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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1776 The first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
1782 Martin Van Buren, the eighth U.S. president and the first to be born after the country was formed, was born in Kinderhook, N.Y.
1791 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna at age 35.
1792 George Washington was re-elected president and John Adams was re-elected vice president.
1831 Former President John Quincy Adams took his seat as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
1848 President James K. Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California.
1901 Movie producer Walt Disney was born in Chicago.
1955 The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO.
1994 Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the first GOP speaker of the House in four decades.
1996 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan questioned whether the stock market was overvalued, saying in a speech in Washington, ''How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly inflated asset values?''
2001 Afghan leaders signed a pact in Koenigswinter, Germany, to create an interim government.
2001 Three Green Berets and six Afghan allies were killed by an errant U.S. bomb in Afghanistan.
2002 At a 100th birthday celebration for Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-N.C., Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond's pro-segregation 1948 presidential campaign. The ensuing uproar led to Lott's resignation from the Senate leadership.
Birthdays...
Rock singer-musician Little Richard turns 73 today
54 Morgan Brittany
Actress (''Dallas'')
40 John Rzeznik
Rock musician (The Goo Goo Dolls)
29 Amy Acker
Actress (''Angel'')
20 Frankie Muniz
Actor (''Malcolm in the Middle'')
Monday's "insult of the week" is:
Save your breath..You'll need it to blow up your date. :D
Have a great day everyone.
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