Antigone wrote: 
132!!! cripes. She was one of my not-so-secret fantasies.

Happy (132nd) Birthday, Virginia!

 meower wrote: 
Such. Good. News.

Give her my best, and a hug, please?

And one for you and S.

 Antigone wrote: 
WAY better. It DID turn out that she'd had strokes, 2 of them, TIA's..... unfortunately what she'd had last April was a hemorrhage, and treatment of stroke/hemorrhage is different.... anyway, she's back to baseline, and I've been really enjoying being with her the last two weekends.

 meower wrote: 
Kewl!



How's Swiss-Mom doing?

 

 Antigone wrote:

 

Now I need to go find the tray.

 Antigone wrote:

 

Now I need to go find the tray.

(Thanks to Meower for posting this on FB)

"On this day in 1935, the first can of beer is sold in Richmond, Va. The beer was produced by Gottfried Krueger Brewing, a Newark, N.J.-based company whose brewery was first constructed in 1848. Though the brewery closed in 1961, Krueger's canning of the popular malt beverage was a method that caught on. Today, some 35 billion—yes, billion—cans of alcoholic beverages are shipped each year."

1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.

1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a cathode ray tubeamusement device

1984 – The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.

1961 – 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.

50 years ago today,  the 24th Amendment, which outlawed the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified.

2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.

1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".

1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.

1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.

1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.