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Happy Birthday alfreda89 and crimsonquills!
Sorry I'm running so late today. I will post (hopefully) tomorrow about how this week has been like having a crazed, rabid weasel shoved down my pants....
Today!
Bill Cosby (70)
Brian Grazer (56)
Topher Grace (29)
Michelle Rodriguez (29)
Jamey Sheridan (56) (Captain Deakins on L&O)
Jennifer Saunders (49) (Edina from AbFab)
Milton Berle
Cheryl Ladd (56)
Erik Per Sullivan (16) (Dewey on Malcom in the Middle)
Richard Simmons (59)
Van Cliburn (73)
Oscar Hammerstein (of Rogers and Hammerstein)
100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 BC) (born either July 12 or July 13)
1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1596 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
1674 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1765)
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
1854 - George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932)
1864 - George Washington Carver, American
1917 - Andrew Wyeth, American artist botanist (d. 1943)
1933 - Donald E. Westlake, American author
1962 - Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
On this day:
1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.
1543 - King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
1812 - War of 1812: The United States invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
1862 - Medal of Honor authorized by the United States Congress.
1876 - Niagara Falls Ontario - Signorina Maria Spelterina walks across Niagara Falls backward on a tightrope, with peach baskets on her feet; 23 year old takes 11 minutes to cross; the following week, she walks across blindfolded, then with her wrists and ankles manacled.
1933 - Congress passes the first federal minimum wage law in the United States: 33 cents per hour.
2002 - Gay rights: The Superior Court of Ontario orders Ontario to recognize same-sex marriages.
Northern Ireland - Battle of the Boyne Day (also known as Orangemen's Day or the Twelfth, see Irish calendar).
Newfoundland - Orangemen's Day.
São Tomé and Príncipe - Independence Day.
Sunset and sunrise occur along Manhattan's street grid centerline.
Bill Cosby (70)
Brian Grazer (56)
Topher Grace (29)
Michelle Rodriguez (29)
Jamey Sheridan (56) (Captain Deakins on L&O)
Jennifer Saunders (49) (Edina from AbFab)
Milton Berle
Cheryl Ladd (56)
Erik Per Sullivan (16) (Dewey on Malcom in the Middle)
Richard Simmons (59)
Van Cliburn (73)
Oscar Hammerstein (of Rogers and Hammerstein)
100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 BC) (born either July 12 or July 13)
1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1596 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
1674 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1765)
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
1854 - George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932)
1864 - George Washington Carver, American
1917 - Andrew Wyeth, American artist botanist (d. 1943)
1933 - Donald E. Westlake, American author
1962 - Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
On this day:
1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.
1543 - King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
1812 - War of 1812: The United States invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
1862 - Medal of Honor authorized by the United States Congress.
1876 - Niagara Falls Ontario - Signorina Maria Spelterina walks across Niagara Falls backward on a tightrope, with peach baskets on her feet; 23 year old takes 11 minutes to cross; the following week, she walks across blindfolded, then with her wrists and ankles manacled.
1933 - Congress passes the first federal minimum wage law in the United States: 33 cents per hour.
2002 - Gay rights: The Superior Court of Ontario orders Ontario to recognize same-sex marriages.
Northern Ireland - Battle of the Boyne Day (also known as Orangemen's Day or the Twelfth, see Irish calendar).
Newfoundland - Orangemen's Day.
São Tomé and Príncipe - Independence Day.
Sunset and sunrise occur along Manhattan's street grid centerline.