San Francisco Earthquake of 1989…..
October 17, 1989……
The opening of the World Series in San Francisco is interrupted by an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale. An Oakland freeway collapsed killing 42 people. In all, the damage was $10 billion with 67 people killed.
I was having dinner last weekend with my wife at a nice restaurant and the waiter came to our table and said to me; “Your glass looks empty, do you want another one? “…..I said “why would I want TWO empty glasses?”
DON’T DO IT!
Nuremberg Trials Executions…… October 16, 1946…… Ten of the 12 former Nazi leaders who had been sentenced to death are hanged. Hermann Göring committed suicide the night before and Martin Bormann, who was convicted in absentia, had died the previous year.
Did you hear about the guy who invented the knock knock joke?…..He won the no bell prize!
Mata Hari Executed….. October 15, 1917…… The world’s most famous spy, Mata Hari, is executed. She had been convicted of spying for Germany during World War I and executed by firing squad in France. She refused a blindfold and blew a kiss to the firing squad before her execution.
Over the weekend I started reading a really scary book in Braille. I’m not that far into it, but something really bad is going to happen….I can just feel it!
Erwin Rommel Forced Suicide…… October 14, 1944…… World War I hero, known as the “Desert Fox”, he was once Adolf Hitler‘s favorite general. He had been implicated in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler. Since he was a national hero, Hitler didn’t want to publicly execute him as he had done others implicated in the plot. Rommel…
My wife and I were at a restaurant over the weekend having dinner and I said to the waitress “Can I ask you a question about the menu please?” She slapped me across the face and said, “The men I please are none of your business”!
“Realer things are going on.”