19 July
Today, 19 July, 2012, we, er, celebrate the 198th birthday of Samuel Colt, if only in Texas. A simple man, they say he tried to invent the Luger but didn’t know how to spell it, settling for the Colt...
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Coincidentally, a Californian killed 12 and wounded 58 in Colorado. The shooter bought a bunch of guns, legally, plus 6000 rounds of ammo. “It’s his god-given right. Come down to our store. You’ll find...
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On this day in 1944, Adolf ‘bleeding’ Hitler survived the third attempt on his life when a bomb exploded right under the table he was pounding. And people say that there’s a god.
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On this day in 1994, the British Labour Part chose Tony Blair to be their new leader. He seemed like a nice boy.
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714 years ago yesterday, the English defeated the Scots at the Battle of Falkirk. A certain Mel Gibson (played by William Wallace) walked off the battlefield and threw his broadsword into a nearby...
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On this day in 1987, Jeffrey Archer took the Daily Star Newspaper to the financial cleaners after convincing a jury that he had not paid to have sex with a prostitute. Six months later he was back in...
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On this day in Manchester, England in 1978, the first test-tube baby was born. They called her Louise. It’s unknown if the family ever thought of calling her Maggie, after a political leader of the...
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Bobbie Gentry is 68 today. Rumours about her steamy affair with Billie-Joe McCallister and what was actually thrown off the Tallahatchie Bridge still abound. Could someone please pass the biscuits?
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On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle (in Vietnam)”. ‘But until someone invents drones that...
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Having completed his body and pension pot-building courses courtesy of Hollywood, the charismatic (if not pneumatic) Arnold Schwarzenegger must rue that he was not born in America. Had he not been born...
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