The FReeper Foxhole Profiles President Jefferson Davis

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on April 26:
0121 Antonius Marcus Aurelius [Marcus A Verus], Emperor of Rome (161-180)
1319 Jean II the Good, king of France (1350-64)
1573 Marie de'Medici Queen of France
1711 David Hume England, empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)
1718 Esek Hopkins US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
1776 Joan M Kemper Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book)
1785 John James Audubon Haiti, bird watcher/artist
1808 Martha Finley children's book author
1812 Alfred Krupp German arms merchant
1827 Charles Edward Hovey Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1836 Erminnie Adelle Platt US, ethnologist (Iriquois-English Dictionary)
1839 Cyrus Hamblin Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1875 Syngman Rhee Whanghai Province South Korea, President of South Korea (1948-60)
1880 Mikhail Fokine Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance
1886 Ma Rainey [Gertrude Pridgett] "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer
1895 Rudolf Hess Hitler's Deputy Führer, only prisoner at Spandau
1899 Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Decatur TX, actor (Circus Boy, Hoedown, Country Fair, Blackmail)
1900 Charles Richter Ohio, Earthquakes seismologist (Richter scale)
1904 William "Count" Basie jazz pianist (Policy Man, Blazing Saddles)
1906 Gracie Allen Mrs George Burns, comedienne (George Burns Show)
1910 Tomoyuki Tanaka director (Godzilla)
1912 A[lfred] E[lton] Van Vogt Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, science fiction writer (Cosmic Encounter)
1916 Morris L West Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)
1917 I[eoh] M[ing] Pei Canton China, architect (1961 Brunner Prize)
1922 Jeanne Sauvé 1st female Governor-General (Canada, 1984-90)
1927 Jack Douglas comedian (My Brother Was an Only Child, Jack Paar Show)
1933 Carol Burnett San Antonio TX, comedian/actress (Annie, 4 Seasons)
1934 J Micheal McCloskey environmentalist, Sierra Club chairman
1938 Duane Eddy Phoenix AZ, guitarist (Peter Gunn, Cannonball)
1942 Bobby Rydell Philadelphia PA, rock singer (Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie)
1943 Gary Wright Creskill NJ, singer/keyboardist (Dream Weaver, Spooky Tooth-Love Is Alive)
1973 Damien Munoz Miss Colorado-USA (1997)

Deaths which occurred on April 26:
0757 Stephen II Pope (752-57), dies
1196 Alfonso II King of Aragon (1162-96), dies
1726 Jeremy Collier English bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75
1731 Daniel Defoe English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70
1865 John Wilkes Booth assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green VA at 27
1940 Carl Bosch German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65
1956 Edward Arnold actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66
1970 Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Louise Hovick] stripper/actress (Pruitts of Southampton), dies rom cancer at 56
1973 Irene Ryan actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
1981 Jim Davis actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies at 65
1984 William "Count" Basie jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday
1986 [William] Broderick Crawford actor (Highway Patrol), dies at 74
1989 Lucille Ball comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy), dies of a massive heart attack at 78
1990 Carlos Pizarro Leongomez Colombian presidential candidate, assassinated
1997 Peng Zhen mayor of Beijing China (1951-66), dies

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 ANDERSON WARREN L.---CAMDEN MI.
[RADIO CONTACT LOST]
1966 REILLY EDWARD D.---PHILADELPHIA PA.
[REMAINS RETURNED 08/22/89]
1966 TUCKER JAMES H.---PAUNEE OK.
[ALL CONTACT LOST]
1967 AUSTIN CHARLES D.---NEW CANAAN CT.
[SURVIVAL UNLIKELY]
1967 DUDASH JOHN F.---MANVILLE NJ.
[REMAINS RETURNED 06/03/83]
1967 ESTOCIN MICHAEL J.---TURTLE CREEK PA.
1967 MEYER ALTON B.---FREDERICKSBURG TN.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 MEYER WILLIAM---TAYLOR MI.
[REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85]
1967 RIATE ALFONSO R.---DELL GARDENS CA.
[03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG]
1968 MC DANIEL JOHN LEWIS---GIBSONVILLE NC.
1968 STOW LILBURN RAY---VICI OK.
1968 TODD LARRY RICHARD---CHAMBLEE GA.
1969 EAST JAMES BOYD JR.---OKLAHOMA CITY OK.
[REMAINS RETURNED 07/28/97]
1970 ELLIOTT ARTICE W.---TERRELL TX.
[03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1972 AMESBURY HARRY A. JR.---MORRISON IL.
1972 COOKE CALVIN C. JR.---WASHINGTON DC.
1972 DUNN RICHARD E.---TERRYVILLE CT.
1972 HOSKINS DONALD R.---MADISON IN.
1972 HIRONS ALAN
[NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST.]
1972 RUSSELL RICHARD L.---SNYDER TX.
[CRASH, 1 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1972 REYNOLDS TERRY L.---GRAINFIELD KS.
1972 WEISMAN KURT F.---JASPER IN.
[02/75 REMAINS RETURNED]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
0757 Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I
1220 German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
1478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo & kill Giuliano de'Medici
1478 Easter is celebrated for the first time
1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1564 William Shakespeare baptized
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry VA
1654 Jews are expelled from Brazil
1655 Dutch West Indies Company denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
1755 1st Russian university opens (Moscow)
1777 Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from New York to Connecticut rallying her father's militia
1803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
1819 Odd Fellows Lodge is established
1828 Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1835 Frédéric Chopins "Grand Polonaise Brillante", premieres in Paris France
1865 Battle of Durham Station NC (Greensboro)
1865 Battle of Fort Tobacco VA
1865 Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham NC
1887 Huntsville Electric Company is established to sell electricity
1905 Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at the plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play
1912 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
1913 Panamá-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco
1913 Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China
1920 H Shapley & H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
1926 Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty
1928 Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition opens in London
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1931 Lou Gehrig hits a homerun but is called out for passing a runner, the mistake costs him American League home run crown; he & Babe Ruth tie for season
1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
1936 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony
1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1938 Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1944 Papandreou government in Greece forms
1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WWII, arrested for treason
1948 The XP-86 prototype for the Sabre Jet first "officially" breaks the sound barrier. The first operational F-86A Sabres entered service in May of the same year
1952 US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp", kills 176
1957 Jamestown VA 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1961 French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria
1961 Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
1966 Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
1971 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hours
1976 Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York-Tokyo
1977 New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens
1980 Iran begins scattering US hostages from the US Embassy
1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
1981 Largest US bank robbery (Tucson AZ), more than $33 million stolen
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on South Georgia near Falkland Island
1984 President Ronald Reagan visits China
1986 Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
1986 Baseball game between California Angels & Minnesota Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die
1990 New York court of appeals ends 2½ year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of the case
1990 Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters
1991 23 killed in Kansas & Oklahoma by tornadoes
1992 Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base
1993 The U.S. Holocaust Museum opened in Washington, D.C.
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins
1994 26.9ºC in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record)
1994 Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Georgia : Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
Guinea-Bissau : Municipal Holiday
Tanzania : Union Day (1964)
Virginia : Cape Henry Day
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi : Confederate Memorial Day (1868) (Monday)
US-Utah : Arbor Day-plant a tree (1872) (Friday)
US : All You Can Eat Day
World : Milky Way Galaxy Day (8-billion years ago)
International Amateur Radio Month

Religious Observances
Nag Hammadi : Fast Day
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Cletus, pope (76-88)
old Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Marcellinus, pope (296-304)
Moslem : Ashur (Muharram 10, 1420 AH)

Religious History
1518 German reformer Martin Luther stated in his Disputation at Heidelberg: 'Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes.'
1834 Birth of Horatio R. Palmer, American Congregational clergyman. From his books of religious verse came two hymns which are still sung today: "Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts" and "My Faith Looks Up to Thee."
1877 The residents of Minnesota observed a statewide day of prayer, asking for deliverance from a plague of grasshoppers that had been ravishing their farm crops this year. (The plague ended soon after, in the summer.)
1955 The Roman Catholic religious program "Life is Worth Living" aired for the last time over Dumont television. Premiering in 1952, it was hosted by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who won an Emmy during its first year of broadcast for being "the most outstanding personality" on television.
1956 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in "Letters to an American Lady": 'One of the many reasons for wishing to be a better Christian is that, if one were, one's prayers for others might be more effectual.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit"

Martha Stewart's Way vs. The Real Woman's Way...
Martha's Way #7: Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away.
Real Woman's Way #7: Martha, dear, the only reason this works is because you can't rub a lime on your forehead without getting lime juice in your eyes and then the problem isn't the headache anymore, because now you are BLIND. A much better use for the lime is with tequila. You certainly won't have a headache, not until the next day, anyway. If a headache does occur, repeat with the tequila and lime.

New State Slogans...
Montana: How fast can you drive?

Male Language Patterns...
"I was listening to you. It's just that I have things on my mind." REALLY MEANS,
"I was wondering if that red-head over there is wearing a bra."

Female Language Patterns...
"Yes, honey, I heard every word you said." REALLY MEANS,
"My, that golf instructor has a cute butt. I wonder how the hat that slut he's with is wearing would look on me.

WOW.
And OUCH.
Happened sometime after I went to bed lastnight then.

FALL IN to the FReeper Foxhole!

Good Monday Morning Everyone.

Yippee, FR is back up!

If you would like added to our ping list let us know.

Do you mean my "Short post the Thread" list? You should be on Snippy's Official list.

Finally sat Snippy down and we watched "The Matrix". :-)

"Our present condition, achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations, illustrates the American idea that governments rest upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish governments whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established."
-- Jefferson Davis First Inaugural Address.

DIXIE BUMP!

free dixie,sw

Good morning Sam! Boy am I glad to see Snoopy!

TJ was seldom wrong. this comment proves how prescient he really was!

free dixie,sw

1948 The XP-86 prototype for the Sabre Jet first "officially" breaks the sound barrier. The first operational F-86A Sabres entered service in May of the same year

I am on hers, but there are times when I have to leave for work and I have to go searching for the thread
to post coffee..

You missed all the frustration!

Morning Stainlessbanner.

Morning stand watie.

Free Dixie!

Snippy is running late this morning. ;-)

OK. No problem, consider it done.

Good morning, Sam and Snippy and everyone at the Freeper Foxhole.

We had a line of storms mover through our area yesterday. Little bit of hail and wind but that was about it.

FR was down for awhile but it's great to see it up and running again.

Snippy is running late this morning. ;-)

So is FR!! ;-)

I was thankfully down at the time.
I was offline for ten days a week or so ago, and then off for the weekend.
*shudders*
Don't think I'd have been able to stand FR being down while online myself.

Finally watched the Matrix?
*chuckle*
I only got to see bits and pieces of it myself.
Going to have to see the whole thing sometime.

Dixie Bump!!!