The Ashes Urn 1,353 Posted August 18, 2020 Walter Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Corporation, died on this day 80 years ago, aged 65. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Great Cornholio 902 Posted August 19, 2020 Today 2006 years ago, Augustus Caeser, the first Roman emperor, died aged 75. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted August 19, 2020 24 minutes ago, Kenny McCormick said: Today 2006 years ago, Augustus Caeser, the first Roman emperor, died aged 75. Your shocking spelling of Caesar led me to puzzle as to what the years would have been called at the time of his reign as obviously BC and AD must be a later change as no one recognised Christ as Christ when he was born. The answer is he became Caesar in AUC 727 and would therefore have died in AUC 767. AUC stands for Ab Urbe Condita which means 'From the founding of the city', the city being Rome obviously. If the name of the years had not been changed we would now be in AUD 2773 and would never have had to worry unnecessarily about the Millennium Bug 20 years ago. So thanks - if you had spelled it Caesar correctly I would never have pondered and would remain ignorant. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,581 Posted August 19, 2020 Its 125 years since the death of John Wesley Hardin, notorious old west outlaw & gunfighter, aged 42. He got in an argument with an El Paso lawman, John Selman Jr, and allegedly pistol-whipped him; the lawman's father, John Selman Sr. himself an old gunfighter, is said to have entered the saloon where Hardin was playing dice and shot him in the back of the head, adding three more shots, just to make sure (he was tried for murder, claiming self-defence; the trial ended with a hung jury, but Selman Sr. was himself killed before the retrial began). One hundred years later, Hardin's body was the subject of a graveside confrontation - his descendants wanted to exhume his remains to transport to Nixon, Texas, to be reinterred next to his first wife, while El Pasoans wanted him to stay where he was. The El Pasoans won. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ashes Urn 1,353 Posted August 19, 2020 End of the fight for wrestler Jim Londos on this day 45 years ago, aged 81. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Great Cornholio 902 Posted August 20, 2020 Ex DL name, Jerry Lewis, told his last joke 3 years ago 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ashes Urn 1,353 Posted August 20, 2020 German physician Paul Ehrlich died on this day 105 years ago, aged 61. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Great Cornholio 902 Posted August 21, 2020 RIP to the fucking legend that is Stefan Karl Stefanson, who will always be number one. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ashes Urn 1,353 Posted August 21, 2020 Russian Marxist, Leon Trotsky, was assassinated on this day 80 years ago, aged 60. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
One shot Paddy 1,204 Posted August 21, 2020 42 minutes ago, The Ashes Urn said: Russian Marxist, Leon Trotsky, was assassinated on this day 80 years ago, aged 60. Got an icepick that made his ears burn! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,581 Posted August 22, 2020 Five years since the Shoreham Airshow crash Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ashes Urn 1,353 Posted August 22, 2020 Richard III of England died on this day 535 years ago, aged 32. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ashes Urn 1,353 Posted August 23, 2020 American lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II died on this day 60 years ago, aged 65. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Great Cornholio 902 Posted August 24, 2020 Richard Attenborough died 6 years ago aged 90 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,903 Posted August 24, 2020 Yootha Joyce died forty years ago today, and my mother's constant reminder that 'she's dead now' every time George and Mildred was on telly urned me into the morbid sole you know. That was meant to say turned not urned, but well I am morbid. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ashes Urn 1,353 Posted August 24, 2020 Final composition for Paul Creston on this day 35 years ago, aged 78. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Great Cornholio 902 Posted August 25, 2020 John McCain went to hell 2 years ago, aged 81 Neil Armstrong took his first steps in the afterlife 8 years ago, aged 82 Friedrich Nietzsche eternally never returned 120 years ago aged 55 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ashes Urn 1,353 Posted August 25, 2020 Last cartoon for Carl Barks on this day 20 years ago, aged 99. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Great Cornholio 902 Posted August 26, 2020 Playwriter, Neil Simon, died 2 years ago aged 91 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ashes Urn 1,353 Posted August 26, 2020 American psychologist William James lost the will to live on this day 110 years ago, aged 68. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Great Cornholio 902 Posted August 27, 2020 Stevie Ray Vaughn died 30 years ago aged 35 Lord Lewis Mountbatten died 41 years ago aged 79 Nicholas Mountbatten (Lord Mountbatten's grandson) also died 41 years ago. The two were killed in an IRA assassination while on a boating trip Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, was strangled to death aged 83 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,122 Posted August 27, 2020 41 minutes ago, Kenny McCormick said: Lord Lewis Mountbatten died 41 years ago aged 79 Louis. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,581 Posted August 27, 2020 Stevie Ray Vaughan died 30 years ago today aged 35, when the helicopter in which he was a passenger crashed en-route to Chicago Midway from Alpine Valley resort, East Troy, Wisconsin. Four others also died - pilot Jeff Brown, agent Bobby Brooks, bodyguard Nigel Browne, and tour manager Colin Smythe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ashes Urn 1,353 Posted August 27, 2020 End of the construction for Le Corbusier on this day 55 years ago, aged 77. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Great Cornholio 902 Posted August 28, 2020 Bill Kerr died 6 years ago aged 92 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
