Events

• 539 BC – Cyrus the Great entered the city of Babylon and detained Nabonidus.
• 437 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius
• 969 – Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
• 1268 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
• 1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
• 1422 – Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
• 1467 – Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
• 1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
• 1658 – Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
• 1665 – Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga.
• 1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
• 1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
• 1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
• 1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
• 1863 – Eighteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
• 1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
• 1901 – Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
• 1918 – The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German revolution.
• 1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
• 1921 – Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA.
• 1921 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
• 1922 – The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
• 1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
• 1941 – Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
• 1942 – Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
• 1944 – The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
• 1945 – Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
• 1948 – Safsaf massacre
• 1953 – BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco, California. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
• 1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
• 1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
• 1956 – Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
• 1957 – Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
• 1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
• 1961 – Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
• 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form the Republic of Tanzania.
• 1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
• 1966 – National Organization For Women is founded.
• 1967 – London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
• 1967 – Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
• 1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
• 1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
• 1983 – Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, The Netherlands.
• 1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
• 1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
• 1988 – Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as Governor of Sindh, following the efforts by President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated.
• 1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
• 1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
• 1998 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
• 1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
• 1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
• 1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
• 1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
• 1998 – The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden claims 63 lives and injures 200.
• 1999 – A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.
• 2002 – Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
• 2004 – The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
• 2004 – In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
• 2005 – 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
• 2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.

:)

Hilarious!

should we move back south!

Events

• 421 - Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1575 - Universiteit Leiden founded, and given the motto "Praesidium Libertatis".
• 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• 1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed.
• 1622 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
• 1692 - A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials.
• 1693 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
• 1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
• 1807 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
• 1817 - Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
• 1837 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
• 1849 - New Roman Republic established.
• 1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
• 1865 - In the U.S., Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
• 1867 - The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
• 1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• 1887 - The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• 1900 - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
• 1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
• 1915 - D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
• 1918 - The Stars and Stripes newspaper publishes for the first time.
• 1922 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
• 1924 - Capital punishment: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
• 1943 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal ends after the Japanese Imperial Army evacuated their remaining forces with a United States victory.
• 1949 - Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary sentenced for treason.
• 1952 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the UK.
• 1955 - The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
• 1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
• 1962 - Charonne massacre. 9 trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
• 1963 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
• 1968 - American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre, a mass killing in Orangeburg, South Carolina of black students from South Carolina State University who were protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley.
• 1969 - Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
• 1971 - The NASDAQ stock market index debuts.
• 1974 - After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab return to Earth.
• 1974 - Military coup in Upper Volta.
• 1978 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
• 1979 - Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
• 1983 - The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, the 320m deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
• 1986 - 1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top explosive experts in the world.
• 1989 - An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal, killing 144.
• 1993 - General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
• 1996 - The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
• 1996 - The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
• 1998 - First female ice hockey game in Olympic history: Finland beats Sweden 6-0.

While I have many systems, I do keep one box setup which is the HUB of all key operations in the house... here is a diagram of my "virtualized" box.   There is secondary systems to keep it redundant but you get the idea :)

Just after getting my home development environment all upgraded I finally moved to VSTFS workgroup edition ... I was really excited to use all the great features they offer to support SDLC (including source, bug, documentation management) but integrating it into a nice workflow experience.

Well after going through the goodness of building out a new TFS VM, I find out that it doesn't go well.  TFS complains about the wrong SQL version (albeit i am running SQL 2008).  After ... a rebuild of the  VM or two ... i finally got enough nerve to search the net and found out a nice issue.

For Windows 2008, SQL 2008 and TFS 2008 to work together you need to have TFS SP1 ... the "updated" help file I downloaded which pulls RTM TFS help does not mention anything here except "2008 SQL is supported" :)

anyway ... the link helped me out and my TFS workgroup is up and running.

Back in 1992 i got on the Windows NT 3.1 beta and became very active on Compuserve in the WUG (windows user groups)... little did any of us know this would be the foundation for the MVP program.  Windows was really taking off in the PC industry and 3.0 really made things for NT very different from the Unix systems i was using in the day.  A few years on Compuserve and getting awarded WUG sponsorship from Microsoft really was a nice gift and things really started to boom, it was called the Internet ... there were very few of us WUG folks on CIS who continued forward into the first ever MVP program around 1994. 

This was denoted as the "WIndows MVP" and there were no other product or specializations into major areas of the Windows product line.   We were all very broad and deep in many areas and we really enjoyed helping people so we were rewarded with alpha / beta  access (OS, apps, technologies, MSN etc) and sponsorship into MSN (which replaced CIS).

Over time this really just moved into things like MVP bucks, Technet and Universal MSDN , books, MVP summits and all kinds of other goodies as well as relationships directly to the product teams.  It was a really good time and overtime got me in the door with Microsoft in 1997/8.  It just took me a few years to move out west :)

Why this post? Well in our most recent move, my wife saw my old MVP awards started asking me about this and it made me reflect on these times.

I even see a TON of my old posts ...  http://groups.google.com/groups?q=lester%20russell%20AT%26T&rls=com.microsoft:*&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg

Sign of the times.

The tech leaderblog has a great article on this topic ... see here for more

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/14/indian_moon_landing/

Some interesting items below, who would have thought that leaving a major semiconductor company like Fairchild in the late 60s would have turned out like it did ... (See Intel 1971 below)

For those who don't know, Fairchild "was" the spinoff of national semiconductor and were truly from an era of "single major" utility companies like IBM, AT&T, Western Electric ... it was the beginning of the technology push for personal computing. 

Events

• 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
• 1315 - Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
• 1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
• 1532 - Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
• 1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
• 1791 - The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
• 1806 - Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).
• 1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
• 1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
• 1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
• 1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
• 1935 - Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
• 1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
• 1942 - World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
• 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
• 1943 - Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)
• 1948 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.
• 1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
• 1959 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
• 1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.
• 1966 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1966 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
• 1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
• 1969 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
• 1969 - Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
• 1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
• 1976 - René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
• 1978 - A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
• 1979 - A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
• 1983 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only by Turkey
• 1985 - A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
• 1985 - The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
• 1987 - Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
• 1988 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.
• 1988 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
• 1988 - The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• 1990 - Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
• 1993 - 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
• 2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people. New Jharkhand state came into existence in India.
• 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
• 2003 - The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to be followed by additional bombings on November 20.
• 2005 - Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
• 2007 - A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.

We all have had one of these days before

Highlands really rock

• 1251 BC - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
• 70 - A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
• 1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
• 1776 - World's first submarine attack: the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.
• 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
• 1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
• 1821 - The Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) was established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
• 1822 - Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga river in São Paulo.
• 1860 - Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• 1876 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed.
• 1893 - The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become the first Italian football club, is established by British expats.
• 1901 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
• 1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
• 1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• 1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
• 1911 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
• 1915 - Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
• 1921 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
• 1922 - In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
• 1927 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by GovernorAntônio Carlos.
• 1927 - The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
• 1929 - Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives were lost.
• 1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
• 1940 - World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
• 1940 - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
• 1942 - Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
• 1942 - First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
• 1943 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
• 1943 - World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River (Taman Peninsula) bridgehead in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea. The move signals the beginning of full retreat of German forces along the Eastern Front.
• 1945 - Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
• 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
• 1963 - The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
• 1965 - China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
• 1970 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
• 1970 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
• 1970 - Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
• 1977 - The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
• 1978 - While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella.
• 1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
• 1979 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
• 1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
• 1986 - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
• 1988 - Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.
• 1997 - The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.
• 1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University
• 1999 - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
• 2004 - Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hitting Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
• 2005 - First presidential election was held in Egypt.

Well we finally broke down and got a new kitten for our older ones.  Seems they wanted a "baby" ...

Some pics and a her video:

I really want the new skull trail board

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d5400xs/index.htm

I have not owned a real dual processor board since the 44bx/gx boards for P3 systems.  Glad to see the return but gezzus this is a powerful board.