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Originally Posted by edco
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PS. AM I the only one who logs on every day JUST to see what avatar Wagner will be using..??
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Thank you all from me as well, 41 down and 41 to go.......until I retire.
I log on every hour to keep up with Wagner's posts.
October 12th in History
1492
Christopher Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas after a 33-day voyage from the Canary Islands. Initially, he believed he had sailed to Asia.
1810
Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig marries Princess Therese of Saxony – Hildburghausen. The festivities became a yearly event and evolved into the present-day Oktoberfest celebration of beer and bratwurst.
1811
Paraguay declares its independence from Spain and Argentina.
1822
Brazil formally becomes independent of Portugal.
1935
Birth of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. His concert appearances, especially with fellow tenors Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, make him a hugely successful international recording star. He made his debut at La Scala in 1965.
1940
Hitler begins operation-Seelowe (invasion of England).
1962
Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
1962
U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1966
I was born.
1968
Equatorial Guinea becomes independent after 190 years of Spanish rule. Its first president is Francisco Macias Nguema.
1977
Sweden agrees to cancel over $200 million in debts owed by eight Third World nations.
1978
Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty negotiations are opened in Washington by US President Jimmy Carter.
1982
Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor gets World Series record 5 hits.
1984
IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die.
1989
Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players.
1997
US singer John Denver (born 1944), whose hit songs include Rocky Mountain High and Thank God I’s a Country Boy, dies when his experimental light plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean shortly after take-off from Monterrey airport in Mexico.
1999
The UN celebrates the birth of the world’s six billionth person, symbolically honouring a baby in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina in former Yugoslavia.
2000
USS Cole bombed in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors.
2001
The United Nations and its secretary-general, Kofi Annan, win the Nobel Peace Prize.
2002
Nearly 200 tourists murdered by Islamist terrorist bombs in Bali.
2006
An enormous lake effect snow storm drops 4 feet of snow on Western New York shutting power out for 1 1/2 weeks, destroying more than 5 million trees and causing more than 1 million dollars worth of damage.
2007
Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize.