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Lambaste the pests of this world! Run through the mud the scum of the earth! Humiliate the would-be somebodies who mock their fellow human beings for daring to be braver than they are! Three good causes championed by THIS VERY BLOG! Enjoy - especially if you're one of the pests EXPOSED HERE! Believe me - you DON'T want to tick me off and wind up exposed here!Wednesday, February 29, 2012
TODAY IN HISTORY - FEBRUARY 29TH - according to Bravenet...
Today in History - February 29th, 2012
There are no entries for today.
bravenet.comCOME ON...!!!
COME ALONG NOW, "BRAVENET" -
you're quite obviously not being
neither brave nor bold enough
on this EXCEPTIONAL DAY
often non-existent
due to the fact that this is,
after all,
a LEAP YEAR,
- and so, since it happens so rarely,
surely every little event that occurred
on such out-of-the-ordinary days
since we've adopted this calendar
should be meritorious enough
to earn some remembrance
of some kind
on thy precious web-thingie there...!
Not to have a single FACTOID
whatsoever
is quite disrespectful to anyone
LUCKY enough to have been born
on such a date -
anyone being born RIGHT NOW -
anyone associated with the planning,
adoption and
of the Gregorian calendar
that allows for these extra days
to pop up, every fourth year...
A leap year is a special thing:
and you just denigrated that completely,
boldly but not-so-bravely,
Bravenet...!
You should be ashamed of yourselves for it,
Bravenet!
:-(
Give me a CrossCards.com anyday -
at least they know how to celebrate
a Leap Day!
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Kudos for not missing the boat on the VERY NEXT DAY, though, Bravenet!
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Today in History - March 1st, 2012
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1692 - The notorious witch-hunt began in the Salem village of the Massachusetts Bay colony, eventually resulting in the executions of 19 innocent men and women.
1780 - Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.
1781 - The American colonies adopted the Articles of Confederation, paving the way for a federal union.
1872 - Yellowstone National Park was established by an act of Congress. It was the first area in the world to be designated a national park.
1932 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh's son was kidnapped. The boy's body was found May 12 and Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the crime in 1936.
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Today in History - March 1st, 2012
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1692 - The notorious witch-hunt began in the Salem village of the Massachusetts Bay colony, eventually resulting in the executions of 19 innocent men and women.
1780 - Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.
1781 - The American colonies adopted the Articles of Confederation, paving the way for a federal union.
1872 - Yellowstone National Park was established by an act of Congress. It was the first area in the world to be designated a national park.
1932 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh's son was kidnapped. The boy's body was found May 12 and Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the crime in 1936.
(...)
And the COMPLETE rundown of events is even more impressive - once you click on "ALL - View all events for Today in History (...)" (which should really read something like "View Luciano's Today In History luminous feature - now! Click here!" - but that is not feasible, somehow, through Bravenet's service...!)
Fair enough, as the thing still reads as follows anyways:
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LUCIANO's Today in History
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March 1st
1692 The notorious witch-hunt began in the Salem village of the Massachusetts Bay colony, eventually resulting in the executions of 19 innocent men and women.
1780 Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.
1781 The American colonies adopted the Articles of Confederation, paving the way for a federal union.
1872 Yellowstone National Park was established by an act of Congress. It was the first area in the world to be designated a national park.
1932 Aviator Charles Lindbergh's son was kidnapped. The boy's body was found May 12 and Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the crime in 1936.
1954 Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members of Congress.
1961 U.S. President John Kennedy formed the Peace Corps.
1971 A bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol, causing some $300,000 damage but no injuries. The Weather Underground, a leftist radical group that opposed the Vietnam War, claimed responsibility.
1991 The United States reopened its embassy in newly liberated Kuwait.
1991 After 23 years of insurgency in Colombia, the Popular Liberation Army put down its arms in exchange for two seats in the national assembly.
1992 The collapse of a building housing a cafe in East Jerusalem killed 23 people.
1994 The Muslim-dominated government of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bosnia's Croats agreed to a federation embracing portions of their war-torn country under their control.
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Fair enough, as the thing still reads as follows anyways:
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LUCIANO's Today in History
Return to Website ·
View Listings for this Week
March 1st
1692 The notorious witch-hunt began in the Salem village of the Massachusetts Bay colony, eventually resulting in the executions of 19 innocent men and women.
1780 Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.
1781 The American colonies adopted the Articles of Confederation, paving the way for a federal union.
1872 Yellowstone National Park was established by an act of Congress. It was the first area in the world to be designated a national park.
1932 Aviator Charles Lindbergh's son was kidnapped. The boy's body was found May 12 and Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the crime in 1936.
1954 Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members of Congress.
1961 U.S. President John Kennedy formed the Peace Corps.
1971 A bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol, causing some $300,000 damage but no injuries. The Weather Underground, a leftist radical group that opposed the Vietnam War, claimed responsibility.
1991 The United States reopened its embassy in newly liberated Kuwait.
1991 After 23 years of insurgency in Colombia, the Popular Liberation Army put down its arms in exchange for two seats in the national assembly.
1992 The collapse of a building housing a cafe in East Jerusalem killed 23 people.
1994 The Muslim-dominated government of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bosnia's Croats agreed to a federation embracing portions of their war-torn country under their control.
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1996 Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who reportedly had assisted more than two dozen suicides, was acquitted of murder for a third time.
(AD TIME - deleted!)
1999 Rwandan rebels killed eight tourists, including two Americans, a Ugandan game warden and three rangers in a national forest in Uganda.
2000 In a rare unanimous vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to allow most Social Security recipients to earn as much money as they want without losing any benefits.
2003 The suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States was captured in Pakistan. Khalid Sheik Mohammed was believed to be the third ranking member of al-Qaida.
2003 As the possibility of war in Iraq grew, Turkey's parliament refused to permit U.S. troops on Turkish soil.
2004 A new interim government took over in Haiti after a bloody, monthlong insurrection, one day after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled into exile.
2005 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that execution of juvenile offenders is unconstitutional.
2006 U.S. President George Bush, en route to Pakistan, made an unscheduled stop in Afghanistan to discuss security matters. The day before he arrived in Pakistan a bomb exploded outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, killing an American diplomat.
2006 New Orleans' first Mardi Gras after being slammed by Hurricane Katrina wound down peacefully in what Mayor Ray Nagin called a "symbol that we're on our way back."
2007 Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., announced that he will be a candidate for president in 2008.
2007 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who served as an adviser in the Kennedy Administration, died at age 89.
2008 The Dow Jones industrials fell 315.17 points and went into March at 12,266.39 after its fourth consecutive monthly drop. Crude oil prices topped $101 a barrel.
2008 Israeli forces carried out more attacks in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 45 Palestinians, reports said. About 60 others were injured.
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(AD TIME - deleted!)
1999 Rwandan rebels killed eight tourists, including two Americans, a Ugandan game warden and three rangers in a national forest in Uganda.
2000 In a rare unanimous vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to allow most Social Security recipients to earn as much money as they want without losing any benefits.
2003 The suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States was captured in Pakistan. Khalid Sheik Mohammed was believed to be the third ranking member of al-Qaida.
2003 As the possibility of war in Iraq grew, Turkey's parliament refused to permit U.S. troops on Turkish soil.
2004 A new interim government took over in Haiti after a bloody, monthlong insurrection, one day after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled into exile.
2005 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that execution of juvenile offenders is unconstitutional.
2006 U.S. President George Bush, en route to Pakistan, made an unscheduled stop in Afghanistan to discuss security matters. The day before he arrived in Pakistan a bomb exploded outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, killing an American diplomat.
2006 New Orleans' first Mardi Gras after being slammed by Hurricane Katrina wound down peacefully in what Mayor Ray Nagin called a "symbol that we're on our way back."
2007 Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., announced that he will be a candidate for president in 2008.
2007 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who served as an adviser in the Kennedy Administration, died at age 89.
2008 The Dow Jones industrials fell 315.17 points and went into March at 12,266.39 after its fourth consecutive monthly drop. Crude oil prices topped $101 a barrel.
2008 Israeli forces carried out more attacks in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 45 Palestinians, reports said. About 60 others were injured.
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You see, though: ALL these events on March 1st...
And they couldn't even find ONE notable anecdote to share about February 29th?
Not even something pertaining to the inaugural leap year itself...???
COME ON!!!
...
And they couldn't even find ONE notable anecdote to share about February 29th?
Not even something pertaining to the inaugural leap year itself...???
COME ON!!!
...
Aye, CrossCards.com knows BEST - and at least THEY do NOT keep cancelling services left and right, trimming down on their offerings to their customers like crazy...!
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