Happy Birthday to ME and sandy_s!
Jul. 9th, 2008 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillian13You know, I've done this for a lot of people, but never me. Well, me and sandy_s, that is...
sandy_s, that is...We share a birthday with:
Greg Kihn (wrote the song "Jeopardy", the song that "I Lost on Jeopardy" was based on by Weird Al. Have an earworm!)
Arlo Guthrie ("Alice's Restaurant". Have another earworm!)
Jackie Lane ("Dodo" on Dr. Who in the '60s)
Ron Glass (Among other roles, Sheppard Book on Firefly.)
Hal McRae (Baseball player, led American League in Games Played (162), Doubles (54), Extra-Base Hits (86) and being hit by Pitch (13) in 1977.)
Jessica Simpson, God help us all.
Ronnie James Dio, rock-and-roll superstar (Introduced the "horns" gesture (created by extending the index and pinky finger, with the middle and ring fingers held under the thumb) to the world of rock music. ) duuuuuuuude.
Arthur Ashe. Played Tennis Excellently.
Lawrence Pressman, mainly known for playing Dr. Benjamin Canfield on Doogie Howser, MD.
Bob Bullock, probably the most efficient Lieutenant Governor the State of Texas has ever had.
Fred Gwynne, aka Herman Munster on the Munsters.
Jake LaMotta, one of the best boxers ever. Raging Bull was about him.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver. The Governator's mother-in-law.
Carl Orff, composer.
Andre Dawson, baseball player (former) for my beloved Cubs.
Jeff Bergman, who has done the voices of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Elmer Fudd.
Adolphus Busch. He brewed beer.
Nikolai Tesla. He was brilliant and crazy.
Marcel Proust, a novelist.
Jack "Legs" Diamond, the famous American bootlegger.
Don Herbert, aka Mr. Wizard! Yay!
David Brinkley, an excellent TV reporter.
A smattering of events:
1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established.
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a state law against it.
1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
1958 - Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
Greg Kihn (wrote the song "Jeopardy", the song that "I Lost on Jeopardy" was based on by Weird Al. Have an earworm!)
Arlo Guthrie ("Alice's Restaurant". Have another earworm!)
Jackie Lane ("Dodo" on Dr. Who in the '60s)
Ron Glass (Among other roles, Sheppard Book on Firefly.)
Hal McRae (Baseball player, led American League in Games Played (162), Doubles (54), Extra-Base Hits (86) and being hit by Pitch (13) in 1977.)
Jessica Simpson, God help us all.
Ronnie James Dio, rock-and-roll superstar (Introduced the "horns" gesture (created by extending the index and pinky finger, with the middle and ring fingers held under the thumb) to the world of rock music. ) duuuuuuuude.
Arthur Ashe. Played Tennis Excellently.
Lawrence Pressman, mainly known for playing Dr. Benjamin Canfield on Doogie Howser, MD.
Bob Bullock, probably the most efficient Lieutenant Governor the State of Texas has ever had.
Fred Gwynne, aka Herman Munster on the Munsters.
Jake LaMotta, one of the best boxers ever. Raging Bull was about him.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver. The Governator's mother-in-law.
Carl Orff, composer.
Andre Dawson, baseball player (former) for my beloved Cubs.
Jeff Bergman, who has done the voices of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Elmer Fudd.
Adolphus Busch. He brewed beer.
Nikolai Tesla. He was brilliant and crazy.
Marcel Proust, a novelist.
Jack "Legs" Diamond, the famous American bootlegger.
Don Herbert, aka Mr. Wizard! Yay!
David Brinkley, an excellent TV reporter.
A smattering of events:
1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established.
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a state law against it.
1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
1958 - Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.