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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Stewie Griffin wrote:
    Star Trek was first shown today in 1966.

    Other televisual milestones from 8th September;

    First episode of Only Fools & Horses, 1981
    First TV outing for Reggie Perrin (the Leonard Rossiter version), 1976 [1]

    David

    [1] I didn't get where I am today without posting pointless bits of trivia on forums. :wink:
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    This thread doesn't compute in my post-modern historical world.


    How d'ya know this is all accurate? :wink:
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • Mothyman
    Mothyman Posts: 655
    ... 2009 Sean Connery's wife apologised to him for forgetting to buy him a birthday card the week before....
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

    "The bodies were so numerous that burying them all was not possible. The dead were initially dumped at sea; the gulf currents washed the bodies back onto the beach so a new solution was needed. Funeral pyres were set up wherever the dead were found and burned for weeks after the storm. Authorities passed out free whiskey to work crews that were having to throw the bodies of their wives and children on the burn piles. More people were killed in this single storm than the total of those killed in all the tropical cyclones that have struck the United States since."
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