Don't worry, PF - it's an easy mistake to make

Two men who "fried" in the electric chair today in 1941, in Florida, were named.........Wilburn and Frizzel.


This day in 1968, British drivers Jackie Swteart, Graham Hill and John Surtees took the first three places in the U.S. Grand Prix.


In 1978, Ann Dadds became Britains first ever female Tube (London Underground train) driver, on the District Line from Plaistow, East London.


As soon as the new British Rail timetables appeared on this day in 1990, a further 76-page booklet had to be released correcting over 1000 errors in the originals.... Train passengers would probably have found the originals MORE accurate!!

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind

On Oct. 6, 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade

New York~ 6 October 1927
The first spoken voice in a feature film, that of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer, brought the audience to its feet applauding when it was shown today. In the middle of a night club sequence, Jolson suddenly spoke: “Wait a minute, wait a minute,” he said. “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” In another part of the film he sits at the piano exchanging lines with his mother between verses of Blue Skies.

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Do you remember that moment like it was yesterday, PF?

I have my ticket stub in my scrap book. lol

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good comeback!

Palestinian terrorists seized the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985, throwing a wheelchair-bound US tourist overboard


In 1571 at Lepanto, in the last major battle conducted by war galleys, allied Christian forces defeated the Ottoman Turks, who lost 117 galleys and thousands of men.


In 1946 Alan Ivieson presented the first-ever edition of Woman's Hour broadcast by the BBC; it included an item on "How to de-slime your flannels"! (As in trousers!!! )


In 1977, 90 pairs of Swedish identical twins, in matching outfits, came to Felixstowe, England for a shopping trip. Researchers were watching to see if the siblings bought similar clothes.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind

And who said football is low scoring ... in 1916, 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech & Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee.

1st London-Amsterdam airline service begins (Brit Aerial Transport) in 1919.

And, just for Sharni, in 1924, Marble Bar, Australia began a series of 100 consecutive days of 100 degrees or more.

On Oct. 8, 1982, all labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.

October 8, 1919: Sixty-three planes take off from San Francisco and New York in the first transcontinental air race in the United States.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

A Kuwaiti man in court for shooting his sister-in-law in 1995 claimed that she had made his wife ill through witchcraft. Islamic law allows the killing of witches. He was convicted of her murder Awwwwww!!


Today in 1992 a pair of pointed rubber ears, worn by Leonard Nimoy as "Mr. Spock" in the Star Trek TV series, sold for £700 at an auction in London.


The 580ft Post Office Tower opened today in 1965, in Maple Strret, London, with a revolving restaurant and viewing galleries (later closed to the public following IRA bomb threats)


A Rembrandt painting found discarded on a platform at a Munich station in 1986, was recognised as one that had been stoled FOUR times in 16 years from a gallery in Dulwich, London.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind

On Oct. 9, 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution.

Paris France~ 9 October 1945
Pierre Laval, prime minister of Vichy France, is sentenced to death.

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In addition to this, the soldiers also amputated his hands, for identification purposes!!


Today in 1973 Elvis Presley divorced Priscilla; she got - $1½ million, plus $4,200 a month; half the sale of their house ($750,000) and 5% of his publishing companies. Nice work, if you can get it!!


In 1897, Henry Strurmey set off in his 4.5bhp Daimler from Land's End in Cornwall, to become the first person to drive to John O'Groats, the most northerly point in Scotland. He completed the 929-mile journey on the 19th.


Three armed men raided the Turkish baths in London's Jermyn Street in 1955, but the well-heeled customers weren't wearing much and the robbers' haul totalled........ £7!!!

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind