 - My brother is born

1969 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles.

1974 - Watergate scandal: As a direct result of the scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

[underpants]

1. Nagasaki bombed, Jerry Garcia dies

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1862053

[swag]

2. Oh thanks.

I didn't know you provided that service.

Must pay attention.

Happy Underpants Day.

[underpants]

3. Thanks

Check the link in that thread. It is from Working for Change and it is very interesting, I think.

[Ryano42]

4. It's a joy...

sharing a birthday with all these crap events... :yoiks: :hide:

[swag]

5. Happy fucking birthday!

[Ryano42]

6. thank you!

:beer: (It was cool watching Nixon bite it on my birthday...playing with my slot cars and watching him get on the chopper!)

[Tikki]

7. August 9th 1974....My gall bladder is removed

I wake up post surgery to see a new President talking on the television. I ask the nurse
if I'd missed something or had been in a coma for a while. She laughs and then fills me in on the happenings.


BTW...HAPPY BIRTHDAY...

Tikki

[swag]

12. That's a fine story.

Congratulations on a successful gall bladder removal, 32 years ex post facto.

[billyskank]

8. August 9

48BC - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

681 - Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.

1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel.

1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain - At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.

1942 - Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

1994 - Dilbert is drawn with his necktie down, signifying that he "lost his innocence" with Liz.

[billyskank]

9. Happy birthday swag

:party: :bounce:

[swag]

10. Thanks. It's not my birthday, it's my brother's.

But thanks. And happy birthday, billyskank!

[billyskank]

11. Oops. That's assumptions for you.

And thank you, also. My birthday was July 2nd, but fuck it, that's close enough.