On This Day...

[xyloscissor]

Happy B-day for all your work in the sports section.

On this day in 1919

Great Boston Molasses Flood happened. What a bizarre and deadly thing

 

[prousonhairy]

1951: Ilse Koch "The B*tch of Buchenwald" is sentenced to prison for her crimes at a concentration camp her husband was commandant at. One of the things she would do is collect prisoners skins. If she saw a prisoner with tattoos she liked, she would have them killed and their skin removed to make lampshades or various other items.

Have a great evening everyone!

 

[xyloscissor]

that is just........

On this day in 1919 many of us would have been angered to a fevered pitch.

The 18th amendment booooooooooooo!

 

[xyloscissor]

On this day in 1807

Robert E. Lee was born.

Confederate general Robert E. Lee is perhaps the most iconic and most widely respected of all Civil War commanders. Though he opposed secession, he resigned from the U.S. Army to join the forces of his native state, rose to command the largest Confederate army and ultimately was named general-in-chief of all Confederate land forces.

 

[xyloscissor]

On this day in 1855.

John Moses Browning was born January 23, 1855 in Ogden, Utah, U.S.A., where his father settled after the Mormon Exodus of 1847. It was in his father’s shop that John Moses first learned the art and secrets of gunsmithing.

 

[ryzno]

On this day in 1986, The launch of Challenger STS 51-L ended in tragedy 73 seconds after lift off.

 

[xyloscissor]

On this day in 1986, The launch of Challenger STS 51-L ended in tragedy 73 seconds after lift off.

I remember the day well.

 

[ryzno]

I remember the day well.

I wasn't even 1. My dad remembers it. He said he almost dropped me when he saw it, he was feeding me when it happened.

 

[xyloscissor]

I was in a high school trig class, something was said on the pa system and then we were allowed to watch the news. Back then they would wheel in tv's on kart stands. Stop making me feel old lol.

 

[nk4e]

1917
U.S. ends search for Pancho Villa