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Sun 13 Jul, 2008 02:32 pm
Happy Birthday!!
( I will hug you soon enough
)
All together now,
Happy Birthday to youuuuu, Happy Birthday to youuuuuu...
On this date in:
1793 French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later.
1863 Rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City; about 1,000 people died over three days.
1960 John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Los Angeles.
1967 Race-related rioting broke out in Newark, N.J.; 27 people died in four days of violence.
1978 Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
1985 Live Aid, an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, Australia, was held to raise money for Africa's starving people.
1985 The Constitution's presidential disability clause was invoked for the first time as President Ronald Reagan transferred power temporarily to Vice President George H.W. Bush before undergoing surgery for colon cancer.
1994 Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was sentenced in Portland, Ore., to two years in prison for his role in the attack on Harding's skating rival, Nancy Kerrigan.
1998 A jury in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ruled that the Rev. Al Sharpton and two others had defamed a former prosecutor by accusing him of raping Tawana Brawley.
2003 With the blessing of U.S. administrators, Iraqis inaugurated a broadly representative governing council.
2005 Former WorldCom Inc. boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history.
2006 Israel imposed a naval blockade against Lebanon and blasted the Beirut airport and army air bases; Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into Israel.
2007 2007 Former media mogul Conrad Black was convicted in Chicago of swindling the far-flung Hollinger International newspaper empire he once ran out of millions of dollars. (Black is serving a 6-year sentence at a federal prison in Florida.)
Notable Birthdays:
66 Harrison Ford
Actor
73 Jack Kemp
Former congressman and Cabinet official
68 Patrick Stewart
Actor
67 Robert Forster
Actor
66 Roger McGuinn
Rock singer, musician (The Byrds)
62 Cheech Marin
Actor, comedian
60 Daphne Maxwell Reid
Actress
57 Didi Conn
Actress
54 Louise Mandrell
Singer
51 Cameron Crowe
Director
46 Gonzalo Martinez De La Cotera
Rock musician (Marcy Playground)
46 Victoria Shaw
Country singer, songwriter
46 Rhonda Vincent
Bluegrass singer
43 Michael Jace
Actor
43 Neil Thrasher
Country singer
35 Deborah Cox
R&B singer
30 Will Champion
Rock musician (Coldplay)
When you're done reading these, head over to the other thread here...
http://www.able2know.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3314763#3314763
ossobuco wrote:All together now,
Happy Birthday to youuuuu, Happy Birthday to youuuuuu...
Ahh, those fluffy things look just like little baby Maddy doggies!
Hi BBB. This is the perfect thread for your birthday, being that it is from your daughter.
You might have noticed that I didn't bring along Osso's Normandy Peach Tart. It stays on MY thread, not that it will last long.
Trouble is it takes me about a half hour, or more, to find the perfect torta or tart photo and by then I've read four or five food blogs and am starving.
Butryflynet, yep, they're wee bichons..
I posted this on Diane's thread already. Happy Birthday, bBb.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=97eK_HhF_Ck
Happy Birthday BBB!!! So, what are some of those accomplishments that Diane mentioned on the other thread?
Among many important differences BBB has made are the little tabs on grocery store shelves that show price per oz.
Wonderful work in labor unions, early feminist work.
The list goes on for a long, long, way.
Happy Birthday BBB!
And what interesting people share the day with her.
(Must have been something in the water the previous mid-October for all of them.)
Happy birthday, all the very best and ... 'ad multos annos'!
Oops, I'm a day late. Hope it was a happy one!