This Day In History

[aiw]

Matt and Trey character

 

[Twentytwenty]

Matt and Trey character

Good show. Classic Americana. Wouldn't exist anywhere else, IMO.

 

[deeyoukayeee]

Matt and Trey character

Their version would be a hell of a lot funnier.

 

[aiw]

FUCK YEAH!

 

[rome8180]

Really sorry I opened this thread. Sigh.

 

[rome8180]

What's so special about Sunday's palindrome date?

Sunday's date is a ubiquitous palindrome date: 02/02/2020. Ubiquitous in this instance has been used to describe that no matter how a culture writes the

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Sunday’s date is a ubiquitous palindrome date: 02/02/2020.

Ubiquitous in this instance has been used to describe that no matter how a culture writes the date, it remains a palindrome — it reads the same backward and forward — and may be celebrated around the world on the same calendar day...

The eight-digit palindrome date is distinct from a four-digit pattern because it won’t happen again. A date with the year written with two digits, instead of four, will repeat each century.

An eight-digit ubiquitous palindrome date will happen only 11 times in the years between 1000 and 9999.

 

[aiw]

It’s also palindrome day of the year (33) and days left in the year (333), which will apparently never happen again.

 

[rhfarmer]

The End Times

 

[rome8180]

The last Palindrome Day was also 909 years ago, which itself happens to be a palindrome.

 

[aiw]

 

[sjsj2448]

One of the greatest orators (number 1 IMO) and heroes in American history.

Heartbreaking day.

 

[Slap the Floor]

Some cool stuff happened on May 4th:

• 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
• 1814 – King Ferdinand VII abolishes the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism.
• 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
• 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• 1814 – Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
• 1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1932 – In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
• 1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot.
• 1949 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
• 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• 1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
• 1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
• 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
• 1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
• 1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

 

[aiw]

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Just realized I didn’t have YouTube in college.

 

[rome8180]

I clearly remember spending all day downloading "Bohemian Rhapsody" on Napster in college. It literally took like two hours on dial-up, and if you got disconnected you had to start over.

Beyond that, I remember looking at a lot of thumbnail porn images. Even those took like 1-2 minutes to load. Made jerking off difficult.