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I rattled my own cage today since no one else is doing it. :D
Edit: ha ha.... Tala. :D
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some of them settling in present-day New Orleans.
1825 Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.
1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
1916 The National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.
1921 The United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.
1943 U.S. forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War II.
On Aug. 25, 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
1950 President Harry S. Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1975 The album ''Born to Run'' by Bruce Springsteen was released.
1981 The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures and data about the ringed planet.
1984 Author Truman Capote was found dead at age 59.
1985 Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her peace tour of the Soviet Union, was killed with her father in an airplane crash in Maine.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.
1998 Former Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell died at age 90.
2001 R&B singer Aaliyah was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas at age 22.
2003 Tennis champion Pete Sampras announced his retirement during a news conference at the U.S. Open in New York
Birthdays:
Actor Sean Connery turns 75 years old today.
84 years old is former Winnipegger Monty Hall :D
Game show host (''Let's Make a Deal'')
74 Regis Philbin
Talk show host (''Live With Regis and Kelly'')
72 Tom Skerritt
Actor
58 Anne Archer
Actress
56 Gene Simmons
Rock musician (Kiss)
54 Rob Halford
Rock singer (Judas Priest)
53 Geoff Downes
Rock musician (Asia)
51 Elvis Costello
Rock musician
47 Tim Burton
Director
44 Billy Ray Cyrus
Country singer
43 Vivian Campbell
Rock musician (Def Leppard)
35 Claudia Schiffer
Model
Have a great day all. :D
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