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Thursday, December 21, 2006

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Listening to Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". What a wonderful song. Beautiful. Sometimes depressing but always beautiful.

In The News:
"Donald, sit and spin, my friend." Rosie O'Donnell to Donald Trump.
"I never went bankrupt, but she said I went bankrupt. So probably I'll sue her because it would be fun. I'd like to take some money out of her fat-ass pockets
," Donald Trump to Rosie O'Donnell.

School accuses 5-year-old of sexual harassment...According to a school document provided by the boy's father, the 5-year-old pinched a girl's buttocks on Dec. 8 in a hallway at the school south of Hagerstown. That's it? I don't think he even understands what the term sexual harassment means.

NY village sends fake $1,000 water bills. Blahahahaha


Today in History:
1620 - Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1861 - Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)

1913 - Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

1932 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)

1933 20th Century Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract

1936 - First flight of the Junkers JU-88 bomber prototype.

1937 - The film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles. 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon.

1946 Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" premieres

1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement

1954 Dr Sam Sheppard is convicted of his wife, Marilyn's murder

1961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"

1968 - Project Apollo: Apollo 8, crewed by Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

1968 David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in California

1969 Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)

1978 Police in Des Plaines IL, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for murder

1984 USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Comet

1985 Heart's "Heart" album goes #1

1988 - A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, killing 270.

1989 Vice-President Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon. hahahahahahaha


Happy Birthday:
1879 Joseph Stalin [Dzoegashvili] Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000

1935 - Phil Donahue, American talk show host

1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress and activist

1940 - Frank Zappa, American singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1993)

1946 - Carl Wilson, American singer and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)

1948 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor

1956 - Lee Roy Parnell, American country singer

1957 Ray Romano Queens NY, actor (Ray Barone-Everybody Loves Raymond)

1965 - Andy Dick, American actor and comedian

1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor


Deaths on this day:
1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
1945 - George S. Patton, U.S. general (b. 1885) dies in car accident in Heidelberg at 60
1992 - Albert King, American musician (b. 1924)



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