I'd Buy That For A Dollar!!!!

A new version of the $1 coin, paying tribute to American presidents, goes into general circulation Thursday. How cool is that? I want one.

Drivers on their way to breakfast in northern Virginia on Saturday found it all over the road after nearly 165,000 eggs spilled out of an overturned tractor-trailer on the Capital Beltway. Police from three agencies were scrambled to the scene.

Viagra sold over counter in UK on Valentine's Day. You've just got to love the British. Would you fancy a V Shag?

A group of young German women used so much spray deodorant in the bathroom of a North Sea youth hostel that it set off a fire alarm and brought the local fire brigade rushing to the rescue. I didn't know Germans wore deodorant.

Joanne Harding broke a tooth on a Tootsie Roll she took from a candy jar in the town clerk's office in Abington Town Hall last month during a visit to get a license for her dog. Now, Harding wants the town to help pay her $4,000-$5,000 dental bill. Harding should get a bill from the town for being a dumbass.

Today is Darwin Day!!! Rock On!!!

Today in HISTORY:
1502 - Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.

1502 Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism. No freedom of religion in the 1500's? Go figure.

1554 - A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason. She was "headed" down the wrong path, wasn't she???

1624 English parliament comes together, right now..... over me

1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13^th United States colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).

1737 - The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated.

1771 - Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden when his father Adolf Frederick "[eats] himself to death". I wonder what he ate first. Did he just start with his feet and work his way up?

1850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300.

1870 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory. That's just crazy. Women voting???

1870 Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada

1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop

1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem MA

1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358). Noses everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.

1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.

1892 - Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States. Das right

1894 - Anarchist Emile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.

1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. Is there a NAAWP? Hell no. That'd be racist.

1914 - In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

1921 Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies

1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.

1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia

1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances

1949 Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio. You've just gotta love Orson wells.

1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb. Smart man, that Einstein.

1955 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks. I wonder if Einstein sang along with that one?

1961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus. She's got it. Yeah baby she's got it. Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire, SING ALONG, your desire........

1964 Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall). The world will never be the same.

1965 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean. Should've listened to Einstein.

1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs

1973 - Vietnam War: The first United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.

1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m

1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. Get over it already.

1987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 million damages. Oh please. $7 million???

1990 - Super Mario Bros. 3, technically the best selling video game of all time, is released in the United States.

1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo) (also known as the Scream)

1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose

1998 - The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by United States federal judge.

1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

2002 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.

2004 - On National Freedom to Marry Day, two days after Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, California, issued a directive to the county clerk, the City and County of San Franciso begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. How do I feel about same sex marriages? I'm not gay. I don't care. I started to say that we live in a free country, but that's bullshit.

2004 - Mattel announced the split of Barbie and Ken. I hate that soooo much. Divorce is so sad.



1588 John Winthrop English attorney/puritan/1st Governor of Massachusetts

1775 - Louisa Adams, First Lady of the United States, wife of John Quincy Adams (d. 1852)

1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882) You know it's true.

1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)

1939 - Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors)

1950 - Steve Hackett, British musician (Genesis)

1955 - Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host

1956 - Brian Robertson, Scottish musician (Thin Lizzy) and (Motorhead)








1980 - Christina Ricci, American actress. Please gain some weight. You looked sooooo much better. Just my opinion.

1554 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (executed) (b. 1537)

1554 Lord Guildford Dudley Jane Grey's husband, beheaded

1789 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738)

1971 - James C. Penney, American department store founder (b. 1875)

1995 - Philip Taylor Kramer, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1952)

2000 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)

2000 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)





2000 - Charles Schulz, American comics author (b. 1922)