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On March 29:

 

Coca-Cola Invented

Oscar Mayer's Birthday

National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day

 

It is the birthday of:

 

1918 - Pearl Bailey

1976 - Jennifer Capriati

1964 - Elle MacPherson

1790 - John Tyler<br><br>Post edited by: luvparrots, at: 2009/03/30 06:25

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Today is March 30 and it is:

 

Doctor's Day

National Hot Dog Day

Eraser-topped Pencil Patented - 1858

 

and it is the birthday of:

 

1968 - Celine Dion

1962 - M C Hammer

1945 - Eric Clapton

1937 - Warren Beatty

1930 - John Astin

1853 - Vincent Van Gogh<br><br>Post edited by: luvparrots, at: 2009/03/30 06:26

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today is March 31, and it is

 

National Clams on the Half Shell Day

Oranges and Lemon Day

Tater Day

 

And it is the birthday of:

 

1948 - Al Gore

1948 - Rhea Perlman

1943 - Christopher Walken

1935 - Herb Albert

1935 - Richard Chamberlain

1934 - Shirley Jones

1927 - Cesar Chavez

1925 - Leo Buscaglia

1915 - Henry Morgan

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Thankyou Judy:kiss:

 

Another year older and non the wiser lol!

Not doing much today, have been working this morning and spending some time with the greys this afternoon. Will probably have a meal with the family tonight.

 

Hope everyone has enjoyed their April fools day, I used to get some jokes played on me but thankfully that seems to have stopped now lol.

 

Have a good day everyone:)

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Today is April 3 and it is:

 

National Chocolate Mousse Day

Pony Express Established

National Find-A-Rainbow Day

 

and it is the birthday of:

 

1924 - Marlon Brando

1924 - Doris Day

1934 - Jane Goodall

1783 - Washington Irving

1961 - Eddie Murphy

1958 - Alec Baldwin

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Today is April 4, and it is:

 

Vitamin C Discovered this date

National Reading a Roadmap Day

National Cordon Bleu Day

Gold Discovered in Yukon, 1896

 

And it is the birthday of

 

1965 - Robert Downey, Jr.

1950 - Christine Lahti

1946 - Craig T. Nelson

1924 - Eva Marie Saint

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Today is April 5 and it is:

 

Pocahontas Married John Rolfe

National Raisin & Spice Bar Day

 

and it is the birthday of:

 

1937 - Colin Powell

1921 - Gale Storm

1916 - Gregory Peck

1908 - Bette Davis

1900 - Spencer Tracy

1856 - Booker T. Washington

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And to add to events on this day.... the last is my favorite ;-)

 

1945 - Almelo Netherlands freed

1945 - Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki

1946 - 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony

1948 - WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting

1949 - 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham Ill)

1949 - Fireside Theater debuts on television.

1950 - Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins

1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death

1952 - Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title

1953 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1953 - WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1954 - Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"

1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him

1956 - In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.

1958 - Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.

1959 - 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284

1961 - Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"

1961 - Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council

1962 - Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premieres in NYC

1962 - Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp

1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m

1962 - St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands

1963 - Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)

1963 - Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa

1964 - 1st driverless trains run on London Underground

1964 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open

1965 - 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison & J Andrews win

1965 - Lava Lamp Day celebrated

1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1966 - WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast

1967 - '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds

1967 - ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit

1968 - Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens

1968 - US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled

1969 - Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.

1970 - WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting

1971 - Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole

1971 - Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy

1971 - US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life

1971 - WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting

1971 - In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

1972 - Baseball season is delayed due to a strike

1972 - Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub

1973 - NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)

1973 - Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter

1974 - Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai

1974 - Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)

1975 - "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 perfs

1975 - Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely

1976 - Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England

1976 - Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen," premieres in London

1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1979 - Balt manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper

1979 - Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia

1981 - 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez

1981 - Phila Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes

1982 - British fleet sails to Falkland Islands

1982 - Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season

1982 - Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war

1983 - France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats

1983 - NY Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment

1984 - "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances

1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)

1986 - Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)

1986 - US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing

1987 - 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King

1987 - Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman

1987 - Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title

1988 - Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate

1989 - David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo

1989 - Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak

1989 - Solidarity grants legal status in Poland

1990 - John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row

1990 - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary

1990 - Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity

1991 - Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games

1991 - Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan

1991 - Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23

1991 - Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched

1991 - US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq

1992 - "Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs

1992 - 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Stanford beats Western Ky 78-62

1992 - 4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino

1992 - Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka

1992 - Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International

1992 - Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea

1992 - Peru's Pres Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress

1992 - Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president

1992 - Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice

1992 - Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.

1993 - 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Michigan 77-71

1993 - 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1

1993 - Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to NY Mets 3-0

1993 - Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1993 - Florida Marlins 1st game - beat LA Dodgers 6-3

1993 - Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad

1994 - "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 perfs

1994 - Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak

1996 - John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days

1996 - Marlon Brando makes anti-semetic remarks about hollywood on Larry King

1997 - Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)

1998 - 10th Seniors Golf Tradition:

1998 - wins Longs Drugs Golf Challenge

1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

2063 - Earth's 1st contact by extra-terrisials (Vulcan) accord to Star Trek

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Today is April 6, and it is:

 

National Caramel Popcorn Day

Modern Olympics Began

1973 - Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter and Saturn

1957 - New York City ends trolley car service

1930 - Hostess Twinkies invented by baker James Dewar

1909 - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson

 

and it is the birthday of:

 

1947 - John Ratzenberger

1952 - Marilu Henner

1937 - Merle Haggard

1937 - Billy Dee Williams

1866 - Butch Cassidy<br><br>Post edited by: luvparrots, at: 2009/04/06 06:22

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Today is April 7 and it is:

 

World Health Day

National Coffee Cake Day

1827 - Matches First for Sale

1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft. Myers Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM

 

and it is the birthday of:

 

1964 - Russell Crowe

1954 - Jackie Chan

1939 - Francis Coppola

1939 - David Frost

1933 - Wayne Rogers

1928 - James Garner

1915 - Billie Holliday

1897 - Walter Winchell

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Today is April 8 and it is:

 

National Empanada Day

International Bird Day

1994 - Smoking banned in Pentagon & all U.S. military bases

1986 - Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California

1879 - Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time

1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain

 

And is the birthday of:

 

1968 - Patricia Arquette

1963 - Julian Lennon

1918 - Betty Ford

1912 - Sonja Henie

1893 - Mary Pickford

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Today is April 9, and it is:

 

National Chinese Almond Cookie Day

First Public Library Opened

2005 - Prince Charles & Camilla Parker Bowles are married

1992 - John Majors, © elected Prime Minister of England

1989 - Washington D.C. march supporting 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision

1967 - 1st Boeing 737 rolls out

 

and it is the birthday of:

 

1965 - Paulina Porizkova

1954 - Dennis Quaid

1939 - Michael Learned

1926 - Hugh Hefner

1903 - Ward Bond

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Today is April 10, and it is:

 

Safety Pin Patented, 1849

Golfer's Day

National Cinnamon Crescent Day

1955 - Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine

1947 - Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)

1938 - New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license

1930 - Synthetic rubber 1st produced

1912 - RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage

1790 - RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage

 

and it is the birthday of:

 

1984 - Mandy Moore

1952 - Steven Seagal

1932 - Omar Sharif

1929 - Max Von Sydow

1921 - Chuck Connors

1915 - Harry Morgan

1847 - Joseph Puitzer

1794 - Commodore Mathew Perry

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Today is April 11, and it is:

 

National Cheese Fondue Day

Dandelion Day

1992 - Euro-Disney opens near Paris

1906 - Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity

1900 - US Navy's 1st submarine made its debut

1890 - Ellis Island designated as an immigration station

1814 - 1st abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba

 

And it is the birthday of:

 

1932 - Joel Grey

1928 - Ethel Kennedy

1913 - Oleg Cassini

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Today is April 12, and it is:

 

Easter Sunday

National Licorice Day

First Space Shuttle Launched

1988 - Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse

1988- Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California

1961 - Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner

1955 - Salk polio vaccine safe and effective; 4 billion dimes marched

 

and it is the birthday of:

1979 - Claire Danes

1971 - Shannen Doherty

1956 - Andy Garcia

1950 - David Cassidy

1947 - David Letterman

1930 - Tiny Tim

1923 - Ann Miller

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