The date stamp on ita's link indicates exactly what amych said. Think it was the first vote this morning.
Yes. But the text states it happened on Monday, which was the 18th.
Posted April 19, 2005 10:42am
There was confusion Monday in the Vatican as cardinals gathered to select a new pope.
Thousands of people thought they saw 'white smoke,' the signal of a successful vote.
But the smoke later turned black, signaling the conclave will resume tomorrow.
I'm calling it for Ratzinger. I have no actual clue, but it was too quick for me to think it could be anyone else. I don't suppose tommyrot's Marian apparition means it's Chicago's own Andrew Greeley (who's not a cardinal anyhow which already makes it highly unlikely, never mind his liberalism and Americanism).
OK, who were all the presidents that survived assassination attempts?
Reagan and Ford come to mind, but I think there were a couple in the 19th century.
Wasn't he also the one who screened Birth of a Nation on the lawn?
Not sure who that was, but McKinley was assassinated in 1901 and Birth of a Nation was made in 1915.
McKinley was assassinated (by an anarchist, if memory serves), but actually died of an infection he got from the surgery to remove the bullet. The surgeons reportedly didn't want to waste time with that controversial new sterilization thing.
I learned that when I was going to McKinley High School.
John Garfield was the victim of an assassination attempt, too. Sorry, that one succeeded, right?
John Garfield was the victim of an assassination attempt, too.
You mean in addition to the successful one? Dayum.
I didn't read the stamp on the article at first, but the stamp on google. Who promptly threw it out. Completely unconfused now.
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