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8-26-08 1839: U.S. Coast Guard officers board L'Amistad, a ship anchored off Long Island. They find the African slaves on the ship have revolted against their captors and taken control of the vessel. 1847: Liberia, the colony established in west Africa for freed U.S. slaves, is...

8-24-08 1572: King Charles IX of France, under the influence of his mother, Catherine de Médicis, orders the mass killing of Huguenots, as the Protestants in France were known, in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. 1814: In the last months of the War of 1812, British forces invade...

When I Get Where I'm Going ~ Brad Paisley

8-23-08 1305: Scottish nationalist William Wallace is executed in London as a traitor against King Edward I of England. He is tried in Westminster Hall, London, and promptly hanged and quartered. 1821: Following a decade-long rebellion against Spanish colonists, Mexico receives its...

8-17-08 My son MATTHEW"S 8th Birthday!:swing: 1790: The federal capital of the United States moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where it will remain until it moves again to Washington, D.C., in 1800. 1896: Gold is discovered in Bonanza Creek in the Klondike...

8-16-08 1819: In what becomes known as the Peterloo Massacre, 11 people die when government calvary troops attack a large crowd demonstrating for economic and political reform in Manchester, England. 1906: An earthquake measuring at 8.6 on the Richter scale virtually destroys the city...

8-13-08 1521: A Spanish force under Hernán Cortés, aided by Tlaxcalan allies, completes its capture of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán (the site of present-day Mexico City), after an eight-week siege. 1624: French king Louis XIII makes Cardinal Richelieu his chief minister. Richelieu...

8-4-08 1735: A jury finds John Peter Zenger, publisher of the New York Weekly Journal, not guilty of seditious libel. The case marks the first victory for American freedom of the press. 1809: Prince Metternich, who will dominate European affairs for much of the next four decades, becomes...

August 3rd 1492: Three ships commanded by Christopher Columbus depart from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, on the voyage that leads to the European discovery of the New World. 1829: William Tell, the final opera of composer Gioacchino Rossini, has its premiere in Paris, France...

8-02-08 1622: Nathaniel Butter and William Sheffard publish Newes from Most Parts of Christendom, the first regular newspaper printed in England. Because of political restrictions, it covers mainly foreign news. 1876: Frontier lawman Wild Bill Hickok is shot from behind while playing...

July 31st, 2008 My son Michael's 14th Birthday!!! 1777: The Continental Congress appoints the Marquis de Lafayette, a French volunteer soldier, a major general in the Continental Army at the age of 19. 1790: The new U.S. Patent Office gives Samuel Hopkins the first U.S. patent...

July 28th 1750: German organist and composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies at the age of 65, after a failed eye operation. 1794: French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre, who had executed many others during the Reign of Terror, dies at the guillotine himself after revolutionary...

I say........hows about some karma at all...........:beerbang:

awwwwwwwww heck here's the boys: LOL

When we had Zoey (scott's grand daughter) overnite we did something like that.....its truely amazing when you see how tiny they are and then how fast they grow. Its a god sent it is.

My place of choice, that i even have day dreams is: ANYWHERE THAT IS NOT HOME! AND DOES NOT INVOLVE KIDS!

July 26 1847: Liberia, a West African colony formed to resettle freed American slaves, declares its independence, becoming the first independent republic in Africa. 1945: A landslide victory for the opposition Labour Party in British elections near the end of World War II forces...

I Loved that movie so much, i bought it! I'll come back with my list.

July 25th 1261: Michael VIII Palaeologus recovers the city of Constantinople and is crowned Byzantine emperor there, restoring Greek control over the Byzantine Empire after a half century of Latin rule. 1895: Pierre Curie marries fellow chemist Marie Sklodowska. The two researchers...