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[EndtheMadnessNow]

It's International Beer Day! In 1937, the mayor of Seattle provided 400 pounds of pretzels and 200 barrels of beer at a free party for sailors during Fleet Week. The mayor worried about having enough cups to serve the beer but sailors solved this problem by arriving with their own paper wastebaskets to fill.

The prospect of an unlimited supply of free beer might, at first, seem appealing. Yet, when it is a tidal wave at least 15 metres high and over one million litres in volume, it is considerably less tempting. On Monday 17 October 1814 a bizarre industrial accident in St Giles, London claimed at least eight lives when a three-storey high vat of beer exploded inside a brewery and unleashed a tsunami of porter onto the streets around Tottenham Court Road.

The London Beer Flood

New Air Force Radar Can Track UFOs 3000 Miles Away
..."such photographs would be final, irrefutable proof that the UFOs are real, as hundreds of trained observers have said for the past 10 years."


This issue has some good stuff for 1957, here's a copy on Archive.org


August 1, 1971: Apocalyptic Heston...THE OMEGA MAN aka 'I Am Legend' is released.





At 12:01 AM ET on August 1, 1981, MTV launched with the words:

“Ladies and gentleman, rock and roll.”

With that statement, MTV launched as the world's first television channel devoted to showing music videos.



MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its very first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by British new wave/synth-pop group The Buggles. The guy briefly seen wearing black playing a keyboard is the one & only Hans Zimmer. The video was first released in 1979, when it originally aired on the BBC's Top of the Pops for promotion of the single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs

MTV First Day Of Broadcast August 1, 1981: first 10 minutes aired:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA_003itwcE


USS Leftwich (DD 984) was sunk as a target on August 1, 2003 and now sits at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, about 50 miles off the north coast of Kauai at 22.813056, -160.566667. Have a lot of good memories, best damn camaraderie & wild tall sea stories onboard that Destroyer. RIP:




If you want them federal dollars to keep rolling in ya better get rid of that exhibit.


Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum

Future update in 2029.


NASA once claimed it analyzed debris from the 1965 Kecksburg "UFO" crash -- then said the records vanished. A new deep dive explores decades of lost files, FOIA battles, and a mystery still unsolved.


The 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania Crash

Kurt H. Debus probably took the files back to Germany when he left NASA.

“Can you believe they put Nazis like me in charge?”
― Kurt H. Debus, 1st center director of NASA; later NASA UFO desk.


People who love that AI turns their brains off have found their kill switch. Why not co-parent with the child's ACTUAL FATHER. Society is doomed.


I co-parent with ChatGPT — I love turning off my brain and letting AI help raise my child

I don't care what Swiss millennials are doing, but I do wonder how many American moms are doing this.


White House got a facelift...



Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome




Meanwhile, more nuclear sabre rattling...Well, that’s one way to get the party started for the weekend.


For those that may not know, Nuclear submarines with SLBMs have always been positioned in appropriate regions, especially for launching on Russia, since the 1950s.