* In 1961 Sabena flight 548 crashed in Belgium, killing all aboard including the entire United States Figure Skating team.
Eyewitnesses say the plane had a perfect take off but needless to say, completely failed to stick the landing. Of course the obvious lesson for all of us is it's not safe or appropriate to attempt a triple Salchow in a 737.
* In 1965 President Lyndon Baines Johnson sent the first combat troops to fight in South Vietnam.
Liberals everywhere immediately accused him of waging a “war for rice”.
* In 2006 Vice-President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man in the face while hunting quail.
Little known fact – the first President Bush once tried to shoot Dan Quayle in the face but missed and killed a pigeon.
* In 1924 Calvin Coolidge made history by becoming the first President in to give a political speech on the radio.
For the first 10 minutes he laid out his platform and then spent the next 2 and 1/2 hours making fun of Baba-Booey and giving away free tickets to the Journey concert.
* In 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran, issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his book the “Satanic Verses”.
Now I looked it up and apparently a "fatwa" is a death sentence. This was interesting because I was under the impression that “fatwa” was Arabic slang for passing gas.
As in, “The other day I ate so much hummus I issued a fatwa that could have killed a camel.”
Or, “Hey, roll down the window. That falafel’s not agreeing with me and I’m about to issue one horrendous fatwa.”
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