On This Day in History: July 21st

356 BC – A young stupid bastard named Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. 

1831 – Inauguration of Léopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.  Chocolate! Belgian Chocolate!  Okay — that was dumb.

1861 – American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins.

1865 - Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.

1873 – Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West.

1925 – Scopes Trial:  John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.   Damn!

1931 – CBS’s New York City station begins broadcasting the first regular seven days a week television schedule in the U.S.

1969 – Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.  Buzz was way hotter than Neil.  Just Kidding!   I don’t know what the hell either of them looked like.

1970 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed after 11 damn years.   Ha Ha and sorry for the pun.

1972 – Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) around Belfast, Northern Ireland – 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured.  Damn!

1984 -  Killer Robot Alert:  In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.   A safety bar?!  Sick, sad, and ironic. 

I’m gonna beat this slag down.

Just kidding!  Woo-hoo, Orlando Bloom may have a new girlfriend!  And she ain’t blonde for once!   Here’s Orlando and his newest ladyfriend, Naomie Harris — most recently seen on screen in Pirate’s of the Caribbean as Calypso (she creeped the HELL out of me in that movie).  She cleans up pretty well, huh?

Anyway, apparently the two  have been flirting via the press for a whiles now and she helped  him cope with the world after his sorrowful split with Kate Bosworth (the patron saint of this blog).  Says the infamous  person named ’source’ :  “They’ve made no bones about the fact they both fancy each other.”  Ha!  Bones is right.  These two are some skinny slappers.  

Naomie went to see her man in his play In Celebration, and after a quick shag in his dressing room,  she joined him for some grub.  Just kidding about the shag part.   Aside from that, I have nothing smartass to say.   I’m sort of rooting for this to not be a one-time thing.  Wasn’t he hitting on some slapper last week and got denied?  

P.S.  His boots are real cute. 

    

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