October 31, 2004 HALLOWEEN

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Here we are at Halloween. Well, actually, I'm posting this early because I'm gonna party like it was 1999. Click here for history of Halloween.

1864 - Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.

1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

1912 - The Musketeers of Pig Alley , directed by D.W. Griffith, debuts as the first gangster film.

1926 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.

1936 - The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed.

1941 - After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.

1961 - In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.

1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed).

1994 - An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 64 passengers.

1996 - A Brazilian TAM Fokker-100 crashes into several houses in São Paulo, Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground

1999 - EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.

2000 - A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 crashes immediately after takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 81

2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50

2000 - The last Multics machine was shut down.

HALLOWEEN BIRTHDAYS:
1860 - Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts

1930 - Michael Collins, American astronaut

1931 - Dan Rather, American news anchor

1936 - Michael Landon, actor (d. 1991)

1950 - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)

1963 - Rob Schneider, actor

1968 - Vanilla Ice, rap music singer

HALLOWEEN DEATHS:
1984 - Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India

1993 - River Phoenix, actor

2002 - Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell), rapper (Run DMC)

Happy Halloween!!!!

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I have to give it to P for her answering todays trivia question within minutes of me posting it. You rock!!!! I wish more readers would atleast leave a comment or two.

Just a little tip for you bloggers out there. Save your work often. Two days in a row, I've typed for about 30 minutes and clicked publish post only to be given an error sign and all the information is lost.

Pennmeister and Jane Doe got yesterdays trivia question right. Darwins first name was Charles. You both win a free...........we interrupt this weblog to bring you this special report by Dan Rather. "With just days until Halloween, pranksters are already playing tricks on people who don't decorate for Halloween. Churches, government buildings, and houses are being burned. At this very moment, smoke is coming into the studio. (click, click, pshhhhhhh) Having technical difficulties. (pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) return now to your weblog already in progress..... with warm lotion. With a prize like that, how can you feel any better. Prizes only available to those celebrating Halloween.

What do you know about Dracula? Check this out. Vlad III Dracula (Also known as Vlad Ţepeş /tse'pesh/ or Vlad the Impaler), lived November/December, 1431 - December, 1476, reigned as Prince of Wallachia 1448, 1456-1462 and 1476. He was born in Sighişoara, Transylvania. Thanks to his rule, Wallachia preserved its independence in relation with the Ottoman threat. He is known in Turkish as Kaziglu Bey, or "the Impaler Prince", and is a popular folk hero in Romania and Moldova even today. However, he was a savage ruler - his enemies were impaled, hence his nickname. The Dracula that we know was based on Vlad and was written by Bram Stoker and published in 1897.

Train conductor stamps dead man's ticket. A train conductor carefully stamped the ticket of a slumbering passenger without realizing the man was dead. Creeeeeepppppyyyyy!

Paramount Pictures, fast becoming the home of the remake with such recent pictures as "The Italian Job," "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The Stepford Wives," is resurrecting "The Blob."

Guess who is thinking of running for president...... Arnold Schwarzenegger says he would like to at least be able to entertain the thought, but the U.S. Constitution prevents foreign-born people from holding America's highest office.



A polar bear at the San Diego Zoo got into the holiday spirit on Thursday by playing with a large plastic pumpkin. Isn't that cute?

A Scottish township plans to mark Halloween by officially pardoning 81 people — and their cats — executed centuries ago for being witches. It's a little late for that don't you think?

Halloween Costumes for Dogs Fetch $200. Now that's crazy.

Sheriff's deputies have arrested a woman for digging up her dead boyfriend's ashes from a Columbia County cemetery more than 10 years ago and drinking the beer that was buried with him, possibly out of spite for his family. Hahahahahahahaha. I mean.... That's terrible.

Homeland Security Agents Visit Toy Store over a Rubiks cube knock off toy.



Nude Kate Moss Portrait May Fetch $6.4M. For more info. on the artist, click here. Did you know that at a height of 5'8", she is considered to be the shortest supermodel in the world.

A Brazilian legislator wants to make it illegal to give pets names that are common among people. Dumb, Dum, Dum.



Wayne Newton Gets Star on Las Vegas Walk. My old boss. Right on Chief. Say hi to Bear and Andy for me, gator.

Today in the world:
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England. Oh heaven forbid someone have independent thought.

1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine. Morphine......cool.



1901 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution. Say hello to Old Sparky Leon.

1929 - Great Depression begins: Black Tuesday - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ushering in what will be a world-wide economic crisis.

1945 - At Gimbels Department Store in New York City the first ballpoint pens go on sale (price: $12.50 each). That would be like $7,423 today. Wow!!!

1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.

1964 - A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

1969 - The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET.

1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton). Maybe Duran is a history buff. It would be odd to have two presidents assassinated on the same date.



1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962. Now there's a true American hero if I ever did see one.

1998 - In Freehold, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Dumb bitch. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to use that kind of language. Let me try that again..... Stupid bitch. All better.

Births:
1815 - Daniel Emmett , composer of Dixie. Oh I wish I were in the land of cotton.....

1923 - Carl Djerassi, chemist, inventor of the birth control pill Pissing off Catholics everywhere.

1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, actor/genius

1948 - Kate Jackson, actress

1971 - Winona Ryder, actress/thief

Deaths:
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan . You remember him??? He was in the movie Forrest Gump.

1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist. So, did he win the Pulitzer prize too? What are the odds on that?

1971 - Duane Allman, musician. Damn log trucks. Todays trivia question is a two part quiz. 1. What band was Duane Allman in? 2. What artist offered him a permanent position in his band?

Halloween is almost here! our

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I got a couple of guesses on the question from yesterday.(I'm hungry. Can you guess what I want to eat? It is 5 letters, starts with P, and the 3rd and 4th letters are the same. If you know what it is, post a comment.) The answer is........Pizza. Jane got the answer right. Penny, close but I don't eat putty. Not saying that I haven't, but I don't anymore.

Have you ever wanted to know the true history of Halloween? Not just what they preach about but the truth? Well, click here.

Star dust found deep beneath the Pacific Ocean has led German scientists to speculate that a supernova explosion 3 million years ago might possibly have helped bring about human evolution. Maybe Darwin was right. Who thinks Darwins theory goes against Christianity? And for the tougher question. Has anyone out there read Darwins Theory? I have and it's very interesting. Most of you say Darwin blah blah blah without ever reading a single word of his works. Todays trivia question is.... What is Darwins first name?

Hotel Guest Pays Bill After 24 Years. 24 years? I can't remember to pay my phone bill and that's once a month.

Caregiver Stores Dead Woman in Freezer. Well, there's too much meat to eat at one sitting.



Twins Get Perfect SAT Scores. They plan on being contestants on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I bet these two with they had perfect SAT scores. Crazy!!!

Russians May Ban Public Beer-Drinking. Oh no. What will I do then? I mean, my whole life.... Wait a minute. I'm not Russian.

A conman persuaded an Ethiopian town's inhabitants to give him hundreds of dollars by promising to multiply the cash and make it "fall like rain" from the sky. Dumb and Dumber.

Soccer Players with Ponytails Banned. I think thocker playerth would look better with mohawkth.


Today in History: Click here to see what happened this week in music history

306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.

312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine the Great defeats the forces of Maxentius. Roman emporer Constantine converts himself and the empire to Christianity.

1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba. Christopher Columbus. That names sounds farmiliar for some reason. Oh well.



1886 - In New York Harbor, US President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. I'll be Chris Columbus, his friends let him call him Chris, never saw that one coming.

1919 - Prohibition begins: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. What a disaster that was.

1936 - US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.

1942 - The Alaska Highway is completed. That's right. I have history of roads too.

1950 - The Jack Benny Show, starring Jack Benny, premiers (it ran for 15 years). Now why would the Jack Benny Show star Jack Benny? That is a true mystery.

1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope and takes the name Pope John XXIII.

1961 Chuck Berry goes on trial for the second time. So if you meet someone in a club, you should ask for an ID? That is sooooooo sexy.

1965 - In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall catenarian steel Gateway Arch is completed.

1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.

1998 - An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. After landing the plane safely, Yuan Bin was arrested. Dumbass!!!!


Happy Birthday to:
1793 - Eliphalet Remington, firearm manufacturer (d. 1861)

1914 - Dr. Jonas Salk, scientist, discoverer of polio vaccine (d. 1995)

1937 - Charlie Daniels, musician

1955 - Bill Gates, software tycoon, co-founder and Microsoft

1967 - Julia Roberts, actress

Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight.

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I'm hungry. Can you guess what I want to eat? It is 5 letters, starts with P, and the 3rd and 4th letters are the same. If you know what it is, post a comment.

Last Chance Until 2007: Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight! The eclipse begins at shortly after 8 p.m. ET (5 PT), but the first hour or so won't be noticeable as the Moon becomes lightly shaded by Earth's outer shadow, called the penumbra. Things get real interesting at 9:14 p.m. ET (6:14 PT, when the Moon begins sliding into Earth's full shadow, or umbra.

Melbourne City Council renamed Corporation Lane in the city center ACDC Lane, at a ceremony attended by 500 fans. A bagpiper played the 1975 track "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)" at the festivities, while local bands played other AC/DC material for five hours in a nearby bar.

In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet.



School Keeps Halloween Ban Despite Outcry. They say they don't want to disrupt classroom studies. Well, that's it. We have to cancel the Christmas party, the Christmas Play, the 2 week Christmas holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Thanksgiving holiday,... It's one day where kids can actually enjoy themselves. On all the other holidays, the kids aren't even in school. How much are they learning then? IDIOTS!!!!!

Police said they had two substantial clues in two theft cases — a suspect's name and telephone number. He should run for the School Board.

Afraid a talkative parrot might prove to be a stool pigeon, three thieves returned to the scene of the crime to silence the bird — only to be caught by police. Another School Board candidate. This will be a tough race.



An Australian court ruled Wednesday that a convicted heroin dealer can claim a 220,000 Australian dollar (US$165 million; euro 129 million) tax deduction for money that was stolen during a drug deal. Aaaahhhhh Australia. Where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.

Day from Hell May Have Killed Off Dinosaurs. Challenging conventional theory, new scientific research suggests the dinosaurs may have been scorched into extinction by an asteroid collision 65 million years ago that unleashed 10 billion times more power than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.

More than 100 jailed Kenyan street children smeared themselves and their Nairobi cells with feces in a protest Wednesday, leading police to call in firefighters to hose them down. What a shitty story.

Long-Lost Final Film by Ed Wood Rediscovered. I gotta see this one.

Today in History:

1775 - United States Navy established.

1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which established the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.

1810 - United States annexes West Florida.

1873 Joseph Glidden applies for a patent on his barbed wire design.

1904 - First New York City subway line opens; system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world. Subway, now there's an idea for lunch. MMMMM!

1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers ). From then on, television is infected with commercials.

1954 Monroe and DiMaggio divorce. It lasted a whopping 9 months.

1954 Disneyland debuts. Fun for the whole family.

1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends. You can all breath now.



1984 An Ozzy Osbourne fan commits suicide. The same day, Kelly Osbourne is bourne I mean born to Ozzy and Sharon(see below). Strange. (Thanks Penny for pointing that out. If everyone would leave comments like Penny, they'd get mentioned too). Nineteen-year-old John McCollum is found shot to death on his bed in Indio, California. Although it was quickly determined that the fatal wound was self-inflicted, McCollum's parents believed that singer Ozzy Osbourne was actually responsible because their son had been listening to Osbourne's album, Speak to the Devil, which contains the song, "Suicide Solution," when he killed himself. And that's why their parents are now known as idiots. Their son was probably unhappy with his parents. Ever thought of that?

1999 - Armenian Prime Minister Vazgan Sarkisian and 6 other members killed in attack on Armenian parliament.

Born on this day:
1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer. (d. 1779)

1811 - Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1875)

1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (d. 1919)

1914 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and writer (d. 1953)

1933 - Floyd Cramer , musician

1939 - John Cleese, British actor, comedian

1940 - John Gotti, American mobster (d. 2002)

1942 - Lee Greenwood, musician

1953 - Robert Picardo, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1967 - Scott Weiland, musician ("Stone Temple Pilots")

1984 - Kelly Osbourne, American television personality, daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. See story above about Ozzy fan committing suicide.

Deaths on this day:

939 - King Athelstan I of England

2003 - Rod Roddy, television announcer

Songs that were recorded on this day:

1960 "Spanish Harlem" (w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller)
- Ben E. King

1960 "Stand By Me" (King, Leiber, Stoller)
- Ben E. King with O/Stan Applebaum

Blah Blah Blah George Bush Blah

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First of all, I'd like to say Happy Halloween. And to those of you who don't celebrate Halloween... Get off of my page. hehehe.

A food fight erupted in Taiwan's parliament on Tuesday as lawmakers quarrelling over a massive arms budget hurled their lunch boxes at each other. "I'm taking my ball and going home."

California prosecutors are cracking down on kava-drinking motorists who are driving under the intoxicating influence of the herbal tea. Did I read that right? Crazy!!!

Catherine Zeta-Jones has sued a Nevada strip club for using a picture of her face to promote itself on the Web as "The Friendliest Topless Cabaret in Reno." Zeta-Jones, who won an Oscar for her role as the murderous cabaret singer Velma Kelly in "Chicago," sued The Spice House after learning that she was featured with "partially nude women engaged in various sexually explicit poses," according to the federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles. The suit said Zeta-Jones had never been to The Spice House and did not want her "highly valuable image and persona" to be used as an endorsement.


Today in History:
740 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.

1863 - The Football Association is formed

1863 - International Federation of the Red Cross is formed

1881 - The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Do ya feel lucky punk? Well, do ya?

1936 - The first generator goes online at Boulder Dam. It's a big dam generator. It's takes a small dam crew to work the dam. You can fish and catch as many dam fish as you could eat. You can take a dam tour if you'd like. In the summer it's a hot dam. And now it's time for my favorite joke. What did the fish say when he swam into the concrete wall? Dam!!!

1948 - Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.

1965 - The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs). Where can I sign up?

1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President. Kids, you need to be nice.

1995 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta. Didn't their moms ever teach them to be nice?

.....AND HERE WE ARE AGAIN....

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Today is International Stuttering Awareness Day. How C C C Cool is thhhhhhhhat.

School District Bans Halloween Festivities. I love living in a free country. Don't you? (in wimpy old lady voice) "Halloween is satanic and I don't like it. And because I don't like it, everyone should be banned from celebrating it". Halloween is fun. It can be satanic but anything can be satanic. It's all in how you, as an individual, make it. I don't think the children that Trick or Treat are satanists. They just want to dress up, look cute, and get candy.

Hoping to boost morale among his fellow inmates, a Norwegian prisoner secretly hired an exotic dancer to spice up the prison's monthly culture night. The woman got all her clothes off, to the cheers of the male inmates, before guards could react on Wednesday night at the Hof minimum security prison in southern Norway. If I ever get put into jail, send me to Norway.

Man Wears 'Cocaine' T-Shirt in Court. Probably not the smartest choice of clothing but there is the whole freedom of speech thing.

Italian kids flooded school to avoid exam. That must have been on heck of an exam.

Judge Voids Will That Promised Curse. I don't get the whole point in making a will. Last will and testament is what you want to happen to your possessions after you pass on. It seems like every case involving someone that left a will ended in voiding the will and the family sueing each other. That's why I'm gonna spend every cent I have in life. When I get sick, I'm gonna sell everything I own and hire strippers for everyone I know. Not really.

A 20-year-old man has pleaded guilty to using the Madison County Jail's checking account number to help him meet women online. Right on. hahahahahahahaha

A Chinese woman living in Sydney has taken the unusual step of advertising for a husband on a billboard outside a cinema in Sydney's eastern suburbs. I wonder how many creeps responded to that. Other than me of course.

Fake Gucci Bags Fund Terrorism? Man, I'm so glad mine is real. I like to wear it with my fur coat. They go good together.

Today in history:
1746 - The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.

1797 - 3,200 feet above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.

1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

1844 - Adherents of Millerism recognize this day as "The Great Disappointment". Their leader, William Miller, had told that on Oct. 22 the world would end, and Jesus Christ would come in his second time to earth. Suckers!!!!

1903 Tom Horn is hanged in Wyoming for the murder of Willie Nickell.

1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression. One company brought on the great depression? Wow.

1914 Nation's First Income Tax. Wasn't that to be a temporary thing? That's what I thought.

1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.

1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.

1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he turns down the award.
This guy is either a genius of an idiot. I'm leaning toward genius.

1965 173rd Airborne trooper saves comrades. Vietnam vets are heros. How could the be regarded as anything less?

1966 - The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (Supremes a Go-Go ).

1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

1972 President Thieu turns down peace proposal. IDIOT!!!!

1975 - Censored page: United States Air Force Technical Sergeant and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, Leonard Matlovich , is given a general discharge after appearing in his air force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline (printed in all uppercase) "I Am A Homosexual." That is so gay. I mean....

1989 - Jacob Wetterling is abducted in St. Joseph, Minnesota.

Happy Birthday to:
1989 - Jacob Wetterling is abducted in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, actor
1953 - Jeff Goldblum, actor
1965 - John Wesley Harding, musician
1968 - Shaggy, musician. Zoiks!!!!
Franz Liszt (1811), Annette Funicello (1942), Bobby ("I Fought The Law") Fuller (1943), Doobie Brother Patrick Simmons (1945), Leslie West of Mountain (1945), Eddie Brigati of The (Young) Rascals (1945), Dean Kastran of The Ohio Express (1948), Curt Kirkwood of The Meat Puppets (1960), Shaggy (1968), Zac Hanson of Hanson (1985)

Deaths:
1383 - King Fernando of Portugal, with no male heir, starting the 1383-1385 Crisis.
Oh dear!
1978 - John Riley, poet: murdered near his home in Yorkshire

Who's Crazy? Me or You?

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Atleast once a day, usually 5 to 10 times, someone says I'm crazy. Who's to say that I'm not the normal one and everyone else is mentally or chemically imbalanced? It's all based on perspective. Perspective is everything.

Did you know that today is a holiday? It's called Trafalgar Day. Click on it to read about it.

Did you know that in this week in history:

1883, New York sees the grand opening of its Metropolitan Opera House...

1908, Columbia takes out an ad in The Saturday Evening Post touting their new two-sided records...

1956, "Love Me Tender" is the first song to enter the pop charts at #1 ... Elvis' slow dance tune also appears on the Country and Western chart and the R&B chart, not to mention the Top 100 chart...

1961, 20-year-old Bob Dylan records his eponymous debut album accompanied only by his guitar and harmonica ... studio cost is a whopping $400 ... filling out the studio's tax reporting form, he lists his name as "Blind Boy Grunt" ... the young folkie goes on to become one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century...

1962, Live at the Apollo," one of James Brown's most brilliant performances, is captured in Harlem ... the LP will outsell all previous R&B albums with over a million copies sold ... the artist soon to be known as Little Stevie Wonder makes his first recording ... Steveland Morris Judkins doesn't have instant success with this first record, but the accolades are not far away...

1964, a London band known as the High Numbers is rejected after an audition with EMI ... formerly known as The Who, the four young rockers have recently come under the influence of manager Pete Meaden, who suggested the name change and dressed the boys in mod suits ... Meaden's all wet, but the kids are alright ... they'll resume their name and climb to fame...

1973, Keith Richards gets slapped with a £205 fine and is given a conditional discharge after his trial in London with actress Anita Pallenberg ... the bobbies arrested them after raiding their Chelsea home on June 26 and finding pot, smack, mandrax, an unlicensed S&W revolver, and an antique shotgun ... Pallenberg walks, too...

1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd fans take a gut shot this week when they learn that band members, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and Ronnie Van Zant have died along with three members of their entourage in a plane crash in the swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi ... the band is flying between Greenville, SC, and Baton Rouge, LA, when their chartered plane goes down, probably due either to mechanical failure or lack of fuel ... the whole band is aboard and the surviving members are all severely injured ... three days earlier marked the release of their sixth album Street Survivor, the cover of which featured the band members surrounded by flames ... the cover is changed after the catastrophe ... the crash marks the end of Lynyrd Skynyrd until the survivors reform the band a decade later...

1978, Keith Richards receives a suspended sentence of one year after pleading guilty to heroin possession in Toronto ... also this week Sid Vicious attempts to off himself at Rikers Island Jail, where he's awaiting trial for the murder of his ol' lady, Nancy Spungen ... the bad Pistol will get out and O.D. before he can be prosecuted for the crime...

1980, Paul Kantner's brain starts bleeding one night between recording sessions for Jefferson Starship ... the degree of brain hemorrhage he suffers almost always results in death or brain damage ... but, amazingly, a few weeks in the hospital is all it takes to bring him back to 100% ... apparently a hole in his cranium left over from an earlier motorcycle accident provides enough release of pressure to prevent permanent damage...

1988, Fantasy Records, after more than a decade of rancorous relations with John Fogerty, launches a suit claiming he plagiarized his own song, "Run Through the Jungle," during the composition of "The Old Man Down the Road" ... it will be 1995 before it is finally decided that Fantasy is fantasizing...

1992, long before her career as a writer of children's books, Madonna releases Sex--a steel-bound book of erotic photos of herself and other beautiful people that sells out the first run of a half million copies in no time ... she also releases her album Erotica this week ... it will sell over two million copies...

1998, the company with publishing rights to Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" files suit against Cooper's primary make-up rock emulators, KISS, claiming they ripped off his song "Eighteen" for their song "Dreamin'" ... Cooper has nothing to do with it and hasn't even heard "Dreamin'" when the suit is filed ... asked about the outcome years later, Cooper says, "I think we all forgot to show up at court. Paul Stanley bought me a cheeseburger to make up for the whole thing"...

2001, VH1 hosts its Concert for New York, which raises over $30 million for victims of 9/11 with performances by such heavy hitters as The Who, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Elton John, and Bon Jovi...

And that rocks.

What happened today in history? Well I'll tell you.
1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.

1879 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasted 13 1/2 hours before burning out).

1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

1957 - The movie Jailhouse Rock , starring Elvis Presley, opens.

1959 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher Von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.

1966 - A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren

1967 - Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protest ers gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshal s protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people will be arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.

Births:
1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and benefactor of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz musician (d. 1993)
1940 - Manfred Mann, musician
1941 - Steve Cropper, musician
1942 - Elvin Bishop , musician
1942 - Judge Judy Sheindlin, American judge, television host
Lee Loughnane of Chicago (1946)
Go-Go's guitarist Charlotte Caffey (1953)
Eric Faulkner of the Bay City Rollers (1955)
1955 - Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997)
1956 - Carrie Fisher, actress, writer
studio six-string slinger Steve Lukather of Toto (1957)

Deaths:
Bill Black (bass guitarist for Elvis from '56 to '57)(1965)
1969 - Jack Kerouac, American beat novelist
Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon of Lafayette Louisiana (1995)

Bet You Thought I Forgot About You

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Click here for all you ever wanted to know about Halloween.

Did you hear that two brothers from Australia and Argentina who lost contact for 53 years were reunited by chance after recognizing each other on a trip to their native Portugal.

Smuggler Arrested With $197K in Stomach. I'm gonna eat where he eats.



Arnold Schwarzenegger Says Pro-Bush Speech Cost Him Sex. His wife wouldn't give him any either. Doh!!! "Well, there was no sex for 14 days." Whoa Arnold. Hold on there.

Where do you go when you want 2 X 4's, plywood, welding supplies, G I Joe action figures, DVD's, clothes, Televisions, and boxes? Check this out. Big retailers known more for giant stores in suburbs are resizing stores, reformatting layouts and remixing merchandise to make it big in the Big Apple. Home Depot (HD) recently joined Toys R Us (TOY), Kmart (KMRT), Best Buy (BBY) and The Container Store here in exploring ways to adapt their formulas to an urban environment.

What Are the Chances of This? The retrievable chamber of China's 20th recoverable satellite returned to Earth with a bang, crashing through the roof of a house.

Man shoots nail into chest and lives, tonight on Ripley's, Believe It Or Not. Could I get sued for that? Oh well. Speaking of Ripley's Believe It Or Not... Have any of you ever been to one of thier, I guess you would call it, museums? Since I used their name, I thought I'd pimp 'em a little.

Italy's "escape king" Max Leitner has broken out of prison for a fourth time, staging his latest mystery jail-break overnight along with a Mafia arms trafficker. Guards opened their cells on Friday morning to find only dummies, made of rags and cardboard, lying where the men should have been. I smell a movie deal. I could see Sean Connery playing in this. It has potential.

Diners at The Vineyard can distance themselves from the din of cell phone chatter. The restaurant has designated a "No-Cell-Phone" area, after customers who complained about listening to conversations from adjacent tables asked for the ban. Couldn't you see that coming? So, can I go to a restaurant where you can't speak while you eat? What's the difference in someone talking on a cell phone and someone talking to another person? I guess people want the whole conversation. Wait a minute, I'm confused. I'm having a blonde moment.



A lot of people love television but apparently some people have had enough of it, too. A new keychain gadget that lets people turn off most TVs — anywhere from airports to restaurants — is selling at a faster clip than it would take most people to surf the channels on their boob tubes. Hours and hours of fun. Amaze your friend. Oh, I'll be buying one of those.

People interested in an out-of-this-world post-death experience can "boldly go where no man has gone before" with a space memorial service that blasts their ashes into space. For $995, Space ServicesInc., will place a gram of a person's ashes in an aluminum capsule — about the size of four dimes stacked together — attach it to a rocket and send it into space. For $4,300 more, seven grams of ashes are transported in a lipstick-size container.

Unable to pass meaningful legislation, deputies in Mexico's Congress have been offered a chance to kick back with a full-body chocolate massage. I'm there.

Kids Pick Kerry to Be the Next President. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why it's illegal for kids to vote. Because they are stupid. If I were a kid again and based my vote on anything other that logic, I'd vote for Kerry because he looks like Frankenstein. But, because I have a brain, I'm gonna VOTE FOR GEORGE BUSH.

Today in History:
1803 U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.



1882 Bela Lugosi born. Dracula rules. Happy Halloween ya'll!!!!

1994 Burt Lancaster dies.

Happy Birthday to:
Mickey Mantle (1931-1995)

Tom Petty (1952 - )