63 years ago today we started the beginning of the end and we haven’t looked back since! :highfive:
63 years ago today we started the beginning of the end and we haven’t looked back since! :highfive:
Good old fashioned American ingenuity at work. :tup:
Can’t wait to see what cool thing we come up with to kill people next.
+1 for the vaporizer from War of the Worlds.
man, I really want to see one go off someday. I can’t imagine how epic, for lack of better words, that would be.
I love death!
I hope I never see one. They only test them in isolated corners of the Earth, so if I do it means mankind is about to step back into the stone age.
wtf shorts
:lol: Hard to believe that those guys opened up the biggest can of whoop ass this planet has ever seen…
1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1661 - Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
1819 - Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
1845 - Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1861 - British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 - American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Wœrth is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1901 - Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1909 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1912 - The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic - Two days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
1915 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1917 - World War I: The Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1923 - Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.
1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 - In New York, the Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke dies at age 28 of an Alcohol seizure.
1942 - Queen Wilhelmina is the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, “Little Boy”, is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years due to burns and radiation poisoning.
1956 - After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network has its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1958 - Sports: Australian runner Herb Elliot broke the world record for the mile at the Morton Stadium in Dublin, in a time of 3:54.5.
1960 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1961 - Cosmonaut Gherman Titov makes the second successful manned orbital flight for the (USSR).
1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.
1964 - Prometheus, the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
1966 - Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
1976 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays foundation-stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
1986 - A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1991 - Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan’s first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1993 - According to Japanese government and Tokyo Broadcasting System networks report, heavy massive rain and debris blow occurred at widely Kagoshima and Aira area, Kyūshū, Japan, killing 72.
1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1997 - Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
2000 - The Roman Catholic Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the filioque clause in the Latin text of the Nicene Creed.
2001 - White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks.
and we are still killing them today with all the radiation :tup:
I’m pretty sure I would have put on pants for that picture. I mean, you’re about to drop a bomb that will redefine history, at least wear pants for the photo-op.
I dunno Fry, I like to think of America as the peace keepers of the globe. Destruction in the East? Meh… likely from other sources.
bullshit we haven’t.
Do you see clean nuclear power plant dotting the landscape? No? Pussies.
GOZIRRA!!!
This could have been bagdad.
Think of the savings - American lives, money, time, oil, etc.
The government just can’t do anything efficiently anymore.:biglaugh:
-karma Happy Anniversary… 08-06-2008 10:31 AM Zong for bombing my people -zong
:lol:
I wish i could give him negative points. HE IS FUCKING CHINESE NOT JAPANESE!
i gave him - for you
edit … dam im back in the red
lol…ahh I love the shinanigans around here.