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Originally Posted by Tala
I'm a day early.
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...and a dollar short? Oh wait, that's "a day late and a dollar short".... You're a dollar ahead my dear.
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Morning all, miss Tala, and NOFX's goats. Just getting ready to pour me a cup of caffiene and get the day started. On with it....
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1890 The first Army-Navy football game was played, with Navy winning 24-0 at West Point, N.Y.
1924 Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels.
1929 Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radioed that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.
On Nov. 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1952 President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the ongoing conflict.
1961 Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited Earth twice before returning.
1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson named a commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1967 Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
1981 Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident at age 43.
1986 Actor Cary Grant died at age 82.
1989 In response to a growing pro-democracy movement in Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party's 40-year monopoly on power.
1990 The U.N. Security Council voted 12-2 to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by Jan. 15, 1991.
1996 A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims - the first international war crimes sentence since World War II.
1999 Protestant and Catholic adversaries formed a Northern Ireland government.
2001 Rock musician George Harrison of the Beatles died at age 58 following a battle with cancer.
Birthdays....
Jacques Chirac, president of France, turns 73 today
65 Denny Doherty
Singer (The Mamas & the Papas)
65 Chuck Mangione
Composer-musician
56 Garry Shandling
Actor-comedian (''The Larry Sanders Show'')
50 Howie Mandel
Actor-comedian
45 Cathy Moriarty
Actress
44 Kim Delaney
Actress (''NYPD Blues'')
44 Tom Sizemore
Actor
43 Andrew McCarthy
Actor
37 Jonathan Knight
Pop singer (New Kids on the Block)
36 Mariano Rivera
Baseball player
34 Gena Lee Nolin
Actress
Have a great day all. :D