oneiric \oh-NY-rik\, adjective:
- Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of dreams; dreamy.
Oneiric comes from Greek oneiros, "dream."
slow elevator
- If you live in a tall building when you ride the elevator down to the first floor when your about to get out of it and a lot of people are trying to get in you press every button to piss everyone off
Some asshole pulled a slow elevator on me and it took 15 minutes to get to the 50th floor
History
- Harriet Quimby: became the first female pilot to fly the English Channel (1912)
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: returned to Russia, ending an exile of some 20 years (1917)
- LSD: Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of the drug (1943)
- Texas City Disaster: at least 580 were killed in the explosion of a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate, in America's worst industrial disaster (1947)
- cold war: term was coined by financier Bernard Baruch in a speech in South Carolina (1947)
- Walter Cronkite: the "most trusted man in America" began his 19-year run as anchor of CBS Evening News (1962)
- panda diplomacy: China sent the US two giant pandas as a gift after President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China (1972)
- Virginia Tech: Cho Seung-Hui opened fire, eventually killing 32 students and himself in the US's most deadly shooting rampage (2007)
Birthdays
- Hans Sloane 1660 - Doctor, naturalist, instrumental in founding of the British Museum
- Flora Batson 1864
- Jose de Diego 1866 - Patriot and political leader of Puerto Rico, April 16 is a legal holiday in Puerto Rico in his honor
- Wilbur Wright 1867 - Aviator, one of the Wright Brothers
- John Millington Synge 1871 - Poet, playwright
- Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian, communist
- Les Tremayne (Henning) 1913 - Actor ("The War of the Worlds", "The Slime People")
- John Hodiak 1914 - Actor
- Spike Milligan 1918
- Merce Cunningham 1919 - Dancer, choreographer
- Sir Peter Ustinov 1921 - Actor
- Kingsly Amis 1922 - Novelist
- Bennie Green 1923 - Musician, lyricist
- Barry Nelson 1920 - Actor ("Airport", "The Shining"), first actor to portray Ian Flemming's James Bond.
- Henri Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) 1924 - Composer (themes for "The Pink Panther", "Peter Gunn")
- Joseph Alois Ratzinger 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
- Peter Mark Richman 1927
- Edie Adams 1929 - Actress
- Ed Townshend 1929
- Roy Hamilton 1929 - Singer
- Herbie Mann (Soloman) 1930 - Jazz musician,
- Ike Pappas 1933 - Singer
- Bobby Vinton 1935 - Singer
- Queen Margrethe II 1940 - Queen of Denmark
- Jim (James Reynold) Lonborg 1942 - Baseball player
- Dave Peverett (Lonesome Dave) 1943 - Musician (Foghat)
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)1947 - Basketball player
- Gerry Rafferty 1947 - Singer, songwriter
- Bill Spooner 1949 - Musician (The Tubes)
- Peter Garrett 1953 - Singer (Midnight Oil)
- Jay O. Sanders 1953 - Actor
- Ellen Barkin 1954 - Actress ("Eddie and the Cruisers")
- David Pirner 1964 - Musician (Soul Asylum)
- John Cryer 1965 - Actor ("Superman 4: The Quest for Peace", "Pretty in Pink", "Two and a Half Men")
- Martin Lawrence 1965 - Actor, comedian
- Dan Rieser 1966 - Musician (Marcy Playground)
- Selena Quintanilla 1971 - Singer
- Peter Billingsley 1972 - Actor ("A Christmas Story")
- Lukas Haas 1976 - Actor
Gina Carano 1982 - Actress - Samantha Char 1995
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