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On this day...

  • 08-01-2020 1:46pm
    #1
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭


    Thought it might be interesting to have a thread that highlights things that happened on a given date throughout the years.

    We'll start off strong with the 10 year anniversary of the man who slipped on ice, captured by a RTE News report

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh6HFMBREB4


    The event has been commemorated with a plaque

    499479.jpg

    So Boardsies, what other events happened on this day in history (and on respective days if this thread lives on)?

    🤪



Comments

  • #2
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,819 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Someone should knock that sign off the wall it's a cheap trick by Coors Light ffs


  • #3
    topper75
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    Birth of the King, 1935.


  • #4
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Carra made his Liverpool debut
    1997


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The ice age ended.


  • #6
    WrenBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,614 ✭✭✭WrenBoy


    God thats smart advertising, I respect it and Im all of a sudden so thirsty.


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  • #7
    punisher5112
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    That plaque would look well in my man cave....

    Won't last long there....


  • #8
    Liam28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭Liam28


    topper75 wrote: »
    Birth of the King, 1935.
    Other birthdays include David Bowie, David Silva and Kim Jong-un. Three geniuses and a nutcase.


  • #9
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,807 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    WrenBoy wrote: »
    God thats smart advertising, I respect it and Im all of a sudden so thirsty.
    Wow! Thirsty enough for Coors?!?


  • #10
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Wow! Thirsty enough for Coors?!?

    Don’t be ridiculous.


  • #11
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Liam28 wrote: »
    Other birthdays include David Bowie, David Silva and Kim Jong-un. Three geniuses and a nutcase.
    Bowie had his eccentricities but nutcase is a bit harsh. :pac:

    I know I'm a day out but I can't believe yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Coincidentally was reminded of it last night when watching a documentary on Salman Rushdie.


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  • #12
    WrenBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,614 ✭✭✭WrenBoy


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Bowie had his eccentricities but nutcase is a bit harsh. :pac:

    I know I'm a day out but I can't believe yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Coincidentally was reminded of it last night when watching a documentary on Salman Rushdie.

    How is aul Rushie ??


  • #13
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    Front page of the Herdild, this day ten years ago. The Iris Robinson scandal was in full swing at the time too.

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  • #14
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,984 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    On this day in1835, the United States national debt was (according to google) 0$ ... for the first and only time in history


  • #15
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    8th January 1954, Elvis Presley paid $4 at a Memphis studio and recorded his 1st songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way".


  • #16
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    David Bowie wrote Golden Years for fellow birthday boy Elvis, who declined to record it.
    WrenBoy wrote: »
    How is aul Rushie ??
    Very cool guy. The life of fear caused by that fatwah for ten years of his life was shocking. Didn't realise it was so serious because I thought "Ah he'll be ok living in somewhere safe like Britain". It was like being in prison.

    He did a hilarious sketch about it with Larry David years later. Great acting and comic timing by him. :D


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