On This Date in History

Originally posted by FMF
30 January, 13,000 years ago.

A member of the genus Homo, a hominin who has been nicknamed "Flores Man", after disputes within his tribe, moved with his family on foot to the area where the port town of Mau Mere is now located on the island of Flores in Indonesia although the settlement as we now know it was not established by Portugal until for another 12,600 years.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Wrong groundhog.

6th Feb 1996

Twenty years ago Birgenair Flight 301 crashes.
Worst Boeing757 accident in history.
All dead.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
6th Feb 1996

Twenty years ago Birgenair Flight 301 crashes.
Worst Boeing757 accident in history.
All dead.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Cause ever determined?

Originally posted by wolfgang59
falling from the sky

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Loss of fuel or engine malfunction or pilot error?

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Wasps.

9th February 2010

The Debates Forum here at RHP was debating whether having a dog attack someone who may have inadvertently wandered onto its owner's property covered by the 2nd Amendment in the US.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
On This Date in History: World War II Decade: (Part 2)

"1940s Slang {20 June 2013)

C
Call-girl - Prostitute
Can - Jail
Carry a Torch – To ardently admire/have a crush on someone
Cat's Meow – The best
Cheesy - Crude/cheap
Chew out - Berate
Chicken - Coward
Chicken out - Weak
Chopper(s) - Teeth
Chrome-dome - Baldhead
Cock-eyed ...[text shortened]... individual
Ducky Shincracker - Good dancer"

http://www.vintageallies.com/1940s/1940s-slang.html

10 February 1979

Grateful Dead

at the Great Western Forum - Inglewood, CA

Set 1:
Feel Like A Stranger
Franklin's Tower
Walkin' Blues
To Lay Me Down
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Friend Of The Devil
Let It Grow

Set 2:
Just A Little Light
Truckin'
Crazy Fingers
Playin' In The Band
Drums
The Wheel
Gimme Some Lovin'
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia

Encore:
It's All Over Now Baby Blue

10th Feb 1996

Garry Kasparov is defeated for the first time by IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue.

13th of February emperor He of Han died.

Originally posted by FMF
10 February 1979

Grateful Dead

at the Great Western Forum - Inglewood, CA

Set 1:
Feel Like A Stranger
Franklin's Tower
Walkin' Blues
To Lay Me Down
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Friend Of The Devil
Let It Grow

Set 2:
Just A Little Light
Truckin'
Crazy Fingers
Playin' In The Band
Drums
The Wheel
Gimme Some Lovin'
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia

Encore:
It's All Over Now Baby Blue

Originally posted by wolfgang59
10th Feb 1996

Garry Kasparov is defeated for the first time by IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue.