1452 – First European book printed with moveable type, Johann Gutenberg’s Bible, in Mainz, Germany. Mainz has a terrific museum devoted to printing, including a display of an original Gutenberg Bible. It’s worth a visit if you’re in the area. I was.
1544 – King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France. His army leaves behind a considerable amount of genetic material.
1791 – The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart, receives its premiere performance at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots. Yeah. Just like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are “incorruptible patriots”. And cool move, there Gaston!: You get rid of a monarchy and pass control to a dictatorship by moonbat.
1841 – Samuel Slocum patented the stapler. Hey! A milestone IS a milestone…
1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. it was a whopping 12.5 kilowatts. Honda makes a portable generator that big now and it fits in the back of a pickup truck. I’ve worked on a 600 MEGAwatt unit. That’s 48,000(!) times bigger. In less than a hundred years.
1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Neville Chamberlain forever sets the standard for moonbat politicians being flim-flammed by dictators when he returns to London, waves a copy of the agreement and says it means “peace in our time.” Hitler says “a little piece of Poland, a little piece of France…” (and extra points if you can identify where the Hitler quote comes from…)
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”. Yeah, that worked. The League of Nations died. If only the UN would have the grace to do the same…
1949 – Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights. America faces down the Soviet Union. Today’s Left would not only have signed West Berlin Over to them, but would have held a star-studded concert to celebrate.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1968 – First Boeing 747 rolls out. American aviation shows the world how it’s done.
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Muslims are driven to a killing frenzy by cartoons. Who knew? Other things that drive Muslims into a killing frenzy: Days that end with “y”. Puppies. Music. People smiling. BACON!
all i can think of is a movie jack benny was in
“a little piece of Poland, a little piece of France” is a line in a song by Mel Brooks in the Movie “A little Peace”
The movie was “To Be or Not to Be” with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. Mel Brooks remade it about thirty years later, but the remake was not nearly as funny.
1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant
Tom’s generators put out DC, right? Nik’s put out AC, right?
1938 – Hitler says “a little piece of Poland, a little piece of France…” (and extra points if you can identify where the Hitler quote comes from…)
Probably from To Be Or Not To Be.
Earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B1HcHRGO3o
Hey, once more I find myself having to stick up for ol’ Neville. Britain was in no position to go to war with Germany at that time, and the (nearly) a year it bought helped the Brits to begin to rearm and build up their forces for the inevitable coming war. Chamberlain knew what he was doing, and he did it to buy time – unlike our “leaders” who do equally stupid moves for purely venal motives. Even Sir Winston Churchill kept Chamberlain in his cabinet throughout the war as he recognized Chamberlain was an honorable man.
Oh, and by the way, the quote comes from Mel Brooks’ movie “To Be, or Not to Be”, which was a remake of a Jack Benny film of the same name.
The Jack Benny flick was “To Be or Not To Be.” The other movie that Ole Phat Stu names is one by Mel Brooks that I can’t believe I haven’t seen called “A Little Peace.” My guess would have been Mel Brook’s “The Producers.”
The movie was “The Producers”. The play within the movie was “Springtime for Hitler”.
Can’t even get my handle correct.
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Correct!
MC
I’ve seen the Mel Brooks remake (1983), never saw the Jack Benny original (1942). Both of them are titled “To Be or Not to Be”; It’s possible that one or the other was released under a different title, but Wikipedia doesn’t list any alternate titles. For those that never saw either version, it’s a comedy about an actor troupe in Poland under the German occupation, who con the Nazis and escape to England, bringing along a bunch of Jewish refugees.
“The Producers” (1968) was a different Mel Brooks film, about scammers intending to rip off investors in a play. The idea was to sell each share in the play several times, and produce such a flop that the investors would write off 100% of their investments without even seeing the books. To ensure it would be a flop, they based their script on “Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden”, a book by a deranged Nazi-wannabe about Hitler’s domestic life. They hired the worst director in the business. They hired a drugged-out hippie to play Hitler. And unintentionally, they created a hit comedy…