gypsyman wrote: 

Nope.  It happened.  It is real. 

History is a review of the good, the bad and the ugly.

There are some things that cannot be swept under the rug and shouldn't be.

History is real.  Cherry picking is how revisionism begins.  What's next ?  WW II didn't happen ?

We already have a host of Holocaust deniers.

72 years ago, Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. The greatest generation comes to life on a day of infamy.

I couldn't just leave it blank.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
 
Okay.

 Alexandra wrote: 
trying to keep it positive...

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
 
I thought sure there would be a different post from you in here this morning...

1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.

1969 – The four node ARPANET network is established.

1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States.)

1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
 now I have song-stuck-in-da-haid syndrome ...

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Go Funky Claude!

1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

1980 – English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbands, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25th.

1971 – The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".

1956 – The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studios for the first and last time.

1872 – The crewless American ship  Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia. The ship had been abandoned for nine days but was only slightly damaged.

1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.

1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.

1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.