ON THIS DAY, BACK IN...

“...Rock musician Ozzy Osbourne is hospitalized in Des Moines IA after he bites the head off of a dead bat. The bat was tossed on stage by a fan during a live performance.”

“George 2 is president-
2001
Was said bat dead?”

“...Richard Nixon was inaugurated aas the 35th president.”

“The bat had to get Ozzy shots.”

“Jan 21 1793
The King of France, Louis XVI, is guillotined at age 39. An early "urban legend" has the King months earlier suggesting a slant and bevelling of the blade, for better cutting action.

Jan 21 1924
Lenin dead of stroke -- they keep him on ice, expertly preserved. Now after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian gangsters employ the use of the same scientists who taxidermied Lenin to preserve each other after they get whacked.

Jan 21 1959
Former Our Gang child star Charles 'Alfalfa' Switzer (age 32) was shot in a drunken knifefight in North Hollywood.

Jan 21 1960
At Coalbrook, South Africa, a mine collapse traps 437 miners, 417 of whom die from methane poisoning.

Jan 21 1960
The U.S. sends a space monkey, "Miss Sam", nine miles high aboard a Mercury rocket. The six pound monkey is successfully returned to Earth.

Jan 21 1992
Former child star Dana Plato (Different Strokes) arrested on charges of armed robbery for holding up a video store in Las Vegas. She served 200 hours of community service as sentence.”

“Wow!!! "shot in a drunken knife fight."

the mind boggles”

“1965 - The 'rock n roll' band 'The Animals' are asked to leave the country, in an attempt to stem the British invasion

I don't think it worked.....”

“Jan. 22, 1905
500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg.”

“Jan 22, 1968
The comedy show ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'' premiered on NBC”

“Jan. 22, 1998
Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.”

“Rowan and Martin, eh Violin.

I still remember Goldie Hawn doing the GO-Go thing. Jeez, I think her daughter's older than that, now”

“Jan 22 1918

Manitoba, Canada, film censor board decides to ban comedies, on the grounds that they make audiences "too frivolous".

Jan 22 1951

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's baseball career is ended after he is thrown out of a winter league game, during the tryouts for the Washington Senators.”

“Jan 22 1918
Manitoba, Canada, film censor board decides to ban comedies, on the grounds that they make audiences "too frivolous".

Jan 22 1949
Red Communists enter Peking.

Jan 22 1951
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's baseball career is ended after he is thrown out of a winter league game, during the tryouts for the Washington Senators.

Jan 22 1957
Mad Bomber captured.

Jan 22 1972
In an interview with Melody Maker, musician David Bowie announces that he is gay. Actually he is bisexual, and his wife Angela did catch him in bed with Mick Jagger.

Jan 22 1987
The State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, R. Budd Dwyer, proclaims his innocence to fraud charges at a crowded press conferences and then pulls a gun out of an envelope and blows his #&%!$ing brains out.”

“Jan 23 1556
The most devastating earthquake in history kills 830,000 people in Shanxi province, China. Many were killed when their clay caves, carved from cliffs, collapsed.

Jan 23 1812
A huge 7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri. People think that earthqakes strike the West Coast, but the New Madrid series of quakes are some of the largest in America's history.

Jan 23 1968
THE PUEBLO INCIDENT- Just a few days after the shock of the Vietnamese Tet offensive, a US Navy spy ship doing CIA intelligence work is captured in North Korean waters. The hostage ordeal mesmerizes the public for weeks and the sailors are finally released after a long captivity and humiliating show-trials. After his release, the commander, Capt. Lloyd Bucher retired from the navy, went to Art Center in Pasadena and trained to become an illustrator.

Jan 23 1972
An unscrupulous New Delhi bootlegger sells wood alcohol to a wedding party, killing 100 guests.

Jan 23 1978
Terry Kath of band Chicago accidentally suicides in Woodland Hills. Moral: don't pretend to play Russian Roulette.

Jan 23 1989
Salvador Dali dead.

Jan 23 1996
A professional bungee jumper practicing for the Superbowl was killed during rehearsal. Laura Patterson, 43, died of massive head injuries at the New Orleans Superdome. Way to go, Laura!

Jan 23 1998
Montana hermit Ted Kaczynski admits to four Unabomber attacks, pleading guilty in in a federal plea bargain that spares him the death penalty, but denies him the right of appeal.”

“Ted pleaded on the 22nd or 23rd?

Buddur - You read the Daily Rotten too?”

“1837 GOLD was discovered in CA and the rush began!”

“Jan 24 41
Roman emperor Caligula is assassinated by his bodyguards.

Jan 24 1908
The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by its founder, Robert Baden-Powell. He enjoyed watching the boys swim naked, and as a hobby he collected photographs of them.

Jan 24 1978
In 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.

Jan 24 1986
Crackpot and founder of the fraudulent Scientology movement, L. Ron Hubbard dies. His bad science fiction writing has grown alarmly prolific in the years since his death.

Jan 24 1989
Ted Bundy is executed for the murder of Kimberly Leach, after ten years trying to appeal.”

“The OJ Simpson murder trial began on this day in 1995.”

“Jan 25 1485
The Chief Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition, Peter Arbues, was bludgeoned from behind as he pray inside the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain. A fortnight later blood of the martyr liquefied on the floor of the cathedral -- a miracle! -- and numerous testimonies of healing occurring at his coffinside. The Catholic church canonized this brutal man in 1867.

Jan 25 1947
The infamous mobster Al Capone dead in Florida, his mind in dementia from long untreated syphillis. Capone was Alcatrazzed for eight years of his eleven year sentence for tax evasion, but had to be released due to deteriorating health.

Jan 25 1960
Actress Diana Barrymore commits suicide with alcohol and sleeping pills.

Jan 25 1971
Idi Amin, everybody's favorite tyrant, comes to power in Uganda.

Jan 25 1971
Charles Manson and three of his followers are convicted in Los Angeles of the Tate and LaBianca murders. All were sentenced to the gas chamber, with sentences commuted to life imprisonment when the death penalty was temporarily abolished.

Jan 25 1980
Beatle Paul McCartney is deported from Japan for possession of nearly a half pound of marijuana. It is Paul's third pot bust and his second deportation, an earlier one occurring in Germany 20 years previously after setting fire to a condom.

Jan 25 1990
An Avianca Boeing 707 ran out of fuel and crashed in Cove Neck, N.Y.; 73 of the 161 people aboard were killed.

Jan 25 1993
Pakistani Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle at the CIA headquarters parking lot at rush hour in Langley, VA, killing two agents and wounding three others. Kasi wanted to punish the U.S. for acting against Iraq during the Gulf War, and other acts against unspecified islamic countries.”

“And Robert Burns was born! I forget what year..”

“OK Buddur, fess up. You are posting those things here before they get posted on the Daily Rotten. Are you Soylent Communications or psychic?”

“Yes, I do get these cut-n-paste posts from www.rotten.com. But they are already on that site when I get them.”

“I see. They are available here but it takes a while for them to make it to here.”

“Jan 26 1948
A man with a "Sanitation" armband enters Teikoku Bank in Tokyo and injects the staff with a potassium cyanide solution, claiming to be administering immunizations for ameobic dysentery. Twelve people die, and the bank is robbed of a mere $500. Artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later found guilty of the killings.

Jan 26 1962
Mafia boss Lucky Luciano dead of natural causes at the Naples airport, where he was to meet a film producer to discuss his life story. Luciano dropped dead as he was about to shake hands.

Jan 26 1979
Dukes of Hazzard premiere, titled "One Armed Bandits". A shipment of slot machines is hijacked. High comedy.

Jan 26 1979
70-year-old multibillionaire Nelson Rockefeller dies of a massive heart attack in the company of an attractive 31-year-old staff research assistant.

Jan 26 1984
Michael Jackson's hair is ignited by a magnesium flash bomb at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during the filming of a Pepsi television commerical, causing third degree scalp burns.

Jan 26 1998
Residents of the Japanese town of Ito are attacked by a pack of raving wild monkeys. A total of 26 were injured and had to receive rabies shots. It remains unclear why the monkeys chose to attack.”

“Jan 27 1343
A papal bull by Clement VI expresses the doctrine that indulgences gain their validity and power from the accumulation of merit in the manifestation of the Catholic Church.

Jan 27 1945
Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Nazi occupied Poland.

Jan 27 1967
A launchpad flash fire in the Apollo I capsule kills the astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward H White, and Roger B Chaffee, at Cape Canaveral.

Jan 27 1992
Falsetto Mike Tyson on trial for rape.

Jan 27 1992
Candidate Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers mutually accuse each other of lying about whether or not they had a 12 year affair. Of course from Clinton's testimony in 1998 we know they did have such an affair, but that is the least of the President's problems. Can you say "sperm soaked dress"?

Jan 27 1992
Prostitute Aileen Wuornos found guilty after she killed seven "johns", often leaving cum-filled condoms near their bodies. She claimed self defense but is still sentenced to death. Oddly, prosecutors had arranged movie deals before an arrest had even been made.”

“Tell us about today Buddur! I know the space shuttle blew up in 1985(?) or so...what else?”

“Jan 28 1814
F I R S T R E I C H
Charlemagne German emperor, dies at the age of 71. Though he had conquered much of Europe, his legacy was considerably reduced after his death from mismanagement and incompetence.

Jan 28 1958
Brooklyn Dodger catcher Ray Campanella paralyzed in a car wreck.

Jan 28 1977
Star of TV's "Chico and the Man" Freddie Prinze blows his brains out at age 23.

Jan 28 1978
"Vampire of Sacramento" Richard Chase is arrested. Miscellaneous human organs are found in his refrigerator. He managed to kill six people, drinking the blood of two of his victims.

Jan 28 1986
Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 74 seconds into its flight, killing teacher Christa McAuliffe and the rest of the crew. Their capsule plunged intact into the ocean, pulverizing everyone on impact.”

“Jan 29 1919
Prohibition begins, and with it the rise of organized crime.

Jan 29 1943
Nazi police discover necrophiliac Bruno Ludke committing a crime against nature on the fresh corpse of a young female victim. He confesses that he has murdered no fewer than 85 and committed indecencies with most of their corpses. Ludke is committed to a hospital in Vienna for experiments, where he is killed in April of 1944.

Jan 29 1946
CIA established (1946)

Jan 29 1964
Premiere of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Jan 29 1975
Weather Underground bombs U.S. State Department main office in Washington, D.C., causing extensive damages.

Jan 29 1979
"I don't like Mondays" killing -- Brenda Spencer fires repeatedly at the school across from her residence in San Diego, killing 2 and wounding 8 children. The reason she gave inspired the Boomtown Rats song.”

“Jan 30 1649
1649: England's King Charles I was beheaded.

Jan 30 1835
THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL ASSASINATION ATTEMPT.-A man in a crowd fires two pistols at President Andrew Jackson. They both miss. Jackson, (former military man who already was carrying two lead balls in his body from indian fights and duels) was so outraged that he started drubbing the man with his cane. He beat him so badly that the police had the strange task of saving the assasin from his intended victim.

Jan 30 1945
In 1945, 7,700 persons died in world's largest marine disaster when the Nazi passenger ship Wilhelm Gustoff carrying Germans fleeing Poland was torpedoed in the Baltic by a Soviet submarine.

Jan 30 1948
Mohandas K. Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse.

Jan 30 1968
North Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive, in which they suffer a defeat and 46,000 dead, but shocks the complacent American television viewer who had been led to believe the war was won.

Jan 30 1972
British troops kill 13 unarmed marchers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This incident becomes known as "Bloody Sunday" and marks the beginning of a new extended round of violence.

Jan 30 1973
G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges.

Jan 30 1976
1976 George Bush becomes director of the CIA (until 1977)”

“Jan 31 1945
In 1945, during World War II, Private Eddie Slovik became the only American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion. He was shot by an American firing squad in France.

Jan 31 1950
Harry S. Truman approved development of Hydrogen Bomb (1950)

Jan 31 1961
In 1961, Ham the chimp is the first animal sent into space by the U.S. in test of the Mercury/Redstone 2 space capsule, 158 miles above the earth.

Jan 31 1971
Terrorists killed 73 people in Sri Lanka (1995)

Jan 31 1974
Republican Ted Bundy commits what is sometimes regarded as his first murder, Lynda Ann Healy, a 21 year old senior at the University of Washington. Her skull is not found until a year later. By the time he was executed, Bundy had committed nearly 30 murders, mostly women with dark long hair. It is believed that he may have murdered as early as 1961, when he was 15, but proof is at best circumstantial.

Jan 31 1989
In 1989, a Playboy nude photo of LaToya Jackson posing with snaked hit the newsstands. Ooo La La!”

“Feb 1 1861
Texas secedes from the Union, becoming independent once again. Since the articles of statehood passed by the U.S. Congress give Texas this right, it is perhaps the only state whose secession was legal.

Feb 1 1964
In 1964, Indiana Governor Matthew Welsh declares The Kingsmen's "Louie, Louie" to be "pornographic" and calls for its ban. The FCC investigates, in the end concluding the song's lyrics to be "unintelligible at any speed". The record sold more copies than ever.

Feb 1 1968
1968: Siagon's police chief, Nguyen Ngoc Loan executed a Viet Cong soldier with a pistol shot to the head, in a famous scene caught on film.

Feb 1 1970
US Government report reveals that 31% of college students have tried pot, man.

Feb 1 1974
A fire on the 12th floor of the 25 story Joelma Bank Building in Sao Paulo Brazil, killing 177 and seriously burning 293. A crowd of 10,000 spectators hampered firefighters near the building. The new building's cheap construction was primarily at fault.

Feb 1 1976
Heisenberg may have died today.

Feb 1 1998
Michael King of Clayton, Georgia is charged with the baseball-bat beating death of Kenneth Paul Smith. King urinated in Smith's front yard, and after the property owner complained, he was severely beaten with a bat kept in King's Ford Mustang.”

“Feb 2 1793
Czech composer Franz Kotzwara, who penned "The Battle of Prague", dies from autoerotic asphyxiation in a London brothel.

Feb 2 1852
The first public toilet is inaugurated, located at 95 Fleet Street in London, by the Society of Arts.

Feb 2 1870
Cardiff Giant revelead as a hoax (1870)

Feb 2 1942
1943-German 6th army surrenders at Stalingrad. In 1943, the remainder of Nazi forces from the Battle of Stalingrad surrendered in a major victory for the Soviets in World War II.

Feb 2 1979
Sid Vicious, bassist for the Sex Pistols, dies in his sleep of a heroin overdose. He was waiting to stand trial for the stabbing death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.

Feb 2 1971
Idi Amin assumes power in Uganda, taking the government from President Milton Obote. One of his favorite pastimes seems to have been eating the brains of live prisoners. Also while in office, he eats one of his own sons.

Feb 2 1982
President Hafiz al-Asad orders destruction of Syrian city of Hama after its occupation by Muslim Brotherhood forces seeking to topple Syrian regime. Estimates of total deaths in this city of 180,000 ranged from 10,000 to 25,000 killed.

Feb 2 1997
Marv Albert, nationally known sportscaster, alledgedly bites a 42 year old woman after an evening of watching pornographic movies. By September he is on trial for sodomy. Yessss!

Feb 2 1998
Actor Daniel Baldwin is discovered by police in his Plaza Hotel room totally naked and disoriented, with a porno movie playing at high volume. He was checked into a New York hospital in critical condition, apparenly coming down from a cocaine binge. It is not clear why any Baldwin would be unable to handle his cocaine.”

“Feb 3 1882
P.T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo. He keeps him for three years until the animal's skull is crushed by a train.

Feb 3 1889
Belle Starr, female outlaw of the old west, shotgunned by her ex-boyfriend.

Feb 3 1913
In one of the blackest days in U.S. history, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This amendment created the income tax.

Feb 3 1959
A plane carrying singers J.P (The Big Bopper) Richardson, Buddy Holly and Richie Valens crashed near Mason City, Iowa, en route to a show in Fargo, N.D. The Big Bopper, whose big hit was "Chantilly Lace" in 1958, was 29. Holly, whose hits included "Peggy Sue," was 22. Valens, famous for songs like "La Bamba" and "Donna," was 18.

Feb 3 1998
The tail of a U.S. marine tactical surveillance jet on a training mission severs a tram cable at a ski resort near Trento in northern Italy, sending 20 skiers nearly 300 feet to their deaths.

Feb 3 1998
Female axe murderer Karla Faye Tucker executed by lethal injection at Huntsville State Prison, Texas. Tucker had brutally murdered Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton with a pickaxe in 1983. The last woman executed in Texas was also an axe murderer, Chipita Rodriguez, who was hanged in 1863.”

“Feb 4 1783
A large earthquake in Calabria Italy leaves 50,000 dead.

Feb 4 1974
Patty Hearst kidnapped

Feb 4 1983
Karen Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa. She frequently took laxatives and induced vomiting to prevent weight gain. At the time of her death she was pencil thin.

Feb 4 1987
Pianist/homosexual Liberace dead from AIDS in Palm Springs, California. Nobody even suspected the man was gay.

Feb 4 1998
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is assaulted with a direct hit by a fluffy cream pie during a three-pronged attack in Brussels. He was in Belgium attending meetings with industry and government leaders. Rumour is that the attack was engineered by Noel Godin, infamous for his other pie throwings at government officials.”

“Feb 5 1861
In 1861, the first peep show machine was patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati.

Feb 5 1979
Woodrow Bussey files suit against the Adolf Coors Brewing Company for failing to warn him that their product, Coors Beer, is an intoxicating beverage.

Feb 5 1998
The cold war era Checkpoint Charlie sign -- "You Are Leaving The American Sector" -- is stolen in Berlin.”

“Feb 6 1911
Ronald Reagan, who appeared in such films as Jap Zero, Girls on Probation, and Bedtime for Bonzo, born in Tampico IL.

Feb 6 1917
Zsa Zsa Gabor born in Budapest.

Feb 6 1943
Actor Errol Flynn aquitted of raping an adolescent. The woman had actually tried this shakedown with other celebrities and wasn't quite an adolescent despite her testifying with pigtails and a lollypop. Flynn had just finished a film called "Gentleman Jim" and at the end of the film when he says to Maureen O'Hara: "I never said I was a Gentleman." Peals of knowing laughter rang out from audiences.

Feb 6 1951
Radio personality Paul Harvey is arrested for trying to break into Argonne Atomic Lab.

Feb 6 1983
Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", charged with Nazi war crimes.”

“Feb 7 1812
New Madrid earthquake shakes Missouri, magnitude 8.2 -- as strong as any in the West.

Feb 7 1845
A drunken visitor to the British Museum smashes the irreplaceable Portland Vase. It takes months to repair.

Feb 7 1968
"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." -- U.S. Army Major, regarding the village of Ben Tre, Vietnam, in an AP dispatch.

Feb 7 1969
Beatle George Harrison has his tonsils removed. He had them destroyed to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

Feb 7 1989
Washed up tennis player Bjorn Borg has his stomach pumped after he overdoses on sleeping pills in Madrid, Spain.

Feb 7 1991
Mortar rounds are fired by the IRA at No. 10 Downing Street, the residence of British Prime Minister John Major. No injuries resulted but the door was severely dented.”

“Feb 8 1587
1587- Mary Queen of Scots beheaded. First in order to ensure a good job she bribed the executioner but he muffed the first chop and had to do it in a couple of swings. Then, when the headsman picked up the head it plopped out of it's red wig (she had lost a lot of her hair to smallpox, as did Elizabeth and a lot of other folks.) Finally, when they moved Mary's body a yelping lap dog jumped out of her skirts and wouldn't leave. Must've been a long day for the headsman.

Feb 8 1910
Boy Scouts founded by Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a man who enjoyed seeing naked boys swimming just a little too much. It is odd that such a homophobic organization would be founded by a repressed homosexual.

Feb 8 1924
Gee Jong is the first man to die in the gas chamber, at Nevada State Prison in Carson City. A pound of sodium cyanide crystals was lowered into a vessel of diluted sulfuric acid, producing hydrogen cyanide gas which asphyxiated Jong. "At first there is evidence of extreme horror, pain, and strangling. The eyes pop. The skin turns purple and the victim begins to drool."

Feb 8 1960
Adolph Coors III killed after a failed kidnapping attempt in Colorado. By October, Joseph Corbett Jr. is arrested in Canada after an national manhunt.

Feb 8 1990
After "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney expresses his view that "blacks have watered down genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children", he is suspended for a month by CBS. Rooney claims the remarks are fabricated.

Feb 8 1994
During an argument Jack Nicholson destroys the windshield of a car with a golf club, screaming "You cut me off!" Charges were dismissed on May 2 after the matter was settled privately. Nicholson did this one month before he was to host the annual Los Angeles Police-Celebrity Golf Tournament. D'oh!

...and on this day, 6 months ago, some kook from Trail Talk bought himself a banjo. What a dork!”

“Feb 9 1909
In 1909, the Federal Narcotics Prohibitions Act was passed as the first federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium).

Feb 9 1950
Senator Joseph McCarthy announces he has a list of 205 State Department employees who are Communist Party members. He did not mention that J. Edgar Hoover likes to wear garters and pumps.

Feb 9 1968
In 1968, "Planet of the Apes" opened in movie theaters.

Feb 9 1979
Serial killer Ted Bundy abducts, rapes, and murders twelve year old Kimberly Leach of Lake City Floriday. He takes her from her junior high school, where she had been elected runner-up Valentine Queen the day before. Kimberly's remains aren't found for eight weeks. It is for this murder that Ted Bundy is sent to the electric chair ten years later.

Feb 9 1989
In 1989, Aw, you're kidding! In sworn testimony before the New Jersey Senate, World Wrestling Federation officials, including president Vince McMahon, admit that the "matches" are purely entertainment with predetermined winners and no one is actually hurt.

Feb 9 1990
Singer Del Shannon (1961 hit: Runaway) commits suicide with a .22 rifle.”

“Feb 10 1863
Midgets Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren married in a ceremony promoted and orchestrated by P.T. Barnum, reception tickets $75 (adjusted for inflation, $1250 in today's dollars). Commodore Nutt served as best man.

Feb 10 1920
Major League Baseball bans the spitball. Pitchers who had been throwing spitballs could continue, and the practice ended completely in 1934 when the last one, Burleigh Grimes, retired.

Feb 10 1981
Eight people were killed, 198 injured, when fire broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino. (A busboy was later found guilty of setting the fire.)

Feb 10 1993
In a TV interview, former negro Michael Jackson tells Oprah Winfrey that he suffers from a skin disorder causing it to whiten.”

“Feb 11 1929
The Lateran Treaty is signed -- Mussolini granted recognition to the Vatican in return for their support of his fascist dictatorship.

Feb 11 1933
19 year old Japanese schoolgirl Kiyoko Matsumoto committed suicide by jumping into the thousand foot crater of a volcano on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizzarre fashion in Japan and in the ensuing months three hundred children did the same thing.

Feb 11 1936
Burt Reynolds' birthday. He's not the one who squealed like a pig in "Deliverance". His hairpiece is much younger than he is.

Feb 11 1986
Frank Herbert, author of Dune, dead from pancreatic cancer.

Feb 11 1992
"I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass." -- Last words of Johnny Frank Garrett, executed by lethal injection.

Feb 11 1993
Clinton nominates the beautiful Janet Reno to be US Attorney General.”

“Last night 12 years ago, on Feb. 10, 1990, was the anniversary of the most famous boxing match in history, and ESPN's Sports History channel re-ran the fight...

James "Buster" Douglas was a 42-1 longshot going into the ring, but shocked the world when he knocked out undefeated Mike Tyson in the 10th round to win the heavyweight title in Tokyo.

He lost his title defense 8 1/2 months later when he was knocked out by Evander Holyfield in the third round, however, his defeat of Tyson is known as the biggest upset in boxing history.”

“Feb 12 1554
In 1554, Lady Jane Grey, who had been queen of England for nine days, was beheaded after being charged with treason.

Feb 12 1789
1789- American patriot leader Ethan Allen dies after drunkenly falling out of a sleigh crossing frozen Lake Camplain.

Feb 12 1898
1st Car accident fatality (1898)

Feb 12 1967
In 1967, London police arrested Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful on drug charges. The police found heroin, hashish, pills, and a naked lady (Faithful).

Feb 12 1976
Actor Sal Mineo killed in the carport of his West Hollywood home. There were rumors of a gay crime of passion but in 1979 it turned out to be a routine mugger who stabbed him for his money.”

“Feb 13 1917
Mata Hari is arrested for spying.

Feb 13 1945
135,000 people, mostly women and children, die in the firebombing of the 13th-century city of Dresden, a revenge bombing that had almost no military justification.

Feb 13 1953
Transsexual Christine (formerly George) Jorgenson arrives in New York with much fanfare. She had had sex change operations performed in Denmark by Dr. Christian Hamburger, becoming the first successful surgical transgender. Upon return, she becomes a caberet actress.

Feb 13 1959
The first Barbie Doll is introduced by Mattel in California. But Mattel certainly never anticipated THIS.

Feb 13 1985
Japan's New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act comes into effect. The law brings an end to Japan's innovative sex businesses (ie, glory holes, strip bars, and public bondage), while protecting the traditional brothel industry. That's an improvement?

Feb 13 1990
Male prostitute Kevin Lee Kite accuses Rev. Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House (a place for wayward boys) and a respected member of the Meese commision on Pornography, of paying for homosexual sex. An internal investigation by Covenant House reveals a pattern of sexual misconduct with underage boys going back 20 years, and revealed a relationship with a 15 year old boy going back 14 months. Superiors at the Franciscan Order had been aware of Ritter's behavior patterns for some years, but did nothing.”

“Feb 14
The eve of the Roman feast of Lupercalia. Naked youths would run through Rome, anointed with the blood of sacrificed dogs and goats, waving thongs cut from the goats. If a young woman was struck by the thong, fertility was assured. Pope Gelasius I decided this was a bit too much, and co-opted the Roman holiday to be the Feast of St. Valentine in 484 A.D.

Feb 14 1779
English explorer Captain James Cook and some of his crew are slaughtered by angry Hawaiian islanders, after he tried to take a Hawaiian chief hostage over a dispute regarding a stolen boat.

Feb 14 1929
The Capone gang kills six members of the "Bugs" Moran gang and one other person at the S.M.C. Cartage company in Chicago, in an event known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Bogus police officers were used so that it appeared to be a routine police bust. Except for all the bodies.

Feb 14 1979
Walter Carlos, the musician who created "Switched on Bach" and the score of "A Clockwork Orange", reveals to the world that he has had a sex change operation and is henceforth to be referred to as Wendy.

Feb 14 1989
Ayatollah Khomeini issues a takfir against Salmon Rushdie, for his writings in the Satanic Verses. The act propels the otherwise uninteresting book into a bestseller.”

“Feb 15 1898
USS Maine blown up in Havana Harbor (1898)

Feb 15 1933
An unsuccessful attempt on FDR's life by Joseph Zangara in Miami leaves Chicago mayor Anton Czermak dead. Zangara is electrocuted the following month.

Feb 15 1936
In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered the building of Volkswagens.

Feb 15 1954
Ronald Reagan opens his stand-up act at the Las Vegas Ramona Room with the "Honey Brothers", a wacky slapstick troupe. His show was a smashing success.

Feb 15 1988
Surely you're dead, Mr. Feynman.

Feb 15 1992
In 1992, A Milwaukee, Wisconsin jury rejects mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer's insanity plea and holds him responsible for the brutal sex-torture murders of at least fifteen people. The judge sentences him to fifteen consecutive life prison terms.

Feb 15 1995
In 1995, The FBI arrested Kevin Mitnick, its "most wanted hacker," and charged him with cracking security for some of the nation's most protected computers. Mitnick later agreed to a plea bargain carrying an eight-month jail term.”

“Feb 18 1970
Only Nixon could go to China.

Feb 18 1991
Killer/Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer strangles a 19-year-old man, marking his tenth (of 17) victims. Jeffrey dismembers the body and keeps the skull in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment.

Feb 18 2001
Race car driver Dale Earnhardt crashes into the wall at the Daytona 500, killing him instantly. His widow files a lawsuit to force the autopsy photos to be sealed, and a Florida law is subsequently passed to prevent them from ever being released. Earnhardt was the most well known and most successful driver in the history of the sport.”

“Feb 20 1947
Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 square blocks in LA.

Feb 20 1971
1971: The national Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered radio and television stations to go off the air. The snafu lasted for 30 minutes.

Feb 20 1980
After some heavy drinking, Bon Scott, vocalist for heavy metal band AC/DC, is found in a friend's automobile choked on his own vomit.

Feb 20 1987
A paper bag at a Salt Lake City computer store explodes, injuring store owner Gary Wright. It is the second time the Unabomber has used the old "paper bag in the parking lot" trick.

Feb 20 1997
Victor Willis, the "cop" in the Village People is charged in Nevada on drug possession (45 grams of cocaine), possession of drug paraphanalia, and strong armed robbery. The events occurred February 15. Willis, 45, listed his occupation as "unemployed" and generously gave approval for his hotel room to be searched.”

“Feb 21 1803
The last person drawn and quartered as punishment in England, Edward Despard, dies.

Feb 21 1885
In 1885, the Washington Monument was dedicated by President Arthur

Feb 21 1916
Battle of Verdun. (Bloodiest in history.)

Feb 21 1931
First recorded hijacking of an airplane: Rebel soldiers in Peru force two American pilots to fly them about and to drop propaganda leaflets over Lima.

Feb 21 1933
A rubber factory in Shanghai explodes, killing 81, injuring 120.

Feb 21 1965
Malcolm X assassinated, probably by fellow black muslims.

Feb 21 1970
Nixon visits Red China, fulfilling the Vulcan proverb.

Feb 21 1988
In 1988, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart tearfully confessed to his congregation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that he was guilty of an unspecified sin. (Reports linked Swaggart to prostitute Debra Murphree.).”