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Post by punkiefister on Mar 1, 2006 22:45:36 GMT -5
Mar 1, 1932 A man climbs a makeshift ladder to the 2nd floor of Charles Lindbergh's New Jersey home and snatches his twenty-month-old son, Charles Jr. Whoever took the baby left behind a poorly-written ransom note demanding $50,000 in small bills. Mar 1 1954 The first hydrogen bomb is detonated at Bikini. Even though the bomb was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb exploded there in 1946, no islanders were evacuated this time. Almost 300 people suffered radiation exposure. Mar 1 1969 While performing with the Doors, Jim Morrison asks the audience "Do you wanna see my cock?" then exposes himself briefly on a Miami stage. For thus showing his peepee Morrison received a sentence of six months hard labor. Mar 1 1978 The body of Charlie Chaplin is stolen for ransom by Galtcho Ganav (Bulgaria) and Romnan Wardas (Poland) from a cemetery in Corsier, Switzerland. The actor's corpse is recovered two months later
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Post by punkiefister on Mar 3, 2006 0:19:17 GMT -5
Mar 2 1939 Howard Carter dies of King Tut's curse.
Mar 2 1968
Syd Barrett leaves Pink Floyd, after melting his mind with various extremely dangerous drugs. He spends the following years mumbling about pork chops and refrigerators.
Mar 2 1982
Science fiction author Philip K Dick dies of a stroke in Santa Ana, California. Since 1974 the author had been possessed by a superalien who arrived in his head via a beam of pink light.
Mar 2 1997
1st Monkey successfully cloned (1997)
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Post by punkiefister on Jan 20, 2008 16:46:33 GMT -5
today in Jan 20 1936 King George V of England is euthanized with injections of cocaine and morphine, after a painful cancer illness. His physician was motivated not only to ameliorate the king's suffering, but also to break the story in the morning edition of the newspapers, "rather than the less appropriate evening journals."
Jan 20 1982
Rock musician Ozzy Osbourne is hospitalized in Des Moines IA after he bites the head off of a dead bat. The bat was tossed on stage by a fan during a live performance.
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Post by punkiefister on Apr 7, 2009 2:17:32 GMT -5
Apr 7 1989 Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Norwegian sea, with two nuclear reactors and two nuclear torpedoes aboard. 41 crew members die, and the submarine remains one mile below the surface of the ocean, with its nuclear weapons intact.
Apr 7 1994 Courtney Love arrested on drug charges in Beverly Hills. What a surprise!
Apr 7 1998 Pop singer George Michael is arrested by an undercover police officer after wanking in front him in a public toilet
~Dailyrotten.com~
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