This day in history - August 30

[seamusTX]

1888 - Lord Walsingham killed 1,070 grouse in a single day at Blubberhouse [sic] in England.

He had two servants loading multiple shotguns for him, and forty "drivers" flushing birds. This kind of shooting was a craze among wealthy British men of that era.

1963 - The "Hot Line" between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation.

It was a set of Teletype machines in the Pentagon and the Kremlin. American messages were sent in English. Soviet messages were sent in Russian. Maintaining the communication lines cost about $80,000 a year, which was a lot of money at that time.

The system was first used in 1967, during the Egypt-Israeli war of that year.

1967 The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court.

- Jim

[USA1]

1986 USA1 became a proud father to a beautiful baby girl .

[seamusTX]

Happy birthday to the young lady.

- Jim

[joe817]

And proud you should be! She's beautiful. And she's lucky to have such a great dad too.

(I can't believe I even said that)