Happy Birthday guys!!!!
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"Miss Elaine Eos" <Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked.com> wrote in message
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> Bill "BilltheCat" Prince, Steve Pulizzano and Steve "SkyhawkXP" Hall
> walk into a bar... Because it's their birthdays!
>
> Smoke three good ones, and join me in wishing them a great day.
>
> Elsewhere in history...
>
>
> Apr 16 1943
> Chemist Albert Hofmann inadvertently experiences the world's first acid
> trip when a miniscule quantity of lysergic acid diethylamide accidently
> seeps through the skin of his finger. After leaving work early, he went
> home and settled into "a not unpleasant intoxicated condition." Then he
> had solid two hours of visual hallucinations: "I perceived an
> uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with
> intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors." It will be another three days
> before Hofmann gets up the courage to swallow 250 micrograms and ride
> his bicycle home.
>
> Apr 16 1947
> 552 people are killed in Texas City, TX when 2,300 tons of ammonium
> nitrate fertilizer aboard the S.S. Grandcamp suddenly explodes. The
> blast generates a 2,000-foot mushroom cloud and is heard 160 miles away,
> leading some witnesses to believe that they had just been hit by a
> Russian A-bomb. 3,000 people suffer injuries and perhaps 200 more are
> unaccounted for. One-third of Texas City is decimated, twenty blocks of
> the waterfront are obliterated, and windows more than ten miles away are
> shattered.
>
> Apr 16 1953
> President Eisenhower addresses the nation concerning the relative
> priorities of "guns" versus "butter." In a fair fight, we'd have to bet
> on the guns.
>
> Apr 16 1966
> Alongside FBI officials, New York district attorney G. Gordon Liddy
> arrests Timothy Leary for possession of marijuana after raiding his
> Millbrook estate. The Supreme Court later rules this bust
> unconstitutional.
>
> Apr 16 1995
> Marlon Brando's daughter Cheyenne hangs herself in Tahiti.
>
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