Damn, those Olsen Twins get around

It's a sad enough story concerning Heath Ledger but when one of the Olsen Twins are involved (does it really matter which one), it starts spinning out of control.


Here's your Today in History -


January 24, 41 -
Roman emperor and crackpot Caligula is assassinated by his bodyguards. His last words apparently were, "I am still alive! Strike again." Yeah, yeah, I know you know that the Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator and a god, married his sister, slept with the horse. I guess this guy got more unnatural things done in a day then most of us do in a lifetime.





January 24, 1908
The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by its founder, Robert Baden-Powell, a man who enjoyed seeing and photographing naked boys swimming just a little too much. It is odd that such a homophobic organization would be founded by a repressed homosexual.




January 24, 1978
The nuclear-powered Soviet Cosmos 954 satellite plunges through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates, scattering radioactive debris over parts of Canada's Northwest Territories. Much of the satellite lands in the Great Slave Lake; only about 1% of the radioactive material is recovered. Hey, I hope we all enjoyed that smoked salmon from Canada in the late 70's.





January 24, 1986
Crackpot and founder of the fraudulent Scientology movement, L. Ron Hubbard dies. His bad science fiction writing has grown alarmingly prolific in the years since his death. Hopefully, neither Tom Cruise or Travolta read this.





And so it goes.