Sunday - September 19, 2004

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Quote Of The Day

“Such a day, rum all out: — Our company somewhat sober: — A damned confusion amongst us! — Rogues a-plotting: — Great talk of separation — so I looked sharp for a prize: — Such a day found one with a great deal of liquor on board, so kept the company hot, damned hot; then all things went well again.”
-- Blackbeard The Pirate (1689-1718)

1900 - Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Pull Off Their First Robbery Together
Robert Parker and Harry Longbaugh, better known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, rob the First National Bank in Winnemucca, Nevada, marking the first time that the duo worked as a team. Up until this point, both men had been loosely affiliated with the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, named after a secret Colorado mountain hideout. While growing up in Utah, Robert Parker fell under the guidance of his neighbor, Mike Cassidy, who became Parker’s criminal mentor and taught him how to shoot. In the 1890s, after borrowing his neighbor’s name, Butch Cassidy robbed banks and trains throughout the West and, for a while, managed to stay one step ahead of the posses that were constantly on his tail. However, he was nabbed by a sheriff in Wyoming in 1894 and spent two years in jail for cattle rustling. Cassidy had actually come up with a more efficient way of rustling by simply extorting money from ranchers so that their steers weren’t stolen. After getting out of jail, Cassidy hooked up with the Hole-in-the-Wall crew. By all reports, he was the most levelheaded of the group. Harry Longbaugh took his name from Wyoming’s Sundance jail, where he had spent some time for horse theft. His reputation as an exceptionally fast and accurate shooter quickly spread. When the Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy met in 1900, they immediately became friends and partners. Seeking respite from the Pinkerton detectives who were hot on their trail, Sundance, Cassidy, and Etta Place, a schoolteacher with whom Sundance had become involved while hiding out in Texas, made their way to South America. Place scouted out banks in Argentina for Cassidy and Sundance, who then robbed the poorly guarded depositories. When they became too well known in Argentina, Cassidy and Sundance moved to Bolivia, where they worked honest jobs for a few years before their identities were discovered. According to most reports, the pair was ambushed by Bolivian soldiers and killed in San Vicente. Yet, rumors still persisted that Cassidy survived and lived a quiet life on a Nevada ranch until the 1920s.

1881 - President James Garfield died of a gunshot wound inflicted by a disappointed office seeker the previous July 2.

1955 - President Juan Peron of Argentina was deposed and exiled after a military coup.

1957 - The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert.

1959 - Khrushchev barred from visiting Disneyland.

1985 - The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed thousands of lives. The second earthquake hit 36 hours later.

1994 - U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

2001 - The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Sir William Golding, (1911–1993), English novelist
William Hesketh Lever, (1851-1925), English soap-maker (Lever Bros.), philanthropist

_{Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - The Biography Channel.}

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