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From: zoara on 10 Mar 2006 09:12 Happy birthday to.... Hold on, where's the drumroll? *clatter* *mutter* *drumroll* Happy birthday to... James Dore, dirty-doo today! You share your birthday with: 1415 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (died 1462) 1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (died 1516) 1503 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1564) 1536 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (died 1572) 1606 - Edmund Waller, English poet (died 1687) 1628 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (died 1694) 1709 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (died 1746) 1749 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (died 1838) 1769 - Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder (died 1840) 1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel, German aesthetician, poet, and publicist (died 1829) 1776 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia (died 1810) 1788 - Joseph von Eichendorff, German writer (died 1857) 1810 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (died 1886) 1842 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (died 1912) 1844 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (died 1908) 1845 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (died 1894) 1847 - Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (died 1934) 1880 - Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor (died 1971) 1888 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (died 1966) 1891 - Sam Jaffe, American actor (died 1984) 1892 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (died 1955) 1892 - Gregory La Cava, American director, producer, and writer (died 1952) 1903 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (died 1931) 1915 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (died 1978) 1919 - Marion Hutton, American singer (died 1987) 1923 - Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate 1925 - Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (died 2005) 1928 - James Earl Ray, American assassin (died 1998) 1930 - Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer 1936 - Sepp Blatter, Swiss hockey and football official 1940 - Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist 1941 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (died 2004) 1946 - Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (died 1993) 1947 - Kim Campbell, nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada 1947 - Bob Greene, American journalist 1947 - Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist 1952 - Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe politician 1957 - Marlon Jackson, American singer 1957 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist 1958 - Sharon Stone, American actress 1959 - Remus John Lupin, fictional character in the Harry Potter series. 1961 - Laurel Clark, physician and astronaut (died 2003) 1963 - Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam) 1963 - Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician 1964 - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex 1965 - Rod Woodson, American football player 1966 - Edie Brickell, American singer 1971 - Ugonna Wachuku, Nigerian writer 1972 - Matt Kenseth, American race car driver 1972 - Takashi Fujii (Matthew Minami), Japanese television performer 1973 - Eva Herzigova, Czech model 1981 - Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer 1983 - Carrie Underwood, American singer 1985 - Lassana Diarra, French footballer 1986 - Vadim Schneider, Canadian actor (died 2003) 1992 - Emily Osment, American actress On this day in history: 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War. 1496 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere. 1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament. 1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States. 1814 - Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France. 1831 - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria. 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War. 1861 - El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali. 1864 - Montana vigilantes hang Jack Slade. 1864 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." 1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations. 1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching. 1893 - C?te d'Ivoire becomes a French colony. 1902 - Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men. 1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera. 1902 - Tochangri, Turkey, is completely destroyed by an earthquake. 1906 - The Courri?res mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France. 1912 - Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China. 1926 - The first Book-of-the-Month-Club selection is produced. 1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people. 1945 - The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. 1948 - The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League. 1951 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France. 1952 - Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba. 1959 - Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of Chinese occupation in Lhasa. Thousands massacred by the occupying Chinese army. 1964 - The Ford Mustang is first produced by the Ford Motor Company. 1966 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg. 1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray would later retract his guilty plea. 1970 - Vietnam War: Capt. Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes. 1975 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon. 1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus. 1982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups. 1982 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun. 1987 - Reproductive rights: The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination. 1990 - In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup. 1991 - Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf. 1996 - The "Summit of Peacemakers" takes place in Egypt. 1997 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer premieres on the WB network. 1998 - American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax. 2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom. 2004 - Six Flags sells 8 of its theme parks to private investors. Deaths on this day: 1291 - Arghun, Persian ruler 1510 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (born 1445) 1513 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (born 1443) 1549 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat 1584 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (born 1532) 1585 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (born 1517) 1588 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (born 1533) 1669 - John Denham, English poet (born 1615) 1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (born 1604) 1776 - ?lie Catherine Fr?ron, French critic (born 1719) 1776 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (born 1701) 1792 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1713) 1832 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (born 1752) 1861 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (born 1814) 1895 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (born 1826) 1913 - Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (born 1820) 1937 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (born 1884) 1940 - Mikha?l Boulgakov, Russian writer (born 1891) 1942 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862) 1948 - Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (born 1886) 1951 - Kijuro Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (born 1872) 1966 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888) 1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (born 1897) 1984 - June Marlowe, American actress (born 1903) 1985 - Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (born 1911) 1986 - Ray Milland, British actor (born 1907) 1988 - Andy Gibb, English-born singer (born 1958) 1994 - Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright (assassinated) (born 1929) 1997 - La Vern Baker, American singer (born 1929) 1998 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (born 1913) 2001 - Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and far right activist (born 1958) 2003 - Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (born 1950) 2004 - Dave Blood, American musician 2005 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (born 1936) 2005 - Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (born 1951) 2006 - John Profumo, British ex-politician and lover of Christine Keeler (born 1915) Holidays and observances: Doctors Day - (Venezuela) BBC: On This Day http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/10 Hope you have a good day, James! -zoara- -- I've just set up Thunderbird for news. Never used it before, so apologies for weirdness.
From: Jim on 10 Mar 2006 09:23 In article <47dfr3Fet150U1(a)individual.net>, zoara wrote: > > Happy birthday to.... > > Hold on, where's the drumroll? > > *clatter* *mutter* > > *drumroll* > > Happy birthday to... James Dore, dirty-doo today! > Happy Birthday laddie! Jim -- Find me at http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk JediGeeks http://www.jedigeeks.com "Ah, gentle dames, it gars me greet, To think how monie councels sweet, How monie lengthen'd, sage advices, The Husband frae the wife despises!"
From: Peter Lee on 10 Mar 2006 09:28 zoara <me3(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Happy birthday to.... > > Hold on, where's the drumroll? > > *clatter* *mutter* > > *drumroll* > > Happy birthday to... James Dore, dirty-doo today! > > Happy Birthday James! Peter -- This address is never read; use peterattheleesdotukdotnet
From: Chris Ridd on 10 Mar 2006 09:33 On 10/3/06 2:12, in article 47dfr3Fet150U1(a)individual.net, "zoara" <me3(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > Happy birthday to.... > > Hold on, where's the drumroll? > > *clatter* *mutter* > > *drumroll* > > Happy birthday to... James Dore, dirty-doo today! Yay! Cheers, Chris
From: Sara Kirk on 10 Mar 2006 09:50
In article <47dfr3Fet150U1(a)individual.net>, zoara <me3(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans > sink the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War. ummm... > 1997 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer premieres on the WB network. Well - obviously a propitious day! Have a good (rest of) one! -- Sara Feeling the cold: <http://www.sarlet.com/ucsm_get_cold/pictures/p0002534.html> |