I remember those

Ugh organic chem. Our class average was barely passing.

I am no longer a recruit! I am a cadet! I even traded in my beret for a Slouch Hat!!!

Yay!

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So, uh... why are we talking about 1948?

January 1 - Saarland joins West Germany. IRA attack on Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon.
January 1 - Legendary Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini suffers the stroke that will lead to his death a little over two weeks later.
January 2 - San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
January 3 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
January 4 - After 69 years the last issue of Collier's Weekly magazine is published.
January 5 - Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed handled the ball in test match cricket.
January 9 - Anthony Eden resigns.
January 10 - Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
January 11 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
January 13 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.
January 14 - Humphrey Bogart dies of throat cancer at age 58.
January 16 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool.
January 16 - Arturo Toscanini dies of a stroke at age 89.
January 20 - Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated for second term as President of the United States.
January 22 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (they captured it from Egypt in a battle on October 29, 1956).
January 22 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
January 23 - Ku Klux Klan members force truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River - he drowns as a result.
January 31 - Three students on a junior high school playground in Pacoima, California are among the eight persons killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet in the skies above the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles.
February 4 - France prohibits UN involvement in Algeria.
February 15 - Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of Soviet Union.
March 1 - U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma.
March 1 - Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay.
March 1 - Sud Aviation forms from a merger between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest).
March 3 - Net als toen by Corry Brokken (music by Guus Jansen, text by Willy van Hemert) wins Eurovision Song Contest 1957 for Netherlands
March 6 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
March 7 - Congress approves the Eisenhower Doctrine.
March 8 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.
March 10 - Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient Indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon.
March 13 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery
March 14 - President Sukarno declares martial law in Indonesia.
March 20 - French newspaper L'Express reveals that the French army tortures Algerian prisoners.
March 25 - Treaty of Rome (patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC); see EU.
April 1 - The first new conscripts join the Bundeswehr.
April 5 - First elected government of Kerala. CPI won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala.
April 9 - Egypt reopens Suez Canal for all shipping.
April 12 - United Kingdom announces that Singapore will gain self rule January 1, 1958.
April 12 - Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, printed in England, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity.
April 17 - Brecon Beacons is designated a national park.
May 2 - Vincent Gigante fails to assassinate mafioso Frank Costello. Senator Joseph McCarthy dies.
May 3 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
May 15 - Stanley Matthews plays his final international game, ending an English record international career of almost 23 years.
May 16 - Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the new Secretary General of NATO.
June 9 - First ascent of Broad Peak.
June 15 - Eindhoven University of Technology is founded.
June 21 - John Diefenbaker becomes Canada's thirteenth prime minister.
June 25 - United Church of Christ formed in Cleveland, Ohio by merger of Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
June 27 - Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, killing 400 people.
July - International Geophysical Year begins.
July 16 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
July 25 - Tunisia becomes a republic.
July 29 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established
August 4 - Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins that season) his record fifth world drivers championship, including his fourth consecutive championship (also a record); these two records would endure for nearly half a century.
August 21 - Eisenhower announces a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing.
August 31 - The Federation of Malaya, which does not include Singapore, gains independence from the United Kingdom. Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan becomes the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 4 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orville Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the US National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
September 4 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel on what the company proclaims as "E Day."
September 5 - The first edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road went on sale.
September 21 - Olav V becomes King of Norway on the death of Haakon VII.
October 4 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.
October 9 - Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
October 10 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
October 11 - Radio telescope of Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, UK, opened.
October 23 - Morocco begins its invasion of Ifni.
October 25 - Assassination of a Mafia boss Albert Anastasia in a barber shop in Park Sheraton Hotel.
October 27 - Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey.
November 1 - Michigan's Mackinac Bridge opened.
November 3 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space - a dog named Laika.
November 6 - Jailhouse Rock opens nationally and Elvis Presley continues to gain more notoriety.
November 7 - Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
November 13 – Invention of the laser by Gordon Gould.
November 13 - Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding also in Venice.
November 14 - Apalachin Meeting - The leaders of the American Mafia meet at a convention in Apalachin, New York at the house of Joseph Barbara. It is broken up by a curious patrolman.
November 15 - Plane crash in the Isle of Wight leaves 43 dead.
November 16 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden of Plainfield, Wisconsin.
November 25 - President Eisenhower has a stroke.
November 30 - Grenade attack against Indonesian president Sukarno in Cikini School in Jakarta. Six children are killed, Sukarno survives unscathed.
December 1 - In Indonesia, Sukarno announces nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses.
December 4 - Lewisham train disaster in UK leaves 92 dead.
December 5 - All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from Indonesia.
December 6 - First U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails, the rocket blowing up on the launch pad.

1948AD, January 30 - Mohandas Ghandi, the international Street Fighter, dies.
1948AD, February 1 - Soviet Union begins to jam with DJ Lauren Bacall.
1948AD, March 1 - The Great Jew Convention convened under president Vin Diesel to restore the nation of Israel. A rider to the resolution allows the public to receive television broadcasts for the first time. Civilian use of the idiot light had previously been banned by the GJC International Media Conspiracy oversight committee.
1948AD, March 9 - F. Murray Abraham passed an ancient Italian blood ritual endowing him with superpowers rivaling those of Oprah.
1948AD, April 4 - The Marshall Mathers plan to flood Europe with rap music commences.
1948AD, May 1 - MS Paint invented by Linus Torvalds. It is initially sold in cans in hardware stores until someone realizes that that is not the point. The product is then withdrawn for extensive retooling.
1948AD, June 16 - Communist gorillas kill three nice-smelling plants in Malay. Researchers are split on whether the hairy mammals were actually communist or not.
A 21-ton coal-fed Xerox machine goes on sale. The first copies emerge from it early in 1949.

[This message has been edited by OutlandishTeacup (edited 10-23-2006 @ 06:37 AM).]

Uh... We were picking things from the year that our post number relates to. Thus, phailure.

Belgian cookies?

Shawn Coaster, 19, died last night from being forgotten at an airport. Being from Australia, he was bound to die a horrible way anyway because Australia's destruction is imminent, but his friends can't even remember his name and his age, so it's a tragedy. "Steve Irwin, and now this, I can't survive..." says Jarrod Nelson, 15, of Sydney, "...what about his education". "He will always be the "Computer Hunter" to me." says Sunny, 24, Canadian. Another Canadian failed to respond. The typical Brit was too busy humping this reporter's leg.

[This message has been edited by Xunny (edited 10-23-2006 @ 08:17 PM).]

Was that an cheap and insultive shot at me?

Ah who am I kidding, that reporter's leg never saw me coming.

Legs don't have eyes, obv. The thing is, did the reporter see you coming? (uh, eww)

I do belive he did

Best polishing his shoes have ever gotten.

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What kind of person doesn't have eyes on their legs?

I once knew a man who had no eyes on his leg. He died.

Right or left?

Thankfully, I don't have to worry about dieing from having no eyes on my legs.

Oh noes! Not Shawn Coaster!

Whos Shawn Coaster?

^

Discovery Channel's Atlas - Australia was boring.

They should've done Steven Irwin Atlas, now THAT would be cool.

By dividing my post count by my PPD, I've come to the conclusion that I've been in HG for 1551 days. I soo missed my 1337 day.

Oh, and 4.2 years.

[This message has been edited by Elpea (edited 10-24-2006 @ 02:37 AM).]