mmmmmornin'.....
Better late than never eh?....
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1588 The English soundly defeated the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines.
1890 Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France, at age 37.
1914 Transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.
1957 The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.
1957 Jack Paar made his debut as host of NBC's ''Tonight'' show.
1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.
1967 Fire swept the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, killing 134 servicemen.
1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's stance against artificial methods of birth control.
1975 President Gerald R. Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.
On July 29, 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
1993 The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard ''Ivan the Terrible,'' and threw out his death sentence.
1997 Minamata Bay in Japan - once a worldwide symbol of industrial pollution - was declared free of mercury 40 years after contaminated fish were blamed for deaths and birth defects.
1998 Choreographer Jerome Robbins died at age 79.
1999 A day trader opened fire in two Atlanta brokerage offices, killing nine people and wounding 13 before shooting himself to death; he had earlier killed his wife and two children.
2003 Boston Red Sox batter Bill Mueller became the first player in major league history to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in a single game in a 14-7 win at Texas.
musician Patti Scialfa (The E Street Band) turns 52 years old today.
67 Peter Jennings
ABC news anchor
59 Neal Doughty
Rock musician (REO Speedwagon)
52 Geddy Lee
Canadian Rock singer-musician (Rush)
33 Wil Wheaton
Actor "Star Trek - the next generation"
32 Stephen Dorff
Actor
23 Allison Mack
Actress (''Smallville'')
Have a great Friday and a great weekend all :D