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big ern

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Posted: April 01 2005,6:47 am

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On this day...
0374 Halley's Comet approaches within 0.0884 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
1748 Ruins of Pompeii found
1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol
1789 House of Representatives 1st full meeting, New York NY, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
1826 Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
1853 Cincinnati becomes 1st US city to pay firefighters a regular salary
1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia AL
1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 550+ die
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens
1924 Imperial Airways is formed in Britain
1930 "Blue Angel", starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America
1934 Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers
1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo HI
1954 US Air Force Academy established
1960 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
1961 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
1970 President Richard Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71
1973 John & Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1976 Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs originate Apple Computer
1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1990 CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
1992 Battleship USS Missouri (on which, Japan surrendered) decommissioned
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)

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Posted: April 01 2005,7:46 am

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Become a Havasu Doug Bikini Team Member today. p.m Silver or myself for details.

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GlassMan

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Posted: April 01 2005,8:05 am

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Where would we be without the Mabry Harpers of the world?! :stupid

It's a fact of Life:

After Monday and Tuesday, even the Calendar says : WTF .......

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looky_lou

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Posted: April 01 2005,9:58 am

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1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel

Now there is a classic we would like to see again real soon. :stupid

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ICETOM

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Posted: April 01 2005,11:47 am

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Quote (looky_lou @ April 01 2005,9:58 am)

1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel

Now there is a classic we would like to see again real soon. :stupid

Hell ya,just what I was thinkin.Wishfull thinking :rolleyes

.In 86 me and my brother chipped in on a GREEN 70 Chevelle and if we had 5 bucks we could get enough gas for cruisin and a pack of smokes to boot and hope someone else had beer money :beer