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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

We'll Miss You Steve Irwin

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Steve Irwin "Crocodile Hunter" was killed when he was stabbed through the heart on Monday while snorkeling with a stingray during filming of a new TV program on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The footage may be shown on tv. Steve requested that to happen in the event that he was killed during filming.

Cher is having a garage sale.

Several Brooklyn residents woke up to find their street empty — because someone had posted a bogus No Parking sign and police had towed their rides.

Janet Jackson backs Hillary Clinton for White House. This coming from the very person that took away our t.v. freedom.

Today in History:
1666 - Great Fire of London ends: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.

1698 - In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men, except priests and peasants, are required to pay the tax of one hundred rubles a year for those above the lowest class, one kopek each for commoners.

1774 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1793 - In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution, initiating the Reign of Terror.

1836 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

1882 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

1885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)

1906 - Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.

1949 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.

1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC

1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan

1975 - In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.

1975 Wings release "Letting Go"

1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

Happy Birthday:
1187 - King Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1638 - Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1735 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
1847 - Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
1929 - Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
1946 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer and songwriter with Queen (d. 1991)
1951 - Michael Keaton, American actor


Deaths:
1877 - Crazy Horse, Sioux chief (b. 1849)
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)

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