On this day in history......

[Templar]

A MORE SERIOUS SIDE OF HISTORY DID NIGHTHAWK SAY...........WHY THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF HISTORY OR HERSTORY.........THERE ARE BOTH SIDES TO EVERY CONFLICT AND THE ODD THING IS THAT GOD IS ALWAYS ON BOTH SIDES.........YOU THINK THATS HEDGING YOUR BETS
   THE CRUSADES IS ONE OF THE MOST HUMOROUS AND HORRIBLE SET OF EVENTS SINCE EVENTS WERE WRITTEN DOWN--------ONE GERMAN LEADER FALLS OFF HIS HORSE CROSSING A STREAM AND DROWNS BECAUSE OF HIS OWN ARMOR........THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN DECIDE TO GO OFF AND FREE THE HOLY LANDS...NEVER TO RETURN........THE CHRISTIANS ACT LIKE BARBARIANS AND STEAL ANYTHING NOT NAILED DOWN--WHILE KILLING ALL THE HEATHENS--AND THE SAVAGE ARABS CAN'T GET OVER HOW DIRTY AND SMELLY AND CRUDE THE CRISTIANS WERE---WHAT WAS THE QUESTION NIGHTHAWK ???TELL ME TOMORROW NIGHT---THE TEMPLAR

[Goose]

Templar, how can you be so concerned about those matters? Try to envision what the Romanian handball player is doing these days. Is he still active?.....Has he turned pro?.....Has he won the country's championship? Now these items are the real pressing issues!

[Templar]

YOU ARE SO RIGHT GOOSE ........HERE I AM BABBLING ABOUT THE UNIMPORTAN WHILE REAL HISTORY IS PASSING US BYE...I WONDER WHAT THE LITTLE JAPANESE FELLOW IS DOING...YOU KNOW.....THE ONE THAT HOLDS THE RECORD FOR EATING THE MOST HOT DOGS!.........NOW THAT'S NEWS

   YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT AND FRIEND..........THE TEMPLAR

[Templar]

NOW THAT'S A MAN WHO LIKES HOT DOGS.............MY IDOL




    MY LOOK AT THE TIME----LUNCH ALREADY.........GET BACK LATER......HOT DOGS SOUND GOODE TO ME.......

         HAPPY EATING........THE TEMPLAR

[Topher]

1964 - The Beatles play on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time, and Beatlemania begins.  The rest is history.......

[Goose]

 Ed Sullivan paid the Beatles $8000 for that appearance that night (Would be $55,000 today) which might not have been much to them, but it sure had very beneficial exposure for them.