Friday, June 20, 2008


Good Friday to all!
A picture of the Hotel Taj in Mumbai/Bombay India. I recently visited Mumbai.


Jumble answer for today, 6/20/08:


DALGE = GLADE

YASID = DAISY

SOLJET = JOSTLE

YUPERN = PENURY


CIRCLED LETTERS = LADIYSTLNUR


THE TEEN DID THE WASH BECAUSE IT WAS PART OF HER - - -

"LAUNDRY LIST"


Happy Don't Go In The Water Day! Jaws opened in theaters on this day in 1975.


Other things on this day in history:


451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.
1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter.
1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1756 - British garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
1782 - The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1787 - Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath.
1791 - King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during The French Revolution.
1819 - The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, but most of the journey was made under sail.
1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1862 - Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her stepmother and father.
1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1944 - World War II: Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive US naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”.
1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people.
1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal.
1963 - The so-called "red telephone" is established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1973 - Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fired upon left-wing peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 injured.
1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered.
1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.


3 comments:

Razz said...

Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.

Good post - I enjoy the Jumble, too.

How many Google sites to construct your "today" list?

Dr. Dad said...

A few to get them. Sometimes, I get hits on just one inquiry.

Varun G said...

hey this is the place and same hotel where recently pakistani terrorist attacked. right? nice picture

have u ever visited Calcutta (kolkata), a city of joy