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Elton John celebrates 60th birthday in concert

Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental overdose of a sleeping medication and at least eight other prescription drugs.

A woman with three crocodiles strapped to her waist was stopped at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after guards noticed that she looked "strangely fat.


Today in History:
1199 - Richard the Lionheart is fatally wounded by a crossbow bolt during a siege in France, he dies eleven days later. The marksman, a french noble named Pierre Basile, is executed.

1934 - Driving test introduced in the United Kingdom.

1942 - World War II: In Poland, Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners.

1945 - World War II: the third and final Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.

1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.

1982 - A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC.

1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.

1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.

1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects e-mail systems around the world.

2000 - Presidential elections are held in Russia, and Vladimir Putin is elected President.

2006 - In Scotland the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.


Happy Birthday:
1931 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director
1940 - James Caan, American actor
1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
1948 - Richard Tandy, British keyboardist (Electric Light Orchestra)
1948 - Steven Tyler, American singer (Aerosmith)
1949 - Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer
1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, American singer
1950 - Martin Short, Canadian comedian
1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)

Deaths on this Day:
1649 – John Winthrop, second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
1892 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
1995 - Eazy-E, American rapper (b. 1963)
2002 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950)