On This Day

If you are new to this site you might not know that you can click on the "On This Day" links under the post date to find out what happened on this day in history from the BBC, Wikipedia, IMDb, The History Channel and more. Not yet though, you have to read the stuff below first!

Here are some notable events from this day in history.

• 1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
• 1894 - Great Hinckley Fire.
• 1939 - Germany invades Poland.
• 1951 - The ANZUS Treaty is signed.
• 1983 - Korean airliner shot down.
• 1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
• 1997 - Diana driver was drunk and speeding.
• 1969 - Bloodless coup in Libya.
• 1991 - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is released in North America.
• 1999 - Information Junk(One of my favourites) began it's life on the web
• 2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins.
• 1972 - ILuvNUFC was born in the General Hospital in Newcastle.

See you all tomorrow :)

Music Video Filmed In Pripyat

Pripyat

Woman crossing Time Square w/ her teeth

A 1932 film of Tiny Kline, a Hungarian-born burlesque dancer and aerialist who became Disneyland's first Tinker Bell at the age of 70. In October 1932, Kline performed this iron-jaw stunt across Times Square as a way to advertise a vaudeville show that she was in.
See also Google Books - Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline By Tiny Kline, Janet M. Davis

Woman crossing Time Square w/ her teeth

Yellowstone National Park

Scotswood Road photography exhibition. Working class community in Newcastle upon Tyne, photographed in 1950s/60s by Jimmy Forsyth who passed away recently.

Greenland at The Big Picture

Glaciers

The Striking Colours of the Australian Outback

Slinky like light pattern in the blackness of moonlight sky produced by a time exposure of the light tipped rotor blades of a grounded helicopter as it takes off into the dark sky. (via)

Yellowstone National Park

Old photos of the Egyptian pyramids

Scenes from Sri Lanka

The Depression-Era Photography of Dorothea Lange

Typhoon Morakot at The Big Picture

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Photo Gallery

How to Photograph Abandoned Places

4 Rules of Composition for Landscape Photography

17 Image Manipulation Tools You Should Know About

10 Questions to Ask When Taking a Digital Photo

100 Websites to Teach Yourself Photography

9 Pet Photography Tips

5 Tips for Making the Most of Your Digital Photos (via)

Finding perfect photographic composition in your viewfinder

10 Ways to Look Good in Photos

Digital Photography Tutorials

5 Secrets of the Photoshop Crop Tool

Digital Photography Tips for Beginners

How Helen Keller Learned To Speak

The Final Destination Trailer

Gun Toting Granny

Friday Games

Harry Potter Quiz. ILuvNUFC Junior got 4/5.

Pyro II (via)

Nudge

Rockitty

Graphics Are Everything

Meloball

Ball Toucher

Flash Fighter

Dr Who Quiz - The Unicorn and the Wasp. 6/10 for me

Camper Bike

Photos: Airships Fly Again After 71 Years

Plane beautiful: The day the Red Arrows were upstaged by Mother Nature

World's largest aircraft, An-225, emerges to set new lift record

In pictures: 90 years of air travel and from the Big Picture In flight.

The Most Ingenious Way to Parallel Park Ever

Mountain Biking through the Mashatu Game Reserve

Cycling Directions on Google Maps

Camper Bike

The Unusual Metro Systems of the Soviet Union

The RAC Foundation has warned of the growing phenomenon of gunmen firing at road signs at locations across Britain

Motorist gets a lift in Sturgeon Bay

Backwards Indian cab driver becomes local celebrity 'by driving everywhere in reverse'

The FlatMobile - World’s Lowest Street Legal Car

Kool Skool: 15 Examples Of Awesome Bus Mod Art

A special cargo

Truck Spills (via)

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Do More From Your Browser Address Bar

25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives

Facebook Hacked By 4chan, Accounts Compromised

Internet University Cast (via)

Tech heroes of the past: Where are they now? (via)

Anger at UK file-sharing policy

Trend Micro provides better web-based virus cleanup with Housecall v7

Microsoft erases black man from web photo

Why AT&T Killed Google Voice

Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon unite against Google Books project

Seven Crimes That Will Get You a Smaller Fine than File-Sharing

10 Horrible Paintings from Atari 2600 Game Box Art

Two useful tweaks for Firefox Vacuum Firefox databases for better performance, now with no restart and How to fix Flash video performance in Firefox

Tech Support Cheat Sheet