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So today in history, the following hapend:

2010 My baby Boy Was born.

1963 Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
1963 Major league baseballs 100,000th game
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar U.S.S.R.
1959 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1958 Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1957 Elvis records “White Xmas,” “Silent Night” and “Here Comes Santa Claus”
1955 “Catch a Star” opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances
1955 J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname
1954 68th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86)
1954 74th U.S. Mens Tennis: E V Seixas, Jr. beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)
1954 U.S. plane shot down above Siberia
1954 WINS New York City begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
1953 Adenauers CDU wins elections in West Germany
1953 Roy Campanella sets record for home runs by a catcher at 38
1952 Canadian TV begins in Montreal
1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1948 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
1948 Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands
1946 All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1946 Terence Rattigan’s “Winslow Boy,” premieres in London
1945 Bhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown (South African History)
1945 A’s catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended
1945 “Mr Strauss Goes to Boston” opens at Century Theater New York City for 12 performances
1944 General Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
1943 “Congressional Limited” train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1943 63rd U.S. Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60)
1943 Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A’s
1942 56th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
1942 Czechoslovakian marathon runner Oskar Haks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
1941 55th U.S. Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)
1941 61st U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
1940 Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
1940 Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
1939 1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II
1939 South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany
1938 Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen
1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
1928 U.S.S.R. signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
1927 B. G. DeSylva/Lew Brown’s musical “Good News,” premieres in New York City
1927 Red Sox beat New York Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
1924 Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails
1924 Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships
1923 Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee
1922 42nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64
1920 40th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1914 Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1913 19th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pegoud-France)
1913 Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
1912 New York Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0
1910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
1909 Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
1905 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
1904 Soccer team Rheden forms
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Creeping Man”
1901 President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1899 U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his “Open Through Note”
1898 Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi’s tomb in Omdurman
1889 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award
1883 Cub’s Burns (extra bases), Williamson and Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
1880 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, vs. Australia at The Oval
1880 W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, vs. Australia The Oval
1876 Race riot in Charleston SC
1876 Southern Pacific line from LA to San Francisco completed
1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1870 Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die
1869 1st westbound train arrives in SF
1869 Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
1866 Frederick Douglass is 1st U.S. black delegate to a national convention
1863 Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner South Carolina (1700 casualties)
1863 After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft. Wagner, SC
1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
1861 General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky
1853 Women’s Right’s Convention met (New York City)
1848 National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1839 Cherokee Nation forms
1839 Great fire in NY
1837 Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
1819 Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
1791 Mozarts opera “La Clemenza di Tito,” premieres in Prague
1776 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
1776 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell’s “Turtle” attacks British sailboat “Eagle” in Bay of New York)
1732 VOC fires Netherlands-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
1716 1st U.S. lighthouse built (Boston)
1715 Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
1690 King Willem III escapes back to England
1688 Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
1683 Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
1675 Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships
1672 Willem III’s troops reconquer Naarden on France
1634 Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat
1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1622 Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
1620 1st stones layed in Western Tower
1543 French and Turkish fleet occupies Nice
1522 Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
1492 Columbus’ fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
394 Battle of Frigidus North-Italy

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Today in history 3 September, the following happened:

1939 Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada
1938 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland
1937 3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000)
1935 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
1935 Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games
1934 Tunisia began its move for independence
1932 Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for U.S. Tennis title
1932 Jimmie Foxx of A’s hits 50th and 51st home runs to become 3rd to hit 50
1930 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
1929 Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17
1928 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th and final career hit
1925 1st international handball match held
1925 Dirigible “Shenandoah” crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
1924 Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai
1924 L Stallings and M Anderson’s “What Price Glory?,” premieres in New York City
1923 Dorothys Donelly’s “Poppy,” premieres in New York City
1921 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0)
1921 KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms
1918 38th U.S. Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75)
1918 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917
1918 Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
1917 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes
1917 German troops over run Riga Latvia
1917 Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader
1917 Utrecht soccer team Holland forms
1916 Allies turned back Germans in WW I’s Battle of Verdun
1914 British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne
1914 Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
1914 French troops vacate Reims
1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania
1912 Arnold Schoenberg’s “Funf Orchesterstucke,” premieres
1912 World’s 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1911 31st U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62)
1908 James Barries “What Every Woman Knows,” premieres in London
1906 Yankees win 2nd game on a forfeit over A’s; 2nd forfeit win
1904 St. Louis Olympics closes
1902 Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season)
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Illustrious Client”
1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1900 British annex Natal (South Africa)
1895 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
1891 11th U.S. Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62)
1891 Cotton pickers organize union and staged strike in Texas
1891 John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti
1890 Oliver S. Campbell wins U.S. Tennis Open
1888 East Africa Company political and commercial rights
1888 Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British
1882 French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die
1881 1st U.S. Mens Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (60 63 62)
1881 Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony
1878 England’s Princess Alice sinks; 645 die
1865 Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen’s Bureau to stop seizing land
1864 U.S., British, French and Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki
1852 Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
1849 California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
1838 Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor
1833 NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1832 Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname
1826 USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1791 French Constitution passed by French National Assembly
1783 Treaty of Paris signed
1779 Earl d’orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest
1752 This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1752 U.S. adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14)
1731 Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland
1725 England, France, Hannover and Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover
1709 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1697 King William’s War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick
1683 Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1658 Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector
1651 Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists
1650 Battle at Dunbar: England vs Scotland
1632 Battle at Nurnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden
1543 Cardinal Beaton replaces earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland
1483 Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army
1260 Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army
1189 30 Jews are mnassacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation
1189 England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster
590 St. Gregory I begins his reing as Catholic Pope

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A really awesome site that lets you create your own Graffiti for free. Its a really cool site, and you can do so much with it. Give it a go:
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Have you ever heard of Equatorial Guinea? do you know where Equatorial Guinea is? Today we find out where in the world Equatorial Guinea is:

Here is a Google maps snapshot of Equatorial Guinea
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This is a really fun Flash Game. A-Hero. Control the game with your mouse. Enjoy:

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So Today in history, the following happenend:

1904 James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title1894 Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed1890 Would be start of England/Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout1888 8th U.S. Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum, Jr. beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60)1886 1st International polo meet, U.S. vs England1875 Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel, 21h 45m1864 Combination rail and ferry service available from San Francisco to Alameda1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream’s Station1862 Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves1835 N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel1830 Belgium revolts against Netherlands1829 President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses1825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)1814 British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books1804 Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)1802 Toussaint L’Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France1795 Curacao slaves opponents returns to St. Christopher1768 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth with Endeavour to Pacific Ocean1758 Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russians: 1000s killed1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found1704 Battle at Malaga: French vs English and Dutch fleet1698 Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe1689 Battle at Charleroi: Spanish and English armies chase French1689 Montreal taken by Iroquois1628 Assault on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers1580 Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal1566 Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht1540 Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River1499 Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians1485 Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III1425 Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail1330 AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself1212 Children’s cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa357 Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught325 Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity

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I know I’ve posted about Lonehill estate before, a new Local Band. I really think they have some great potential, and had to share some more info on them. So here is a bit of a run down:

Lonehill Estate was formed in the Johannesburg Summer of 2003 when musicians Jonathan Ross and Brett Beverley (who had previously played together with Spilt Milk) joined the remnant of Cracked Plastic to form a new band. In 2004 Front man Gus Doyle had to pull out of the band due to another calling and with Brett overseas the band found itself down to two members. Around this time Jono entered the reality competition ..Project Fame Africa.. and quickly developed a following thanks to his antics in the house – and his sheer musical talent. Jono eventually came in second, securing a record deal with Sony BMG Africa.

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Do you like what you see on I Am Bored? Nominate us for 2010 SA Blog Awards – Best new blog.
just click here, and follow the steps:

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The Parlotones , have made quite a name for themselves, and make great music coming out of SA.
Here is one of their songs: enjoy
The Parlotones - Remember when

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