Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Tsunami of inflation to come and destruction of the middle-classes
You tube: `Max Keiser on the economic crisis
Straight-talking from Max Keiser on the economic meltdown and the destruction of the middle-classes
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1. sold 2 rent 1 said...
The tsunami of inflation will hit between October 2009 and April 2010 - not long to wait now.
2. hpwatcher said...
literally....hold onto your hats!
3. doomwatch said...
Oh not Alex Jones again. This guy must have made a fortune from various "plots" it's impossible to prove/disprove. A bit like the types you get on UFO circuits sellng THEIR books and DVDs. I think he's so confused he thinks his shadow is a CIA hollogram listener.
Apparently Swine/H1N1 flu is an illuminati NWO made plan to kill us all, as there's too many of us on the planet. Surely if someone with the resources to do this wanted to kill us all, they'd just release Ebola on a few trans-continental aircraft, and that would do the trick ?
The Grand Owl. Twit Twoo.
4. montesquieu said...
I can hear pish lie this down the pub why should I need to download it from youtube?
5. crunchy said...
The squawky voice of doom. I am with Max on this one and always have been for a good while. Enjoy, for now!
In the world of the unpredictable nothing makes sense. It's not meant to!
6. bidin'matime said...
Low grade American talk radio - dont waste your time.
7. nomad said...
Middle classes, in the main, are those that create the wealth - create and grow the businesses, buy the properties. Who gains by destroying them?
8. denzil said...
S2R1. I love the way you are always first to comment on your own blog comment.
Thanks for your previous prediction regarding the direction of gold.
As a number, what is the likely inflation rate that in your opinion could be classed as tsunami?
Personally I can't see CPI shifting much for at least two years and after that I still can't see a tsunami. If anything, I think it is likely that we will enter a short deflationary period, the catylist of which is falling wages in an increasingly competitive job market.
9. sold 2 rent 1 said...
denzil,
CPI/RPI, they are all fiddled anyway.
We are likely to see triple digit (annualised from monthly figures) food and energy inflation as the smart money exits fiat currencies and rushes for physical commodities. The dumb money will be dumb-founded
As for gold, if we can get over 7 May without a big correction down then it looks like the Armstrong turning point on 19 April was a low for gold.
10. crunchy said...
7. nomad.... Someone always gains you don't have destruction purely for destructions sake.
These things take effort and thus reward. Enough said from me! Back to eating that fried egg sandwich. Destruction=reward.
11. hpwatcher said...
As for gold, if we can get over 7 May without a big correction down then it looks like the Armstrong turning point on 19 April was a low for gold.
It appears that gold is moving upwards......
12. sold 2 rent 1 said...
hpwatcher,
Let's assume gold's low was on 19 April (for now); with a smaller turning point on 7 May coming up, will this show in the broader stock market which has had a decent run from early March. Sell in May and go away???
Coming up on 17 May is the resonance with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Originally I thought the Swine flu new cases might peak around this time, but it may be something completely different.
13. stillthinking said...
I don't see inflation any time soon. When we were on the gold standard, you could view the whole gold stock being permanently aimed at production, but there wasn't inflation because of a desire to hoard.
You can take the view that for an indebted society like the UK there are only two(one really) options, outright default or default through inflation. But the government has taken on the private defaults onto the taxpayer, an open ended payment commitment. Of course that is socialisation of private debt against private gain, so unfair, but where is the funnelling of additional cash that causes inflation?
There isn't any.
The government is going into debt to support existing state workers, existing pensions and increased benefit costs. In other words, the increased debt isn't even sufficient to maintain demand, let alone increase it. Surely the key issue is whether the UK government are taking on additional debt, and I don't see that they are, more that they are assuming responsibility for existing debt. The debt moves hands but does not increase, and consumption spirals down, and over production becomes more apparent.
The stagflation of the 70s was a foreign led loss of confidence causing demand-pull inflation, i.e. what little we produced was taken by foreigners anxious to offload sterling before collapse. Currently foreign investment is UK debt is holding up and I think it will do for some time because there is indeed a wall of money out there, all of it being hoarded until the cycle bottoms out.
I don't think the cycle is bottoming out at all, and maybe three years from now we won't be at the bottom. All policies are directed towards slowing the rate of decline. Not chopping the dead wood.
Certainly there will -eventually- be severe inflation, but the preceding deflation is a very -sticky- self-reinforcing step. The government might print 150 billion. What is that against a trillion at least in property losses and the rest of the collapsed values in a shrinking economy.
14. crunchy said...
12. sold 2 rent
Swine flu ain't over yet. Cases may get worse still. You can always rely on something to take it's place, if such cases do finally subside.
The words pigs and flying spring to mind!
15. happy mondays said...
@ Crunchy, No, the word pig and Gordon, spring to mind!
I think i might have swine flu, i have come out in rashers..
16. sold 2 rent 1 said...
crunchy,
I switched a lot of gold into silver recently.
Anyone made the link between next years flu pandemic and the silver-mania-to-be next winter yet?
17. george monsoon said...
I am buying shares in Kleenex tissues.
18. sold 2 rent 1 said...
I need to do more research but it might be better to take silver based medications other than any flu vaccines the corrupt pharma companies come up with.
Here is one example I need to check out
http://www.oxysilver.com/
The silver market needs another "Hunt Brothers" episode to play catch up when a gold mania takes hold. A silver solution to the coming flu pandemic next year might just be such an episode.
19. Crunchy said...
15. happy mondays, lol........ May I suggest you invest in some oil.
16. sold 2 rent 1 That went over my head, but I will keep an eye out for those precious things. Right back to flying again!
20. crunchy said...
15. happy mondays, lol............ May I suggest that you invest in some oil.
16. sold 2 rent, That went right over my head, but I will keep an eye out on those precious things you speak of. Right back to flying again!
21. sold 2 rent 1 said...
In Feb/March 2010 we not only have the resonance with the collapse of the Lombard Banking System in 1348 but The Black Death 1347-1351.
IMHO this might resonate with the collapse of the euro-zone and a "real" flu pandemic.
22. mountain goat said...
S2R1 silver has well documented germicidal activity just look at silver wikipedia page.
Silver seems to have broken out of the trading range (between descending parallel lines) of the past 3 months in a convincing way today, according to my rudimentary technical analysis skills.
23. crunchy said...
20. sold 2 rent 1..
The Black Death? Oh to be in your world! (He speaks whilst rubbing hands)
24. sold 2 rent 1 said...
Silver too put a low in on Armstrong's turning point on 19 April.
And on the Calleman model it is set to hit $30-35 by the end of August (and this is only Elliott wave 1)
BTW it is much easier to count Elliott waves in silver than gold.
25. sold 2 rent 1 said...
One more thing.
Everyone always asks me about gold, but gold stocks between now and the end of August will massively outperform gold
26. p. doff said...
Don't get me wrong S2R1, I like your missives in a peculiar kind of way - and I have to admire your faith, conviction and apparent honesty. But sometimes I do wonder whether you are paid to write this stuff.
BTW you can find interesting events for just about every day of the year in your quest for items to 'resonate' with - take tomorrow (May 7th) for example:-
0558 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
0685 Death - Marwan I ibn al-Hakam 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies
0973 Death - Otto I the Great Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60
1166 Death - Willem I the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)
1205 Death - Ladislaus III Arpad King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6
1274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
1274 In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
1298 Colocation of the first stone of Barcelona's Cathedral.
1355 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
1416 Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
1429 English siege of Orléans broken by Joan of Arc
1429 Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orlans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning wounded to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
1523 Death - Franz von Sickingen German knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42
1530 Birth - Louis I Cond French prince/leader of hugenots
1574 Birth - Innocent X [Giambattista Pamfili] 236th Roman Catholic pope (1644-55)
1579 Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
1617 Death - David Fabricius German astronomer, dies at 53
1624 Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru
1638 Cornelis S Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
1657 Louis XlV prohibits the sale of liquor to Indians.
1776 Birth - Dniel Berzsenyi [Hungarian Horatius], Hungarian poet
1789 The first U S inagural ball is held in New York to honor President and Mrs George Washington
1789 The first inaugural ball (for George Washington in New York NY)
1792 Captain Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
1792 Death - Aert Schouman Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82
1793 Death - Johan A Zoutman Dutch Lieutenant Admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68
1793 Death - Pietro Nardini composer, dies at 71
1795 Birth - Gerhard M Roentgen industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord)
1800 Death - Laurens P van Spiegel regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at 64
1800 Death - Niccol Piccinni Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72
1800 Indiana Territory organized
1803 Birth - Johan Peter Cronhamm composer
1812 Birth - Robert Browning London England, poet (The Pied Piper)
1814 Death - Franz Volrath Buttstett composer, dies at 79
1818 Death - Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh composer, dies at 70
1824 World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. Work was conducted by Michael Umlauf, under the deaf composer's supervision.
1825 Death - Antonio Salieri Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74
1826 Birth - Varina Howell Davis 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
1827 Birth - Charles T H Coster Belgian literary (Lgendes Flamandes) [or Aug 20]
1827 Birth - Francis Engle Patterson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1832 Birth - Carl G Neumann German mathematician/physicist (Neumann-functions)
1832 Greece becomes independent republic
1832 Greece is recognised independent by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
1832 Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece
1833 Birth - Johannes Brahms Hamburg Germany, composer, enjoys a good lullaby
1836 Death - Norbert Burgmuller composer, dies at 26
1836 The settlement of Mayagez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain.
1840 Birth - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Votkinsk Russia, composer (The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, 1812 Overture)
1840 The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
1840 Tornado strikes Natchez MS, kills 317
1847 Birth - Archibald Primrose Earl of Rosebery (Liberal), British PM (1894-95)
1847 In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
1848 Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1856 Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
1861 Birth - Rabindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel '13)
1861 Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
1862 Battle of West Point VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1862 Much of Enschede Netherlands destroyed by fire
1863 Death - Amiel Weeks Whipple US Union general-major, dies of injuries at 46
1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
1864 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction VA (Drewry's Bluff)
1866 Birth - Cornelis J K van Aalst president (Dutch Trading Company)
1866 German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt
1867 Birth - Philippine "Pine" Belder [Mary de Klerk], actress (Hope of Blessing)
1867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1871 Death - Louis Papineau political reformer, dies
1873 Birth - Clarence Dickinson composer
1873 US marines attack Panama
1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
1876 Death - Franz count of Pocci German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69
1882 Birth - Willem Elsschot [Alfons J de Ridder] Flemish writer (Mend)
1883 Birth - Gino Roncaglia composer
1883 Birth - Martin Albertz German theologist (Church Jesus Christ)
1884 Death - Judah P Benjamin confederate minister of War, dies at 72
1885 Birth - George "Gabby" Hayes Wellesvile NY, actor (In Old Santa Fe, El Paso)
1885 John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
1887 Birth - Henri Pourrat French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
1888 Birth - Selmer Jackson Lake Mills IA, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1890 Birth - Billy House Minnesota, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I)
1891 Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
1892 Birth - Archibald MacLeish Glencoe IL, political essayist/poet/dramatist (JB)
1892 Birth - Josip Broz Tito WWII partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
1895 In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the first in the world radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union this day is celebrated as Day of Radio.
1897 Birth - Kitty McKane England, tennis (Olympics-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-1920, 24)
1898 Birth - Vera Chapman writer
1900 Birth - Bauke Tuinstra Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur)
1900 Birth - Ralph Truman London England, actor (Web of Evidence)
1900 Death - Richard Storrs Willis composer, dies at 81
1901 Birth - Gary Cooper Helena MT, actor (2 Academy Awards-Sergeant York, High Noon)
1901 Birth - L T Coggeshall medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
1901 Birth - Marcel Poot Belgian baron/composer
1902 Birth - Sal Gliatto baseball player
1902 Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
1903 Birth - Basil Nield judge/politician
1904 Death - Peter Hille writer, dies
1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1907 Birth - Jef van Durme composer
1907 Charles Collier wins first Isle of Man TT Race (38.22 mph)
1908 Birth - Ed MacDonald actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1908 Birth - Wouter Paap composer
1909 Birth - Edwin H Land inventor (instant photography (Polaroid))
1912 Birth - Paul H F Brenneker Netherlands/Antillian photographer/folklorist
1914 Death - Edward Mollenhauer composer, dies at 87
1914 US Congress establishes mother's day
1914 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in the White House
1915 Death - Alfred G Vanderbilt US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
1915 Death - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr US Lusitania officer, dies
1915 Death - Charles Frohman dies aboard Lusitania
1915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
1915 Nearly 1200 people are killed when the British liner Lusitania is sunk off the Irish coast bya German torpedo
1915 The Cunard Line's passenger ship Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915
1915 World War I: a German submarine U-20 sinks the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turned many formerly pro-Germans in the United States of America against the German Empire.
1917 Birth - Daniel Gills Belgian writer
1917 Birth - David Tomlinson Scotland, actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter)
1917 Birth - William Geoffrey Biddle bomb disposal expert
1918 Birth - Argeliers Leon composer
1919 Birth - Eva (Evita) [Duarte] Pern Argentina, 1st lady/actress
1920 Kiev Offensive (1920): Polish troops led by Jzef Pisudski and Edward Rydz-migy and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force captured Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
1920 Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
1920 USSR recognizes independence of Georgia
1922 Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands, 1-2
1922 Birth - Darren McGavin Spokane WA, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182)
1922 Birth - Gale Robbins Chicago IL, actress/singer (Hollywood House, Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex)
1923 Birth - Anne Baxter Michigan City IN, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel)
1923 Birth - Pete V Domenici (Senator-R-NM, 1973- )
1923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
1924 Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
1926 Birth - Val Bisoglio New York NY, actor (Lieutenant Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME)
1927 Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
1927 Birth - Jim Lowe Springfield MA, DJ (WNEW) "King of Trivia"
1927 San Fransisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
1928 Birth - John Ingle actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital)
1928 Birth - Marvin Mitchelson attorney
1928 Death - Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan composer, dies at 56
1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1929 Birth - Dick Williams baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
1929 Birth - Sally L Smith educator/founder (Lab School of Washington)
1929 Death - Albert Anselmi US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1929 Death - John Scalise US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1929 Death - Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1930 Birth - Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets Russia, cosmonaut
1930 Birth - Horst Bienek German poet
1931 Birth - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete)
1931 Birth - Nel J Ginjaar-Maas Dutch under-secretary of Education (VVD)
1931 Birth - Teresa Brewer Toledo OH, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
1932 Birth - Hans Boskamp [Johan HG Hoelscher] actor/producer (Oh My Papa)
1932 Birth - Pete Domeneci (Senator-R-NM)
1932 Death - Albert Thomas French social minister of Weapon production, dies
1933 Birth - Johnny Unitas NFL QB (Baltimore Colts, San Diego); one of the greats
1934 Birth - Ben Smith Atlanta GA, PGA golfer (Ralphs Senior Classic-4th)
1934 Birth - Donald Russell Holler composer
1934 Birth - Heinz Marti composer
1934 Birth - Willard Scott weatherman (Today)
1934 Death - Edward Naylor composer, dies at 67
1934 Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal
1934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autonomous Region
1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1936 Birth - Cornelius Cardew composer
1938 Birth - Johnny Caldwell Ireland, flyweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-1956)
1938 Birth - Kevin O'Connor Honolulu HI, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1939 Birth - Jimmy Ruffin soloist (What Becomes of the Broken Hearted)
1939 Birth - Johnny Maestro New York NY, rock vocalist (Crests-16 Candles, Brooklyn Bridge)
1939 Birth - Marco St John New Orleans LA, actor (Rayford-Ball Four)
1939 Birth - Rudolphus FM "Ruud" Lubbers director Dutch/CDA-premier (1982-94)
1939 Birth - Volker Braun writer
1939 Germany & Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1940 Birth - Armando Krieger composer
1940 Birth - John Irvin actor (Moment in Time)
1940 The Lodz ghetto is sealed. 165,000 people in 1.6 square miles.
1941 Birth - Grahame Bilby cricketer (two Tests New Zealand vs England 1966)
1941 Cornerstone of Bank of America building at 300 Montgomery laid
1941 Death - David Wijnkoop revolutionary socialist, dies
1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1942 Death - Felix Paul von Weingartner Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79
1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
1943 Birth - Christopher Taylor White rocker
1943 Birth - Peter Horak jetboat jumper
1943 Birth - Rick West [Richard Westwood] rocker (Brian Poole & Tremeloes)
1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
1943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
1943 Navy representatives witnessed landing trials of the XR-4 helicopter aboard the merchant tanker Bunker
1943 US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia
1943 US first Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
1944 Birth - Alison Margaret Bauld composer
1944 Birth - John Heard actor (Pelican Brief, CHUD, Radio Flyer, Big)
1944 Birth - Sivi Aberg actress (Batman TV show)
1944 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1944 HMCS Valleyfield torpedoed
1945 Birth - Robin Strasser New York NY, actress (Dorian-One Life to Live, Another World)
1945 Birth - Wim A Mateman Dutch MP (CDA)
1945 Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
1945 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945 German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe
1945 Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reheime, France (to take effect the next day), ending the European theatre of WWII
1945 Nazi Generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
1946 Birth - Bill Danoff Springfield MA, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
1946 Birth - Richard L Brodsky US lawyer/NY State Assemblyman (D) (1983- )
1946 Death - Anton A Mussert engineer/NSB leader, executed
1946 Death - Joe Humphries cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for England 1907-08), dies
1946 William H Hastie inaugurated as first black governor of Virgin Islands
1947 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
1996 This was the year "The Book Clip - Guaranteed to keep your Book Open" first appeared on the Internet. See Pictures HERE www.bookclip.com
1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1947 Kraft Television Theater debuts, running for the next 11 years.
1947 Paraguayian Government unleashes contra revolt
1948 Birth - Peter Wingfield Wales, rocker/actor (Methos-Highlander)
1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death
1949 Birth - Marilyn Cole Portsmouth England, playmate of the year (January 1972)
1949 Birth - Stuart Marshall director (Desire)
1950 Birth - Janis Ian [Janis Eddy Fink] New York NY, rock vocalist (At 17, Society's Child)
1950 Birth - Prairie Prince rocker (Tubes)
1951 Birth - David Whitton campaigner
1951 Birth - Robert Hegyes Metuchen NJ, actor (Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter)
1951 Death - Warner Baxter dies at 62
1952 Birth - Amy Heckerling Bronx NY, director (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless)
1952 Birth - Derek Taylor rocker (Let it Be, Beatles Anthology)
1952 The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
1953 "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances
1953 Death - Ormerod Pearse cricketer (55 runs & 3 wickets in 3 Tests for S Af), dies
1953 Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by L E Marron, in Chile
1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
1954 Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
1954 US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
1955 Birth - Peter Reckell Elkhart IN, actor (Days of our Lifes)
1955 USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain
1955 West Europe Union established
1956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
1957 Birth - Shauna McDonald Brown TV producer
1957 Birth - [Christopher St John] "Sinjin" Smith Los Angeles CA, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1958 Death - Nyogen Senzaki 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81
1958 Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27,810 meters
1959 Birth - Michael E Knight Princeton NJ, actor (Date with Angel, All My Children)
1959 Birth - Robin L Freeman St Charles MO, PGA golfer (1993 Northern Telecom-3rd)
1959 Birth - Tamara E Jernigan Chattanooga, PhD/astronaut (STS 40, 52, 67, 80)
1960 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances
1960 Birth - Arnon Ohad co-pilot (El Al) plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam
1960 Cold War: U-2 Crisis - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1960 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR
1960 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
1961 Birth - Linda Somers Bitburg Germany, US marathoner (Olympics-31st-96)
1962 Birth - Robbie Knievel daredevil, son of Evel (Chips Something Special)
1962 Death - Jimmy Conlin dies at 77
1963 Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champion
1963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
1964 Birth - Leslie O'Neal NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers, St Louis Rams)
1964 Birth - Mustapha Zerqti Moroccan/Netherlands writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd)
1964 Birth - Ronnie Harmon NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, Tennessee Oilers)
1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Searchers - Don't Throw Your Love Away
1964 Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
1965 Birth - Reuben Davis NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1966 Birth - Anderson Cummins cricketer (in Packer's Valley Barbados & West Indies quickie)
1966 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
1967 Death - Judith Evelyn dies of cancer at 54
1968 Birth - Joe King NFL safety (Oakland Raiders)
1968 Birth - Traci Lords [Nora Louise Kuzma], Steubenville OH, porn actress (Cry Baby)
1968 Death - Lurleen Burns wife of George Wallace/Governor of Alabama, dies at 41
1969 Birth - Katerina Maleeva Bulgaria, tennis player (US Open Junior 1984)
1969 Birth - Melanie Valerio 400 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-96)
1969 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA
1970 "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
1970 Birth - Edwin Zoetebier Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 Birth - Mark Smith Pasadena CA, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1970 Birth - Sebastien Britten Brossard Qubec Canada, figure skater (1995 Canadian Champion)
1970 Death - Carlos Estrada composer, dies at 60
1971 Birth - Cameron McFadzean Melbourne Victoria Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1971 Birth - Dave Karpa Regina, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 Birth - Jos Munoz WLAF offensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1971 Birth - Rondell Jones NFL safety (Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens)
1971 Death - Willem Banning Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83
1972 Birth - Chris Hayes safety (New York Jets)
1972 Birth - John Holecek NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Birth - Vince Stewart WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
1973 Birth - Dameian Jeffries NFL defensive end (New Orleans Saints)
1973 Birth - Kristian Lundin record producer
1974 Birth - Scott Whittaker center/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1974 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
1975 Birth - Jason Tunks London Ontario, discus thrower (Olympics-96)
1975 President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
1976 Birth - Nicholas Butcher Los Angeles CA, field hockey midfielder/forward (Olympics-96)
1977 Birth - Marko Milic NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1977 Death - Irwin Fischer composer, dies at 73
1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - Deniece Williams - Free
1980 Josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried
1980 Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC
1981 Death - Mieczyslaw Kolinski composer, dies at 79
1982 Death - Alfred Adam dies at 72
1983 August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
1983 Death - Peter Edel writer, dies
1984 $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1984 In Southern Italy a 5.8 earthquake killed three people and at least 100 injured, and extensive damage in the Abruzzo area
1985 Death - Dawn Addams actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
1986 Death - Gaston Deferre French politician, dies at 75
1986 In the Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 8.0 multiple event quake Damage (VI) on Adak and Atka.Tsunami generated with observed wave heights 91 to 122 cm at Kapaa, Kauai and 61 to 91 cm at Hanalei, Kauai and along the coast of Washington
1986 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
1986 Personal posting - may 7 1986 The world welcomed Gary Isaacs and its been a better place ever since!
1987 Birth - Katie Danza daughter of Tony & Tracy Danza
1987 Death - Colin Blakely dies at 56
1987 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
1988 Death - Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead] dies of natural causes at 42
1989 Death - Guy Williams actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies in Argentina at 65
1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes in Nepal at 21,030 feet
1989 On the Burma-China Border Region a 5.6 quake killed at least 1 person, 91 injured and 5,300 houses destroyed in the Gengma area, China
1989 Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
1989 Personal posting - Shane Priebe is born in Saint Peters MO
1990 Death - Jessica James actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60
1991 Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
1992 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
1992 Claude Morin admits to Radio Canada that he was a paid RCMP informant from 1974 to 1977
1992 Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
1992 Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
1992 Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage (STS-49).
1992 Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first fast-food murder in Canada.
1992 US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 Death - Mary Philbin actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
1993 South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
1994 Death - Clement Greenberg US art critic (Art & Culture), dies at 85
1994 Death - Margaret Skeete oldest American, dies at 115
1994 Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen
1994 Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)
1994 Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
1995 Death - Ernest H Martin impressario, dies at 75
1995 Death - Lawrence Josset engraver, dies at 84
1995 Death - Maria Luisa Bemberg fil maker, dies at 73
1995 Death - Ray McKinley drummer, dies at 84
1995 Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
1996 Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
1996 Death - Albert Meltzer anarchist, dies at 76
1996 Death - Henry Diamond Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87
1996 Death - Howard Frank Trayton Smith diplomat/head of MI5, dies at 76
1997 Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants
1997 Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)
1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1999 A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family US$25 million.
1999 In Guinea-Bissau, President Joo Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
1999 Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1999 Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope that had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
2001 Bradley Dillion Blahay was born May 7, 2001 at 5:29 PM 4.4 lbs. at MetroHealth - Cleveland, Ohio
2005 Former Lebanese Prime Minister, General Michel Aoun returns to Lebanon after 15 years in exile.
2006 Rolling Stone magazine publishes its 1000th issue.
2007 Personal posting - first grandson Callum born
2007 Personal posting - Zephan was born
2007 The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
2007 Windows Live Hotmail was launched and replaced MSN Hotmail.
I wouldn't use it as a basis for financial planning though.
27. crunchy said...
25. p. doff said...1994 Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen.
crunch-I couldn't agree more!
That was my financial planning. Could not get a buyer for love nor money, not smilling I guess ; )
28. growler said...
@25. pdoff.
That's gone and done it! coffee all over my computer screen
Classic comment sir.
29. drewster said...
p'doff - Excellent!
30. paul said...
p. doff do you realize that if you take all of those dates and express them in epoch milliseconds then use each pair as grid references and plot them on a map and connect up the dots, they resemble the Virgin Mary's chin?
Right I'm off to confession then off to drill a hole in my head.
31. denzil said...
@p.doff
Funny.
32. theboltonfury said...
so who did kill Princess Diana?
33. crunchy said...
16. sold 2 rent 1
When you can keep your head when all others..................................
Keep the faith and be faithful to it. If it bears fruit you will have the last laugh! Fringe benifits and all that.
34. sold 2 rent 1 said...
crunchy,
The usual abuse from the usual suspects.
Their consciousness has yet to change - but it will
35. crunchy said...
That sounded like the end of a good film, with a sequel to come me thinks.
Good on you!
36. inflation is eating my savings said...
crunchy @ 33
If you are Kipling at us- what do you think he meant by the unforgiving minute?
37. happy mondays said...
keep it going s2r1, you are totally correct, consciousness will have to evolve, if it dose not, we are all f***ed..But the out of destruction comes creation!
38. happy mondays said...
Thats then, out of destruction comes creation! A bit tired, just got in from training ...
39. crunchy said...
36. inflation is eating my savings, That's a bit heavy for me, but I think he meant live your life to the full because every minute is not refundable. It's at tall order but in it's extreme I think he also meant being fully conscious of self in your entirity within every minute. If one could do this your life would not fall foul to unconscious waste. The poem is very humbling because you may be able to acheive this for the odd day but then one slips into the daydream zone again and those precious minutes turn to hours then days without you clocking it!
Our death bed awaits us, and that's when that poem will hit us square in the face possibly in that last minute. The most precious thing we own. LIFE.
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
40. crunchy said...
36. inflation is eating my savings
When was the last time that you sensed your toes when speaking to someone and was aware of every second passing when doing so?
That's what I think he meant.
41. crunchy said...
36. inflation is eating my savings
I don't want to dwell on this but after some thought I am going to stick my neck out here. I think Alex Jones fits Kiplings poem pretty well.
No matter what you may think of him, there stands a man. Amen.
42. inflation is eating my savings said...
Crunchy- Don't know Mr Jones, but I appreciate your thoughts on the poem.
43. crunchy said...
42. inflation is eating my savings
Your welcome.