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Happy Birthday henchgirl!
Sorry I'm running late today! Everybody had to get everything done today--end of the quarter, right before a long weekend....I was at the office until 8:30 last night and barely escaped for class today. Good grief. I know it's after your birthday where you are, but what the heck.
Anyway--here's your day!
HOPE YOU HAD A MOST EXCELLENT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway--here's your day!
You share your birthday with...
Tom Cruise
Connie Nielsen
Ken Russell (director, Lair of the White Worm)
Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson)
Patrick Wilson (Phantom of the Opera on Broadway)
Kurtwood Smith (Dad in That 70's Show)
Montel Williams
Dave Barry (writer)
Bolo Yeung (Martial arts actor)
Moises Alou (baseball player)
Connie Nielsen
King Louis XI of France
George M. Cohan (actor, director, singer and dancer)
Tom Stoppard (British playwright)
Jean-Claude Duvalier (Haitian politician)
And on this day...
1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1886 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1928 - First color television broadcast in London.
1938 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.(203 km/h)
1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan.
2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
2006 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.
1971 - Doors' singer Jim Morrison found dead. The lead singer of American rock group The Doors dies of heart failure in Paris, aged 27.
1987 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie gets life. The former chief of Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Lyon court.
And a couple of saint's days, just for you!
Saint Phocas feast day. Patron of: gardeners; sailors; hospitality; agricultural workers; boatmen; farm workers; farmers; fieldhands; gardeners; husbandmen; mariners; market-gardeners; sailors; watermen.
Thomas the Apostle feast day. Patron of: Architects, India, and others.
Tom Cruise
Connie Nielsen
Ken Russell (director, Lair of the White Worm)
Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson)
Patrick Wilson (Phantom of the Opera on Broadway)
Kurtwood Smith (Dad in That 70's Show)
Montel Williams
Dave Barry (writer)
Bolo Yeung (Martial arts actor)
Moises Alou (baseball player)
Connie Nielsen
King Louis XI of France
George M. Cohan (actor, director, singer and dancer)
Tom Stoppard (British playwright)
Jean-Claude Duvalier (Haitian politician)
And on this day...
1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1886 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1928 - First color television broadcast in London.
1938 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.(203 km/h)
1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan.
2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
2006 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.
1971 - Doors' singer Jim Morrison found dead. The lead singer of American rock group The Doors dies of heart failure in Paris, aged 27.
1987 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie gets life. The former chief of Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Lyon court.
And a couple of saint's days, just for you!
Saint Phocas feast day. Patron of: gardeners; sailors; hospitality; agricultural workers; boatmen; farm workers; farmers; fieldhands; gardeners; husbandmen; mariners; market-gardeners; sailors; watermen.
Thomas the Apostle feast day. Patron of: Architects, India, and others.
HOPE YOU HAD A MOST EXCELLENT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!