Red_Dragon wrote: 
Got to see Apollo 14 on a Saturn V lift off from the Canaveral Jetties south of the pad Jan 31, 1971.  No sure how many miles away, but the ground was shaking and it was a mighty roar and IIRC, could feel it.  The Saturn V was one powerful mofo.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Been a long time... I'd forgotten the mission naming vagaries. But I was pretty sure it wasn't "Apollo 1."

1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.

1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.

1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).

4004 BC – The world was created at approximately six o'clock in the evening, according to the Ussher chronology.

1978 - "Twenty-year-old Frederick Valentich disappeared while on a 125-mile (235 km) training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait in Australia.
Described as a "flying saucer enthusiast", Valentich radioed Melbourne air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft about 1,000 feet (300 m) above him, that his engine had begun running roughly, and finally reported, 'It's not an aircraft'."

1959 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public.

1940 – The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Gosh!

1814 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.

This is where I was heading this weekend but there's a frost warning and the fishing will suck.

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Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men, seizes the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S. Marines capture the raiders, killing several.

1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

1951 – The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Guess I haven't developed a healthy sense of baseball superstition. *shrug*

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
You don't have a real good handle on this whole Karma thing... Zen out, ignore the past, there is only the now... mix all your new-agey thinks into one forward-looking mantra.

2003 – Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins.

1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.

1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.