Coaxial wrote: 

 Proclivities wrote: 
Hope it all turned out OK....

1881 - Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury, and Frank McLaury met up with Doc Holliday, Virgil, Morgan, and Wyatt Earp, on Fremont Street in Tombstone, Arizona, to discuss some grievances.

 aflanigan wrote: 

Love that! Seth is a genius!

 oldslabsides wrote: 
That's mildly inspiring, but what about Stewie's big inspirational speech after Mel Gibson at the Battle of Falkirk?

blanchE picasso gave birth to pablo picasso in 1881

1415: Battle of Agincourt

from this day to the ending of the world
but we in it shall be remembered
we few, we happy few, we band of brothers
for he today that sheds his blood with me

Οn October 20, 1977, a plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd, crashed in Mississippi, killing Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Craines, Cassie Cranes, the Road-manager and the two pilots

 Proclivities wrote: 


Mine was like this, but I think it was AM only. I still remember the smell of its leather case.
I liked to listen to "Lee Alan On the Horn", a very popular Detroit show that came on as I had to go to bed.
I'd listen under the covers using its single ear piece.

("Two speakers? Why would anyone want that?" asked the Fab Four when told about stereo.)

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Say what you whale about the book (based on a true account Melville only "happened" across), but this show is fascinating:

The Regency TR-1 - the world's first transistor radio - is introduced, 1954.

 oldslabsides wrote: 



and it almost took me that much time to read it.

 oldslabsides wrote: 

He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.

1851: Herman Melville's Moby Dick is published for the first time.

 Proclivities wrote: 
It's easy to see why she graced WWII bombers and her pics were in barracks everywhere.

October 17, 1918, Margarita Carmen Cansino (later known as Rita Hayworth) born.

1091 - London is stuck by a tornado

Today in 1977, NASA unveils a photo from the Viking probe, sent to Mars (and famously including a lander that photographed the surface landscape of Mars) to do intensive surveying.
 Obviously looking at this photo it’s easy to see why this attracted so many people’s attention, considering there’s a face right there!
The image is certainly compelling, and some people, such as Richard Hoagland  appear to have based most of their careers off of
promoting this image as evidence of life on Mars.  Who’s to say, really, although later and better photos seem to conclusively show
that this is a natural rock formation that only coincidentally appears to be a face.  

p.s if  Mr. Hoagland  would have only taken this shot 100 km to the west
 he would have "snapped" my Jr. High School! 
Better luck next time, I guess.  

JFK first learned that Russian nukes were in Cuba.