Monday, April 28, 2008

Rainy days and Mondays

Here is your Today in History -

April 28, 585 -
An unforeseen total eclipse of the sun interrupts a battle between Lydia and Media, bringing a sudden end to their six-year war.

April 28, 1789 -
In the middle of the South Pacific, the crew of the HMS Bounty, led by either Clark Gable, Marlon Brando or Mel Gibson mutinies, setting Charles Laughton, Trevor Howard or Anthony Hopkins and 18 other crewmen adrift in an open boat, so they can hang out with topless Tahitian teens. Sometimes history is very confusing.



April 28, 1881 -
Billy the Kid escapes from a New Mexico jail, killing jailer Bob Ollinger and a fellow prisoner in the process. Billy will survive for another three months before Pat Garrett finally kills him. Somehow
Jane Russell's braless bodaeous ta-tas are involved in this story



April 28, 1942 -
The ongoing global conflict is given the name "World War II" after a Gallup Poll is taken. "Let's All Get together and Kick Hitler's ass" was a close second.

April 28, 1945 -
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are captured by partisan fighters and executed (castrated and hung upside down on a meat hook). Just because you can get the trains to run on time does not mean that the voters love you.




April 28, 1996 -
After finishing his lunch at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, 28-year-old Martin Bryant pulls out an AR15 rifle and kills 12 tourists. Then he drives to a nearby bed & breakfast and slays 23 others. Bryant surrenders himself to police the next morning, after catching himself on fire in the act of burning down the B&B. He wasn't happy with the service.



And so it goes

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