This Day In History

[RickO]

Remember the Alamo!!

[Gator]

3/9
happy B'day Charlie Gibson
ABC TV

[RickO]

March 9, 1964! Happy Birthday FORD Mustang!!!

[RickO]

March 9, 1964! Happy Birthday FORD Mustang!!!

[RickO]

Happy pi day, 3 14 at 1:59pm........weeeeeeeeeee nerds rule!

[Gator]

Happy B'Day...Wyatt Earp
"Injun Joe" Joe Kapp..(great NFL QB,Leader)
Ursulla Andress

[Gator]

Happy Birthdays
Wayne Newton

Tony Orlando

[WildcatOne]

At around 1:15 AM on this day in 1912, 95 years ago, the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic ocean, taking 1500 of its passengers into eternal darkness and an immortal legend, as well as the world's first Modern-day Heavy Metal image was born. I have a special connection to that event. One night in 1989, I dreamed that I was on that ship when it went down. There was nothing that had happened previously that would make me have that dream. It was as real as if I am sitting here typing this and it was a very long, detailed technicolor 3-D dream. I woke up in a cold sweat. I couldn't shake the feeling that I had been there. I decided that day that I would go to a bookstore and get a book about it. I found a volume of books about it at a bookstore that afternoon when I got off work and I bought one, took it home, and opened it up. I discovered that the Titanic had sunk on that same day, 77 years earlier. Over the next year, I bought and read every single available book and video about it and I read and watched all of it from beginning to end. 10 years later, when the movie came out, I didn't go to see it. My friends were all asking me, Hey man, YOU should see that! Why don't YOU go to see it? I said, I don't have to see the movie. I was there when it really happened...I did get the video when it came out and other than the romantic plot, the historic details about what happened are as accurate as anything I've ever read (and witnessed)...Cheers, WC1

[draglist]

That's wild. Believe it or not, the biggest thing that affected me about that tragedy was a comic book I read when I was a kid. The story line was about a guy who took the place of a woman and kid in a lifeboat and then paid some terrible end for it. I can't remember the details, but it really captured the mood for me... having spent 4.5 years on the ocean on a carrier, I know just how immense the ocean is at night. bp

[WildcatOne]

You know from first-hand experience and that's something I would have given anything to have had...and you're right about the guy who took that seat...there was more karma, good and bad, that came out of that incident than anything I've ever seen. Acts of heroism, cowardice, loyalty, shame and even humor. A hundred stories come to mind, and that one is one of the most significant. I know what happened to almost all of the passengers and crew. When the exhibit came here a few years ago, I went and took my sons and a couple of their friends with me. Each visitor was given a White-Star Line ticket when they came through the door. When you left, you would match your ticket with the name on it that was printed on it to the list of survivors and the lost. Of the 5 people in our group, I was the only one who didn't survive. The exhibit was one of the most incredibly haunting and chilling experiences I've had in my life. WC1