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Monday, October 02, 2006

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herself, you are correct. Susan Lucci is not Phyllis Dillers daughter as I posted recently. I should check my facts. Lucci's father, Victor, is Italian and her mother, Jeanette, is Swedish; both are first-generation Americans. Lucci is an outspoken conservative Republican.

In The News:
NFL PLAYER TOSSED FOR STOMPING ON PLAYER'S FACE...

George Michael Arrested on Drug Charges -- Again...




Today in History
1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
1552 - Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (the so-called "Bill of Rights") to the States for ratification.
1889 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
1928 - The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
1937 - Samuel R. Caldwell becomes the first person is the United States to be arrested on a marijuana charge.
1950 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven US newspapers.
1970 - A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
1990 - A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 - An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
2005 - Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.

Happy Birthday:
1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1737 - Francis Hopkinson, American author and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
1800 - Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d. 1831)
1847 - Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934)
1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)
1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1895 - Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)
1911 - Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
1914 - Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist (d. 1952)
1928 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
1937 - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., American attorney (d. 2005)
1945 - Don McLean, American songwriter
1948 - Chris LeDoux, American musician and rodeo performer (d. 2005)
1950 - Michael Rutherford, British musician (Genesis)
1951 - Sting, British musician and actor
1971 - Tiffany, American singer


Deaths on this day:
1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
1998 - Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)



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