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Happy (belated) Birthday researchgrrrl!
We cannot be together today, though we are only 3 hours apart. Here is some silliness for your day...
You share your birthdate with:
John Rhys-Davies
Kurt Loder (of MTV fame. He's only a year younger than John)
Michael Palin (!)
Lance Henricksen
Tammy Wynette
Sage Stallone (because every good movie dynasty has to start somewhere)
Barbara Taylor Bradford (because everyone needs a connection to a romance writer)
Tyrone Power (you lucky girl)B
Brian Williams (the news anchor guy)
Bill Ward (drummer for Black Sabbath)
Shawn Drover (drummer for Megadeth...are we seeing a pattern here?)
Blind WIllie McTell (he wrote "Statesboro Blues")
also
Karl Marx
Nellie Bly
John Batterson Stetson (the hat maker)
...and a porn star named Bianca Butthole. Think of her, and know your life could be so much worse.
On this date in history:
1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1809 - Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte dies.
1865 - In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
1891 - The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1904 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1944 - Mohandas Gandhi is freed from prison.
1961 - Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
2002 - The World Wrestling Federation changes its name to World Wrestling Entertainment due to a lawsuit from the World Wildlife Fund.
In many Asian countries, this date is celebrated as Buddha's birthday.
It is International Midwives Day.
International Totse Day (look it up for a laugh)
And of course, Cinco de Mayo.
John Rhys-Davies
Kurt Loder (of MTV fame. He's only a year younger than John)
Michael Palin (!)
Lance Henricksen
Tammy Wynette
Sage Stallone (because every good movie dynasty has to start somewhere)
Barbara Taylor Bradford (because everyone needs a connection to a romance writer)
Tyrone Power (you lucky girl)B
Brian Williams (the news anchor guy)
Bill Ward (drummer for Black Sabbath)
Shawn Drover (drummer for Megadeth...are we seeing a pattern here?)
Blind WIllie McTell (he wrote "Statesboro Blues")
also
Karl Marx
Nellie Bly
John Batterson Stetson (the hat maker)
...and a porn star named Bianca Butthole. Think of her, and know your life could be so much worse.
On this date in history:
1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1809 - Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte dies.
1865 - In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
1891 - The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1904 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1944 - Mohandas Gandhi is freed from prison.
1961 - Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
2002 - The World Wrestling Federation changes its name to World Wrestling Entertainment due to a lawsuit from the World Wildlife Fund.
In many Asian countries, this date is celebrated as Buddha's birthday.
It is International Midwives Day.
International Totse Day (look it up for a laugh)
And of course, Cinco de Mayo.