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I'm up, I'm UP! No cage rattlers please! (it scares my dog)
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1485 England's King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses.
1775 England's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion.
1846 The United States annexed New Mexico.
1851 The schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.
1893 Author, poet, critic and wit Dorothy Parker was born in West Bend, N.J.
On Aug. 22, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first United States chief executive to ride in an automobile.
1904 Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping was born in Szechwan province.
1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were nominated for second terms by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
1968 Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.
1986 Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
1989 Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif.
1996 President Bill Clinton signed welfare legislation ending guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanding work from recipients.
2003 Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse.
2004 As shocked spectators watched, armed thieves stole one of four versions of the Edvard Munch masterpiece ''The Scream'' and a second Munch painting, ''Madonna,'' from the Munch museum in Oslo, Norway.
Dallas Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells turns 64 years old today.
85 Ray Bradbury
Author
71 H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Retired general (stormin' Norman)
66 Carl Yastrzemski
Baseball hall-of-famer
58 Cindy Williams
Actress (''Laverne and Shirley'')
44 Debbi Peterson
Rock musician (The Bangles)
42 Tori Amos
Singer
33 Paul Doucette
Rock musician (Matchbox Twenty)
31 Jenna Leigh Green
Actress
Have a great day all. I should be back with the TOUGH TRIVIA later in the week. :D
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