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Now that is history. :up:

the worst of the worst!

Actually Aktungbby the Sultana disaster was more likely due to the boilers exploding. I'll let this quote on both theories do the rest of the talking though.

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The official cause of the Sultana disaster was determined to be mismanagement of water levels in the boiler, exacerbated by the fact that it was severely overcrowded and top heavy. As the steamship made her way north following the twists and turns of the river, she listed severely to one side then the other. Her four boilers were interconnected and mounted side-by-side, so that if the ship tipped sideways, water would tend to run out of the highest boiler. With the fires still going against the empty boiler, this created hot spots. When the ship tipped the other way, water rushing back into the empty boiler would hit the hot spots and flash instantly to steam, creating a sudden surge in pressure. This effect of careening could have been minimized by maintaining high water levels in the boilers. The official inquiry found that the ship's boilers exploded due to the combined effects of careening, low water level, and a faulty repair to a leaky boiler made a few days earlier.

In 1888, a St. Louis resident named William Streetor claimed that his former business partner, Robert Louden, made a death bed confession of having sabotaged Sultana by a coal torpedo. Louden, a former Confederate agent and saboteur who operated in and around St. Louis, had the opportunity and motive to attack it and may have had access to the means. (Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay, the inventor of the coal torpedo, was a former resident of St. Louis and was involved in similar acts of sabotage against Union shipping interests.) Supporting Louden's claim are eyewitness reports that a piece of artillery shell was observed in the wreckage. Louden's claim is controversial, however, and most scholars support the official explanation

1789 A flick franchise is launched!

The Mutiny of the HMS Bounty!

Mister Christian just wanted some Strawberries and cream.

Cap'n Blye was less than accommodating on that request.:haha:

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Originally Posted by Wolferz (Post 2201904)

Mister Christian just wanted some Strawberries and cream.:haha:

Some serious strawberries and cream indeed! Brando directed; acquired the small archipelago of Teti'aroa; and married the co-star Tarita...

A bad day for the French!

1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in his second exile, aged 51, on the island of St Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic. 1862 a bigger celebration in California than in Mexico actually?? CINCO DE MAYO holiday! celebrating the defeat of Napoleon III's occupying French forces at the Battle of Puebla!

Maybe Lincoln was in cahoots with the three countries that invaded Mexico. Looking to weaken them enough for an annexation perhaps? :hmmm:
It could also be why he took one to the cranium.

Nothing wrong with revisionist history.:03:

Great day for Brirish!

5/7 Bad policy: Germany loses the war politiclly!

The RMS Lusitania is sunk this date in 1915

1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.

1945 - US president Harry S Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.

'giant tea kettle' Travel arrangements get REARRANGED permanently

1960: Nuclear powered USRN TRITON SSRN 586 circumnavigates the world completely submerged! http://cprr.org/Museum/images/I_ACCE...ERMISSIONS.gif

1944 - A major offensive was launched by the allied forces in central Italy.

1960 - Israeli soldiers captured Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

1310 - Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.

1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam.

1778 - William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69

1970 - Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise

5/11/1862 : The short life of a great battle ship!

Letoile du Nord!(Motto of state seal) BBY

1858: Minnesota, Land of Sky Blue Waters, becomes the 32nd state in the Union;

goin' out in style;or...interweaving the bare facts!

1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on King John; leads to Magna Carta

1670 - Frederick Augustus I/ August II, the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (reputed to have sired 355 children) (d. 1733)

1864 - J.E.B. Stuart [James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart] kia (aged 31)

1959 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor's (27) marries for the 4th time to entertainer Eddie Fisher (30)