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| February 2 |
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| Happiness is not in our circumstances... but in ourselves. It is not something we see... like a rainbow ... or feel .... like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. ~ John B. Sheerin |
| The story you are about to read is true. The name(s) may have been changed to protect the stupid... The Bozo Criminal for today comes from Boston, Massachusetts where it is illegal to intercept police radio transmissions. As you might think, it is rather difficult to capture people using these illegal scanners. Police came up with an ingenious plan. They sent out hoax messages on police radio frequencies about little green men in flying saucers landing in the downtown area. When carloads of bozos showed up looking for the aliens, police confiscated their scanning equipment and warned the bozos that scanning police frequencies was against the law. |
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| "asperity " PRONUNCIATION: (ah-SPER-i-tee) MEANING: noun: Harshness or roughness. ETYMOLOGY: Via French from Latin asper (rough). USAGE: "Dressed in Robert Jones's well-cut, earth-toned '60s' pantsuits, Lagerfelt wittily mixes languor and asperity." David Benedict; Greta Garbo Came to Donegal; Variety (Los Angeles); Jan 13, 2010. |
1847 ~ First Donner Party member dies
On this day in 1847, the first woman of a group of pioneers commonly known as the Donner Party dies during
the group’s journey through a Sierra Nevada mountain pass. The disastrous trip west ended up killing 42
people and turned many of the survivors into cannibals.
1848 ~ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed
On this day in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American War in favor of
the United States. The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo added an additional 525,000 square miles to United
States territory, including the area that would become the states of Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona, as well as parts of Colorado and Wyoming. Controversy during and after the war pitted
President James K. Polk in a political war against two future presidents: Zachary Taylor and Abraham Lincoln.
1880 ~ First electric streetlight installed
The first electric streetlight was installed in Wabash, Indiana. The city paid the Brush Electric Light Company of
Cleveland, Ohio, $100 to install a light on the top of the courthouse. A month later the city commissioned four
more lights to be installed. Residents of Wabash became the first Americans to wear their sunglasses at night.
1916 ~ Zeppelin crashes into North Sea
Two days after nine German zeppelins dropped close to 400 bombs throughout the English Midlands, the crew
of the British fishing trawler King Stephen comes across the crashed remains of one of the giant airships
floating in the North Sea. Developed by a German army officer, Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, and first flown in
1900, the zeppelin was an impressive aircraft by the beginning of World War I. With the capacity to carry five
machine guns and up to 2,000 kilograms (4,400 pounds) of bombs, it could reach a maximum speed of 136
kilometers per hour (84.5 miles per hour) and a height of 4,250 meters (13,943 feet).
1949 ~ United States rejects proposal for conference with Stalin
In response to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's proposal that President Harry S. Truman travel to Russia for a
conference, Secretary of State Dean Acheson brusquely rejects the idea as a "political maneuver." This rather
curious exchange was further evidence of the diplomatic sparring between the United States and the Soviet
Union that was so characteristic of the early years of the Cold War.
1962 ~ First U.S. Air Force plane crashes in South Vietnam.
The first U.S. Air Force plane is lost in South Vietnam. The C-123 aircraft crashed while spraying defoliant on a
Viet Cong ambush site.
1971 ~ Idi Amin takes power in Uganda
One week after toppling the regime of Ugandan leader Milton Obote, Major General Idi Amin declares himself
president of Uganda and chief of the armed forces. Amin, head of the Ugandan army and air force since 1966,
seized power while Obote was out of the country.
1980 ~ ABSCAM operation revealed
On February 2, 1980, details of ABSCAM, an FBI operation to uncover political corruption in the government,
are released to the public. Thirty-one public officials were targeted for investigation, including Representative
John Murphy of New York, five other representatives, and Harrison Williams, a senator from New Jersey. In the
operation, FBI agents posed as representatives of Abdul Enterprises, Ltd., a fictional business owned by an
Arab sheik. Under FBI video surveillance, the agents met with the officials and offered them money or other
considerations in exchange for special favors, such as the approval of government contracts for companies in
which the sheik had invested.
On this day in 1847, the first woman of a group of pioneers commonly known as the Donner Party dies during
the group’s journey through a Sierra Nevada mountain pass. The disastrous trip west ended up killing 42
people and turned many of the survivors into cannibals.
1848 ~ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed
On this day in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American War in favor of
the United States. The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo added an additional 525,000 square miles to United
States territory, including the area that would become the states of Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona, as well as parts of Colorado and Wyoming. Controversy during and after the war pitted
President James K. Polk in a political war against two future presidents: Zachary Taylor and Abraham Lincoln.
1880 ~ First electric streetlight installed
The first electric streetlight was installed in Wabash, Indiana. The city paid the Brush Electric Light Company of
Cleveland, Ohio, $100 to install a light on the top of the courthouse. A month later the city commissioned four
more lights to be installed. Residents of Wabash became the first Americans to wear their sunglasses at night.
1916 ~ Zeppelin crashes into North Sea
Two days after nine German zeppelins dropped close to 400 bombs throughout the English Midlands, the crew
of the British fishing trawler King Stephen comes across the crashed remains of one of the giant airships
floating in the North Sea. Developed by a German army officer, Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, and first flown in
1900, the zeppelin was an impressive aircraft by the beginning of World War I. With the capacity to carry five
machine guns and up to 2,000 kilograms (4,400 pounds) of bombs, it could reach a maximum speed of 136
kilometers per hour (84.5 miles per hour) and a height of 4,250 meters (13,943 feet).
1949 ~ United States rejects proposal for conference with Stalin
In response to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's proposal that President Harry S. Truman travel to Russia for a
conference, Secretary of State Dean Acheson brusquely rejects the idea as a "political maneuver." This rather
curious exchange was further evidence of the diplomatic sparring between the United States and the Soviet
Union that was so characteristic of the early years of the Cold War.
1962 ~ First U.S. Air Force plane crashes in South Vietnam.
The first U.S. Air Force plane is lost in South Vietnam. The C-123 aircraft crashed while spraying defoliant on a
Viet Cong ambush site.
1971 ~ Idi Amin takes power in Uganda
One week after toppling the regime of Ugandan leader Milton Obote, Major General Idi Amin declares himself
president of Uganda and chief of the armed forces. Amin, head of the Ugandan army and air force since 1966,
seized power while Obote was out of the country.
1980 ~ ABSCAM operation revealed
On February 2, 1980, details of ABSCAM, an FBI operation to uncover political corruption in the government,
are released to the public. Thirty-one public officials were targeted for investigation, including Representative
John Murphy of New York, five other representatives, and Harrison Williams, a senator from New Jersey. In the
operation, FBI agents posed as representatives of Abdul Enterprises, Ltd., a fictional business owned by an
Arab sheik. Under FBI video surveillance, the agents met with the officials and offered them money or other
considerations in exchange for special favors, such as the approval of government contracts for companies in
which the sheik had invested.
