Red_Dragon wrote: 
I wish I had a humorous or pithy reply for this statement of Ike's.  But, when the Pentagon gets weapon systems developed or proliferated that it did not even request, that seems a"leading indicator" of the veracity of Ike's observation.

1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".

1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.

1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.

1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
With much derision and sarcastic laughter from the guys at Encarta...

2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.

1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.

1938- Allen Toussaint born.


1941 - Dorothy Faye Dunaway born.

1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.

1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.

1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison

1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
A day that will live in infamy 

1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
welcome to arizona

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
4 years of chaos and mayhem for the entire fricking world. and then, cleopatra.....

1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.