The Great Comet of 1811 was visible to the naked eye for a then-record 260 days. It held that record until Comet Hale-Bopp appeared in 1995 and remained visible to the naked eye for 18 months.
Historically linked to the discovery and first recorded appearance of The Hale–Bopp Comet is Heaven’s Gate, a religious cult in San Diego, California led by Marshall Applewhite who preached that an alien spacecraft was following the comet. The cult members believed that transporting their souls to the spacecraft and evacuating the Earth – which was soon to be “recycled” – would permit them to achieve salvation. Applewhite and 38 followers poisoned themselves over three days in March 1997 in the belief this would allow them to pass through “Heaven’s Gate” and achieve “the Evolutionary Level Above Human.”
On 06 September 1914, US Marine Corps Colonel Joseph Pendleton gave a speech in San Diego CA titled, “San Diego, An Ideal Location for a Permanent Marine Corps Base”. Today’s MCRD, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, was approved in 1916, and in 1923 the training of Marines in the western United States relocated from Mare Island Naval Base in Vallejo CA. Since then, all enlisted Marine recruits living west of the Mississippi go to MCRD San Diego for their 12 weeks of basic training, and followed by 4 more weeks of training at SOI, the School of Infantry, regardless of their MOS, Military Occupational Specialty. Those living east of the Mississippi go to boot camp in MCRD Parris Island SC.
On 01 January 1948, the formerly-named Marine Corps Base, San Diego was officially renamed Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego.
Mission San Diego de Alcala was the first Spanish mission established in California by Father Junipero Serra on July 16, 1769. Eventually, Spain established 21 missions in California, stretching from San Diego in the south to Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma in the north.
The Alcalá 20 nightclub fire occurred 17 December 1983 at 4:45 a.m. at Alcalá 20, a nightclub in the center of Madrid, Spain. A total of 82 people were killed and 27 injured.
The 1811-1812 earthquakes in Missouri were felt strongly by people over 50,000 mi². By comparison, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was felt strongly by people over 6,000 mi². Those 1811-1812 earthquakes are called the New Madrid earthquakes.
New Madrid is pronounced “MAD-rid”.
Madrid, Spain is pronounced “ma-DRID”.
The News Madrid earthquake caused several main channel shifts in the flow of the Mississippi River, resulting in several town in Missouri and Illinois finding themselves on the wrong side of the Mississippi.
Jefferson Davis rose to political prominence in his adopted state of Mississippi. However, he and his Civil War political opponent, Abraham Lincoln, were both born in Kentucky.
Jefferson Davis was a West Point graduate and had participated in the Eggnog Riot as an undergraduate (he was not among those court-martialed).
As Secretary of War in the administration of President Franklin Pierce, Jefferson Davis supported the establishment of the U.S. Camel Corps: United States Camel Corps - Wikipedia
Jefferson Davis’s first wife was the daughter of President Zachary Taylor.
When the main house and library of Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis’s Mississippi estate, were badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, repairs and restorations were largely paid for with Federal funds, despite Davis having led the Confederate government throughout the Civil War.
Erastus Snow was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1849 to until his death. Snow was also a leading figure in Mormon colonization of Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. When a sudden gust of wind blew the top off a carriage in which Snow was riding, he called it a Hurricane, and the name stuck, ifor the town now known as Hurricane, Utah.
Colorado is the only US state in history to turn down the Olympics. In 1976 the Winter Olympics were planned to be held in Denver. 62% of all state Voters choose to not host the Olympics because of the cost, pollution and population boom it would have on the state, and on the City of Denver.
The 1976 Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck, Austria.
RMS Olympic, a sister ship of the Titanic, had a much longer career. The passenger liner was in service for the White Star Line and Cunard from 1911-1935, including a stint as a troopship during World War I.
The White Star was a class of advanced warships maintained by the Rangers and utilizing alien technology and it served as the backbone of the Interstellar Alliance’s fleet during the later seasons of the Television Science Fiction show Babylon 5.
The Texas Rangers baseball team has been to two World Series, 2010 and 2011, and lost them both. In 2011 they returned as repeat American League Champions and faced the St. Louis Cardinals. Entering game 6, the Rangers led the Series 3-2. They only needed to win one more game, of the two remaining in the Series.
Game 6 is considered one of the greatest games in World Series history. The Cardinals won it in 11 exciting innings and set two World Series milestones in the game — the Cardinals were the first team to come back from deficits in both the 9th and 10th innings, and they were the first team to score in the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th innings.
The Cardinals won Game 7 going away, 6-2, sweeping the last 2 games at home. The 2011 World Series was the first World Series to go all seven games since 2002*.
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- which any SF Giants fan will tell you is painful, even to today.
Painful?!? Try being a Riders fan watching the 2009 Grey Cup game.
Last play of the game.
Riders ahead, 27-25.
Montreal Alouettes are in field goal range.
Damon Duval kicks for the Als - and it’s wide! Jason Armstead for the Riders fields the ball in the end zone and runs it out. Tackled by the ALs on the 6 yard line.
No time left on the clock!
Riders have won the Grey Cup!!
But wait - is that a flag on the field?
The Ref puts his hands on his cap - too many men on the field.
Which team? Which team? Riders fans hold their breath.
The Ref point to the Riders - ironically, undone by a 13th man. (In 12 man CFL games, the Riders always refer to their fans as the 13th man.)
The ALs get a second chance, 5 yards closer in. And this time, Duval nails it.
Als win, 28-27.
A collective groan arises across Saskatchewan, from Eastend in the west to Westin in the east, from Northgate in the south to Southey in the north.
Next year country, indeed.
The Montreal Alouettes were created in 1946, and folded in 1981. A new team called the Montreal Concordes played from 1982 to 1986, and they changed their name back to the Alouettes in 1987, but the team only played for one more season, folding again in 1988. There was no CFL team in Montreal until 1996, when all of the former teams of the CFL that had played in the United States folded, and the owner of the Baltimore Stallions recreated the Alouettes, staffing the team with several players form the defunct Stallions franchise. The league recognizes every iteration of the team as constituting one team, records wise.
The Aérospatiale Alouette III is a single-engine, light utility helicopter that was manufactured by Aérospatiale of France. It first flew on 28 February 1959. The last and 1437th Alouette III left the Marignane assembly lines in 1979. An additional 500 units were manufactured under licence in Romania, India, and Switzerland.