TheBump
17-09-2004, 21:45
From now till the day I shall die I will Bump this Bump thread as this is my job as The Bump.
This Bump thread is also a detication to all the bumps out there that keep threads alive in all there glory.
Today on this Bump Septemeber 17, 2004
1630: English Puritans led by John Winthrop establish a settlement on the Shawmut peninsula in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The settlement is later named Boston, after the town of Boston in Lincolnshire, England.
1787: At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the delegates sign the new Constitution of the United States.
1796: U.S. president George Washington gives his Farewell Address, in which he declines to stand for a third term as president and warns the new nation to avoid entanglements with foreign governments.
1862: At Antietam, one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, Union troops led by General George McClellan halt the northward drive of General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army.
1978: Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin agree on the Camp David accords, the first peace agreements between Israel and an Arab neighbor.
2003: New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso resigns his post due to controversy surrounding his compensation, estimated at $140 million.
Born Today.
Marquis de Condorcet, philosopher and statesman (1743)
Hank Williams, country singer and songwriter (1923)
Maureen Connolly, tennis player (1934)
Rube Foster, baseball player and executive (1879)
Orlando Cepeda, baseball player (1937)
Phil Jackson, basketball player and coach (1945)
This Bump thread is also a detication to all the bumps out there that keep threads alive in all there glory.
Today on this Bump Septemeber 17, 2004
1630: English Puritans led by John Winthrop establish a settlement on the Shawmut peninsula in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The settlement is later named Boston, after the town of Boston in Lincolnshire, England.
1787: At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the delegates sign the new Constitution of the United States.
1796: U.S. president George Washington gives his Farewell Address, in which he declines to stand for a third term as president and warns the new nation to avoid entanglements with foreign governments.
1862: At Antietam, one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, Union troops led by General George McClellan halt the northward drive of General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army.
1978: Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin agree on the Camp David accords, the first peace agreements between Israel and an Arab neighbor.
2003: New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso resigns his post due to controversy surrounding his compensation, estimated at $140 million.
Born Today.
Marquis de Condorcet, philosopher and statesman (1743)
Hank Williams, country singer and songwriter (1923)
Maureen Connolly, tennis player (1934)
Rube Foster, baseball player and executive (1879)
Orlando Cepeda, baseball player (1937)
Phil Jackson, basketball player and coach (1945)