2012 - Year of the Tentacle: August 2012

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

MARTIN LUTHER KING HAS A DREAM

28 August 2012

- EVEN TENTACLES HAVE DREAMS -

1963 -

Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I have a dream" speech.

PEE WEE HAD A WANK

27 August 2012

- RUB N TUG -

27 August 1952 - Actor - and part time theatre masturbater - Pee Wee Hermn (Paul Reubens) is born.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

MOTHER TERESA

26 August 2012

- THE MOTHER -

1910 - Mother Teresa born, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia (Nobel Peace Prize 1979)

Saturday, August 25, 2012

SEAN CONNERY - JAMES BOND - GOLDEN TENTACLE

25 August 2012

- SUCTIONED, NOT STIRRED -

1930 - Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)

MT VESUVIUS - POMPEII

24 August 2012

- RUN -

79 -	The ancient city of Pompeii is destroyed as Mt Vesuvius erupts.

GENE KELLY

23 August 2012

- GENE KELLY, FRED ASTAIRE, GINGER ROGERS, I DON'T CARE -

1912 -

American actor, dancer and singer, Gene Kelly, is born.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

RED CROSS BUNS

22 August 2012

- CROSS EYED -

1864 -

The International Red Cross is founded.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

SEXY TENTACLE AND THE CITY

21 August 2012

- MANNEQUIN -

1956 - Kim Cattrall, Liverpool England, actress born (Mannequin, Star Trek VI)

YOOTHA JOYCE - GEORGE AND MILDRED

20 August 2012

- GEORGE AND MILDRED -

1927 - Yootha Joyce, English actress born (d. 1980)

Sunday, August 19, 2012

GENE RODDENBERRY - STAR TREK

19 August 2012

- BEAM ME UP SCOTTY -

1921 -

Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek phenomenon, is born.

OH WHAT A FEELING, TOYOTA

18 August 2012

- OH WHAT A FEELING -

1937 -

The Toyota Motor Company is founded.

Also, my great friend Candice got married today in 2012!!

AZARIA CHAMBERLAIN TAKEN BY A DINGO

17 August 2012

- A DINGO TOOK MY BABY -

1980 -

Two month old Azaria Chamberlain disappears while on a family camping holiday at Uluru (Ayers Rock), Australia.

ROLLER COASTER - EDWIN PRESCOTT

16 August 2012

- ROLLERCOASTER...OF LOVE -

1898 -

Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.

WATERLOO - NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

15 August 2012

- WATERLOO -

1769 -

Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, is born.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

JAPAN SURRENDERS

14 August 2012

- YIELD -

1945 -

Japan surrenders in WWII.

JOHN LOGIE BAIRD - TELEVISION

13 August 2012

- SORRY FOR THIS BREAK IN TRANSMISSION -

Monday, August 13, 1888. : John Logie Baird, inventor of television, is born.

John Logie Baird was born on 13 August 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland. He was educated at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, which later became the University of Strathclyde, and the University of Glasgow, but the eruption of WWI prevented him from completing his degree. Baird experimented with the transmission of both static and moving pictures using ventriloquists' dummies. The first moving image was transmitted on 30 October 1925. Baird's first public demonstration of successful transmission, on 27 January 1926, showed two dummies' heads moving.

Baird called his pictorial-transmission machine a "televisor," and it used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving images into electronic impulses. A number of inventors including Paul Gottlieb Nipkow and Boris Rosing contributed towards the development of television, but Baird was the first to transmit clearly discernible images. Baird died on 14 June 1946.

Monday, August 13, 2012

PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA

12 August 2012

- G'DAY FROM W.A. -

1829 -

The city of Perth, Western Australia, is founded. Perth is also the most isolated capital city on Earth.

Today is also my Father's birthday. Happy Birthday Dad!

Saturday, August 11, 2012

ENID BLYTON'S BIRTHDAY - A GAY DAY!

11 August 2012

- NODDY IS GAY, BIG EARS IS GAY....EVERYONE IS FEELING GAY -

1897 -

British children's author, Enid Blyton, is born

Friday, August 10, 2012

MICHAEL JACKSON BUYS THE BEATLES

10 August 2012

- BEATLES -

1985 - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million

Thursday, August 9, 2012

DICK RESIGNS - WATERGATE

9 August 2012

- I AM NOT A CROOK -

1974 -

In the wake of the Watergate scandal, US President Richard Nixon resigns

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

8 August 2012

- CHOO -

Thursday, August 8, 1963. : The Great Train Robbery in England occurs, in which £2.6m is stolen in used, untraceable bank notes.

For 125 years, the The Post Office train, known as the Up Special, had run its nightly service. On 8 August 1963, the train was carrying over 26 million pounds ($AU75.5 million) in used, untraceable bank notes destined for burning at the Bank of England, when it was stopped by a red light at 3:15am local time in Buckinghamshire. Police investigators later found that the signals had been tampered with and telephone wires had been cut. After the train was stopped, thieves attacked driver Jack Mills, 58, with an iron bar, uncoupled the engine and front two carriages and drove them to Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore. There they loaded 120 mail and money bags into a waiting truck.

13 of the thieves were caught and tried six months later. Ronnie Biggs became the best known of the criminals when he escaped from prison and headed for Brazil, remaining free for 28 years. He returned to England needing medical treatment, but knowing he would be arrested as soon as he arrived back in his home country. Biggs is still serving out his sentence: despite two heart attacks, he has not received any leniency or a reduced sentence.