Birthday • 1989-07-14 Gender •
Male Location • Dayton, OH Member Since • 2006-06-26 Occupation • Student Real Name • Dan
Personal
Achievements • Being in marching band for 4 years Anime Fan Since • A mystery for the ages Favorite Anime • Tenchi Muyo, Love Hina, Tsubasa Chronicles Goals • I have no goals Hobbies • Doing useless stuff Talents • Watching TV and surfing the internet
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
ARE YOU READY FOR IT
DID YOU KNOW...
...that abolitionist William W. Patton wrote new lyrics to the battle song "John Brown's Body", glorifying the attack by the "nineteen men so few", only for Julia Ward Howe to write a longer-remembered set of lyrics two months later?
TODAY IN HISTORY
1814 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner.
1901 - President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
1968 - Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers becomes the first pitcher since 1934 to win 30 games in a season as the Tigers beat the Oakland Athletics 5-4. McLain would go on to finish 31-6 capturing the Cy Young Award and the American League MVP . He would repeat as Cy Young Award in 1969, before suffering a personal downfall that would see him out of baseball within 5 years.
1990 - Ken Griffey, Jr. and his father, Ken Griffey, Sr. become the first father-son duo to hit back-to-back home runs.
1994 - The Major League Baseball season is canceled due to strike.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Panoramic photo of the historical part of the city of Porto, Portugal, and the Douro river. Historic references to Portugal's second city date back to the 4th century, although Celtic and pre-Celtic remnants of ancient citadels were found in the heart of where Porto now lies.
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