# Justa4Door doesn't know when to stop. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 26, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870 "2008-08-26T05:56:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/1 "2008-08-26T05:56:42Z")

On this date… 1910 Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia. 1920 The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect. 1957 The Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. 1961 The International Hockey Hall of Fame opened in Toronto. 1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name John Paul I. 👋 ---

**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/2 "2008-08-26T05:57:50Z")

2008 Nikuk failed horribly ---

**Author:** ![EvilJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/3 "2008-08-26T05:59:23Z")

Zing! Lets try something a little more automotive oriented… 1940: Cadillac discontinues LaSalle 1957: Ford produces first Edsel 1985: Yugo comes to America ---

**Author:** ![EvilJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/4 "2008-08-26T06:00:17Z")

Lets try something a little more automotive oriented… 1940: Cadillac discontinues LaSalle 1957: Ford produces first Edsel 1985: Yugo comes to America ---

**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/5 "2008-08-26T06:00:20Z")

1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. 1278 - Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia. 1303 - Ala ud din Khilji won Chittor. 1346 - Hundred Years’ War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy. 1466 - A conjure against Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered. 1498 - Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà. 1748 - The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1768 - HM Bark Endeavour expedition under Captain James Cook sets sail from England. 1778 - The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia. 1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles. 1818 - The first Illinois Constitution was signed in Kaskaskia. 1839 - The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island. 1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph. 1862 - American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run begins. 1883 - Eruption of Mount Krakatoa. 1914 - World War I: Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army. 1914 - World War I: The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau. 1914 - World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days. 1920 - 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote. 1922 - Turkish Army started the last attack on Greeks in the Turkish War of Independence. 1924 - (August 13 Old Style) Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor in systematic ethnic cleansing. One of the first cases of ethic cleansing in the 20th Century. 1939 - The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York. 1940 - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France’s first black colonial governor. 1942 - Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of houses, splits in groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 Jews to Belzec death camp. 500 of sick and children murdered on the spot. 1944 - World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris. 1957 - The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM - a “super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket … a few days ago,” according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS. 1968 - The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois. 1977 - Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec 1978 - Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elevated to the Papacy. 1978 - Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft. 1980 - John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada. 1983 - Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain. 1987 - President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day. 1988 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport. 1996 - Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy 1997 - Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed. 1999 - Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds. 2002 - Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa. 2003 - Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. [edit] Births 1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496) 1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583) 1676 - Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745) 1694 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755) 1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777) 1736 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle, French chemist (d. 1790) 1740 - Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810) 1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794) 1775 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851) 1789 - Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833) 1792 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857) 1819 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861) 1826 - Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875) 1845 - Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888) 1850 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935) 1854 - Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932) 1862 - Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926) 1873 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961) 1874 - Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938) 1875 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940) 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918) 1882 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1964) 1885 - Jules Romains, French author (d. 1972) 1890 - Tommy Andrews, Australian cricketer (d. 1970) 1894 - Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989) 1896 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990) 1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990) 1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979) 1899 - Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991) 1900 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980) 1901 - Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987) 1901 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972) 1904 - Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (d. 1986) 1906 - Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993) 1908 - W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967) 1908 - Aubrey Schenck, film producer (d. 1999) 1908 - Bill Hunt, Australian cricketer (d. 1983) 1909 - Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981) 1909 - Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978) 1909 - Eric Davies, South African cricketer (d. 1976) 1910 - Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic nun, Nobel laureate (d. 1997) 1914 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984) 1920 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007) 1921 - Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist 1922 - Irving R. Levine, American journalist 1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist 1924 - Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996) 1925 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005) 1925 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999) 1925 - Sangharakshita, Buddhist Philosopher, Founder of the Western Buddhist Order 1927 - B. V. Doshi, Indian architect 1928 - Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist 1928 - Naïm Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist 1930 - Joe Solomon, West Indian cricketer 1934 - Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator 1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate 1936 - Yvette Vickers, American actress 1940 - Don LaFontaine, American voice actor 1941 - Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director 1941 - Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress 1941 - Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (d. 2005) 1942 - Vic Dana, American singer 1942 - Dennis Turner, British politician 1944 - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester 1944 - Stephen Greif, English actor 1944 - Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground) 1945 - Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security 1946 - Valerie Simpson, American singer 1946 - Mark Snow, American composer 1946 - Zhou Ji, Education Minister of the People’s Republic of China 1946 - Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress 1947 - Emiliano Díez, Cuban actor 1950 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006) 1952 - Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player 1952 - Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003) 1952 - Will Shortz, American crossword editor 1953 - Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer 1954 - Efren Reyes, Filipino pool player 1956 - Mark Mangino, American football coach 1957 - Dr. Alban, Nigerian-Swedish singer 1957 - Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete 1958 - Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist 1960 - Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader 1960 - Nancy Martinez, Canadian-born singer 1961 - Jeff Parrett, American baseball player 1962 - Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney 1963 - David Byas, England cricketer 1965 - Chris Burke, American actor 1965 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (d. 2000) 1965 - Jon Hensley, American actor 1966 - Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player 1966 - Shirley Manson, Scottish singer 1967 - Kelly Madison, porn star 1970 - Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian athlete 1970 - Brett Schultz, South African cricketer 1971 - Thalía, Mexican singer 1974 - Eric D. Snider, American humor columnist / movie reviewer 1975 - Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player 1976 - Amaia Montero, Spanish singer (La Oreja de Van Gogh) 1976 - Zemfira, Russian singer 1977 - Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyū 1977 - Morris Peterson, American basketball player 1977 - Liam Botham, Hampshire cricketer and rugby league player 1978 - Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer 1979 - Jamal Lewis, American football player 1979 - Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer 1979 - Rubén Pazos, Spanish footballer 1980 - Macaulay Culkin, American actor 1980 - Brendan Harris, American baseball player 1980 - Chris Pine, American actor 1981 - Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman 1981 - Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler 1981 - Demetria McKinney, American actress 1981 - Tino Best, West Indian cricketer 1982 - David Long rotten scoundrel, diabolical hater extraordinaire, legendary reveler 1983 - Félix Porteiro, Spanish racing driver 1986 - Cassie Ventura, American singer 1988 - Danielle Savre, American actress 1988 - Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este 1988 - Evan Ross, American actor 1990 - Lil’ Chris, British singer 1992 - Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast 1993 - Keke Palmer, American actress [edit] Deaths 1278 - King Otakar II of Bohemia 1346 - Killed in the Battle of Crécy: Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297) Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304) John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296) Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320) 1349 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury 1551 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516) 1572 - Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515) 1595 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531) 1666 - Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. circa 1580) 1714 - Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632) 1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632) 1785 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716) 1850 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773) 1865 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791) 1908 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837) 1910 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842) 1915 - John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863) 1930 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883) 1944 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909) 1945 - Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890) 1946 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887) 1956 - Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881) 1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872) 1968 - Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899) 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902) 1976 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888) 1978 - Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899) 1978 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916) 1979 - Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908) 1980 - Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874) 1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908) 1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884) 1981 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (b. 1914) 1986 - Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923) 1987 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) 1987 - John Goddard, West Indian cricketer (b. 1919) 1988 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957) 1989 - Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903) 1990 - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913) 1992 - Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (b. 1933) 1992 - Bob de Moor, Belgian comics artist (b. 1925) 1998 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) 2000 - Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (b. 1939) 2001 - Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (b. 1904) 2003 - Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937) 2004 - Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957) 2005 - Denis D’Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960) 2005 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927) 2005 - Ed White, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949) 2006 - Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924) 2006 - Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926) 2007 - Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928) 2007 - Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts ---

**Author:** ![EvilJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/6 "2008-08-26T06:00:55Z")

God I hate you… ---

**Author:** ![ineedacar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/48db29/32.png) [@ineedacar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ineedacar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/7 "2008-08-26T06:01:16Z")

28th Dr King gave his famous speach ---

**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/8 "2008-08-26T06:02:29Z")

1939 Major league baseball was televised for the first time when experimental station W2XBS broadcast a doubleheader between the visiting Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. ---

**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/9 "2008-08-26T06:03:52Z")

you people couldn’t spark an actual conversation if your dick depended on it. :picard: > [@ineedacar](#): > > 28th Dr King gave his famous speach what is today’s date? ---

**Author:** ![Tevenor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@Tevenor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tevenor)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/10 "2008-08-26T06:04:16Z")

2008 Just4door pwns Nikuk ---

**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/11 "2008-08-26T06:06:35Z")

1766 posts… took him long enough ---

**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/12 "2008-08-26T06:06:41Z")

> [@EvilJay](#): > > God I hate you… you know you really dont hate me \<3 and for all you fucks on the other side of the pond **August 26** **Today’s Canadian Headline…**. **1925**** TED ROGERS SR. INVENTS AC TUBE **** Toronto Ontario -** Edward S. Rogers Sr. invents the alternating-current tube, allowing plug-in batteryless radios. The call letters of his new radio station, CFRB, stand for ‘Rogers Batteryless’. **1968**** Also On This Day…** **Appledore England -** Hudson’s Bay Company launches replica ketch Nonsuch II to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the HBC. **1957**** And in Today’s Canadian Birthdays…** **Rick Hansen 1957-** wheelchair athlete, spokesman, was born on this day in Port Alberni, BC in 1957. Hansen is known for his Man in Motion round the world wheelchair tour, which raised $20 million for spinal chord research and wheelchair sports. Also **John Buchan, 1st Lord Tweedsmuir 1875-1940** statesman, writer, publisher, 15th Governor-General of Canada (1935-40), was born on this day in Perth, Scotland in 1875; died in Montreal Feb. 11, 1940. Buchan wrote 50 books, including a biography of Lord Minto, and was one of the originators of the thriller genre - his Thirty-Nine Steps was written in 1919. He also pursued a career in politics, diplomacy, and publishing - he was a Director of Thomas Nelson & Son 1906-29. While in Ottawa he instituted the Governor-General’s literary awards. Also **Jessie Gray 1910-1940** Canada’s first woman surgeon, was born on this day in Augusta, Georgia in 1910; died in Toronto Oct. 16, 1978. Gray was a leading cancer surgeon, and was Surgeon in Chief of the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto 1945-65. Also **Nancy Martinez 1960-** pop singer, was born on this day in 1960. Martinez is known for her hit single ‘For Tonight’. **In Other Events…**. **1992**** Montreal Quebec **- CN North America signs freight deal with Burlington Northern and Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico; single North American system; linked customs services and common equipment.** 1991 ****Ottawa Ontario** - Canada to extend full diplomatic recognition to the Baltic republics of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania; never recognized legitimacy of 1940 annexation by Stalin, but did not maintain diplomatic ties. **1987**** Toronto Ontario **- Fire guts the Canadian National Exhibition’s 80 year old Music Building.** 1982 ****Cape Canaveral, Florida** - NASA launches Canada’s Anik-D1 communications satellite (mass 730 kg) aboard a Delta rocket. **1981**** Vancouver BC **- Vancouver transit workers end five-week strike.** 1978 ****Ontario** - First Canada Jam Festival opens; with the Doobie Brothers, the Commodores, Kansas, Dave Mason, Atlanta Rhythm Section. **1977**** Quebec Quebec**- Quebec government adopts Bill 101 (La Charte de la langue française); French becomes the official language of Quebec; children whose mother or father went to English school eligible for English schooling; less stringent than Bill One.**1972 ****Munich Germany** - Canadian athletes join 121 other nations and a total of 7,156 competitors at the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Munich; to Sept. 10. **1970**** Cowes England **- Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell performs at Isle of Wight Pop Festival; she bursts into tears when a spectator jumps on the stage, grabs her microphone and shouts, ‘This is just a hippie concentration camp.’** 1966 ****Canada** - Canada’s 118,000 railway workers go on strike; close down telecommunications, air express; all but first-class mail and ferry service to PEI. **1962**** Hanover, New Hampshire **- Vihjalmur Stefansson dies at age 82; born in Arnes, Manitoba Nov 3, 1879 to Icelanders who moved to North Dakota in 1880. An arctic explorer, ethnologist, lecturer and writer, Stefansson was educated at the universities of Iowa, North Dakota and Harvard; made three trips to the Arctic from 1906 to 1918, and covered over 32,000 sq km of territory. From 1913-18 he led the Canadian Arctic Expedition, which discovered Lougheed, Borden, Meighen and Brock islands, while drifting on ice floes. His unauthorized Wrangel expedition, designed to claim an island north of Siberia for Canada, ended with the tragic death of four, including a young Canadian student, and caused an international incident.** 1962 ****Toronto Ontario** - Canadian Amateur Hockey Association approves Father David Bauer’s proposal to build a Canadian Olympic Hockey team, instead of sending club teams off to represent Canada; in 1965 a permanent national team for Canada was established. **1961**** Toronto Ontario **- John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens the International Hockey Hall of Fame at the CNE; announces $5 million annual grant for amateur sports in Canada.** 1960 ****Montreal Quebec** - Jean Drapeau decides to run for Mayor of Montreal; a social worker. **1958**** Ottawa Ontario**- Founding of the Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG) to regulate broadcasting in Canada, independent of the CBC; later becomes the CRTC, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.**1957 ****Toronto Ontario** - Joseph Burr Tyrrell dies; geologist, explorer, historian, born at Weston, Ontario August 26, 1957. Tyrrell worked for the Geological Survey of Canada from 1881 to 1898, collecting and consolidating information on the natural history and mineral resources of many remote regions. He crossed the barrens, exploring the Dubawnt and Thelon Rivers as far as Chesterfield Inlet, and in 1884 he discovered the rich dinosaur beds of the Badlands of southern Alberta, as well as coal beds at Drumheller, Alberta, and Fernie, BC. After retiring from the government, he worked as a mining consultant, and developed properties in the Klondike and northern Ontario. The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology near Drumheller, founded in 1985, is named in his memory. **1951**** Ottawa Ontario **- Canadian railways adopt the Uniform Code of Operating Rules for train operation purposes.** 1939 ****Ottawa Ontario** - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 sends personal peace appeals to Hitler, Mussolini and President of Poland. **1938**** Montreal Quebec **- Montreal Maroons hockey team dropped from the NHL due to financial troubles.** 1919 ****Toronto Ontario** - American pilot Rudolph Schroeder wins the CNE’s Great Toronto-New York-Toronto Air Race, sponsored by the Canadian National Exhibition. **1918**** France **- General Arthur Currie 1875-1933 leads Canadian Corps in successful attack on the Hindenburg Line; penetrates German defenses; until September 2.** 1907 ****Toronto Ontario** - Toronto financier Cawthra Mulock opens his Royal Alexandra Theatre on King Street West; with the musical Top of the World, written by Mark Swain; theatre bought and refurbished by retailer ‘Honest Ed’ Mirvish in 1963. **1891**** Winnipeg Manitoba **- Manitoba and the Northwest Territories provided with their first published weather forecasts.** 1887 ****Montreal Quebec** - Fire destroys the Montreal Herald newspaper building. **1884**** Montreal Quebec **- British Army start recruiting Canadian voyageurs and boatmen to serve in Wolseley’s Nile Expedition to rescue Kitchener at Khartoum.** 1881 ****Winnipeg Manitoba** - First CPR train steams into Winnipeg over the Red River Bridge. **1876**** Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan **- Cree, Saulteaux and Chipewyan of present-day central Alberta and Saskatchewan sign Treaty #6; to get schooling, as well as farm implements, seeds, farm animals and instruction in agricultural techniques; famine relief when necessary and medicine when needed; also adherents to 1899 treaty; total 194,725 sq km set aside for reserves.** 1872 ****Ottawa Ontario** - John A. Macdonald wires J.J.C. Abbott ‘I must have another ten thousand’; stolen telegram later provided the opposition with proof that Macdonald had accepted money in return for his support in Parliament of the Hugh Allan group bidding for the CPR contact. **1837**** Quebec Quebec **- Governor Lord Gosford dissolves the fourth session of fifteenth Assembly of Lower Canada; meeting since Aug. 18; had refused to pass budget subsidies.** 1856 ****Montreal Quebec** - Hugh Allan 1810-1882 establishes the Allan Line with four ships - Canadian, North American, Indian and Anglo Saxon; subsidized with mail contract. **1834**** Kingston Ontario **- John A. Macdonald starts practicing law in Kingston.** 1833 ****Baffin Island, NWT** - Captain James Ross and his shipwrecked crew of 19 are rescued off Baffin Island by his flagship, the whaler Isabella; Ross and crew survived four winters with the help of the Inuit before abandoning Victory to the ice, and setting off, in shipwrecked boats they had found and repaired, through a lane of water that opened up leading northward. **1784**** Cape Breton Nova Scotia **- Cape Breton Island separated from Nova Scotia; becomes its own colony, with Lieutenant-Governor and council.** 1758 ****Kingston Ontario** - John Bradstreet 1714-1774 sets up a battery within point blank range of the walls of Fort Frontenac and starts firing. Commandant Pierre de Noyan will capitulate a day later. **1748**** Quebec Quebec **- François Bigot arrives at Quebec to serve as the new Intendant.** 1634 ****Quebec Quebec** - Huron Indians supply wild plums to the Jesuits. **1613**** St-Malo France **- Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives in St-Malo from Tadoussac; will try and get further support for his voyages.** 1576 ****Baffin Island NWT** - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 crew member finds what may be lump of gold; turns out to be fool’s gold - iron pyrite. ---

**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/13 "2008-08-26T06:08:31Z")

I see what you did ---

**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/14 "2008-08-26T06:13:23Z")

Meh, there are nicer buildings, architecurally, but that is pretty bad ass. I want to visit Dubai someday. ---

**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/15 "2008-08-26T06:15:17Z")

I dont dip in flour before I egg wash ---

**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/16 "2008-08-26T06:30:52Z")

yeah about it “dropping”… i’ll be ok with it at $1.99 and 9/10. $10 lasted me a week in high school and that was only a couple years ago. $3.90 is ridiculous and THEY NEEEEEEEEEEED to do something. that being said i don’t really help the cause by driving everywhere because i like to haha ---

**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/17 "2008-08-26T06:31:29Z")

**Author:** ![EvilJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/18 "2008-08-26T06:32:50Z")

**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/19 "2008-08-26T06:33:18Z")

> [@EvilJay](#): > > yeah about it “dropping”… i’ll be ok with it at $1.99 and 9/10. $10 lasted me a week in high school and that was only a couple years ago. $3.90 is ridiculous and THEY NEEEEEEEEEEED to do something. that being said i don’t really help the cause by driving everywhere because i like to haha you don’t even know where that ones from :roll: ---

**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870/20 "2008-08-26T06:33:18Z")

i really think you should be able to get U/E if you quit a job what the hell what if they wont fire you [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/justa4door-doesnt-know-when-to-stop/53870.md?page=2)