Happy Birthdays

[Oldschool]

Figured a single thread for all birthdays would be better than cluttering up this forum like the old one with individual threads. And yes I was probably the most guilty party there. :o

Incidentally you have to view the calendar as this forum doesn't list "Today's Birthdays" as the old forum did. If so, I haven't got it figured out.

[Taleria]

If this is going to be a single thread, maybe it should be pinned so it doesn't disappear if it isn't posted to. Unless people intend to send birthday greetings to every single member - even ones that aren't well-known.

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 21st, you share your birthday with:

Ernest Hemmingway (Nobel prize winning author)
Don Knotts (actor/ comedian)
Yusaf Islam (otherwise known as Cat Stevens – songwriter)
Garry Trudeau (cartoonist – Doonesbury)
Robin Williams (actor/ comedian)

You also share the same date with these events:

356BC: Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
1588: English fleet defeats the Spanish Armada
1861: First major battle of American civil war ends (Bull Run).
1873: first train robbery of the infamous “James Gang” (Jesse James)
1884: First test cricket match played at Lord’s.
1951: Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
1969: Neil Armstrong steps on the moon.
1970: Aswan dam opens in Egypt.

Today’s shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Yusaf Islam!

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 22nd, you share your birthday with:

William Archibald Spooner (of “spoonerism” fame)
Danny Glover (actor)
Don Henley (musician, Eagles)
Michael Spinks (middleweight boxer)
Rhys Ifans (Welsh actor)
Scott Dixon (motor racing; current Indy circuit champion)

You also share the same date with these events:

1298: English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
1775: George Washington takes command of US troops.
1893: Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful”, in Colorado
1934: American gangster, John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago.
1967: Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of The Monkees’ tour
1983: Coldest temperature of -128.6°F (-89.2°C) is recorded at Vostok, Antarctica (world record)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Scott Dixon (He’s a Kiwi, dontchaknow!)

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 23rd, you share your birthday with:

Yazid I, sixth caliph of Islam
Albert Warner (of Warner Bros fame)
Harold “Pee Wee” Reese (hall of fame baseball player)
Tony Joe White (musician)
Woody Harelson (actor)
Slash (musician – Guns’n’Roses)
Monica Lewinsky (White House intern under Bill Clinton – no pun intended)
Daniel Radcliffe (actor – Harry Potter movies)

You also share the same date with these events:

1829: William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
1866: Cincinatti Baseball club forms (the Red Stockings)
1903: Ford Motor Company sells first “model A” car
1920: British East Africa renamed as Kenya
1965: Beatles’ “Help” is released in the UK
1986: Britain’s Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Monica Lewinsky!

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 24th, you share your birthday with:

Johannes van Capestrano (Italian saint)
Alexandre Dumas Pere (author – The Three Musketeers)
Amelia Earhart (aviator – first woman to fly the Atlantic solo)
Lynda Carter (actress – Wonder Woman)
Anna Paquin (actress – The Piano, X-Men)
Bindi Irwin, daughter of Steve Irwin (The crocodile hunter)

You also share the same date with these events:

1534: Jacques Cartier lands in Canada and claims it for France.
1567: Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate. 1yr old James VI becomes King.
1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII.
1847: Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah.
1911: Hiram Bingham discovers lost city of the Incas.
1938: Instant coffee is invented.
1969: Apollo 11 returns to Earth
2005: Lance Armstrong retires after winning seventh consecutive Tour de France.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Bindi Irwin (Crikey!)

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 25th, you share your birthday with:

Afonso the Conqueror, King of Portugal
Verdine White (musician – Earth, Wind & Fire)
Iman (supermodel)
Matt LeBlanc (actor – Friends, Joey)
Louise Joy Brown (world’s first test-tube baby)

You also share the same date with these events:

306: Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1722: The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
1814: George Stephenson introduces the first steam powered locomotive.
1850: Gold discovered in Oregon.
1944: First jet fighter used in combat.
1946: First bikini is shown at Paris fashion show.
1952: Puerto Rico become a self-governing US commonwealth
1965: Birth of folk rock – Bob Dylan uses electricity at Newport folk festival
1966: Brian Jones last performance as a Rolling Stone

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Louise Joy Brown!

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 26th, you share your birthday with:

George Bernard Shaw (author and playwright)
Stanley Kubrik (movie director)
Mick Jagger (singer –The Rolling Stones)
Helen Mirren (actress)
Kevin Spacey (actor)
Sandra Bullock (actress)
Kate Beckinsale (actress

You also share the same date with these events:

1579: Francis Drake leaves San Fransico to cross the Pacific Ocean and find a western route to The Orient
1775: US post office created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin.
1788: Sydney, Australia, first settled by British colonists.
1891: France annexes Tahiti
1944: The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
1952: Mickey Mantle hits his first grand-slammer
1983: Light flashes seen on Jupiters moon, Io.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Sandra Bullock!

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 27th, you share your birthday with:

E. Gary Gygax (role-playing game creator – Dungeons & Dragons)
Yahoo Serious (Australian actor/ comedian)
Christopher Dean (ice skater of Torvill & Dean fame)
Rex Brown (musician – Pantera)
Jennifer Lopez (actress)

You also share the same date with these events:

1298: Albert I, son of Rudolf of Hapsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1586: Sir Walter Raleigh imports first tobacco into England from Virginia.
1643: Cromwell defeats royalists at Battle of Gainsborough
1940: Bugs Bunny debuts
1962: Mariner 2 launched on its fly-by mission to Venus.
1977: John Lennon is granted a green card for residence in the US

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Jennifer Lopez!

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 28th, you share your birthday with:

Earl S. Tupper (inventor of Tupperware)
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Jim Davis (cartoonist – Garfield)
Richard (Rick) William Wright (musician – Pink Floyd)
Hugo Chavez (President of Venezuela)

You also share the same date with these events:

1148: Crusaders attack Damascus
1540: English king, Henry VIII, marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard
1858: First time fingerprints are used as a means of identification.
1866: Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US.
1914: Austria declares war on Hungary, effectively starting WW1.
1933: First singing telegram delivered.
1984: 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles.
2061: 31st perihelion passage of Halley’s comet

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Hugo Chavez!

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 29th, you share your birthday with:

Gregory Efimovich (otherwise known as Rasputin, the mad Russian monk)
Benito Mussolini (Italian fascist dictator)
John Sykes (musician – Thin Lizzy)
Stephen Dorff (actor)
Fernando Alonso (Formula 1 race driver)

You also share the same date with these events:

1715: Ten Spanish treasure galleons sink off Florida coast during a hurricane.
1836: Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1844: New York yacht club formed
1907: Formation of Boy Scouts by Robert Baden-Powell in England
1938: Comic strip, Dennis the Menace, first appears.
1949: BBC radio begins broadcasting.
1973: $180,000 in receipts from a Led Zeppelin concert stolen from the Hilton Hotel, New York.
1981: Prince Charles marries Lady Diane Spencer

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Stephen Dorff!

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 30th, you share your birthday with:

Emily Jane Bronte (novelist – Wuthering Heights)
Henry Ford (auto maker)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor/ California governor)
Kate Bush (singer/ songwriter)
Laurence Fishburne (actor )
Lisa Kudrow (actress – Phoebe in “Friends”)

You also share the same date with these events:

1729: City of Baltimore founded.
1898: Will Kellogg invents corn flakes
1928: First colour motion pictures shown in US
1935: First Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution.
1980: Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from England and France.
2003: The last old-style Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Laurence Fishburne!

[Badstench]

If you were born on July 31st, you share your birthday with:

Nico (singer – Velvet Underground)
Michael Biehn (actor – Terminator 2)
Wesley Snipes (actor)
J.K Rowling (writer – Harry Potter books)
Will Champion (musician – Coldplay)

You also share the same date with these events:

1498: Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad.
1620: Pilgrim Fathers depart England for America
1961: Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
1984: Leeza Gibbons’ first appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1987: Gun’n’Roses album, Appetite For Destruction, is released
1988: last Playboy club closes in Lansing, Michigan.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday J.K Rowling!

[Badstench]

White Rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits!

If you were born on August 1st, you share your birthday with:

Tiberius Claudius Drusus, Claudius I (Roman Emperor)
Francis Scott Key (composer – The Star Spangled Banner)
Dom DeLuise (comedian)
Yves Saint-Laurent (fashion designer)
Jerry Garcia (musician – Grateful Dead)
Coolio (rapper)


You also share the same date with these events:

1780: Sweden declares neutrality.
1793: France becomes the first nation to use the metric system.
1834: Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.
1876: Colorado becomes 38th state
1936: Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic games in Berlin
1944: Anne Frank’s last diary entry.
1960: Chubby Checker releases “The Twist”
1972: First article exposing the Watergate scandal appears.
1983: New Zealand score their first ever Cricket test match victory in England (WOOT!)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Yves Saint Laurent!

A pinch and a punch for the 1st of the month

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 2nd, you share your birthday with these people:

Peter O’Toole (actor)
Wes Craven (movie director)
Mary-Louise Parker (actress)
Pete Sampras (tennis player)
Jimmy Pop (musician – The Bloodhound Gang)

You also share the same date with these events:

1610: Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him
1776: Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
1865: Lewis Carroll publishes, “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”.
1870: The world’s first underground tube railway opens in London.
1969: President Nixon visits Romania
1990: Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Pete Sampras!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 3rd, you share your birthday with:

Gene Kelly (actor/ dancer)
Leon Uris (novelist)
Tony Bennett (singer)
Terry Wogan (British talk show host)
Martin Sheen (actor)
Martha Stewart (cooking show presenter)

You also share the same date with these events:

1108: Louis VI, “The Fat One”, crowned King of France
1852: first inter-collegiate rowing race between Harvard and Yale
1900: Firestone Tyre and Rubber Company founded
1914: WW1 – Great Britain declares war on Germany
1923: Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th President
1971: Paul Mcartney announces formation of his group, Wings.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Martin Sheen!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 4th, you share your birthday with:

Douglas L Mays (cartoonist – Punch)
Yasser Arafat (Palestinian politician)
David Lange (New Zealand Prime Minister)
Billy Bob Thornton (actor)
Barack Obama (US President)
Dingdong Dantes (Filipino actor)

You also share the same date with these events:

1181: Supernova seen in the constellation Cassiopeia
1558: first printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
1693: Dom Perignon invents champagne
1862: US government begins collection of income tax
1956: Elvis Presley releases “Hound Dog”
1983: While warming up for 5th innings, Yankee, Dave Winfield, accidentally kills a seagull
2007: NASA’s Phoenix spaceship is launched

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Dingdong Dantes! (Front runner for “Silly Name of The Year” award)

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 5th, you share your birthday with:

Joseph Merrick (the Elephant Man)
John Huston (movie director)
Neil Armstrong (astronaut)
Loni Anderson (actress – WKRP In Cincinatti)
M C A [Adam Yauch] (rapper – Beastie Boys)

You also share the same date with these events:

1100: Henry I is crowned King of England
1305: William Wallace is captured by the English and sent to London for execution.
1914: first traffic light installed (Cleveland)
1926: Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1½ hrs
1945: Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima
1962: first quasar located by radio
1966: John Lennon says Beatles are more popular than Jesus.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Neil Armstrong!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 6th, you share your birthday with:

Alfred Lord Tennyson (poet laureate of England)
Lucille Ball (comedienne/ actress)
Robert Mitchum (actor)
Andy Warhol (artist)
Piers Anthony (sci-fi author)
M. Night Shyamalan (writer/ movie director)

You also share the same date with these events:

1661: Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders
1914: Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
1961: first case of motion sickness in space reported.
1966: Cassius Clay (Mahummad Ali) claims heavyweight boxing title
1984: Carl Lewis wins second of four Olympic gold medals (long jump)
1997: Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple computer Inc.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday M. Night Shyamalan!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 7th, you share your birthday with:

Mata Hari (courtesan/ spy)
Alexie Sayle (British comedian)
Bruce Dickonson (musician – Iron Maiden)
Alberto Salazar (marathoner)
David Duchovny (actor)

You also share the same date with these events:

1606: first documented performance of Macbeth is staged
1909: US issues first Lincoln penny
1914: first posters appear of Lord Kithchener saying, “Your Country Needs You!”
1957: Oliver Hardy of Laurel and Hardy dies, aged 65
1961: Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will eclipse that of the US.
1970: first computer chess tournament
1984: Japan beats US for Olypic gold in baseball

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Bruce Dickinson!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 8th, you share your birthday with:

Dino De Lorentiis (movie producer)
Dustin Hoffman (actor)
Smokey The Bear
The Edge (musician – U2)
Patricia Arquette (actress)
Roger Federer (tennis player)

You also share the same date with these events:

1709: first known ascent in a hot air balloon
1786: congress adopts decimal currency system
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helene
1940: Germany launches air strikes over Britain; beginning of Battle of Britain
1947: Pakistan’s national flag is approved
1960: “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yeloow Polkadot Bikini” hits #1
1974: President Richard M Nixon announces he will resign his office

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Roger Federer!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 9th, you share your birthday with:

John Dryden (English poet)
Melanie Griffith (actress)
Whitney Houston (singer)
John Key (Prime Minister of New Zealand)
Gillian Anderson (actress – X-Files)
Rhona Mitra (actress)

You also share the same date with these events:

1483: opening of the Sistene Chapel
1902: Edward VII is crowned King of England
1936: Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics
1944: Smokey Bear debuts as spokesman for fire prevention.
1974: Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th President
1999: Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, fires his entire cabinet for the fourth time

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday John Key!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 10th, you share your birthday with:

King James II of Aragon
Ian Anderson (musician – a.k.a Jethro Tull)
Rosanna Arquette (actress)
Antonio Banderas (actor)
Riddik Bowe (heavyweight boxing champion)
Roy Keane (English soccer player)

You also share the same date with these events:

612BC: Destruction of Nineveh
610: In Islam, the date that Mohammad began to receive the Qur’an
1821: Missouri admitted as 28th US state
1966: Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
1970: Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
1984: Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run.
2003: The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK - 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Ian Anderson!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 11th, you share your birthday with:

Enid Blyton (children’s writer and 5th most popular author in the world)
Hulk Hogan (WWF heavyweight champion)
Richie Ramone (drummer – The Ramones)
Shinji Mikami (designer of game, Resident Evil)
Chris Kelly (rapper, better known as Mack Daddy)

You also share the same date with these events:

3114BC: The mesoamerican long count calendar, used by the Mayans, begins.
1877: Deimos, moon of Mars, is discovered by Asaph Hall
1929: Babe Ruth becomes first to hit 500 homers
1933: Temperature reaches 136°F (57.8°C) at San Luis Potosi, Mexico (world record)
1956: Elvis Presley releases “Don’t Be Cruel”
1988: Al-Qaeda is formed
1994: Peter Cushing (noted horror actor) dies of cancer aged 81

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Hulk Hogan!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 12th, you share your birthday with:

William Goldman (author – “Lord of the Flies”)
John Poindexter (US Chief of Staff)
George Hamilton (actor)
Mark Knopfler (musician/ guitarist – Dire Straits)
August Darnel Browder, a.k.a Kid Creole (singer)
Pete Sampras (tennis champion)

You also share the same date with these events:

30BC: Cleopatra commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp
3: Venus and Mars align to form the Star of Bethlehem
1492: Christopher Columbus discovers the Canary Islands
1851: Sailing of the first Americas Cup yacht regatta
1908: Ford motor company builds the first Model-T automobile
1960: Echo 1, the first communications satellite, is launched.
1972: Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1988: Movie, “Last Temptation of Christ” is released

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Mark Knopfler!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 13th, you share your birthday with:

Annie Oakley
Alfred Hitchcock (movie director)
Fidel Castro (Cuban president)
Dan Fogelberg (musician)
Alan Shearer (English footballer)

You also share the same date with these events:

1521: Spanish conquer Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs
1792: Marie Antoinette is imprisoned by French revolutionaries
1913: Stainless steel is invented by Harry Brearly
1961: Construction of the Berlin wall begins in East Germany
1996: Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0
1997: South Park is aired for the first time

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Fidel Castro!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 14th, you share your birthday with:

Doc Holliday (gambler, dentist, gunfighter)
John Ringling North (of Ringling Bros Circus)
David Crosby (musician – Crosby, Stills & Nash)
Danielle Steele (novelist)
Earvin “Magic” Johnson (basketball player)
Halle Berry (actress)

You also share the same date with these events:

1281: Invasion fleet of Kublai Khan disappears off coast of Japan during typhoon.
1882: Queen Victoria receives Zulu chief, Ceteswayo.
1945: V-J Day: Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW2
1947: India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain
1965: Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You, Babe”, reaches No.1
1994: Terrorist, “Carlos”, arrested in Khartoum, Sudan
2126: Next closest approach of comet, Swift Tuttle, to Earth

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Halle Berry!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 15th, you share your birthday with:

Napoleon Bonaparte (French emperor)
Walter Scott (novelist/ poet)
T E Lawrence Tremedoc (Lawrence of Arabia)
Julia Child (chef)
Debra Messing (actress)
Ben Affleck (actor)
Natasha Henstridge (model/ actress)
Taleria (Sryth gamer and honoured forum contributor)

You also share the same date with these events:

1519: Panama City is founded
1620: Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 pilgrims
1918: First full length cartoon is shown
1974: Longest team trampoline bouncing marathon - 1,248 hours (52 days)
1989: US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
1991: 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Taleria!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 16th, you share your birthday with:

Menachim Begin (Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel prize winner)
Charles Bukowski (US writer/ poet)
Shimon Peres (another Israeli Prime Minister)
Madonna (singer)
Timothy Hutton (actor
Emily Robison (singer/ songwriter – Dixie Chicks)

You also share the same date with these events:

1743: Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England
1829: Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
1863: The Proclamation of Emancipation, proposed by Abraham Lincoln, is signed.
1898: Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
1954: Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing
1962: Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as drummer for The Beatles
1969: Woodstock music festival begins on Max Yasgurs farm in New York

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Emily Robison!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 17th, you share your birthday with:

Davy Crockett (frontiersman/ adventurer)
Samuel Goldwyn (movie producer – MGM)
Mae West (actress)
Robert De Niro (actor)
Nelson Piquet (Formula One champion)
Sean Penn (actor)

You also share the same date with these events:

1978: First successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon
1979: Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
1980: Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
1982: The first Compact Discs (CDs) were released to the public in Germany.
1987: Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
1998: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Robert De Niro!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 18th, you share your birthday with:

Virginia Dare (first English baby born in the New World)
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (fashion designer)
Greta Garbo (actress)
Brian W Aldiss (sci-fi novelist)
Roman Polanski (movie director)
Robert Redford (actor/ movie director)
Patrick Swayze (actor)
Jada Pinkett-Smith (actress)

You also share the same date with these events:

410: King Alarik’s Visigoths occupy and plunder Rome.
1835: Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago.
1868: Pierre Janssan discovers helium in the solar spectrum during an eclipse
1964: South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
1969: Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming “Ned Kelly”
1988: largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island, New York, sold for $22 million

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Robert Redford!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 19th, you share your birthday with:

John Flamsteed (first astronomer royal)
Orville Wright (pioneer aviator)
Gene Roddenberry (executive producer - Star Trek)
Ian Gillan (Singer - Deep Purple)
William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton (42nd US President)
Christian Slater (actor)
Matthew Perry (actor – Friends)

You also share the same date with these events:

14: Death of Augustus, 2nd Roman emperor
1692: 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
1909: Indianapolis 500 race track opens.
1934: 95.7% of German voters elect Hitler as Fuhrer
1960: Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs and 3 mice into orbit.
1979: “My Sharona” by The Knack reaches #1
1993: Actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger marry

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Bill Clinton!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 20th, you share your birthday with:

Bejamin Harrison (23rd US President)
H P Lovecraft (Gothic horror novelist)
Alan Reed (the voice of Fred Flintstone)
Don King (boxing promoter)
Robert Plant (singer – Led Zeppelin)
Phil Lynott (bassist – Thin Lizzy)
Lenny Henry (British comedian/ actor)

You also share the same date with these events:

1000: The nation of Hungary is founded as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I
1741: Alaska discovered by explorer Vitus Bering
1882: Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” first performed in Moscow.
1913: first time a pilot parachutes from an aeroplane
1965: Rolling Stones release “Satisfaction”, which becomes their first #1 US hit
1966: Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during their Memphis concert
1993: Mother Teresa is hospitalized with malaria

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Robert Plant!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 21st, you share your birthday with:

William IV (King of England, 1830 – 37)
Kenny Rogers (singer)
Peter Weir (movie director)
Joe Strummer (musician – The Clash)
Kim Cattrall (actress)
Sergey Brin (Co-founder of Google)

You also share the same date with these events:

1842: The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded
1959: Hawaii becomes 50th US state
1965: Gemini 5 launched into orbit with two astronauts on board
1983: 110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
2000: Tiger Woods wins golf's PGA Championship to become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year.
2017: Next total solar eclipse visible from North America

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Kim Cattrall!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 22nd, you share your birthday with:

Henri Cartier-Bresson (photographer)
John Lee Hooker (Blues man)
Ray Bradbury (sci-fi author)
Steve Davis (champion snooker player)
Vernon Reid (musician – Living Colour)
Tori Amos (singer/ pianist)

You also share the same date with these events:

1849: First air raid in history; Austria launches balloons against Italy.
1911: Mona Lisa stolen from The Louvre and not recovered for two years.
1921: J Edgar Hoover becomes assistant director of FBI
1932: The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting.
1964: Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1
1968: First papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Tori Amos!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 23rd, you share your birthday with:

Ivan VI (Emperor of Russia, 1740 – 41)
Gene Kelly (actor/ dancer)
Lee Majors (actor - The Six Million Dollar Man)
Keith Moon (rock drummer – Who)
River Phoenix (actor)
Kobe Bryant, NBA guard (LA Lakers)

You also share the same date with these events:

79: Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
1305: William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1617: first one-way streets open in London
1839: British capture Hong Kong from China
1960: World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught in Equatorial Guinea.
1974: John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York city
2005: Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Kobe Bryant!

[Taleria]

I'd just like to belatedly thank everyone who wished me a happy birthday. I had a nice lunch out with family, and on the Wednesday before my birthday, I had lunch with my closest RL friends. So I got to see everyone I really care about and got excellent food. Always a good combination.

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 24th, you share your birthday with:

King John I of Castile
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (writer – War & Peace)
Jean-Michel Jarre (musician)
Ken Hensley (rock keyboardist – Uriah Heep)
Jimmy Farrar (rock vocalist – Molly Hatchet)
Stephen Fry (comedian/ actor – House)
Mary-Ellen Webber (astronaut)

You also share the same date with these events:

79: Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
410: Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
1456: The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1891: Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1932: First transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1989: Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1995: Windows 95 debuts

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Stephen Fry!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 25th, you share your birthday with:

Ivan IV (“The Terrible” – first tsar of Russia)
Allan Pinkerton (founded Chicago detective agency)
Sean Connery (actor)
Frederick Forsyth (author – The Day of The Jackal)
Gene Simmons (musician – Kiss)
Elvis Costello (vocalist/ musician)
Tim Burton (movie director)

You also share the same date with these events:

1609: Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1768: Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour bound for the Pacific Ocean
1814: British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
1875: Matthew Webb becomes first person to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
1910: Yellow Cab Company is founded.
1940: First parachute wedding
1944: Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Gene Simmons!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 26th, you share your birthday with:

Robert Walpole (English Prime Minister 1721 – 42)
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (father of modern chemistry)
Sangharakshita (Buddhist philosopher)
Jet Black (drummer – The Stranglers)
Macauley Culkin (actor)

You also share the same date with these events:

580: Chinese invent toilet paper
1346: First time cannons are used in battle (France vs. England, Battle of Crecy)
1498: Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pieta
1883: Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions; kills 36,000
1946: George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm"
1972: 20th Olympic games open at Munich, Germany
1985: French government claims no knowledge of the bombing of the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Macauley Culkin!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 27th, you share your birthday with:

Donald Bradman (world class cricketer)
Lyndon B Johnson (36th US President)
Mother Teresa (Nobel peace prize winner)
Pee Wee Herman (actor/ entertainer)
Gerhard Berger (Formula 1 race driver)
Willy “Mink” Deville (blues/ rock singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes “Tarzan of the Apes”
1939: first jet propelled flight made by Erich Warsitz
1955: "Guinness Book of World Records" first published
1961: Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
1966: Sir Francis Chichester begins first solo ocean voyage around the world
2003: Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years,

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Gerhard Berger!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 28th, you share your birthday with:

Pat Morita (actor – Mr Miyagi – Karate Kid)
David Soul (actor/ singer)
Scott Hamilton (Olympic gold medalist – ice skating)
Shania Twain (singer)
Mary McCartney (fashion designer – daughter of Paul McCartney)
Jack Black (actor)
Le Ann Rimes (singer)
Thinman (Sryth gamer – your daughter dobbed you in)

You also share the same date with these events:

1189: Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1609: Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay
1830: First locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicott’s Mill
1837: Pharmacists, John Lea and William Perrins, manufacture Worcester sauce
1898: Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1963: Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1973: "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold
2005: Hurricane Katrina hammers the south eastern United States, especially New Orleans, Louisiana, and coastal Mississippi

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Thinman!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 29th, you share your birthday with:

Henry V (king of England – 1413-22)
Ingrid Bergman (actress – Casablanca)
Richard Attenborough (actor/ movie director)
Elliott Gould (actor)
Rick Downey (drummer – Blue Oyster Cult)
Michael Jackson (singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

1533: Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
1825: Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
1945: WW2 - British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
1949: USSR explodes its first atomic bomb
1964: Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
1966: Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Fransisco)
1982: Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" hits #1

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Elliott Gould!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 30th, you share your birthday with:

Mohammed (prophet and founder of Islamic religion)
Samuel Whitbread (English brewer)
Mary Shelley (author – Frankenstein)
Ernest Rutherford (physicist and father of nuclear physics)
Bruce McLaren (race car driver and founder of McLaren formula 1 team)
Cameron Diaz (actress)
Andy Roddick (tennis player)

You also share the same date with these events:

1146: European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to end war for all time
1836: The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1945: General MacArthur lands in Japan
1979: President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia
1980: Polish government recognizes Solidarity
1993: 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Cheers Samuel Whitbread!

[Badstench]

If you were born on August 31st, you share your birthday with:

Caligula Gaius Caesar (3rd Roman Emperor)
James Coburn (actor)
Dan Rather (US news anchor)
Van Morrison (musician)
Richard Gere (actor)
Queen Rania of Jordan

You also share the same date with these events:

1056: Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill. She dies a few days later, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1422: Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1887: Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
1920: Detroit radio station is first to broadcast a news program on the air
1940: 56 U-boats reported sunk during August
1963: "Hot line" between Moscow and Washington DC installed
1968: Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.
1994: Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Queen Rania!

[Badstench]

White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits!

If you were born on September 1st, you share your birthday with:

James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett (heavy weight boxing champion)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (author – Tarzan of the Apes)
Rocky Marciano (another heavyweight boxing champion)
Lily Tomlin (comedienne/ actress)
Barry Gibb (singer – Bee Gees)
Gloria Estefan (singer – Miami Sound Machine)
J D Fortune (singer – winner of Rock Idol INXS)

You also share the same date with these events:

69: Traditional date of destruction of Jerusalem
1666: Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed
1689: Russia begins taxing men's beards
1752: Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia
1785: Mozart publishes 6 string quartet, opus 10, in Vienna
1905: Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
1962: UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
2006: Luxembourg becomes the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Gloria Estefan!

A pinch and a punch for the 1st of the month

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 2nd, you share your birthday with:

Liliuokalani, (last queen of Hawaii)
Billy Preston (soul singer/ musician)
Jimmy Connors (tennis player)
Keanu Reeves (actor)
Lennox Lewis (champion boxer)
Salma Hayek (actress)

You also share the same date with these events:

31BC: Battle of Actium - forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
1192: Sultan Saladin and King Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire
1792: During the French revolution, mobs remove nobles/ clergymen out of jails and slaughter them
1930: First non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1951: Australia, New Zealand and United States sign ANZUS pact
1969: The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1971: Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their first US Open tennis matches

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Salma Hayek!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 3rd, you share your birthday with:

Ferdinand Porsche (designer/ inventor of Porsche automobile)
Alan Ladd (actor – Shane)
Eileen Brennan (actress)
Eric Bell (guitarist – Thin Lizzy)
Donald Brewer (drummer – Grand Funk Railroad)
Steve Jones (Punk rocker – Sex Pistols)
Charlie Sheen (actor)

You also share the same date with these events:

301: San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
1752: This day never happened, nor the next 10, as England adopts Gregorian Calendar (having done away with the Julian calendar). People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1777: The Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time (Cooch’s Bridge – American Revolution).
1803: English scientist John Dalton started using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1912: World's first cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1995: eBay founded

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Charlie Sheen!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 4th, you share your birthday with:

Wanli (Emperor of China)
Richard Wright (author – Uncle Tom’s Children)
Henry Ford II (automaker)
Damon Wayans (comedian/ actor)
Beyoncé Knowles (singer)
Uhura (communications officer on board the Enterprise – Star Trek)

You also share the same date with these events:

1609: Navigator, Henry Hudson, discovers island of Manhattan
1682: English astronomer, Edmund Halley, sees his namesake comet
1862: General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops
1882: First district lit by electricity (New York's Pearl Street Station)
1884: Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
1886: Apache Chief, Geronimo, surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1888: George Eastman patents first roll-film camera and registers "Kodak"
1893: English author, Beatrix Potter, first tells the story of Peter Rabbit

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Uhura!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 5th, you share your birthday with:

Jesse James (outlaw)
Darryl F Zanuck (film magnate – 20th Century Fox)
Steve Miller (musician – Steve Miller Band)
Graham Salmon (athlete – fastest 100m by a blind man)
Freddie Mercury (singer – Queen)
César Rincón, (Colombian matador)
Dweezil Zappa (musician)

You also share the same date with these events:

1836: Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas
1885: First gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Fort Wayne, Indianna)
1925: 112 F (44°C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)
1939: US declares neutrality at outbreak of WW2
1972: 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by Black September terrorists
1980: World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
1986: Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" wins at MTV music awards
1991: Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Graham Salmon!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 6th, you share your birthday with:

Henry Muhlenberg (founder of Lutheran church)
Roger Waters (musician – Pink Floyd)
Swoozie Kurtz (actress)
Jane Curtin (actress)
Rosie Perez (actress)
Tim Henman (tennis player)

You also share the same date with these events:

1869: First westbound train arrives in San Fransisco
1886: Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award
1901: President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY
1952: Canadian TV begins in Montreal
1966: Star Trek premieres on NBC TV
1968: Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1975: Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests US political asylum

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Roger Waters!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 7th, you share your birthday with:

Heracles (Hercules – Greek Legend)
Queen Elizabeth I of England (Daughter of Henry VIII)
Buddy Holly (singer)
Chrissy Hynde (musician – The Pretenders)
William Katt (actor – Greatest American Hero)
Corbin Bernson (actor)

You also share the same date with these events:

1813: "Uncle Sam" first used to refer to United States
1923: Interpol forms in Vienna
1973: Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion
1976: US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine)
1979: The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
1998: Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
2008: The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Chrissy Hynde!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 8th, you share your birthday with:

Richard I (the Lion Hearted – King of England)
Harry Secombe (comedian – The Goons)
Peter Sellers (actor/ comedian)
Patsy Cline (Country & Western singer)
David Arquette (actor)
Pink (singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

1380: Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars
1504: Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
1858: Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people
1921: First Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington DC)
1930: Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
1943: General Eisenhower announces unconditional surrender of Italy in WW2
1991: Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Pink!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 9th, you share your birthday with:

William Bligh (Ship’s Captain – The Bounty)
Colonel Harland Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
Otis Redding (musician)
Michael Keaton (actor – Beetlejuice, Batman)
Hugh Grant (actor – Four Weddings & A Funeral)
Adam Sandler (actor/ comedian)

You also share the same date with these events:

1543: Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1839: John Herschel takes first glass plate photograph
1850: California becomes 31st state
1892: E E Barnard discovers Amalthea, fifth moon of Jupiter
1945: First "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper; a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log
1956: Elvis Presley appears on national TV for first time (the Ed Sullivan show)
1971: John Lennon releases "Imagine" album

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Colonel Sanders!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 10th, you share your birthday with:

Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno (commander of the Spanish Armada)
Ian Fleming (author – James Bond)
Fay Wray (actress – King Kong)
Rin Tin Tin (German Shepherd dog)
Jose Feliciano (singer/ songwriter)
Colin Firth (actor)
Guy Ritchie (movie director)

You also share the same date with these events:

1846: Elias Howe patents sewing machine
1869: Rickshaw invented in Japan by a Baptist minister
1894: London taxi driver, George Smith, is first person fined for drunk driving
1913: Lincoln Highway opens as first paved coast-to-coast highway (US)
1955: "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV
1992: Lucy in Peanuts comic raises her “Pyschiatric Help” from 5 cents to 47 cents
2000: The musical, “Cats”, closes on Broadway.
2008: The Large Hadron Collider, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Rin Tin Tin!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 11th, you share your birthday with:

James Thomson (songwriter – Rule Brittania)
D H Lawrence (writer – Lady Chatterly’s Lover)
Brian DePalma (film director)
Leo Kottke (world class guitarist)
Kristy McNicholl (actress)
Moby (musician)
Ludacris (rapper)

You also share the same date with these events:

1773: Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
1906: Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
2001: Terrorists hijack two passenger planes crashing them into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and the death of 2,752 people
2001: Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people
2001: Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard
2002: Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

In memoriam to those who died during the events of 9/11!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 12th, you share your birthday with:

Henry Hudson (navigator/ explorer)
Jesse Owens (Olympic athlete)
Barry White (singer)
Linda Gray (actress – Dynasty)
Mark Knopfler (musician – Dire Straits)
Joe Pantoliano (actor)
Ruben Studdard (singer – winner American Idol)

You also share the same date with these events:

1910: World's first female police officer, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed in Los Angeles
1940: Four teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux, France, discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
1953: Senator John F Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis, 24
1970: Supersonic airliner, Concorde, lands for first time at Heathrow airport
1974: Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)
1978: Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Ruben Studdard!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 13th, you share your birthday with:

Walter Reed (US army surgeon – proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever, thereby paving the way for successful immunization programs against many harmful diseases)
Roald Dahl (author – Charlie & the Chocolate factory)
Fred Silverman (broadcasting executive – ABC/ NBC/ CBS)
Jaqueline Bissett (actress)
Dave Mustaine (guitarist – Megadeath)
Oldschool (Sryth gamer and honoured forum member/ moderator)
Stella McCartney (fashion designer)

You also share the same date with these events:

509BC: The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
122: Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
1224: Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata.
1503: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1788: New York City becomes first capital of the United States
1922: 136.4°F (58°C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)
1939: Igor Stravinsky invents first workable helicopter
1977: First time a viewer discretion warning is seen on US TV (Soap)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Oldschool!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 14th, you share your birthday with:

Agrippa von Nettesheim ( German royal occultist/ alchemist/ astrologer)
Ivan Pavlov (Nobel winner for pioneer work in psychology)
Walter Koenig (actor - Chekov in Star Trek)
Sam Neil (actor – Piano, Jurassic Park)
Steve Gaines (vocalist – Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Mother Elizabeth Ann Bailey Seton (canonized first US-born saint)
Amy Winehouse (singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

81: Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
786: Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi.
1716: First lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
1741: George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days
1814: Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner"
1868: Golf's first recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole)
1899: Henry Bliss becomes first automobile fatality (NY)
1960: Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Sam Neil!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 15th, you share your birthday with:

Marco Polo (Italian explorer)
James Fenimore Cooper (author – Last of the Mohicans)
Agatha Christie (mystery novelist)
Oliver Stone (movie director – Good Morning Vietnam)
Tommy Lee Jones (actor – The Fugitive)
Maggie Reilly (singer – Moonlight Shadow)
Dan Marino (NFL quarterback for Miami Dolphins)
Eiður Guðjohnsen (Icelandic footballer and September winner for most unpronounceable name)

You also share the same date with these events:

1514: Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York
1620: Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims
1835: HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches Galapagos Islands
1904: Wilbur Wright makes his first airplane flight
1935: Nuremberg Law makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1965: "Lost in Space" premieres
1992: Ted Weiss wins congressional NYC seat, despite dying the day before.
2000: Opening ceremony of the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Maggie Reilly!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 16th, you share your birthday with:

Henry V (King of England, 1413 – 22)
Lauren Bacall (actress – Key Largo)
B. B. King (blues musician)
Peter Falk (actor – Colombo)
Earl Klugh (jazz musician)
David Copperfield (magician/ illusionist)
Mickey Rourke (actor)
Nick Jonas (singer – The Jonas Brothers)

You also share the same date with these events:

1630: Massachusetts village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
1859: Lake Nyasa discovered by British explorer David Livingstone
1862: Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in American Civil War (Sharpsburg, Maryland)
1906: Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
1977: 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV
1978: Filming on Monty Python's Life of Brian, begins
1983: Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Mickey Rourke!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 17th, you share your birthday with:

Marthinus Wessels Pretorius (first president of Republic of South Africa. Namesake of South Africa capital city, Pretoria)
Mary Stewart (author – The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills)
Roddy McDowall (actor – Planet of the Apes)
Stirling Moss (race car driver)
Ann Bancroft (actress – Mrs Robinson in The Graduate)
Anastacia (singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

642: Arabs conquer Alexandria and destroy the library
1787: US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention
1796: President George Washington delivers his farewell address
1916: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat.
1934: RCA Victor releases first 33 1/3 rpm recording (LP - Beethoven's 5th)
1956: Television is first broadcast in Australia.
1972: M*A*S*H premieres on NBC TV
2007: AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia, to New York City.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Anastacia!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 18th, you share your birthday with:

Greta Garbo (actress)
Edwin M McMillan (physicist and Nobel winner – discovered plutonium)
Frankie Avalon (singer/ actor)
Haflidi Magnus Hallgrimmson (don’t care what he did... it’s just an awesome name!)
Dee Dee Ramone (bass guitarist – The Ramones)
Lita Ford (heavy metal guitarist)
James Gandolfini (actor – The Sopranos)
Jada Pinkett-Smith (actress)

You also share the same date with these events:

1502: Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth and last voyage
1793: President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1812: Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churches
1851: New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
1965: "Get Smart" premieres
1975: Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Fransisco
1976: Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday James Gandolfini!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 19th, you share your birthday with:

William Golding (author – Lord of The Flies)
Adam West (actor – Batman)
Brian Epstein (band manager – The Beatles)
Cass Elliot (vocalist – Mama & The Papas)
Jeremy Irons (actor – Die Hard 3, French Lieutenant’s Woman)
Twiggy (supermodel)
Matthew Perry (actor – Friends)

You also share the same date with these events:

1888: Worlds first beauty contest takes place in Belgium.
1893: New Zealand is first country to grant all its women the right to vote
1928: Mickey Mouse makes his screen debut in “Steamboat Willy”.
1952: The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1970: "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres
1989: Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after New York Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand
1991: Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.


Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Jeremy Irons!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 20th, you share your birthday with:

Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton (jazz pianist)
Kenneth More (English actor/ comedian)
Sophia Loren (actress)
James P Blaylock (scifi author)
Crispin Glover (actor)
Juan Pablo Montoya (race car driver)
Thingirl (Sryth gamer and prolific forum member)

You also share the same date with these events:

451: General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne
1187: Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1519: Ferdinand Magellan departs on start of first successful circumnavigation of world
1966: Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth II launched
1973: Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1975: David Bowie's "Fame," goes #1
2001: U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Thingirl!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 21st, you share your birthday with:

H. G. Wells (author – War of the Worlds)
Chuck Jones (animator – Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck)
Larry Hagman (actor – JR in Dallas)
Don Preston (musician – Mothers of Invention)
Stephen King (renowned horror/ fantasy writer)
Bill Murray (actor/ comedian – Groundhog Day)
Ethan Cohen (movie producer – Fargo, etc)
Riki Lake (talk show host)
Liam Gallagher (musician – Oasis)
Doug Howlett (world class rugby player – he’s a Kiwi dontcha know?)
Nicole Richie (American socialite)

You also share the same date with these events:

1621: King James of England gives Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling
1780: Benedict Arnold gives British plans to West Point
1814: "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem
1827: Joseph Smith founds the Mormon church after claiming the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates.
1954: First nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned
1966: Jimmy Hendrix changes spelling of his name to Jimi
2008: The final home game is played at Yankee Stadium against the Baltimore Orioles.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Nicole Richie!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 22nd, you share your birthday with:

Bilbo Baggins (1290 in Shire Reckoning)
Anna van Kleef (fourth wife of Henry VIII)
Allan “Rocky” Lane (voice of Mr Ed)
David Coverdale (vocalist – Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
Meryl Streep (actress)
Andrea Bocelli (Italian tenor)
Joan Jett (musician – I Love Rock’n’Roll)
Eric Stoltz (actor)
“Ronaldo” (Brazilian soccer player)
Acebrock (Sryth gamer and forum member)

You also share the same date with these events:

1692: Last hanging for witchcraft in US (Salem, Massachusetts)
1735: Robert Walpole is first British PM to live at 10 Downing Street
1896: Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1910: The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1950: Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (First black winner)
1964: "Man from U.N.C.L.E," premieres on NBC-TV
1991: California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public
2003: David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Acebrock!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 23rd, you share your birthday with:

Euripides (Greek Playwright)
Kublai Khan (Mongol Ruler)
Mickey Rooney (actor)
Ray Charles (singer/ musician)
Roy Buchanan (guitarist/ bluesman)
Julio Iglesias (singer)
Bruce Springsteen (musician/ singer)
Harry Connick Jnr (singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

1642: First commencement of Harvard College, Cambridge Massachusetts
1889: Nintendo Company founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi
1932: Kingdoms of Hejaz & Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1938: Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100ft of microfilm)
1973: Largest known prime number, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is discovered
1977: Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
2002: The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Bruce Springsteen!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 24th, you share your birthday with:

Sir Arthur Guinness (Irish Brewer)
Grigori A Potempkin (After whom the phrase “Potempkin Village” is derived).
F Scott Fitzgerald (author)
Jim Henson (muppeteer)
Linda Eastman-McCartney (wife of Paul McCartney, member of Wings)
Kevin Sorbo (actor – Hercules)
Shaun “Clown” Crahan (musician – Slipknot)

You also share the same date with these events:

1853: First round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
1895: First round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1934: Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1935: First rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights (Columbia, Mississippi)
1954: Tonight Show premieres on NBC
1968: "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
1984: Paul McCartney releases "No More Lonely Nights"
1995: Mt Ruapehu volcano erupts (North Island, New Zealand - what a crap ski season that was!)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Cheers Sir Arthur Guinness!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 25th, you share your birthday with:

Ronnie Barker (comedian – The Two Ronnies)
Barbara Walters (newscaster)
Michael Douglas (actor)
Mark Hamill (actor – Luke Skywalker)
Christopher Reeve (actor – Superman)
Heather Locklear (actress)
Will Smith (actor – Men In Black, etc)
Catherine Zeta Jones (actress)
Joddelle (Sryth gamer and honoured forum member)

You also share the same date with these events:

1066: The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon era
1890: Congress establishes Yosemite National Park
1926: Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week
1956: First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation between Scotland and Canada
1972: Norway votes to join common market
1980: Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show
2008: China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Joddelle!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 26th, you share your birthday with:

Saint Francis of Assisi
Moses Mendelssohn (philosopher/critic/Bible translator)
John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] (frontier nurseryman)
George Gershwin (composer – Rhapsody In Blue)
Ian Chappell (Australian world class cricketer)
Brian Ferry (singer – Roxy Music)
Olivia Newton-John (singer – and still gorgeous)
Linda Hamilton (actress – Terminator)
Serena Williams (tennis player)
Keisha Buchanan (singer – Sugarbabes)
Scout1idf (Sryth gamer and very honoured forum member)

You also share the same date with these events:

46BC: Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
1212: Golden Bull of Sicily certified hereditary royal title in Bohemia for Přemyslid dynasty.
1580: Francis Drake returns to England with a treasure fit for royalty, and is dubbed a knight.
1687: Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks. Parthenon destroyed
1890: US stops minting $1 and $3 gold coin and 3 cent piece
1907: New Zealand declares independence from United Kingdom, becomes a self-governing dominion.
1918: Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I
1988: Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100m gold failing drug test
1997: An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Scout1idf!

Also, a special recognition to Dooli’s grandmother who turns 100 today. (I don’t know that I’ll ever get another chance to recognize a centenarian!)

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 27th, you share your birthday with:

Louis Botha (first prime Minister of South Africa)
Patrick Steptoe (scientist - perfected in vitro fertilization)
Randy Bachman (musician – Bachman Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ yet)
Marvin Lee Aday: Meatloaf (singer/ actor – Bat Out Of Hell)
Robbie Shakespeare (musician – reggae artist)
Gwyneth Paltrow (actress – Sliding Doors)
Brendon MacCullum (New Zealand cricketer and ‘big’ hitter)
Avril Lavigne (singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

1066: William the Conqueror sets sail for England
1290: Earthquake in Gulf of Chili, China, reportedly kills 100,000
1540: Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
1892: Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company
1905: Albert Einstein's paper introducing the equation E=mc² is published.
1937: First Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
1960: Europe's first "moving pavement," (travelator), opens at Bank station
1988: Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ`s burial cloth
1989: Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
1998: Google is launched

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Gwyneth Paltrow!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 28th, you share your birthday with:

Confucius (Chinese philosopher)
Livia Drusilla (wife of Roman emperor Caesar Augustus)
Ed Sullivan (TV show host)
Alfred Gerald Caplin (cartoonist – Li’l Abner)
Janeane Garofalo (comedienne/ actress)
Moon Unit Zappa (singer – Valley Girl)
Mira Sorvino (actress)

You also share the same date with these events:

45BC: Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
935: Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
1968: Beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 and stays there for 9 weeks
1968: Janis Joplin announces she's leaving "Big Brother & Holding Co"
1971: UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1987: "Star Trek: The Next Generation," debuts on syndicated TV
1990: Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1994: "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Moon Unit Zappa!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 29th, you share your birthday with:

Pompey The Great (consul of Rome)
Robert Clive (explorer – founded the British Empire in India)
Horatio Nelson (admiral of the fleet – Battle of Trafalgar)
Lech Walesa (Polish union leader and public figure)
Sebastian Coe (English athlete)
Mika Hakkinen (Formula 1 race driver)
Erika Eleniak (actress)

You also share the same date with these events:

1793: Tennis is first mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1829: London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)
1916: John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
1950: Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories
1963: "My Favorite Martian" debuts on CBS-TV
1967: Gladys Knight & Pips release "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
1977: “Star Wars” theme hits no.1
1985: "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV
1996: Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
2008: Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday MacGyver!

[Badstench]

If you were born on September 30th, you share your birthday with:

Pope Nicholas IV
Robinson Crusoe (fictional character created by Daniel Defoe)
Truman Capote (author – In Cold Blood)
Marc Bolan (singer/ song writer – T.Rex)
Fran Drescher (actress – The Nanny)
Martina Hingis (tennis player)
Matthew H. Yarrows (Sryth game creator)

You also share the same date with these events:

1659: Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked
1791: Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna
1841: Samuel Slocum patents the stapler
1846: Anaesthetic ether used for first time (extracting a tooth)
1880: Henry Draper takes the first photograph of Orion Nebula
1950: First congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris
1955: Film icon, James Dean, dies in a road accident at age 24.
1960: Flintstones premieres (first prime time animation show)
1968: First Boeing 747 rolls out

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Gamemaster Appreciation Day!
Happy Birthday Matthew H. Yarrows!

[Badstench]

White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits!

If you were born on October 1st, you share your birthday with:

Henry III (King of England 1216-72)
Yip Man (martial arts teacher)
Bonnie Parker (gangster - of Bonnie & Clyde infamy)
Walter Matthau (actor – The Odd Couple)
Jimmy Earl Carter (39th US President)
Albert Collins (blues musician)
Annie Leibovitz (photographer)
Randy Quaid (actor – Midnight Express)

You also share the same date with these events:

1847: Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
1867: Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," published
1869: Austria issues the world's first postcards.
1888: National Geographic magazine publishes for first time
1918: Arab forces under "Lawrence of Arabia" capture Damascus.
1931: The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
1962: Johnny Carson hosts his first Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests
1967: Pink Floyd's first US tour arrives in New York City
1971: Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Jimmy Carter!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 2nd, you share your birthdate with:

Richard III (King of England 1483-85)
Mahatma Ghandi (Indian politician/ pacifist)
Groucho Marx (comedian – The Marx Brothers)
Bud Abbot (comedian – Abbot & Costello)
Don McLean (singer/ songwriter – American Pie)
Sting (musician/ vocalist – Police)
Clive Barker (horror writer)

You also share the same day with these events:

1187: Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
1535: Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)
1836: Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years away, during which he formulated his “Origin of Species”)
1942: First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
1950: Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz first published
1959: "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV
1991: Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches
2004: American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Charlie Brown!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 3rd, you share your birthday with:

Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (Russian poet/writer)
James Alfred Wight Herriot (veterinarian)
Harvey Kurtzman (founding editor of MAD magazine)
Gore Vidal (author)
Chubby Checker (singer – The Twist)
Lindsay Buckingham (musician – Fleetwood Mac)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (musician/ guitarist extraordinaire)
Tommy Lee (drummer - Mötley Crüe)
Clive Owen (actor – King Arthur)
Gwen Stefani (singer/ songwriter)

You also share the same date with these events:

2003BC: The state of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao.
52BC: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.
42BC: First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins, Brutus and Cassius.
1264: Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1283: Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
1789: Washington proclaims first national Thanksgiving Day on November 26
1849: American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1863: Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1913: Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Gwen Stefani!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 4th, you share your birthday with:

Louis X the Stubborn (King of France 1314-16)
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (19th US President)
Pancho Villa (Mexican revolutionary)
Dick Tracy (comic strip crime-fighter)
Jackie Collins (author – The Stud, etc)
Susan Sarandon (actress – Thelma & Louise)
Armand Assante (actor – Unfaithfully Yours)
Alicia Silverstone (actress – Clueless)
Billydakid (Sryth gamer and forum member)

You also share the same date with these events:

1363: End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1537: The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed
1648: Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas first volunteer firemen
1854: Abraham Lincoln makes his first political speech at Illinois State Fair
1883: Orient Express makes its first run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1904: New York City subway begins operation, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks
1911: First public elevator goes into service at London's Earl's Court Metro Station
1927: Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore.
1983: Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph (633.2 mph) in jet-powered car
1985: Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.
2004: Space-Ship-One wins Ansari X Prize ($10 million) for private spaceflight.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Billydakid!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 5th, you share your birthday with:

Ray Kroc (founder of fast-food empire, MacDonalds)
Donald Pleasence (actor – Fantastic Voyage)
Steve Miller (musician/ singer – The Steve Miller Band)
Brian Johnson (lead vocalist – AC/DC)
Bob Geldof (musician – Boomtown Rats, and Humanist – Aid For Africa)
Michael Andretti (Indy-car racer, Auto Hall of Fame)
Kate Winslet (actress – Titanic, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1892: Raids by the Dalton Gang end in shoot-out in bank holdup at Coffeville, Kansas
1895: The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1916: World War 1; Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured
1945: Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers studios.
1962: Beatles release their first record, "Love Me Do"
1969: Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC
2000: Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Kate Winslet!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 6th, you share your birthday with:

King Wenceslaus III (of Bohemia)
Thor Heyerdahl (anthropologist/ explorer – Kon Tiki)
Robert Mitchum (actor – Ryan’s Daughter)
Britt Ekland (actress – Wicker Man)
Gerry Adams (Northern Ireland politician – Sinn Fein)
Kevin Cronin (vocalist – REO Speedwagon)
Stephanie Zimbalist (actress – Remington Steele)

You also share the same date with these events:

1781: Last battle of the American revolutionary war: Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown
1866: First train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1889: Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
1927: "Jazz Singer," first movie with a sound track, premieres
1928: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China
1951: Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
1961: JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1966: LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
1978: Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"


Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Stephanie Zimbalist!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 7th, you share your birthday with:

Desmond Tutu (Anglican archbishop of South Africa)
Clive James (TV presenter and writer)
Oliver North (US colonel involved in ‘Irangate’)
John Cougar Mellencamp (musician/ singer)
Vladimir Putin (Prime Minister of Russia)
Jayne Torvill (of skating duo, Torvill & Deane)
Simon Cowell (recording executive and American Idol judge)
Thom Yorke (vocalist – Radiohead)

You also share the same date with these events:

3761BC: The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar
1714: People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands
1806: Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1900: The term "orienteering" is first used for an event
1950: US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1959: Far side of Moon seen for first time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
1971: Disney World opens in Orlando
2001: The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Simon Cowell!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 8th, you share your birthday with:

Juan Peron (President of Argentina, husband of Eva Peron)
King Zog I (of Albania [shrug], but what a great name for an Ogre king!)
Frank Herbert (sci-fi author – Dune)
Paul Hogan (actor – Crocodile Dundee)
David Carradine (actor – Kung-Fu)
Rev. Jesse Jackson (clergyman/ politician)
Chevy Chase (comedian/ actor)
R. L Stine (Children’s book writer – Goosebumps)
Sigourney Weaver (actress – Alien, etc)
Matt Damon (actor – Bourne Identity, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1480: Standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which resulted in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde.
1604: Supernova "Kepler's nova" first sighted
1818: Padded gloves are used in boxing for the first time
1862: Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor
1962: North Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1967: Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1971: John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1980: Bob Marley collapses on stage
2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Sigourney Weaver!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 9th, you share your birthday with:

John Lennon (musician and song-writer extraordinaire – The Beatles)
John Entwistle (musician – Who)
Peter Tosh (reggae musician)
Jackson Browne (musician/ song-writer)
Sharon Osbourne (TV personality and wife of Ozzy Osbourne)
Guillermo del Toro (movie director)
Sean Ono-Lennon (son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono)

You also share the same date with these events:

1003: Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first European to reach America.
1870: Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree
1936: Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1946: First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1959: First telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane
1965: Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 and stays at that position for 4 weeks
1980: First consumer use of home banking by computer
1990: Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honouring John Lennon
1992: A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Jackson Browne!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 10th, you share your birthday with:

Henry Cavendish (chemist – discovered Hydrogen)
Guiseppe Verdi (composer)
Thelonius Monk (jazz musician/ composer)
Ed Wood (film maker)
Chris Tarrant (English TV presenter)
Greg Lake (musician – Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
Midge Ure (musician – Ultravox)
David Lee Roth (singer – Van Halen)

You also share the same date with these events:

1846: Neptune's moon, Triton, discovered by William Lassell
1892: Entire Hong Kong national cricket team die in shipwreck off Taiwan
1935: "Porgy & Bess," by George Gershwin, has its Broadway premiere
1954: In Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pull out
1957: President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware, restaurant
1970: Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1976: Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
1979: Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Chris Tarrant!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 11th, you share your birthday with:

Samuel Clarke (English philosopher)
Eleanor Roosevelt (US 1st Lady and Nobel peace prize recipient - posthumous)
Darryl Hall (musician/ song-writer – Hall & Oates)
David Morse (actor – The Green Mile, 12 Monkeys, etc)
Dawn French (comedienne/ actress – Vicar of Dibley)
Joan Cusack (actress – Adams Family Values, etc)
Mike Smith (musician – Limp Bizkit)

You also share the same date with these events:

1689: Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia
1868: Thomas Edison patents his first invention: electric voice machine
1945: Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
1975: Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham
1976: Mao Tse-Tung's widow, Jiang Qing, and "Gang of Four," arrested and charged with plotting a coup
1981: Unknown musician, Prince, opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
2000: The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Dawn French!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 12th, you share your birthday with:

Magnús Magnússon (Icelandic television presenter)
Luciano Pavarotti (operatic tenor)
Rick Parfitt (musician/ singer – Status Quo)
Hugh Jackman (actor – X-men, etc)
Nancy Ann Kerrigan (Olympic figure skater)
Martie Maguire (musician/ singer – Dixie Chicks)
Irina Pantaeva (supermodel)

You also share the same date with these events:

1216: King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
1492: Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia
1609: Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London
1792: Columbus Day is first celebrated
1823: Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
1901: Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White House"
1999: The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Hugh Jackman!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 13th, you share your birthday with:

Lillie Langtry (vaudeville actress)
Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister of England 1979-90)
Nana Mouskouri (Singer)
Paul Simon (singer/ song-writer – Simon & Garfunkel)
Marie Osmond (singer – Paper Roses)
Kelly Preston (actress)
Rob Schneider (actor/ comedian)
Sacha Baron Cohen (actor/ comedian – Borat)
Ian Thorpe (Australian swimmer – ‘Thorpedo’ – Olympic champion)

You also share the same date with these events:

54: Nero ascends to the Roman throne
1773: The Whirlpool Galaxy discovered by Charles Messier
1884: Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude
1963: "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium
1976: The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle obtained
1978: President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio
1983: First cellular network launched in the US (Chicago)
1987: First military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
1988: Shroud of Turin is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Kelly Preston!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 14th, you share your birthday with:

Dwight D Eisenhower (34th US President)
Roger Moore (actor – The Saint, James Bond, etc)
Ralph Lauren (fashion designer)
Cliff Richard (singer)
Justing Hayward (vocalist – Moody Blues)
Dan McCafferty (musician – Nazareth)
Steve Cram (English athlete – world record holder, mile)

You also share the same date with these events:

1066: Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
1322: Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence
1926: A A Milne's book "Winnie-the-Pooh" released
1964: Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize
1979: 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn (Germany) against nuclear energy
1980: Bob Marley's last concert
1994: Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Sir Cliff Richard!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 15th, you share your birthday with:

Virgil (Roman poet)
P G Wodehouse (writer)
Mario Puzo (novelist – The Godfather)
Penny Marshall (actress/ producer – Laverne & Shirley)
Chris De Burgh (singer – Lady In Red)
Tanya Roberts (actress – Sheena, Charlie’s Angels)
Sarah Fergusson (Duchess of York)

You also share the same date with these events:

1786: Earliest 32°F (0°C) recorded temp in NYC
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte exiled to Island of St Helena
1860: 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
1917: Mata Hari executed by firing squad for spying.
1924: President Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
1951: "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV
1985: Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
1993: Nelson Mandela awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Sarah Fergusson!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 16th, you share your birthday with:

Noah Webster (Webster’s Dictionary)
Oscar Wilde (writer – Sins of Dorian Gray)
David Ben-Gurion (first Prime Minister of Israel)
Nico (singer/ song-writer/ model)
Tim Robbins (actor – Shawshank Redemption, etc)
Flea (musician – Red Hot Chili Peppers)
John Mayer (musician/ singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

1847: Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published
1869: Hotel in Boston becomes first to have indoor plumbing
1964: China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
1972: Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up
1984: Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl
1987: Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
1992: 1,700th David Letterman Show

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Flea!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 17th, you share your birthday with:

John Paul I (263rd Roman Catholic Pope – 1978)
Arthur Miller (playwright – Death of a Salesman)
Rita Hayworth (actress)
Robert ‘Evel’ Knievel (stuntman/ dare-devil)
George Wendt (actor – played Norm in “Cheers”)
Margot Kidder (actress – played Lois Lane opposite Chris Reeves’ Superman)
Dolph Lundgren (actor – Masters of the Universe)
Eminem (rapper/ actor)

You also share the same date with these events:

539BC: King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
1660: Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged.
1814: London Beer Flood kills nine.
1931: Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
1933: Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
2003: The pinnacle is fitted to the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the world's tallest building.
2006: The United States population reaches 300 million.
2007: The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Eminem!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 18th, you share your birthday with:

Little Orphan Annie (comic strip character)
Chuck Berry (musician – Roll Over Beethoven)
George C Scott (actor - Patton)
Pam Dawber (actress – Mindy in “Mork & Mindy”)
Martina Navratilova (tennis player)
Jean Claude Van-Damme (actor – Kick-Boxer)
Zac Efron (actor – 17 Again)

You also share the same date with these events:

1776: In a New York bar decorated with bird’s tail, customer orders "cock tail"
1878: Edison makes electricity available for household usage
1890: John Owen is first man to run 100 yard dash in under 10 seconds
1929: Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1934: Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March
1967: Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
2007: After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Zac Efron!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 19th, you share your birthday with:

Frank Durbin (last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun - d.1999)
John le Carré (English novelist)
John Lithgow (actor – 3rd Rock From the Sun)
Keith Reid (musician – Procul Harum – writer of “A Whiter Shade of Pale”)
Evander Holyfield (boxing champion)
Shi Ting Wang (Taiwanese tennis star... but this month’s winner of ‘most unfortunate name’)
Amy Carter (peace activist – daughter of President Carter)

You also share the same date with these events:

202BC: Hannibal is defeated by the Romans under Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Zama.
1812: Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow
1856: James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h, 15m in Melbourne, Australia
1872: World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales, Australia
1951: President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1987: "Black Monday" on the New York stock exchange. Dow Jones closes down 508.32 points, 4½ times previous record, sparking the spectacular ruin of the 80’s ‘on paper’ wealthy.
2003: Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2005: Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Shi Ting Wang! (Ahahahahahahaha).

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 20th, you share your birthday with:

Christopher Wren (architect – designed many of London’s landmark buildings after the Great Fire of London, including St Paul’s Cathedral)
Thomas Hughs (author – Tom Brown’s School Days)
Bela Lugosi (actor – the original ‘Dracula’)
Mickey Mantle (baseball great)
Martin Landau (actor – Space 1999)
Tom Petty (musician/ song-writer)
Snoop Doggy Dog (rapper)

You also share the same date with these events:

1097: First crusaders arrive in Antioch, traditional landing place of the European armies.
1774: Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment
1818: 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada
1820: Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million
1873: P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth," opens in New York City
1955: Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings.
1956: 58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)
1967: A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
1973: Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Tom Petty!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 21st, you share your birthday with:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet – Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner)
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (creator of Nobel prizes, invented dynamite)
Dizzie Gillespie (jazz musician – credited with creating modern jazz)
Ursula K Le Guin (author – Earthsea Trilogy)
Manfred Mann (musician – The Mighty Quin)
Carrie Fisher (actress – Princess Leia in Star Wars)
Ken Watanabe (Japanese actor – The Last Samurai)

You also share the same date with these events:

1492: The Gregorian date recognised as the day Columbus discovers America (Oct 12 by the Julian calendar)
1520: Ferdinand Magellen is first to successfully negotiate the south passage and arrive at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean)
1805: Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet, dies in the process
1854: Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses sent to Crimea.
1959: Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City
1975: Elton John given a star in Hollywood
1997: Elton John's tribute to Diana, “Candle in the Wind”, breaks world distribution record

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Carrie Fisher!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 22nd, you share your birthday with:

Franz Liszt (composer/ piano virtuoso)
Christopher Lloyd (actor – Back to the Future)
Derek Jacobi (actor – I Claudius, Underworld 2, etc)
Jeff Goldblum (actor – the Fly, Jurassic park, etc)
Catherine Deneuve (actress – Hunger)
Toby Mac (singer/ songwriter)
Shaggy (Jamaican musician)
Mattman20 (Sryth gamer and forum member... a.k.a Ehrmlyn... currently attending to real life)

You also share the same date with these events:

1797: Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes first parachute jump (from a balloon)
1844: 7th Day Adventists wait for appearance of Jesus
1878: The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, England
1897: World's first car dealer opens in London
1934: Notorious bank robber, Pretty Boy Floyd, is shot and killed by FBI agents.
1960: Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali) wins first fight as professional boxer
1969: Paul McCartney denies rumours of his death
2008: India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Mattman20... wherever you are!

And as this day winds down, we bid farewell to the zodiac sign, Libra. Tomorrow, we greet our Scorpions with a prod and a poke of the funny bone.

[Badstench]

As i present this, it's midnight, my time... Scorpio is in effect.

YOUR STARS IN SRYTH
SCORPIO: October 23 – November 21
Element: Water
Symbol: Scorpion
Quality: Fixed
Rulers: Mars & Pluto

Scorpions are the “deep and meaningful” types... avoid them at all costs. Sometimes you’ll say something like, “Those goblins are being bothersome again”, and a Scorpion will want a detailed analysis on why and how this state of affairs came to exist.

There is no such thing as small talk when passing an innocent remark to a Scorpion. They are the analysts of the world who demand hard facts and irrefutable proof. It is no coincidence that the word ‘anal’ is part of ‘analyst’! They are very boorish!

People born under the sign of Scorpio make good adventurers; the necessity for keeping a cool head under trying conditions is paramount to keeping one’s skin intact, and making correct snap decisions based on learned behaviour is a prime requisite.

Most other adventurers will tell you that Scorpions can stick their prime requisites where the sun doesn’t shine. This is because Scorpions think they’re right all the time. As such, they tend to be over-powering, demanding, and possessive.

Rokmokkara is a Scorpion... need I say more?

It’s interesting to note that Scorpions are ruled by two planets, as if one isn’t good enough for them. Mars is red, which is the universal colour for ‘hot’. Pluto is renowned for being cold. This about sums up people who are born under the sign of Scorpio; when they’re hot, they’re hot, and when they’re not, they’re a frigid little ball of ice that no-one can be bothered with.

Scorpions and Money: Scorpions respect money. They recognise its value as a means to an end, though recognising what the end entails is not so clearly understood. Still, whatever it is, the presence of money is always a good thing, so they will ferret some away for the rainy day when it comes in handy. The rest will usually be spent on the pursuits of truth, higher learning, and bribes... because no matter what you may think, it’s the know-it-all’s that usually get themselves into sticky situations and drag everyone else down with them.

A Scorpions propensity for ‘shooting their mouths off’ in the belief they are always right results in the regularity of high legal bills.

Scorpions and Romance: Theoretically, Scorpions are passionate romantics. In practise, they suck! The confidence displayed by Scorpions lends them a misplaced air of authority that can be quite attractive to some, but once the spotlight has moved on and the audience has departed, it becomes obvious that they really only love themselves.

In relationships, Scorpions can be effusive and gushing toward their partner, but the volatile nature of their personalities will often result in fits of sulking and jealousy if they aren’t pandered to every now and again. In this respect, Scorpion lovers are like insecure teenagers.

Famous Scorpio Adventurers: Perhaps the most well known Scorpion in Sryth is Rokmokkara. If anyone doesn’t actually hate Rokmokkara, then they don’t like him very much. It doesn’t help when you have a name no-one can spell correctly. Regardless, Rokmokkara is well known as a bully, a braggart, and a complete arse. Rokmokkara would disagree with you... he wouldn’t be a Scorpion if he didn’t!

Also listed as Scorpions are: Doolipalally (Nov 2), Zephyr (Nov 5) and Young Ned (Nov 8)

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 23nd, you share your birthday with:

Isabella of Portugal (queen of Spain and empress of Germany - d. 1539)
Johnny Carson (show host – The Tonight show)
Pelé (Brazilian soccer great)
Michael Crichton (author – The Andromeda Strain)
Michael 'Wurzel' Burston (British musician – Motörhead)
Dwight Yoakam (country singer/ song-writer)
"Weird Al" Yankovic (parody singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

4004BC: Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher
42BC: Brutus (the assassin of Julius Caesar) is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide.
1941: Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1964: Time Magazine uses term "op art" for first time
1978: Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols) attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in New York City
1983: 14th New York Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59 (He’s a Kiwi dontcha know? – embarrassed New Zealand by making a spectacle of himself... he actually jumped up in the air and pumped his fist! How ordinary!)
2001: Apple releases the ipod!

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Weird Al Yankovic!

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If you were born on October 24th, you share your birthday with:

Sarah Josepha Hale (author – Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Sonny Terry (blues musician)
Bill Wyman (bassist for the Rolling Stones)
F Murray Abraham (actor – Amadeus, etc)
Jerry Edmonton (drummer for Steppenwolf)
Kevin Kline (actor – Dave, Big Chill, etc)
Roman Abramovich (Russian oil magnate)

You also share the same date with these events:

1857: World's first soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England
1926: Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1931: Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion
1946: A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1988: Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released
2003: Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
2008: "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Bill Wyman!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 25th, you share your birthday with:

James Beattie (poet/ philosopher)
Johann Straus (composer – waltz specialist)
Pablo Picasso (artist extraordinaire)
Marion Ross (actress – Marion in Happy Days)
Jon Anderson (vocalist – Yes)
Glen Tipton (guitarist – Judas Priest)
Austin Winkler (vocalist – Hinder)

You also share the same date with these events:

1760: George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1825: Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes & Atlantic Ocean
1854: Charge of the Light Brigade takes place at Balaklava during the Crimean War
1881: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Clanton boys engage in "Shootout at OK Corral"
1960: First electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City
2001: Windows XP first became available.
2007: The first Airbus A380 passenger flight begins service between Singapore and Sydney

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Jon Anderson!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 26th, you share your birthday with:

Leon Trotsky (Russian revolutionary)
Dylan Thomas (poet)
Felix the cat (cartoon character)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (politician)
Jaclyn Smith (actress – one of Charlie’s Angels)
Keith Urban (country singer)
Guy Sebastian (singer – winner Australian Idol)

You also share the same date with these events:

1366: Comet Tempel-Tuttle approaches 0.0229 astronomical units of Earth (which is pretty damn close in stellar measurements)
1492: Lead pencils first used
1861: Last day of the Pony Express with mail now being delivered via rail
1901: first use of a ‘getaway car’ in Paris after a store holdup
1940: The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1949: President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents
1950: Mother Teresa founds her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India
1970: "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Keith Urban!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 27th, you share your birthday with:

Captain James Cook (explorer – discovered Hawaii – claimed New Zealand & Australia for Great Britain)
Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of US)
Marlene Dietrich (German actress/ entertainer)
John Cleese (actor/ comedian – Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, etc)
Terry Anderson ( US journalist held hostage in Lebanon for 6 years)
Simon Le Bon (vocalist – Duran Duran)
Scott Weiland (singer – Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver)
Kelly Osbourne (TV personality, daughter of Ozzie)

You also share the same date with these events:

312: Constantine the Great receives his famous Vision of the Cross.
1492: Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain
1858: R.H Macy & Co opens first store on 6th Ave – New York City
1913: President Wilson says US will never attack another country
1938: DuPont announces its new synthetic fibre will be called "nylon"
1975: Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
1982: China announces its population at 1 billion

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday John Cleese!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 28th, you share your birthday with:

Eliphalet Remington (gunmaker – and interesting first name!)
Tokugawa Yoshinobu (Japan's last shogun)
Hank Marvin (musician – The Shadows)
Bill Gates (multi-millionnaire – Microsoft)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President of Iran)
Julia Roberts (actress – Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman, etc)
Ben Harper (musician)
Joaquin Leaf Phoenix (actor – Gladiator, Walking Tall, etc)
Kanzi (Gorilla – credited as being the most literate non-human)

You also share the same date with these events:

306: Marcus Aurelius Maxentius (as portrayed by Russel Crowe in ‘Gladiator’) becomes Roman Emperor. 6 years later, he is defeated by Constantine the Great).
1636: Harvard University founded
1886: First confetti parade celebrates the dedication of the Statue of Liberty.
1948: Flag of Israel adopted
1954: Ernest Hemmingway awarded Nobel prize for literature.
1962: Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending Cuban missile crisis
1997: NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as first women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Ben Harper!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 29th, you share your birthday with:

Edmund Halley (discoverer of Halley’s comet)
John Gotti (mafia head)
Richard Dreyfuss (actor – Mr Holland’s Opus)
Kate Jackson (actress – one of Charlie’s Angels)
Dan Castellaneta (voice actor – voice of Homer Simpson)
Randy Jackson (singer and American Idol judge)
Winona Ryder (actress – Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1618: Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1833: First US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1889: Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
1942: Alaska highway completed
1945: First ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented
1982: Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine"
1998: Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Winona Ryder!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 30th, you share your birthday with:

John Adams (2nd President of US)
Richard Sheridan (Irish playwright)
Charles Atlas (US bodybuilder)
Grace Slick (singer – Jefferson Airplane)
Henry Winkler (actor – the Fonz in Happy Days)
Kevin Pollack (actor/ comedian – The Usual Suspects, etc)
Diego Maradona (Argentine football great)

You also share the same date with these events:

1534: English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church
1862: Dr Richard Gatling patents machine gun
1938: Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
1957: Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1973: The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia for the first time.
1988: NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for first time
1990: England-France complete "Chunnel"

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Kevin Pollack!

[Badstench]

If you were born on October 31st, you share your birthday with:

John Keats (English poet)
Chiang Kai-shek (last president of nationalist China)
Dick Francis (writer – detective novels)
Dan Rather (television journalist)
David Ogden Stiers (actor – ‘Winchester’ in M*A*S*H)
John Candy (actor/ comedian – Uncle Buck)
Val Kilmer (actor – The Saint, Heat, etc)
Peter Jackson (movie director – Lord of the Rings, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

445BC: Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (Nehemiah 9:1)
834: First All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honour the saints
1541: Michelangelo completes painting "Last Judgement" in the Sistene Chapel
1863: The Maori Wars resume as British forces begin their Invasion of the Waikato in New Zealand
1892: Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1968: President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1975: Bob Geldof makes his first appearance with Boomtown Rats
1999: Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Peter Jackson! (He’s a Kiwi dontchaknow?)

[Badstench]

White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits

If you were born on November 1st, you share your birthday with:

Henry IV (German Emperor)
Gary Player (golfing great)
Keith Emerson (musician – Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
Jim Steinman (song-writer – Bat Out of Hell)
Lyle Lovatt (country & western singer/ actor)
Rick Allen (one-armed drummer with Def Leppard)
Toni Collette (actress – Muriel’s Wedding, The Sixth Sense, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1604: William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented
1611: William Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" first presented
1834: First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1859: The Cape Lookout lighthouse, North Carolina, is lit for the first time
1889: North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states
1968: Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1995: William Shakespeare’s “Tempest" opens at Broadhurst Theatre, New York, for 71 performances

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Toni Collette!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 2nd, you share your birthday with:

Daniel Boone (frontiersman and explorer)
Marie Antoinette (Queen of France – flippantly suggested of the French peasantry: “Let them eat cake”.
Burt Lancaster (actor – From Here to Eternity)
Stefanie Powers (actress – Hart to Hart)
K.D Lang (musician/ singer)
Ricky Martin (singer/ actor)
Nelly (rapper)
Doolipalally (Sryth gamer and honoured forum member)

You also share the same date with these events:

1879: In a 6-day distance footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse by only 15km (900 to 885 km)
1904: British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing
1942: After a battle lasting 11 days, Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (G) in battle of El Alamein, Egypt (WW II)
1953: Pakistan becomes Islamic republic
1957: The Levelland UFO Case in Texas generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
1976: Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for president
2000: The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Doolipalally!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 3rd, you share your birthday with:

John Montague (4th Earl of Sandwich – invented the term, ‘sandwich’)
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Australian writer – this month’s winner of the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ award)
Charles Bronson (actor – The Magnificent Seven, etc)
Lulu (singer/ actress – To Sir With love, etc)
Roseanne (comedienne/ actress)
Adam Ant (musician – Ant Music)
Dylan Moran (Irish comedian/ actor)

You also share the same date with these events:

1679: Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet
1783: John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows. This did not make him happy.
1911: Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1971: "Play Misty For Me" premieres
1979: 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy in Teheran, Iran
1991: Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps)
1994: Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Roseanne!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 4th, you share your birthday with:

Augustus Montague Toplady (author of “Rock of Ages”)
Walter Cronkite (news anchor)
Alfred Heineken (brewer – Heineken)
Loretta Swit (actress – M*A*S*H)
Ralph Macchio (actor – Karate Kid, etc)
Matthew McConaughey (actor – Contact, Sahara, etc)
Sean "Diddy" Combs (rapper)
dejrfan (Sryth gamer and forum member)

You also share the same date with these events:

1841: First wagon train arrives in California
1879: James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon
1922: Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1973: The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters.
1980: Ronald Reagan (R) defeats Pres Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
1994: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
2003: The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
2008: Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Ralph Macchio!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 5th, you share your birthday with:

Roy Rogers (cowboy – Happy Trails)
Vivian Leigh (actress – Gone With the Wind)
Lester Piggot (jockey – prolific winner)
Art Garfunkel (singer/ songwriter – The Sounds of Silence)
Bryan Adams (singer – Boys of Summer)
Tatum O’Neal (actress – Paper Moon)
Johnny Greenwood (musician – Radiohead)
Zephyr (Sryth gamer and forum member)

You also share the same date with these events:

1492: American Indians introduce maize (corn) to Christopher Columbus
1605: The Gunpowder Plot is uncovered in which the English parliament narrowly avoids being blown up. Guy Fawkes arrested. This date has been commemorated by Commonwealth countries as Guy Fawkes day ever since.
1979: Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"
1987: Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
2006: Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Zephyr!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 6th, you share your birthday with:

Suleiman the Magnificent (Sultan of Ottoman Empire)
Sally Field (actress – Gidget, The Flying Nun, etc)
Glen Frey (vocalist – Eagles)
Maria Shriver (newscaster – Sunday Today – wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Lori Singer (actress – Fame, Footloose, etc)
Corey Glover (musician – Living Colour)
Ethan Hawke (actor – Gattaca, Dead Poets Society, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1528: Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas
1865: American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1917: Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
1928: Colonel Jacob Schick patents first electric razor
1975: First appearance by The Sex Pistols
1991: Russian president Boris Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1999: Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Maria Shriver!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 7th, you share your birthday with:

Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie (discovered radium)
Heinrich Himmler (Nazi SS head. Not a historically nice person)
Billy Graham (Baptist evangelist)
Al Hirt (Jazz musician – acclaimed as the greatest horn musician)
Joni Mitchell (singer)
Nic Guilder (singer – one-hit-wonder: Hot Child in the City)
Apart from them, November 7 was full of composers and sports oriented people. I wouldn’t have included Mr Himmler, but I was reaching for straws. Like, Anushka Shetty, who is reported to be an actress of Tollywood fame. I’ve heard of Hollywood and Bollywood, but Tollywood?

You also share the same date with these events:

1492: The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1872: Mary Celeste sets sails from New York to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
1910: The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1973: New Jersey becomes first state to allow girls into little league
2000: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2002: Iran bans advertising of United States products.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Joni Mitchell!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 8th, you share your birthday with:

Vlad III – The Impaler (Wallachian prince)
Milton Bradley (game manufacturer)
Margaret Mitchell (author – Gone With the Wind)
Katherine Hepburn (actress – African Queen, On Golden Pond, etc)
Christiaan Barnard (surgeon – performed world’s first heart transplant)
Rikie Lee Jones (singer – Chuck E’s in Love)
Gordon Ramsay (chef – Hell’s Kitchen)
Bret Lee (Australian cricketing fast bowler – very, very fast)
Young Ned (Sryth gamer and respected forum member)

You also share the same date with these events:

1519: First meeting of Montezuma and Hernando Cortes in Mexico
1731: In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens first US library
1789: Bourbon Whiskey first distilled from corn by Elijah Craig, Kentucky.
1793: Louvre in Paris opens
1889: Montana admitted as 41st state
1950: First air battle involving jet planes occurs during Korean war.
1965: "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV
1974: British Lord Lucan disappears

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Young Ned!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 9th, you share your birthday with:

Edward VII (King of England – 1901-10)
Choi Hong Hai (founder and master of martial art, Taekwon-Do)
Thomas Ferebee (bombardier who controlled the bomb dropped on Hiroshima)
Mary Travers (singer of trio, Peter, Paul and Mary)
Tom Fogerty (singer – Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Lou Ferigno (The original ‘Incredible Hulk’)
Cheyenne Pyle (youngest recipient of a heart transplant: 90 minutes old)

You also share the same date with these events:

1858: First performance of New York symphony orchestra
1872: The great Boston fire destroys 1000 buildings
1888: Jack the Ripper's 5th and last known victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found
1944: Red Cross wins Nobel Peace prize
1980: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1985: Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion
1985: Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba (for our American friends, this needs explaining. Richard Hadlee is touted as one of the all-time cricket bowling greats. Taking 9-52 is next to proclaiming him as ‘Godlike’. The Gabba is the name of an Australian cricket stadium... and last, but not least... he’s a Kiwi dontchaknow?)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Cheyenne Pyle!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 10th, you share your birthdate with:

Musa al-Kazim (Shia Imam)
Martin Luther (clergyman – founded Protestantism)
Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov (invented anti-jamming mechanism first used on rifles to which he gave his name: The Kalashnikov)
Screaming Lord Sutch (vocalist/ singer)
Tim Rice (song-writer – One Night in Bangkok, Chess, etc)
Greg Lake (bassist/ singer – Emerson , Lake & Palmer)
Chris Joyce (musician – Simply Red)

You also share the same day with these events:

1619: René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1775: Congress forms US Marine Corps
1801: Kentucky outlaws duelling
1871: In Africa, Stanley uses the immortalized phrase, “Dr Livingstone, I presume?”
1885: World’s first motorcycle unveiled – the Daimler motorcycle
1928: Hirohito ascends to throne as Emperor of Japan
1969: "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
1989: Demolishing of the Berlin Wall begins

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Sesame Street!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 11th, you share your birthdate with:

Henry IV (Holy Roman emperor)
George S. Patton (US General – ‘Old Blood & Guts’)
Charles “Lucky” Luciano (mafia gangster)
Robert Ryan (actor – Dirty Dozen, The Longest Day,)
Calista Flokhart (actress – Ally McBeal)
Jeff Buckley (musician)
Leonardo DiCaprio (actor – Titanic, The Beach, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1634: The Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
1880: Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
1918: Armistice Day. Germany surrenders ending WW I
1923: Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph
1926: U.S. Route 66 is established.
1969: Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkenness
1994: Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
2004: New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Leonardo DiCaprio!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 12th, you share your birthdate with:

Bahá'u'lláh (Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith)
DeWitt Wallace (publisher – founded Readers Digest)
Grace Kelly (actress and Princess of Monaco)
Errol Browne (singer – Hot Chocolate
Neil Young (musician – Heart of Gold, Rust Never Sleeps, etc)
David Schwimmer (actor – Ross from ‘Friends’)
Anne Hathaway (actress – Devil Wears Prada, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1847: Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1859: Jules Leotard performs first Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
1910: First movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1912: Explorer/ adventurer, Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica
1955: Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II"
1998: Then Vice President of the United States, Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
2003: With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Neil Young!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 13th, you share your birthdate with:

Robert Louis Stephenson (author – Treasure Island)
Joe Mantegna (actor – House of Games, Weeds, ect0
Whoopi Goldberg (actress – Ghost, Sister Act, etc)
Andy “The Clobberer” Ranken (drummer – The Pogues)
Steve Zahn (actor)
Noah Hathaway (actor – Troll, The Neverending Story)
Nikolai Fraiture (bassist – Strokes)

You also share the same day with these events:

1553: English Lady Jane Grey accused of high treason
1789: Ben Franklin writes "Nothing is certain but death and taxes"
1841: James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
1895: First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1938: America's first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified
1971: Mariner 9 is first man-made object to orbit another planet (Mars)
1986: US president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
1990: The world wide web begins operating

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Whoopi Goldberg!

Today is a Black Friday. Here are some useless bits of information about Black Friday:
1: There have been three Black Fridays in 2009. The next time this occurs is in 2012.
2: The fear of Friday 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia.
3: There is no documented evidence of a superstition surrounding Friday 13th before the nineteenth century. It is believed to be an amalgamation of superstitions surrounding the number 13 and Friday (both bear ‘bad luck’ connotations).
4: Black Sabbath released their self-titled album on a Black Friday
5: The movie, ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ was purposefully released on a Black Friday.
6: So were four of the twelve movies in the ‘Friday the 13th’ series.

Have a nice day! :o

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 14th, you share your birthday with:

Omobono Stradivari (violin maker – not the famous one; that was Omobono’s dad)
Johann van Beethoven (composer – not the famous one; that was his son)
Claude Monet (impressionist artist – the famous one)
McLean Stevenson (actor – M*A*S*H)
Sandahl Bergman (actress – Conan the Barbarian)
Yanni (new age musician)
Condaleeza Rice (US Secretary of State)

You also share the same date with these events:

1792: Captain George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Fransisco Bay
1851: "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published
1889: New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours
1908: Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light
1960: Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1
1965: US govt sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
1991: Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premieres on FOX TV
1993: Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Condaleeza Rice!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 15th, you share your birthday with:

William Pitt the Elder (UK Prime Minister – known as the ‘Great Commoner’)
Erwin Rommel (German Fieldmarshall, WW2)
Edward Asner (actor – Lou Grant)
Roger Donaldson (movie director - Cocktail, Cadillac Man, etc)
Tilda Swinton (actress – The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Johnny Lee Miller (actor – Trainspotting)
Chad Kroeger (musician – Nickelback)

You also share the same date with these events:

1920: League of Nations holds first meeting, in Geneva
1954: First regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1956: Elvis Presley's first film "Love Me Tender" premieres
1969: Wendy's Hamburgers opens
1988: PLO proclaims State of Palestine and recognizes Israeli existence
1990: Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album
1995: Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Chad Kroeger!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 16th, you share your birthdate with:

Tiberius (Roman Emperor)
Griff Rhys Jones (actor/ comedian – Morons From Outer Space)
Marg Helgenberger (actress – China Beach, CSIS, etc)
Corey Pavin (US masters winner)
Frank Bruno (Boxing champion)
Lisa Bonet (actress – Cosby Show, Angel Heart, etc)
Bruce Irons (US surfer on the world professional circuit)

You also share the same day with these events:

1811: Earthquake in Missouri causes the Mississippi River to flow backwards
1835: Charles Darwin’s voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1938: LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann
1939: Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1955: In New Zealand, the first jet boat sets the fastest ever water speed record
1974: First intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
2000: Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Bruce Irons!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 17th, you share your birthdate with:

Atahualpa (last emperor of the Incas)
Rock Hudson (actor – A Farewell To Arms, etc)
Gordon Lightfoot (singer – Sundown)
Martin Scorcese (movie director – Last Temptation of Christ, etc)
Danny DeVito (actor – Taxi, Ruthless people, etc)
Sophie Marceau (actress – Braveheart, etc)
Zoe Bell (stuntwoman/ actress – Deathproof)

You also share the same day with these events:

1558: Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
1855: David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1869: Suez Canal opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas
1970: Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1973: President Nixon says the words "I am not a crook" on live television.
1977: Miss UK wears $9,500 platinum bikini during Miss World contest
2006: Roentgenium is officially announced the 111th element

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Zoe Bell!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 18th, you share your birthday with:

Mickey Mouse (first appeared as a cartoon strip on this date)
David Hemmings (actor – Blow-Up, etc)
Linda Evans (actress – Dynasty)
Susan Sullivan (actress – Greg & Dharma)
Katey Sagal (actress – Married With Children [Peggy Bundy])
Kim Wilde (singer – one hit wonder – Kids in America)
Owen Wilson (actor – Wedding Crashers, Night at the Museum, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1307: William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1497: Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope
1820: Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
1936: The main span of the Golden Gate Bridge is joined
1964: J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1993: Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkenness
1994: "Star Trek VII - Generations," premieres

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 19th, you share your birthday with:

Charles I (King of England, 1625-49)
Indira Gandhi (Indian Prime Minister)
Larry King (radio/ TV host)
Calvin Klein (fashion designer)
Meg Ryan (actress – When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got Mail, etc)
Jodie Foster (actress – Contact, Silence of the Lambs, etc)
The McCaughey septuplets (born in Iowa, 1997)

You also share the same date with these events:

1493: Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico
1805: Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, being the first European Americans to cross the continent
1850: Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate
1863: Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address; "4 score and 7 years..."
1928: First issue of Time magazine is released, with Japan’s Emperor Hirohito on the cover
1969: Apollo 12's Conrad and Bean become 3rd and 4th humans to step foot on the Moon
1989: US beats Trinidad, 1-0, qualifying for 1990 world soccer cup
1997: In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2007.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Meg Ryan!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 20th, you share your birthdate with:

Bassui Tokusho (founder of Zen philosophy)
Edwin Hubble (astronomer after whom the Hubble Telescope is named)
Dick Clark (TV host – American Bandstand, etc)
Duane Allman (musician/ guitar great
Veronica Hamel (actress – Hill St Blues)
Joe Walsh (musician – Rocky Mountain Way)
Bo Derek (actress – 10, Tarzan of the Apes)

You also share the same day with these events:

1873: Rival cities of Buda and Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
1947: Princess Elizabeth and Duke Phillip Mountbatten marry.
1959: UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
1969: The great Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1983: 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "The Day After," about nuclear war
1984: McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger
1985: Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Joe Walsh!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 21st, you share your birthday with:

Voltaire (writer/ philosopher)
Dr John (musician)
Tweety Bird (cartoon character)
Goldie Hawn (actress – Private Benjamin)
Deborah Shelton (actress – Dallas, Body Double, etc)
Bjork (singer/ songwriter)
David “The Tuaman” Tua (heavyweight boxing contender)

You also share the same date with these events:

164BC: Judas Maccabaeus restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1791: Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.
1871: The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot
1942: Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties"
1980: Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode airs and gets a 53.3 rating
1981: Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 and stays for 10 weeks
1989: Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Tweety Bird!

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 22nd, you share your birthday with:

Tarzan of the Apes (fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
Charles de Gaulle (French general and president)
Terry Gilliam (movie director – 12 Monkeys, Brazil, etc, and member of the Monty Python crew)
Billy Jean King (tennis player)
Jamie Lee Curtis (actress – True Lies, Anything But Love, etc)
Boris Becker (tennis player)
Scarlett Johansson (actress – The Island, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1718: Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1906: International Radio Telecommunications Company adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1928: "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, first performed publicly
1934: "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" first heard on Eddie Cantor's show
1942: Hitler orders Rommel’s Afrika Corps to fight to the last man
1950: 7,021 see lowest NBA score – Fort Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18
1968: First interracial TV kiss (Star Trek: Captain Kirk and Uhura, boldly going where... blah blah)
1977: First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.
1987: Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
1995: Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.


Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Terry Gilliam!

And today, we bid farewell to the ascendency of Scorpio, which means that tomorrow, we get to poke fun at those born under a new astrological sign. Muahahahaha!

[Badstench]

YOUR STARS IN SRYTH
SAGITTARIUS: November 23 – December 22
Element: Fire
Symbol: Archer/ Centaur
Quality: Mutable
Ruler: Jupiter

The archer is often depicted as a half man/ half horse, and if reality is any judge to go by, then the horse half is superior to the man half... because Sagittarians tend to canter to possibilities, trot to suppositions, jump to conclusions and gallop to suggestions.

What this means in plain Sryth-Speak is... Sagittarians never commit themselves, never confirm an opinion and never take a stand. If they did any of these things, God forbid they might be proven wrong someday, because what all Sagittarians really fear is the possibility of being humiliated.

In this respect, many Sagittarians hide themselves behind a happy personae and a cheesy grin.

And this is why cosmologists, astrologists and horoscopists erroneously think that Sagittarians are a positive bunch of people. In the words of that infamous goblin Shaman, Henrietta Withaboogeruphisnose, “If I hear another Saggitarian wish me well, I’ll club his man half in the head, then shoot the horse! (Admittedly, that particular goblin shaman was an Aquarius... go figure!)

But the fact remains... outwardly, Sagittarians seem to be happy with their lot, and they have an uncanny ability of being able to spread happiness around. Sagittarians are governed by Jupiter. Another name for Jupiter is Jove. The word ‘jovial’ is derived from Jove. If Sagittarians were governed by Uranus, I bet they wouldn’t be nearly so happy!

Sagittarians and Money: money is not so much a means to an end, but an end to the means, and the means is usually something of a frivolous nature. This is a segue into explaining why Sagittarians are hopeless when it comes to money. Money is meant to be spent, not saved... and if it can be spent quickly, then that’s even better.

Varsil Demonsoul is a Sagittarius... so is Judge Fury, and that’s why it’s dangerous to sit at their table in the Adventurers Collective, because your money will be viewed as being their money as well.

Sagittarians and Romance: Another fact about Jupiter is that it’s the largest planet in the solar system and this correlates to the size of a Sagittarian heart. Sagittarians have big hearts, which they like to share with friends and unsuspecting strangers alike. The problem with having a big heart is that they can bleed profusely. Partners of Sagittarians are often heard bemoaning the fact that they feel smothered in their relationships.

Sagittarian women make excellent mothers, but Sagittarian men make poor fathers. Sagittarians usually become actors or, at the very least, poets and writers.

Famous Sagittarians in Sryth: There are very many of these, and most of them can be found lying in a gutter in the early hours of the morning after Vurii has thrown them out of her bar. She’s got their money... what does she care where they sleep?

Apparently, the Glowing goblin is Sagittarian, which explains why he’s grinning all the time.

Other Sagittarians include Badstench (Nov 25) and Mr Black (Dec 11),

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 23rd, you share your birthday with:

William H Bonney (outlaw – aka Billy the Kid)
Boris Karloff (actor – Frankenstein, etc)
Harpo Marx (comedian – The Marx Brothers)
Franco Nero (actor – Painted Lady)
David Rappaport (little actor – Wizard, Time Bandits)
Kapila Wijegunewardene (Sri Lankan cricketer and this months winner of most unpronounceable name)
Myley Syrus (singer/ actress)

You also share the same date with these events:

1783: Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
1869: In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.
1936: The first edition of Life magazine is published.
1963: "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England
1964: Vatican abolishes Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy
1979: Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is released and sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1991: A day before he dies, Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS
2005: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Doctor Who! (It's just a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey sort of thing)

[Badstench]

If you were born on November 24th, you share your birthday with:

William Webb Ellis (credited with the invention of the game called “rugby”. To this day, he is immortalized by his name adorning the world rugby trophy)
Carlo Lorenzinni (author – Pinnochio)
Bram Stoker (author – Dracula)
Frances Hodgson Burnett (author – My Secret Garden)
Walter Griffin (designer of the Australian Capital city, Canberra... the most architecturally boring city in the world!)
Dale Carnegie (author – How to Win Friends and Influence people)
... a side note; a lot of authors named in this set... Saggitarians! Pfft!
Pete Best (The almost Beatle... quit to get a real life... stupid bugger. Was replaced by Ringo Star)
Ian Botham (England cricket great)

You also share the same date with these events:

1859: Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
1948: Ireland votes for independence from UK
1954: President’s plane, Airforce One, is christened
1966: The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band"
2009: Preparations begin for Badstench’s mid-life crisis, starting with the purchase of a lot of alcohol... and this will culminate in a week away to a Pacific island. Doolipallally will be filling in while I’m gone, so you should see some entries that don’t rattle on about rugby, cricket or Kiwi’s, dontchaknow?

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Rugby! (of course, we all know what became of that... New Zealand All Blacks became the world champions and have only relinquished the title once... by those sneaky French! And the South Africans did it, but only because they had an Australian referee controlling the game, so it doesn’t count!)

And now... coming to you live from Russia, it's over to Doolipallaly!

See you later!

[Doolipalally]

(Now I know what stand-in DJs feel like. Well, hopefully it'll be service as more or less usual till BS returns from his junketing. Comments and critiques all welcome!)

If you were born on November 25th, you share your birthday with:

Franz Xaver Gruber (composer of the carol 'Silent Night')
Andrew Carnegie (industrialist and philanthropist)
Joe DiMaggio (baseball legend)
Ricardo Montalbán (actor - The Wrath of Khan)
Poul Anderson (science fiction author)

and of course

Badstench (author, highly respected forum contributor and a legend in his own lunchtime :D)


You also share the same date with these events:


1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
1715 - First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1783 - Britain evacuates New York City, their last military position in the US
1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom (had to put that one in for Stenchy!)
1949 - "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears in the US music charts
1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas' in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.


Today’s special shout-out goes to:

(drum roll...)

Happy Birthday Badstench! Hope it's one hell of a party!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on November 26th, you share your birthday with:

John Harvard (founder of Harvard University)
William Cowper (English poet who wrote the lines 'God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform')
Bat Masterson (gambler, gunfighter, journalist and lawman)
Bill Wilson (co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous)
Charles M. Schulz (creator of 'Peanuts')
Tina Turner ("The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll")


You also share the same date with these events:


1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
1956 - "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
1983 – Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
2003 – Concorde makes its final flight


Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Tina Turner!

(Hard to believe you're the same age as my dad...)

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on November 27th, you share your birthday with:

Anders Celsius (Swedish astronomer, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale)
Increase Sumner (fifth Governor of Massachusetts, here mainly because I like his name)
Alexander Dubček (Slovak politician, led the attempt to reform Czech communism in the 'Prague Spring')
Ernie Wise (English comedian, half of Morecambe & Wise)
Bruce Lee (actor and martial artist)
Jimi Hendrix (legendary guitarist)


You also share the same date with these events:

1582 - William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
1807 - The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops
1826 - English chemist John Walker accidentally invents the friction match
1870 - The New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1967 - The Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour" in the US
1970 - Pope Paul VI is wounded in the chest during a visit to the Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest


Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Jimi Hendrix. In memoriam.

[Doolipalally]

(Thanks for the encouragement, YN :))

If you were born on November 28th, you share your birthday with:

William Blake (British mystical poet and painter)
Friedrich Engels (German philosopher)
Randy Newman (American singer/songwriter & composer, 'Short People', music for 'Toy Story'
Joe Dante (film director, 'Gremlins')
Ed Harris (actor, 'The Rock', 'Apollo 13')
Alfonso Cuarón (Mexican film director, 'Harry Potter', 'Children of Men')
Martin Clunes (British actor, 'Men Behaving Badly')



You also share the same date with these events:

1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses, signalling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1843 – Ka Lā Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
1922 - Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gives the first official skywriting exhibition over New York City. Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called
1968 - John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession
1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.


Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Ed Harris!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on November 29th, you share your birthday with:

Louisa May Alcott ('Little Women', 'nuff said)
Busby Berkeley, (film director and choreographer, known for arranging dancers in geometric patterns)
Jacques Chirac (former President of France)
Garry Shandling (comedian)
Don Cheadle, actor (Ocean's Eleven, Hotel Rwanda, Crash)
Simon Amstell (British comedian and television presenter)


You also share the same date with these events:

1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1897 - The first ever motorcycle race takes place in Surrey, England.
1910 – The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1929 – U.S. aviator Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
1972 - Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari, releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game, in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.


Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Don Cheadle!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on November 30th, you share your birthday with:

Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn)
Winston Churchill (Britain's PM)
Ridley Scott (director 'Alien', 'Blade Runner', 'Gladiator')
Mandy Patinkin (actor and singer, 'Chicago Hope', 'The Princess Bride')
Billy Idol (British rock musician, 'White Wedding')
Ben Stiller (actor, 'Zoolander')
Elisha Cuthbert (actress, gets kidnapped a lot in '24')


You also share the same date with these events:

St Andrew's Day - bank holiday in Scotland, where St Andrew is the patron saint
1786 – Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. For this, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
1886 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1974 – Lucy (Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.


Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Ridley Scott!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on December 1st, you share your birthday with:

Marie Tussaud ('Madame Tussaud', creator of waxworks)
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russian mathematician and inspiration for Tom Lehrer)
Woody Allen (film director and actor)
Richard Pryor (actor and comedian)
Bette Midler (actress and singer)


You also share the same date with these events:

World AIDS Day
1783 - Jacques Charles and Nicolas Robert make the first manned hydrogen balloon flight, launching from the Tuileries gardens in Paris
1887 - Sherlock Holmes makes his debut, with the publication of 'A Study in Scarlet'.
1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first woman to take her seat as a Member of Parliament in the UK.
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.

Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Woody Allen!

[Doolipalally]

Thanks, Oldschool. I'm happier now I know! :)

If you were born on December 2nd, you share your birthday with:

Maria Callas (opera diva)
Lucy Liu (actress, 'Charlie's Angels')
Monica Seles (tennis player)
Nelly Furtado (singer/songwriter)
Britney Spears ('nuff said. No, really.)


You also share the same date with these events:

1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French
1901 - King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades
1939 - New York's La Guardia Airport opens
1974 - Baseball manufacturers switch from using horsehide to cowhide.
1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islamic country.
1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.



Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Nelly Furtado!

[Doolipalally]

(Sorry folks, you're getting two days at once today. I spent yesterday at home swearing at my laptop trying to restore my internet connection after it died on me the previous evening. Hopefully normal service can now be resumed!)

If you were born on December 3rd, you share your birthday with:

Joseph Conrad (author, 'Heart of 'Darkness')
Nino Rota (composer, wrote the music for 'The Godfather')
Ozzy Osbourne (singer and TV personality)
Daryl Hannah (actress, 'Blade Runner', 'Splash')
Julianne Moore (actress, 'Hannibal', 'Far From Heaven')
Brendan Fraser (actor, 'The Mummy')

You also share the same date with these events:


1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
1976 – An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.

Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Ozzy Osbourne!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on December 4th, you share your birthday with:

General Franco (Spanish dictator)
Jeff Bridges (actor, 'The Fabulous Baker Boys', 'Iron Man')
Pamela Stephenson (actress, comedian, and clinical psychologist)
Marisa Tomei (actress, 'Wild Hogs', 'The Wrestler')
Jay-Z (rapper. The name gives it away.)

You also share the same date with these events:

1872 – The crewless American ship 'Mary Celeste' is found by the British brig 'Dei Gratia'.
1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida.
1961 - Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down. It's there for 47 days till someone notices.
1971 – The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".
1976 - Elizabeth Taylor gets married for the 7th time

Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Jeff Bridges!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on December 5th, you share your birthday with:


George Armstrong Custer (General)
Clyde Cessna (aeroplane manufacturer)
Walt Disney (I blame the mouse)
Otto Preminger (film director, 'Anatomy of a Murdere')
Little Richard (rock 'n' roll singer and pianist)
José Carreras (one of the Three Tenors)
Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards (appealingly terrible British Olympic ski jumper)
Amy Acker (actress, Fred in 'Angel')


You also share the same date with these events:


1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

1776 – In the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, students from the College of William and Mary meet for the first time founding Phi Beta Kappa, the first scholastic fraternity in the United States.

1929 - The first US nudist organization, the American League for Physical Culture, is founded by German Kurt Barthel in New York City.

1974 - The last episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" is shown on the BBC.

2008 – Human remains previously found in 1991 are finally identified by Russian and American scientists as those of Tsar Nicholas II.



Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Eddie the Eagle!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on December 6th, you share your birthday with:

Ira Gershwin (lyricist, wrote with brother George)
Agnes Moorehead (actress, Endora in 'Bewitched')
Dave Brubeck (jazz pianist and composer)
Shekhar Kapur (filmmaker, 'Bandit Queen', 'Elizabeth')
Tom Hulce (actor, 'Amadeus')
Nick Park (filmmaker and animator, 'Wallace and Gromit', 'Chicken Run')


You also share the same date with these events:

1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army begins to retreat towards Scotland
1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
1947 – The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Nick Park!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on December 7th, you share your birthday with:

Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland
Willa Cather (author, 'My Antonia')
Eli Wallach (actor, 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly')
Yekaterina Budanova (Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces)
Tom Waits (singer-songwriter, composer, and actor)
Nicole Appleton (singer, All Saints)
Jennifer Carpenter (actress, the sister in 'Dexter')


You also share the same date with these events:

43 BC – Roman orator and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the US Constitution.
1934 - Wiley Post discovers the jet stream
1963 – Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.

Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Tom Waits!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on December 8th, you share your birthday with:

Mary, Queen of Scots
James Thurber (humorist and cartoonist)
Sammy Davis Jr. (actor, singer and Rat Pack member)
Bill Bryson (travel writer, also great on the English language in the UK and US)
Kim Basinger (actress, 'Batman', 'LA Confidential')
Teri Hatcher (actress, 'Desperate Housewives')
Dominic Monaghan (actor, LoTR, 'Lost')

You also share the same date with these events:

1660 – Margaret Hughes becomes the first professional actress to appear on an English public stage, playing the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
1854 – Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
1874 - Jesse James' gang steals $30,000 dollars from a train in Muncie, Kansas.
1926 - Crime novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears from her home, reappearing eleven days later in a hotel in Yorkshire, supposedly with amnesia.
1991 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.


Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Dominic Monaghan!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on December 9th, you share your birthday with:

John Milton (poet, 'Paradise Lost')
Clarence Birdseye (frozen food manufacturer)
Dame Judi Dench (actress, M in Bond films, 'Mrs Brown', 'Notres on a Scandal')
Neil Innes (singer/songwriter, Bonzo Dog Band, The Rutles)
John Malkovich (actor, 'Dangerous Liaisons', 'Con Air', 'Being...')
Felicity Huffman (actress, 'Desperate Housewives', 'Transamerica')

You also share the same date with these events:

1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec. (anyone else now got that song in their head? I wanted to share the misery :))
1854 - Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," is published.
1960 – The first episode of Britain's longest running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast.
1968 – NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.

Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Judi Dench!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on December 10th, you share your birthday with:

Emily Dickinson (poet)
Melvil Dewey (librarian and inventor of the Dewey Decimal System)
Michael Clarke Duncan (actor, 'The Green Mile')
Paul Hardcastle (synth composer, '19', 'The Wizard')
Kenneth Branagh (actor and director, 'Henry V', 'Dead Again', 'Harry Potter')
Sarah Chang (violin virtuoso)


You also share the same date with these events:

1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
1868 – The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded, on the anniversary of Nobel's death. All future Nobel Prizes are awarded on the same date.
1936 – British Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication so that he can marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
1948 – The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.


Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday Kenneth Branagh!

[Doolipalally]

If you were born on December 11th, you share your birthday with:

Hector Berlioz (composer, 'Symphonie fantastique')
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (writer and Soviet dissident)
Jermaine Jackson (singer, somebody's brother)
Ben Browder (actor, 'Farscape', 'Stargate SG-1')
Mos Def (rapper and actor)

and

MrBlack, long-term and respected forum member, creator of riddles and winner of the Celtic Languages Signature Award :D


You also share the same date with these events:

1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1919 - The Boll Weevil Monument is dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama
1931 - The Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, and Newfoundland.
1946 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

Today’s special shout-out goes to:

Happy Birthday MrBlack!

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 12th, you share your birthday with:

Henry Wells (founder of both American Express and Wells Fargo companies)
Karl von Rundstedt (fieldmarshal and commander of the German forces on the Western front during WW2)
Edward G Robinson (actor – The Ten Commandments)
Frank Sinatra (‘Old Blue Eyes’ – singer/ entertainer)
Grover Washington (jazz musician – ‘Mr Magic’)
Clive Bunker (drummer with Jethro Tull)
Jennifer Connelly (actress – Labyrinth, Blood Diamond, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1408: The Order of the Dragon is created by Emperor Sigismund, then King of Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje, following the battle for possession of Bosnia.
1792: In Vienna, Ludwig von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1800: Washington DC established as capital of the United States
1913: The ‘Mona Lisa’, stolen from The Louvre in 1911, is recovered.
1957: Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his first wife
1979: Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe
1980: US's copyright law amended to include computer programs

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Jennifer Connelly!

And Badstench wishes to acknowledge and thank Dooli for helping out with the Bithdates thread in his absence.

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 13th, you share your birthday with:

Dick Van Dyke (actor – Dick Van Dyke Show)
Christopher Plummer (actor – The Sound of Music)
Richard Darryl Zanuck (film producer/ executive)
Ted Nugent (musician/ guitarist)
Steve Buscemi (actor – Fargo, The Island, etc)
Jamie Foxx (comedian – In Living Colour)
Amy Lee (singer/ songwriter – Evanescence)

You also share the same date with these events:

1294: Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months, hoping to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
1636: The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
1642: New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1843: "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published
1903: Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone
1939: A hunter group of 3 British warships ( Ajax, Achilles, Exeter) locate the pocket-battleship, Graf Spee, and the Battle of The River Plate begins.
1950: James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
2003: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Ted Nugent!

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 14th, you share your birthday with:

Michel de Nostre-Dam (Nostradamus – astrologist/ prophet)
Maria Ludovika (Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia)
John Mercer Langston (first black to hold a US political office)
George VI (King of England 1936-52 – Father of Queen Elizabeth II)
Cliff Williams (bassist with AC/DC)
Vicki Michelle (actress – ‘Allo ‘Allo)
Spider Tracy (singer – The Pogues)

You also share the same date with these events:

1849: First chamber music group formed in the US gives their first concert (Boston)
1901: First table tennis tournament is held, at London Royal Aquarium
1911: Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, becomes the first man to reach the North Pole
1947: The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded at Daytona Beach, Florida.
1969: The Jackson Five make their first appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show"
1977: "Saturday Night Fever," starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City
2008: President George W. Bush is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a farewell conference in Baghdad.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday NASCAR!

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 15th, you share your birthday with:

Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus (5th emperor of Rome – and probably the nuttiest)
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel (French engineer – built the Eiffel tower)
Helena Rubinstein (US cosmetic manufacturer)
Alan Freed (radio DJ credited with introducing the term, “Rock’n’roll”)
Dave Clark (drummer – The Dave Clark 5)
Don Johnson (actor – Miami Vice)
Garrett Wang (actor – Star Trek Voyager)

You also share the same date with these events:

1612: Simon Marius is first person to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1854: First street-cleaning machine in United States used in Philadelphia
1939: "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta, Georgia
1964: Canada adopts the maple leaf flag
1970: Soviet Venera 7 is first spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1988: Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
1990: Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
2001: The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Garrett Wang!

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 16th, you share your birthday with:

Catherine of Aragon (Spanish princess and first wife of Henry VIII)
Ludwig van Beethoven (German composer – the famous one!)
Jane Austin (novelist – Pride & Prejudice)
Noel Coward (playwright)
Arthur C Clarke (author – 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Philip K Dick (author – Blade Runner)
Billy Gibbons (musician/ guitarist – ZZ Top)
Flo Rider (rapper)

You also share the same date with these events:

1653: Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector
1707: Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
1773: The Boston Tea Party takes place
1897: First submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
1915: Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity"
1937: Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from Alcatraz Island prison in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
1971: Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
1983: Spokesperson for The Who announces the group is disbanding
1991: Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan. Nice!

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Billy Gibbons!

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 17th, you share your birthday with:

Kerry Packer (Australian businessman and one-time media mogul)
Ernie Hudson (actor – Ghostbusters, etc)
Jack L Chalker (fantasy author – Saga of Well World)
Paul Rodgers (musician – Bad Company)
Bill Pullman (actor – Independence Day, etc)
Albert King (Bluesman)
Milla Jovovich (supermodel/ actress – Resident Evil, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

546: The Ostrogoths conquer Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison
1791: First official one-way street is created in New York City.
1900: First prize of 100,000 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded because they are considered too easy
1939: German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay.
1965: Largest ever newspaper printed – Sunday New York Times at 946 pages costing 50 cents
1969: USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
1989: The longest-running American sitcom, “The Simpsons” has its debut.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Milla Jovovich!

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 18th, you share your birthday with:

Ty Cobb (American baseball player)
Betty Grable (actress)
Michael J Moorcock (sci-fi author – Elric of Melinbone, etc)
Keith Richards (guitarist – Rolling Stones)
Steven Spielberg (movie director – ET, Schindler’s List, etc)
Leonard Maltin (movie critic – Entertainment Tonight)
Ray Liotta (actor – Goodfellas, etc)
Brad Pitt (actor – Troy, Fight Club, etc)
Kiefer Sutherland (actor – Lost Boys, Young Guns, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1271: Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China.
1888: Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde.
1892: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, "Nutcracker Suite", premieres
1966: Dr Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for first time on CBS
1976: "Wonder Woman", with Lynda Carter, debuts on ABC
1991: DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
1997: HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Steven Spielberg!

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 19th, you share your birthday with:

Leonard Brezhnev (USSR politician/ president)
Edith Piaf (singer/ chanteuse)
Alvin Lee (singer/ guitarist – 10 Years After)
Marianne Faithful (singer – Broken English, etc)
Darryl Hannah (actress – Splash, Blade Runner)
Jennifer Beals (actress – Flashdance)
Kristy Swanson (actress – Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Alyssa Milano (actress – Charmed, Who’s The Boss?)
Jake Gyllenhaal (actor – Donnie Darko, Jarhead, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1686: Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
1904: Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on January 13, 1905... Now, that’s dedication to a sport!
1918: Robert Ripley begins his "Believe It or Not" column at the New York Globe
1922: Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confesses in court to being married 62 times
1924: The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1950: Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion
1971: Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres
1983: The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
2007: The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and withdraw all their treaties with the United States. They then proceed to establish the Republic of Lakotah, with an ongoing process of international recognition as a separate country.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Kristy Swanson!

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 20th, you share your birthday with:

Bonnie Prince Charlie (Pretender to the Throne of England)
Peter Criss (drummer – KISS)
Patti Smith (singer/ songwriter)
Uri Geller (Russian who convinced the world of his psychic powers by bending cutlery)
Jenny Agutter (actress – Logan’s Run)
Chris Robinson (singer – The Black Crows)
David Cook (singer – American Idol winner)

You also share the same date with these events:

69: Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of emperor.
1522: Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
1892: Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Jules Verne
1920: Bob Hope becomes an American citizen
1955: Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
1975: Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles
2007: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Patti Smith!

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 21st, you share your birthday with:

Thomas Becket (archbishop of Canterbury)
Jane Fonda (actress – Barbarella, On Golden Pond, etc)
Frank Zappa (composer/ musician/ guitarist)
Samuel L Jackson (actor – Pulp Fiction, etc)
Chris Evert Lloyd Mills (tennis player)
Ray Romano (comedian/ actor – Everybody Loves Raymond)
Julie Delpy (actress – Before Sunrise)

You also share the same date with these events:

1913: First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World
1933: Fox signs 5 year-old Shirley Temple to a studio contract
1968: David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in California
1969: Diana Ross has her final TV appearance as a Supreme
1991: 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
1991: Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
1995: The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Ray Romano!

[Badstench]

If you were born on December 22nd, you share your birthday with:

Charles de Gaulle (French general and premier)
Rick Nielson (musician/ guitarist – Cheap Trick)
Brian C Daley (sci-fi author – Tron)
Maurice Gibb (singer – Bee Gees)
Robin Gibb (singer – the other Bee Gee twin)
Ralph Feinnes (actor – The English Patient, etc)
Jordin Sparks (singer – American Idol winner)

You also share the same date with these events:

1882: First string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1937: Lincoln Tunnel in New York City opens to traffic
1978: Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1984: Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1990: Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president
2001: Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
2002: Joe Strummer, lead singer of the British punk band The Clash, dies at age 50

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Ralph Feinnes!

[Badstench]

With the passing of midnight, we hear the clip clop of a retreating centaur and the trip trap of Capricorn strutting into ascendency.

YOUR STARS IN SRYTH
CAPRICORN: December 23 – January 22
Element: Earth
Symbol: The Goat
Ruler: Saturn

There’s one thing you can say about people born under the sign of Capricorn... they can polarise the way other people tend to think about them; they’re either admired completely or despised utterly.

Why? Because people born under the sign of the goat are the achievers of the world! They are the high-flyers, the go-getters, the movers and the shakers. No-one likes to think anyone else is better than them, so how Capricorns behave on their journey to achievement has a direct effect on their reputations.

The successful Capricorns are either generous in spirit (charismatic) or generous with material things (philanthropic). The unsuccessful Capricorns might be rich and powerful, but they are also mean, miserly, and prone to sclerosis of the liver due to all the bile they constantly exude.

The sign of the goat denotes a ‘climber’, someone who actively seeks to better his or her station in life. Many people erroneously think the term ‘goat’ is derogatory when, in fact, the exact opposite is the truth. Goats are studious, hard-working, and not afraid to butt heads when the occasion demands.

I’d love to say something humourous about Capricorns, but it’s difficult to make fun of people who are so admired or so despised. A Capricorn can be your best friend or your worst enemy.

Capricorns and Money: When you’re sitting in a tavern and playing pocket-shuffle because you’ve got no money and you hope like hell someone notices and offers to buy you a drink, I’ll bet my next round that the offer will come from a Capricorn. This is not because they feel obliged or ingratiating... Capricorns always seem to have a few gold coins about their person.

Which is a way of explaining that Capricorns are the opposite of Sagittarians. A Capricorn always has recourse to a few gold coins for the simple fact that they plan ahead; they go to the bar with enough for their own needs, plus a bit more. And the fund seems bottomless.

This is because Capricorns aren’t wastrels; they plan for every day being a rainy day, which goes a way to admitting that they aren’t miserly.

Actually, some of them are miserly, which is why they always have money.

The problem with generous Capricorns is that, though they are generous, they’re not stupid, so it’s difficult to take advantage of them.

Capricorns and Romance: This category is a toughy, because Capricorns are naturally cautious when it comes to developing a romantic connection. They are in total control of their own lives, but when they are forced to take responsibility for someone else, they tread carefully.

However, once the confidence of a Capricorn has been accepted, and they give their hearts to a recipient... well... the recipient can count him/herself fortunate. Capricorns are loyal, and they appreciate the attentions of a partner.

I once spied a birthday card dedicated to Capricorns; the front cover said, “I’ll bet this card gives you an erection”. When you opened the card, the caption ended with, “Everything else seems to!” Which goes a way to explaining where the term, “you horny old goat” comes from.

Famous Capricorns in Sryth: There are a few adventurers who show all the traits of Capricorn, but since most of these have survived to old age and retired to a life of reminiscing and boring younger adventurers with tales of when-they-were-fit-and-could-take-on-the meanest-monster, no one pays them much attention. Rynduil was a Capricorn. He should have stayed retired, because all his bragging got him killed in the end.

Thane Mazembak is also a Capricorn, and he continues to butt heads and seek to climb the ladder of success.

Other Sryth Capricorns include: JoeNobidy (Dec 30), Demojan777 (Dec 31) and Psychoadept (Jan 6).

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If you were born on December 23rd, you share your birthday with:

Zenobia (The ‘Warrior Queen’ of Palmyra)
Joseph Smith (founder and proclaimed prophet of the Mormon church)
Dave Murray (musician/ guitarist with Iron Maiden)
Joan Severance (actress – see No evil, Hear No evil, etc)
Eddie Vedder (singer – Pearl Jam)
Slash (guitarist – Guns’n’Roses)
Corey Haim (actor – Silver Bullet, License to Drive, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

962: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist.
1569: St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1779: Benedict Arnold court-martialled for improper conduct
1888: Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
1961: Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62 million worth of food and medical supplies
1970: New York World Trade Centre reaches highest point (411 m)
2002: A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Eddie Vedder!

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If you were born on December 24th, you share your birthday with:

Kit Carson (Union officer/ frontiersman)
Johnny Gruelle (cartoonist, children’s book writer – created Raggedy Ann)
Howard Hughes (billionaire businessman/ inventor)
Ava Gardner (actress – On the Beach, etc)
Lemmy (singer – Motorhead)
Hamid Karzai (President of Afghanistan)
Ricky Martin (actor/ singer)
Ryan Seacrest (television show host)

You also share the same date with these events:

1777: Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook
1818: Franz Xaver Gruber composes "Silent Night"
1865: Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee
1942: First powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany
1964: Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot movie for Star Trek
1980: Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Ryan Seacrest!

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If you were born on December 25th, you share your birthday with:

Humphrey Bogart (actor – Casablanca, etc)
Quentin Crisp (author – The Naked Civil Servant)
Kenny Everett (comedian – Kenny Everett TV Show)
Sissy Spacek (actress – Carrie, Coal Miner’s Daughter, etc)
Annie Lennox (singer – Eurythmics)
Dido (singer – No Angel)
Jessica and Lisa Origliasso (singers – better known as “The Veronicas)

You also share the same date with these events:

1066: William the Conqueror crowned king of England
1223: St Francis of Assisi assembles first Nativity scene
1741: Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale
1868: President Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
1963: Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released
1997: For first time US movie box office receipts pass $6 billion
2004: Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully lands on Saturn's moon, Titan, on January 14, 2005.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday The Veronicas!

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If you were born on December 26th, you share your birthday with:

Thomas Gray (English poet)
Charles Babbage (invented the calculating machine)
Mao Tse Tung (Chinese revolutionary and premier)
Steve Allen (comedian/ TV host – The Steve Allen Show)
Phil Spector (music producer and inventor of the “Wall of Sound”)
Henning Schmidst (musician – Kraftwerk)
Temuera Morrison (New Zealand actor whose character was the blueprint for the stormtrooper clones in the Star Wars movie – Jango Fett (danged Maoris finally got their wish to rule the world!)

You also share the same date with these events:

1865: James H Mason patents the first coffee percolator.
1871: Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis.
1941: Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress
1966: Jimi Hendrix writes "Purple Haze" backstage at the Upper Cut Club
1968 : Vanilla Fudge play in Boston. Their opening act steals the show. It is Led Zeppelin!
1973: The Exorcist, starring Linda Blair, premiers
1991: Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Henning Schmidst!

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If you were born on December 27th, you share your birthday with:

Johannes Kepler (mathematician/ astronomer – Kepler’s planetary laws)
Louis Pasteur (bacteriologist – discoverer of pasturization)
Marlene Dietrich (singer/ actress)
Mick Jones (musician – Foreigner)
Gérard Depardieu (actor – Green Card, etc)
Terry Bozzio (drummer – Mothers of Invention)
Heather O’Rourke (actress – Poltergeist)

You also share the same date with these events:

1881: World’s first cat show takes place at Crystal Palace, London
1934: Shah of Persia declares Persia now to be called Iran
1937: Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
1945: The World Bank is created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
1978: Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
2001: The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
2007: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a suicide bomber.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Gerard Depardieu!

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If you were born on December 28th, you share your birthday with:

Woodrow Wilson (28th president of the United States)
Stan Lee (comic artist/ creator of Spiderman and The Incredible Hulk)
Nichelle Nichols (actress – Uhura from Star Trek)
Richard Clayderman (pianist)
Denzel Washington (actor – American Gangster, Velocity, etc)
Nigel Kennedy (English violinist)
David Archuleta (American Idol runner-up)

You also share the same date with these events:

1867: United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1895: World's first movie theatre (theator?... just kidding) opens in Paris
1912: The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco
1949: 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs
1968: Beatles’ White Album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
1969: Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, misses the ball altogether!
1976: Winnie Mandela banished from South Africa

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Denzel Washington!

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If you were born on December 29th, you share your birthdate with:

Madam De Pompadour (mistress of French king, Louis XV)
Mary Tyler Moore (actress – Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People, etc)
Jon Voight (actor – Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy, etc)
Ted Danson (actor – Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby, etc)
David Boon (Australian cricket player described as a short backward square, which is his fielding position).
Dexter Holland (musician – The Offspring)
Jude Law (actor – The Talented Mr Ripley, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1852: Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1862: Bowling ball invented
1937: Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
1967: Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" airs for the first time
1993: Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
1997: Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
1998: Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Jude Law!

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If you were born on December 30th, you share your birthdate with:

Rudyard Kipling (author – Jungle Book, Gunga Din, etc)
Jack Lord (actor – Hawaii 5-0)
Bo Diddley (musician – pioneer of Rock’n’Roll)
Davy Jones (singer – The Monkees)
Tracy Ullman (singer/ actress – The Tracy Ullman Show)
Ben Johnson (track athlete – Olympic 100m gold, disquailified)
Heidi Fleiss (high class madam)
Tiger Woods (golf player)

You also share the same day with these events:

1809: The wearing of masks at balls (masquerade) is forbidden in Boston
1853: A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon in South London
1917: -37°F (-38°C) in Lewisburg, West Virginia (state record)
1924: Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
1953: The first ever NTSC colour television sets from RCA go on sale for about US$1,175 each.
1987: Robert Mugabe elected President of Zimbabwe
1997: An abandoned building collapses on New York's 42nd St. Amazingly no one is hurt

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Tiger Woods!

[Badstench]

Before we begin today’s lists, I’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. As I type this, the “switch” to 2010 is 9 hours away. New Zealand lies as the first ‘major’ country to greet the new day. Many Pacific Island nations actually enjoy this honour first, and I believe Kiribati holds that claim to fame.

However, there is also an honoured Sryth forum member having a birthday on this date and I don’t want to detract from his special day. This thread is about birthdays afterall!

If you were born on December 31st, you share your birthday with:

Henri Matisse (impressionist painter)
Umm Kulthum (Egyptian singer/ actress. Regardless... winner of December’s “cool name award!”)
Simon Wiesenthal (Nazi hunter who gave his name to the “Wiesenthal Centre”)
Anthony Hopkins (actor – portrayed Hannibal to chilling effect in “Silence of the Lambs”)
Alex Fergusson (Manager of Manchester United football (soccer) team
Andy Somers (musician – guitarist with 80’s band, “Police”)
Ben Kingsley (actor – Gandhi, etc)
John Denver (musician – Thank God He’s a Country Boy!)
Donna Summer (disco queen – Love to Love You baby!”
George Thorogood (rockingest blues/ rock guitarist and under-rated musician – “Get a Haircut, and Get a Real Job!”)
Val Kilmer (actor... and I’m sure we’ve mentioned him earlier in the year? Two birthdays? Nice!)
Donald Trump jr (He makes the list because he showed his face on the reality TV program, and came across as being intelligent enough to stand on his own... eh, Dad?)
Richie McCaw (announced as the best rugby player of the decade [2000- 2009]... and he’s a Kiwi dontchaknow? – Captain of the New Zealand All Blacks).
Demojan777 (Sryth gamer and quality forum member)

You also share the same date with these events:

Universal: Teenagers worldwide prepare to get hammered (if they aren’t already).
406: The Vandals attack across the Rhine River to begin their migration to Spain... much like teenagers throwing an out-of-control party!
870: The Danes invade Wessex, only to be denied by Ethelred, who was annoyed at having his New Year celebration interrupted. He was a teenager at the time.
1695: A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax. This results in the “Great Teenage Revolt” when they are stopped from buying all the stuff that will get them hammered.
1776: Rhode Island establishes wage and price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors, but brewers are exempt to cater to pensive teenagers.
1904: The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York. Teenagers are so happy, they forget to riot.
1974: Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac. Needless to say, male teenagers rejoice by getting stoned, drunk, and engaging in a riot.

Postscript: entries in 'purple' are fabrications

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday to everyone preparing to host a New Years party!!

But special birthday wishes go to... demojan777!

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If you were born on January 1st, you share your birthday with:

Paul Revere (American patriot – “The British are coming!”)
J Edgar Hoover (Director of the FBI)
J D Salinger (author – Catcher in the Rye)
Country Joe MacDonald (musician/ folk singer)
Joseph Saddler (better known as “Grandmaster Flash”)

You also share the same date with these events:

45BC: The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.
404: By Imperial edict, today shall be the last day of gladiatorial competition in Rome.
630: The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca and captures it without spilling a drop of blood.
1847: Michigan is first state to abolish capital punishment
1863: Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln
1925: Norway's capital, Christiania, changes name to Oslo
1960: Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars
1962: Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand
1966: Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1
1966: All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"
1985: The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
1999: The Euro currency is introduced.
2000: Gisborne, New Zealand, population 32,754 is first city in the world to welcome in the new millennium.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday... ummm.... to this new decade!

[Badstench]

If you were born on January 2nd, you share your birthday with:

Isaac Asimov (author – I robot, Foundation trilogy, etc)
Roger Miller (singer – King of the Road)
Joanna Pacula (actress – Gorky Park, Nikita, etc)
Diane Lane (actress – Streets of Fire, Lonesome Dove, etc)
Tia Carrere (actress – Wayne’s World, True Lies, etc)
Cuba Gooding Jr (actor – Boyz n the Hood, A few Good Men, etc)
Kate Bosworth (actress – The Horse Whisperer)

You also share the same date with these events:

366: The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
1839: French photographer, Louis Daguerre, takes first photograph of the moon
1944: Helicopters are first used during wartime (British Atlantic Patrol)
1947: Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1970: US population put at 293,200,000
1974: 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
1979: Trial of Sid Vicious for murder of girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, begins
1995: Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)
2004: Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Kate Bosworth!

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If you were born on January 3rd, you share your birthday with:

Cicero (Roman statesman and philosopher)
J R R Tolkien (philologist/ author – Lord of the Rings)
Victor Borge (pianist/ comedian)
John Paul Jones (musician – Led Zeppelin)
Victoria Principal (actress – Dallas)
Mel Gibson (actor – Mad Max, Lethal Weapon, etc)
Helena Bonham Carter (actress – Fight Club, Sweeney Todd, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1496: Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
1521: Martin Luther excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church
1847: California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1899: The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.
1959: Alaska admitted as 49th US state
1987: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts first female artist Aretha Franklin
1997: The People's Republic of China announces it will spend US $27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday John Paul Jones!

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If you were born on January 4th, you share your birthday with:

Sir Isaac Newton (mathematician/ astronomer)
Jakob Grimm (philologist/ folklorist – collector of fairy tales)
Isaac Pitman (inventor – stenographic shorthand)
Charles Stratton (famous short person – General Tom Thumb)
Volker Hornback (musician – Tangerine Dream)
Matt Frewer (actor- Max Headroom)
Michael Stipe (singer – R.E.M)

You also share the same date with these events:

871: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army at the Battle of Reading
1863: 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of New York
1903: Topsy the elephant is electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign (oops).
1912: Closest earth-moon distance during 20th century (356,375 km centre-to-centre)
1962: New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
1975: Ice thickness measured at 4776 metres, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
2004: Britney Spears has her surprise marriage annulled less than 55 hours after tying the knot with childhood friend Jason Alexander
2007: The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Michael Stipe!

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If you were born on January 5th, you share your birthday with:

George Reeves (actor – the original “Superman”)
Robert Duvall (actor – Taxi Driver, Falling Down, etc)
Umberto Eco (Italian author – The Name of the Rose)
Juan Carlos I (King of Spain)
Syd Barret (musician/ weirdo – Pink Floyd)
Dianne Keaton (actress – Annie Hall, etc)
Pamela Sue Martin (actress – Nancy Drew)
Marilyn Manson (singer/ weirdo)
Kylie Bax (supermodel. She’s a Kiwi dontchaknow!)

You also share the same date with these events:

1709: Sudden cold snap kills thousands in Europe.
1834: Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell
1836: Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
1896: German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays
1971: Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game winning streak
1981: Peter Sutcliffe is arrested... better known as the “Yorkshire Ripper”
2005: The dwarf planet, Eris, is discovered beyond Pluto, sparking the argument whether Pluto should be classified as a planet at all.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Kylie Bax! (Did I mention she’s a Kiwi? Oh, yes... I did!)

[Badstench]

If you were born on January 6th, you share your birthday with:

Joan of Arc (martyr and heroine of France)
Sherlock Holmes (fictional detective)
Sun Myung Moon (evangelist – Unification Church [Moonies])
John Z DeLorean (auto-maker – DeLorean)
Malcolm Young (musician/ guitarist – AC/DC)
Rowan Atkinson (actor/ comedian – Mr Bean, Blackadder)
Alex Turner (musician – Arctic Monkeys)
Psychoadept (honoured forum member and all round good guy!)

You also share the same date with these events:

1494: The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
1540: King Henry VIII of England marries his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1759: George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
1838: Samuel Morse makes first public demonstration of telegraph
1912: New Mexico becomes 47th state
1939: Daily newspaper comic strip "Superman" debuts
1971: Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom days
1974: In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1975: 1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the group's February 4th gig to go on sale, cause a riot and an estimated $30,000 damage
1994: Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Psychoadept!

[Badstench]

If you were born on January 7th, you share your birthdate with:

Alan Napier (actor – played the butler, Alfred, in the original Batman TV series)
William Peter Blatty (author/ film director – The Exorcist)
John Christopher Parry (musician – The Cure)
Erin Gray (actress – Buck Rogers in the 21st Century)
Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev (cosmonaut and winner of this months “most-difficult-to-say name”)
Nicholas Cage (actor – Raising Arizona, City of Angels, Knowing, etc)
Abbey Speakman (famous twin born nineteen days after her sister)

You also share the same day with these events:

1558: Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
1929: "Buck Rogers," premiers in its first comic strip appearance
1929: "Tarzan," one of the first adventure comic strips, premiers
1934: "Flash Gordon" comic strip debuts
1954: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1970: Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
1990: Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Nicholas Cage!

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If you were born on January 8th, you share your birthdate with:

Milton Hines (comedian – better known as Soupy Sales)
Elvis Presley (The King of Rock’n’Roll)
Shirley Bassey (singer – Goldfinger, etc)
Graham Chapman (comedian – one of the Monty Python crew)
Terry Brooks (author – Sword of Shannara, etc)
David Bowie (actor/ singer – Ziggy Stardust, Labyrinth, etc)
Kazuki Takahashi (Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh)

You also share the same day with these events:

1790: US President George Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union" address
1800: Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
1835: The United States national debt is zero for the first and only time.
1954: Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"
1992: George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
1996: For first time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
2004: The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday David Bowie!

[Badstench]

If you were born on January 9th, you share your birthdate with:

Richard Milhouse Nixon (37th US President)
Les Paul (famed guitar maker)
Lee Van Kleef (actor – Escape From New York, For a Few Dollars More, etc)
Joan Baez (folk singer)
Jimmy Page (guitarist – Led Zeppelin)
David Johannsen (singer – New York Dolls)
Crystal Gayle (singer – Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Blue)
Sergio Garcia (professional golfer)

You also share the same day with these events:

1768: Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London.
1788: Connecticut becomes 5th state
1799: British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.
1806: Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
1951: “Life After Tomorrow” is first film to receive an "X" rating
2001: Apple announces iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos
2002: Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Jimmy Page!

[Badstench]

If you were born on January 10th, you share your birthday with:

Frank James (American outlaw)
Rod Stewart (singer – The Small Faces)
George Foreman (heavy-weight boxing champion)
Pat Benetar (singer – All Fired Up)
Fran Walsh (screen writer – Lord of the Rings)
Brad Roberts (singer – Crash Test Dummies)
Jermaine Clement (actor/ singer/ comedian – Flight of the Concords)

You also share the same date with these events:

1839: First shipment of tea arrives to England from India
1901: Oil discovered in Texas
1958: Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts
1969: Sweden is the first western country to recognize North Vietnam
1984: US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
1994: Trial of Lorena Bobbitt (who cut off her husband's penis) begins
1999: Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with 'Praise You'

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Jermaine Clement!

[Badstench]

If you were born on January 11th, you share your birthday with:

Theodosius I (“The Great” – Roman Emperor)
George Zucco (actor – Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Captain Fury [Ha!])
Rod Taylor (actor – The Time Machine)
Tony Kaye (musician/ keyboardist – founding member of Yes)
Vicki Peterson (musician/ guitarist – Bangles)
Jason Connery (actor – Robin Hood)

You also share the same date with these events:

1569: First recorded lottery in England is drawn at St Paul's Cathedral
1787: William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus
1803: Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they manage to buy the whole of Louisiana instead
1879: Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
1922: Insulin first used to treat diabetes
1935: Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland, California (non-stop, of course)
1949: Snow is recorded falling in Los Angeles

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Vicki Peterson!

[Badstench]

If you were born on January 12th, you share your birthday with:

Charles Perrault (author – Mother Goose)
John Hancock (first signatory of the Declaration of Independence)
Joe Frazier (heavy-weight boxing champion)
Kirstie Alley (actress – Cheers, Star Trek II, etc)
Rush Limbaugh (radio personality)
Howard Stern (DJ – radio’s ‘bad boy’)
Oliver Platt (actor – Flatliners, Indecent Proposal, etc)
Rob Zombie (musician)

You also share the same date with these events:

1820: The Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
1866: The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London
1948: First supermarket in United Kingdom opens
1966: "Batman" with Adam West and Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV
1967: Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1991: US Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq
1995: Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles
1998: Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Oliver Platt!

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If you were born on January 13th, you share your birthday with:

Sophie Tucker (singer – last of the ‘Red Hot Mamas’)
Clark Ashton Smith (sci-fi author – Lost Worlds)
Robert Stack (actor – played Elliot Ness in “The Untouchables”)
Richard Moll (actor – The Dungeonmaster, Night Court, etc)
Trevor Rabin (musician/ guitarist – Yes)
Tabitha Stevens (TV baby witch – Bewitched)
Orlando Bloom (actor – Kingdom of Heaven, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1559: Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1842: Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
1920: New York Times editorial reports that rockets can never fly
1985: 99-yr-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
1999: Basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement only to return in 2001
2000: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive
2007: Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightens as something triggers aerosols to form at a furious rate.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Trevor Rabin!

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If you were born on January 14th, you share your birthday with:

Marcus Aurelius Antonius (Roman General and candidate for the Imperial throne)
Benedict Arnold (US general-turned-traitor)
Albert Schweitzer (doctor/ humanitarian – Nobel prize recipient)
Jack Jones (singer – sang the “love Boat” theme)
Faye Dunaway (actress – Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde, etc)
L L Cool J (rapper)
Dave Grohl (musician – Foo Fighters)

You also share the same date with these events:

1690: Clarinet invented in Nurnberg, Germany
1914: Henry Ford introduces assembly line for model T-Fords
1952: "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
1956: Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
1963: George C Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
1976: "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC
1989: Muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradfort England

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Dave Grohl!

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If you were born on January 15th, you share your birthday with:

Sister Mary McKillop (candidate for Australia’s first saint)
Aristotle Onassis (shipping magnate)
Lloyd Bridges (actor – Sea Hunt, Airplane, etc)
Martin Luther King Jr (humanist/ equal rights campaigner)
Don Van Vliet (musician/ poet – better known as “Captain Beefheart”)
Ronnie Van Zant (musician – Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Mario Van Peebles (actor – South Bronx Heroes, Posse, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

588BC: Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem. The siege lasts for two and a half years.
1535: Henry VIII declares himself head of the English church.
1797: First time a top hat is seen adorning the head of a person when John Etherington wears one on the streets of London
1889: The Pemberton Medicine Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia. Later, it becomes the Coca-Cola Company.
1895: Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake” premieres.
1919: 2 million gallons of molasses floods Boston, Massachusetts, drowning 21 people.
1971: George Harrison releases “My Sweet Lord”
2001: Wikipedia debuts online

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Mario Van Peebles!

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If you were born on January 16th, you share your birthday with:

Ethel Merman (stage and screen actress – Anything Goes)
Dian Fossey (zoologist – Gorillas In the Mist)
Bill Francis (musician – better known as Dr Hook)
Sade (singer)
James May (British television presenter – Top Gear)
Jukka-Pekka Nummi (American footballer with an interesting name)
Kate Moss (model)

You also share the same date with these events:

27BC: The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.
1909: British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
1920: 18th Amendment (prohibition) goes into effect
1970: Colonel Gadhaffi becomes premier of Libya
1973: NBC presents 440th and final episode of "Bonanza"
1976: Peter Frampton releases platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"
2001: US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Jukka-Pekka Nummi!

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If you were born on January 17th, you share your birthday with:

Benjamin Franklin (statesman/ inventor)
Anne Bronte (novelist/ poet)
Al Capone (gangster)
Rock Hudson (actor)
Eartha Kitt (singer/ actress – played Catwoman in the Batman TV series)
James Earl Jones (actor – The voice of Darth Vader, Soul Man, etc)
Muhammad Ali (heavy-weight boxing champion)
David Caruso (actor – NYPD Blue, CSI Miami, etc)
Jim Carrey (actor/ comedian – The Mask, The Majestic, etc)
Michelle Obama (US First Lady)
Zooey Deschanel (actress – The Happening, Bridge to Tarabitha, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1899: US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
1950: The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
1954: Jacques Cousteau's first network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)
1961: President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
1982: "Cold Sunday" in the United States saw temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
1991: Operation Desert Storm begins
2007: The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Zooey Deschanel!

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If you were born on January 18th, you share your birthday with:

Peter Roget (inventor – slide rule, pocket chessboard)
Oliver Hardy (half of the comedy duo, “Laurel & Hardy)
Cary Grant (actor – North by Northwest, Arsenic & Old Lace, etc)
David Bellamy (botanist/ TV documentary presenter)
Ray Dolby (sound engineer/ inventor – Dolby noise limiting system)
Kevin Costner (actor – Dances With Wolves, Waterworld, etc)
Tom Bailey (musician/ singer – Thompson Twins)

You also share the same date with these events:

1591: King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
1644: First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston
1671: Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders to capture Panama
1778: Captain James Cook discovers Sandwich Islands (Hawaii)
1788: The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
1912: English explorer, Robert F Scott, and his expedition reach the South Pole in an attempt to be the first men there, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten them by a month.
1916: A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite stikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Kevin Costner!

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If you were born on January 19th, you share your birthday with:

Mohammed (Islamic prophet - I’ve a sneaking suspicion that this birthday has already been noted in another date. No slight is intended if either entries are wrong. Please don’t put a fatwah on me!)
James Watt (inventor – The steam engine)
Edgar Allan Poe (writer/ poet – the Raven, etc)
“Minnesota Fats” (Billiards player)
Ursula Andress (actress / screen goddess)
Michael Crawford (stage and screen actor – Phantom of the Opera, Some Mothers Do ‘ave ‘em, etc)
Dolly Parton (Country & Western singer)
Robert Palmer (singer – Addicted To Love, Simply Irresistible, etc)
Katey Sagal (actress – Married With Children)

You also share the same date with these events:

1746: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Stirling (felt compelled to note this after getting the “Battle of Falkirk” entry horribly wrong two days ago!)
1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1903: New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
1915: Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
1955: "Scrabble" debuts on board game market
1971: Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial
1977: Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas.
1978: The last of the original Volkswagen Beetles made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Katey Sagal!

And a dilemma has arisen... according to different astrologers, the zodiac of Aquarius begins either tomorrow or on the 21st of January. We can excuse ourselves posting the new astrology sign tomorrow (20th) by taking the cusp into account. Farewell Capricorn!

[Doolipalally]

Happy birthday Scrabble!

(Felt I had to say that given how much time I spend playing Scrabble on Facebook and with my husband's grandmother over Christmas)

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YOUR STARS IN SRYTH
AQUARIUS: January 20 – February 18
Element: Air
Symbol: The Water-bearer
Ruler: Uranus


The difficulty encountered when trying to generalise Aquarians is that you can’t! People born under the sign of the water-bearer are highly individualistic, and though their ruling planet begs for the sniggers of toilet humour, Uranus is actually the ruler of innovation and non-conformism... in other words, Aquarians spout the philosophies of ‘freedom’ as loudly and as often as they can.

There is a certain world in the universe of the material plane of which the inhabitants believe the Age of Aquarius began in the 21st century of their reckoning of time. Interestingly, this age coincided with the beginning of the Age of Igtheon on the world of Sryth, and since each astrological age lasts for approximately 2,150 years, we can assume that most Aquarians are currently feeling mighty pleased with themselves, albeit a little bit worried if they live on Sryth.

Regardless, Aquarians are fun people to know, being spontaneously imaginative and interestingly odd. The downside to having the mind of an Aquarian is that they are prone to spontaneously combusting when things don’t eventuate the way they imagine... for proof of this, a perusal of the patients at the Lyrelock lunatic asylum will reveal an uncomfortably disproportionate number of nutters born between January 21st and February 19th.

Aquarians and Money: Aquarians have no use for money. They make it and spend it in amounts that deny a future. If money holds any importance, it’s only in the amount that can be ‘gifted’ away.

Unlike Sagittarians, Aquarian’s aren’t spend-thrifts; they don’t waste their money on hedonistic pursuits. Rather, they are the great philanthropists of the world, always looking for a worthy cause to foster and further through personal and financial commitment.

Some people might call them admirable. Others might call them stupid. Whatever, an Aquarian is rarely miserly or mean. The amazing thing is that Aquarians are also rarely without the means to gain just about anything they desire... their optimism and congenial weirdness often attracts followers, friends and hangers-on who become (essentially) like patrons to their weird ways.

Aquarians and Romance: The rallying slogans of an Aquarian usually involve the words “peace” and “love”. This has absolutely nothing to do with the notions of romance, and it is highly advised that anyone seeking the bonds of emotional togetherness with a water-bearer hurriedly re-think themselves.

Aquarians believe strongly in love and the power of love, but this is usually in abstract terms that encompasses all of life-kind (and quite often inanimate objects, too!) They simply don’t have the time or inclination for one-on-one relationships. In fact, they find the idea of spending one’s whole life monogamously quite bewildering, if not disturbing.

However, if an Aquarian does acquiesce to becoming ‘bonded’, one of three things can happen... 1) the relationship will be an amazing union within which a life of happiness and bliss will be experienced, or 2) the Aquarian will become smothered through the loss of his/her individuality, then become morose and uncommunicative to the point where the other partner runs away, which will enable the Aquarian to re-discover his/herself and everyone will live happily ever after, or 3) Someone’s gonna get killed!

Famous Aquarians in Sryth: Probably the best known Aquarian in Sryth is, or rather, “was”, the great hero known as Syr. Such was his philanthropy that he wanted to save everything! I kid you not, he started off by saving a few peasants before graduating to towns, then cities, then kingdoms and, eventually, the world. Along the way he sired so many little Syr’s that his virility became almost as well-known as his penchant for smashing evil-doers, which were the only creatures he didn’t want saved!

Other Aquarian’s in Sryth include: Many priests dedicated to the god, Palk (bunch of pagans, the lot of ‘em), an adventurer by the name of Hephaestus16, and a strange man who keeps giving stuff away and goes by the name of Rengold.

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If you were born on January 20th, you share your birthday with:

George Burns (actor/ comedian – “Oh God”, etc)
Joy Adamson (naturalist/ author – Born Free)
DeForest Kelly (actor – played Doctor “Bones” McCoy on Star Trek)
Martin Landau (actor – Mission Impossible, Space 1999, etc)
Edwin E “Buzz” Aldrin (astronaut)
Malcolm McLaren (band manager – The Sex Pistols)
Paul Stanley (singer – KISS)
Skeet Urlich (actor – Scream, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1356: Edward Balliol abdicates his place as King of Scotland
1841: China cedes Hong Kong to the British
1939: Hitler openly proclaims to German parliament his intention to exterminate all European Jews
1949: J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear-gas fountain pen
1980: President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of the Moscow Olympics
1995: Russian rouble drops to a record 3,947 per US dollar
2009: Barack Obama inaugurated as 44th President of the United States, becoming the first US African-American president

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Paul Stanley!

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If you were born on January 21st, you share your birthday with:

Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson (Confederate lieutent-general)
Christian Dior (fashion designer)
Telly Savalas (actor – Kojak, etc)
Bob Smith (radio DJ – better known as “Wolfman Jack”)
Jack Nicklaus (golfer)
Placido Domingo (famous tenor)
Billy Ocean (singer – Caribbean Queen)
Geena Davis (actress – Beetlejuice, etc)
Rove McManus (comedian/ TV presenter)
Emma Lee Bunton (singer – better known as “Baby Spice” from the Spice Girls)

You also share the same date with these events:

1863: City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1908: New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1942: Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1968: Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh, one of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war, begins.
1978: Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1987: BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi
1990: John McEnroe becomes first ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open
1999: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kg (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
2008: The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Rove McManus!

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If you were born on January 22nd, you share your birthday with:

Lord Byron (poet – Don Juan)
Robert Howard (author – Conan the Barbarian)
Bill Bixby (actor – The Incredible Hulk)
John Hurt (actor – Alien, Elephant Man, etc)
Linda Blair (actress – Exorcist, Chained Heat, etc)
Michael Hutchence (singer – INXS)
Steve Adler (drummer with Guns’n’Roses)
Balthazar Getty (actor – Young Guns II, Lord of the Flies)

You also share the same date with these events:

1690: Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
1840: British colonists reach New Zealand.
1859: Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres
1879: Zulus attack British Army camp at Isandhlwana, South Africa
1881: Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
1987: Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television
1992: Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
2003: Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Balthazar Getty!

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If you were born on January 23rd, you share your birthday with:

Walter M Miller (author – View From the Stars)
Gil Gerard (actor – Buck Rogers in the 21st Century)
Rutger Hauer (actor – Ladyhawke, Flesh + Blood, etc)
Anita Pointer (singer – The Pointer Sisters)
Richard Dean Anderson (actor – MacGyver, Stargate, etc)
Robin Zander (musician – Cheap Trick)
Caroline Louise Marguerite Grimaldi (princess of Monte Carlo, Monaco)

You also share the same date with these events:

1719: Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire
1855: The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota
1897: Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1960: Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)
1978: Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's ozone layer.
2001: The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.
3268: Beginning of 2nd Julian Period

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Robin Zander!

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If you were born on January 23rd, you share the same date with these events:

3268: Beginning of 2nd Julian Period



I don't understand the above (which seems to be 1258 years in the future). Any insight from anyone?

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Julian periods derive from the Julian calendar.

Joseph Justus Scaliger was the founder of modern chronological studies, he proposed what is now known as the Julian Day System, or, more properly, the Julian Period.

Scaliger set January 1, 4713 BC, a Monday, as the starting day of the Julian Period. The reason for that day as a starting point was that Scaliger, wanted a time period long enough to encompass all of recorded history and some time into the future.

One Julian period is 7,980 years long, or 2914695.00 days, which equates to the January 23, 3268AD as being the start of the 2nd Julian period.

I thought everyone knew that! :rolleyes:

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If you were born on January 24th, you share your birthday with:

Frederick The Great (King of Prussia)
Ernst Heinrich Heinkel (aeronautics designer/ engineer. Invented the first rocket-powered aircraft)
Ernest Borgnine (actor – Ice Station Zebra, etc)
Neil Diamond (singer – Shiloh, Red Red Wine, etc)
Warren Zevon (singer/ musician – Werewolves of London, etc)
John Belushi (actor/ singer – The Blues Brothers)
Adrian Edmondson (comedian/ actor – The Young Ones, Bottom, etc)
Nastassja Kinski (actress – Tess, Cat People, etc)
Mary Lou Retton (gymnast – Olympic gold medallist)

You also share the same date with these events:

41: Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew.
1556: Heavy earthquake strikes Shaaxi, China. Kills 830,000
1857: The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
1924: Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad
1927: Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
1935: First canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co
1972: Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1983: Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title
1984: Apple Computer Inc unveils its Macintosh personal computer

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Nastassja Kinski!

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If you were born on January 25th, you share your birthdate with:

Robert Burns (Scottish poet – Auld Lang Syne)
Eduard Shevardnadze (USSR foreign minister)
Corazon Aquino (11th President of The Phillipines)
John Cooper Clarke (English punk-poet)
Joe Strummer (musician/ singer – The Clash)
Andy Cox (musician/ guitarist – Fine Young Cannibals)
Alicia Keys (singer)
Arik (Sryth gamer and honoured forum member)

You also share the same day with these events:

1858: Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia.
1890: Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)
1905: The Cullinan Diamond, largest in the world (3106 carats), is found in South Africa
1924: First Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
1945: Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes first US city to fluoridate its water
1961: Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
1993: Sears announces it is closing its catalogue sales department after 97 years

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Arik!

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If you were born on January 26th, you share your birthdate with:

Douglas MacArthur (US General during World War 2 – He did return!)
Paul Newman (actor – Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, etc)
Philip Jose Farmer (sci-fi novelist – Riverworld, etc)
Scott Glenn (actor – Backdraft, etc)
Eddie Van Halen (musician/ guitarist – Van Halen)
Ellen DeGeneres (comedienne/ TV host)
The Suleman octuplets
Hephaestus16 (Sryth gamer and forum member)

You also share the same day with these events:

66: 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1697: Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1808: Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
1862: Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive against the secetionists
1871: British Rugby Union forms
1934: Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years… and we know how well that worked!
1962: The Twist is called “impure” and banned from all Catholic schools
1971: Charles Manson is convicted of murder
2004: A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan, blamed on a build up of decomposing gasses.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Ellen DeGeneres!

Many happy returns, Hephaestus16

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If you were born on January 27th, you share your birthdate with:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (musical prodigy/ composer)
Lewis Carroll (author – Alice In Wonderland)
Edward J Smith (captain of the Titanic)
Mohamed Al Fayed (CEO of Harrods department store)
Nick Mason (drummer with Pink Floyd)
Mikhail Baryshnikov (ballet dancer)
Bridget Fonda (actress – Single White Female, Assassin, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1825: U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1941: Peruvian agent, Rivera-Schreiber, warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbour
1951: First of 126 nuclear tests takes place at Nevada test site
1967: Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
1976: "Laverne & Shirley" premieres on ABC TV
1977: President Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders
1984: Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial


Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Bridget Fonda!

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If you were born on January 28th, you share your birthdate with:

Saint Thomas Aquinas
Henry VII (first Tudor King of England)
Henry Stanley (journalist/ explorer – located Dr Livingstone)
Robert Stroud (convict – The Birdman of Alcatraz)
Alan Alda (actor – M*A*S*H)
Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah (King of Bahrain)
Nicolas Sarkozy (President of France)
Elijah Wood (actor – Lord of the Rings, Sin City, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1754: Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity
1807: London's Pall Mall is the first street lit by gaslight
1813: Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1887: In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
1958: The Lego Company patents their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1978: Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
1984: Record 295,000 dominoes toppled in Fuerth, West Germany

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Elijah Wood!

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If you were born on January 29th, you share your birthday with:

W C Fields (actor/comedian)
Tom Selleck (actor – Magnum P.I)
David Byron (singer – Uriah Heap)
Tommy Ramone (musician – The Ramones)
Greg Louganis (Olympic diving champion)
Ed Burns (actor/ director – The Brothers McMullen)
Heather Graham (actress – Drugstore Cowboy, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1595: William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” is first performed.
1845: Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" first published
1856: Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
1920: Walt Disney starts his first job as an artist, earning $40 week
1979: Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
1995: Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
2002: In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Tom Selleck!

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If you were born on January 30th, you share your birthday with:

Thomas Rolfe (only child of John Rolfe and Pocahontas)
Franklin D Roosevelt (32nd US President)
Gene Hackman (actor – Unforgiven, Enemy of the State, etc)
Vanessa Redgrave (actress – Murder on the Orient Express, Julia, etc)
Dick Cheney (US Secretary of Defence)
Phil Collins (singer/ drummer – Genesis)
Christian Bale (actor – Empire of the Sun, Batman Begins, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1661: Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.
1826: The world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
1847: Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1883: England’s cricket team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test. “The Ashes” have been the subject of competition between the two countries ever since.
1965: State funeral of Winston Churchill
1969: Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert
1982: Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1989: 5 pharoah sculptures that date to 1470 BC are found at the temple of Luxor

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Phil Collins!

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If you were born on January 31st, you share your birthday with:

Franz Schubert (composer – Unfinished Symphony)
Zane Grey (novelist – Riders of the Purple Sage)
John Lydon (singer, better known as Johnny Rotten – The Sex Pistols)
Anthony LaPaglia (actor – Murder One)
Minnie Driver (actress – Good Will Hunting, Grosse Point Blank, etc)
Portia De Rossi (actress – Ally McBeal)
Justin Timberlake (singer/ actor)

You also share the same date with these events:

1864: Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America
1928: Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company
1950: President Truman publicly announces development of H-bomb
1964: US report, "Smoking & Health", connects smoking to lung cancer
1971: "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart
1985: South African president, P W Botha, offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence
1990: Russia gets its first McDonalds, the biggest McDonalds ever built, in Moscow

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday John Lydon!

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If you were born on February 1st, you share your birthday with:

Clark Gable (actor – Gone With the Wind, etc)
Boris Yeltsin (President of USSR)
Jimmy Carl Black (musician – Mothers of Invention)
Terry Jones (comedian – one of the Monty Python crew)
Rick James (rock/soul/funk vocalist – Superfreak)
Brandon Lee (actor – The Crow, Showdown in Little Tokyo, etc)
Laura Dern (actress – Blue Velvet, Mask, etc)
Lisa Marie Presley-Keogh-Jackson

You also share the same date with these events:

1662: Dutch garrison on Formosa (now Taiwan) surrenders to Chinese pirates
1790: In New York City, Supreme Court convenes for the first time
1887: Harvey Wilcox subdivides 120 acres in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development named Hollywood
1972: First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced
1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile
1981: Cricket – The infamous “under-arm bowl” ordered by Australian captain, Greg Chappel, wins the game, but condemns him for “unsportsmanly” behaviour.
1982: "Late Night With David Letterman," debuts on NBC-TV
2003: Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Laura Dern!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 2nd, you share your birthday with:

Solomon R Guggenheim (philanthropist – Guggenheim Museum)
James Joyce (novelist/ poet)
Graham Nash (musician – Crosby, Stills & Nash)
Farrah Fawcett (actress – Charley’s Angels)
Christie Brinkley (model/ actress)
Brent Spiner (actor – plays Data in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”)
Holly Hunter (actress – The Big White, Broadcast News, etc)
Shakira (singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

1709: British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years. His story inspires "Robinson Crusoe".
1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million
1863: Samuel Clemens uses the pseudonym “Mark Twain” for the first time
1887: Groundhog Day is first observed at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
1940: Frank Sinatra's singing debut with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
1943: German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad. Considered the turning point of WW II
1959: Buddy Holly's last performance
1971: Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Shakira!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 3rd, you share your birthdate with:

Felix Mendelssohn (composer)
Hugo Junkers (German aircraft designer)
Charlie “Pretty Boy” Floyd (gangster)
James A Michener (author – The Source, Centennial, Chesapeake, etc)
Val Doonican (Irish entertainer/ singer)
Ray Davies (singer/ guitarist – The Kinks)
Morgan Fairchild (actress)

You also share the same day with these events:

1815: In Swtitzerland, the first commercial cheese factory is established
1947: -81°F (-63°C) recorded at Snag, Yukon (North American record)
1950: Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1967: Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. Knowing he was the last did not make him happy.
1979: "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1993: Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles, California
1994: President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Morgan Fairchild!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 4th, you share your birthdate with:

Joshua Norton I (self acclaimed emperor of USA)
Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar (Speaker of Lok Sabha [elected lower house of the Indian Parliament], but more importantly, this month’s winner of “most-difficult-to-pronounce” award).
Charles A Lindbergh (aviator – first person to fly across Atlantic ocean solo)
Clyde William Tombaugh (astronomer – discovered Pluto)
Alice Cooper (singer – Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome To My Nightmare, etc)
Patrick Bergin (actor – Sleeping With the Enemy, Patriot Games, etc)
Noodles (musician/ guitarist – Offspring)

You also share the same day with these events:

960: In China, the coronation of Zhao Kuangyin initiates the Song Dynasty that would last more than three centuries.
1703: In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1859: The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1865: Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
1936: First radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
1977: Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released
1982: Indoor distance record for a paper airplane set at 47metres (Tacoma, Washington)
1984: Outdoor distance record for a Frisbee set at 168metres (Las Vegas, Nevada)
2010: Badstench attends the AC/DC “Black Ice” concert at Western Springs Stadium (Auckland, New Zealand)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

“For Those About To Rock!”

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 5th, you share your birthdate with:

Robert Peel (politician and founder of British police force – Gave his name to the pseudonyms “Peelers” and “Bobbies”)
William S Burroughs (author – Naked Lunch)
Zsa Zsa Gabor (actress – Queen of Outer Space)
Charlotte Rampling (actress – Zardoz, Verdict, etc)
Jennifer Jason Leigh (actress – Single White Female, Flesh + Blood, etc)
Bobby Brown (singer/ rapper – Ghostbusters, etc)
Christiano Ronaldo (Portuguese soccer star)

You also share the same day with these events:

1597: A group of Japanese Christian converts are killed by order of the government for being a threat to Japanese society
1816: Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville" premieres.
1916: Enrico Caruso records "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co
1922: Reader's Digest magazine first published
1924: The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1973: Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuts
1994: Byron De La Beckwith is sentenced to life in prison for murder, 30 years after the crime (Jackson, Mississippi)
1998: Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Christiano Ronaldo!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 6th, you share your birthday with:

Ronald Reagan (40th US President)
Eva Braun (mistress of Adolf Hitler)
Patrick MacNee (actor – The Avengers)
Rip Torn (actor – Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Men In Black, etc)
Bob Marley (reggae singer)
Axl Rose (singer – Guns’n’Roses)
Rick Astley (singer – Never Gonna Give You Up)

You also share the same date with these events:

1840: New Zealand’s national day is established with signing of treaty between Britain and Maori’s
1933: 34 metre (112ft) ocean wave observed near Manila, Philippines
1935: "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for first time
1956: French premier, Guy Mollet, is pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
1971: Astronaut, Alan Shephard, hits a golf ball on the moon
1990: Steve Briers of Wales recites the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes and 58.44 seconds backwards!
1998: Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Rip Torn!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 7th, you share your birthday with:

Sir Thomas More (Lord Chancellor of England, humanist and author)
John Deere (pioneer manufacturer of farm implements – John Deere tractors, etc)
Charles Dickens (author – Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, etc)
Dick Emery (actor/ comedian)
James Spader (actor – Endless Love, Wall St, etc)
Garth Brooks (country and western singer)
Eddie Izzard (actor/ comedian)
Chris Rock (actor/ comedian)
Ashton Kutcher (actor – Butterfly Effect, That 70’s Show, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1238: The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1940: Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premieres
1949: Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player
1962: Under orders from President Kennedy, US bans all trade with Cuba
1965: Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim and adopts the name Muhammad Ali
1974: Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theatres
1993: In a TV wedding, Pebbles Flintstone & Bam Bam Rubble marry
2009: Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Eddie Izzard!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 8th, you share your birthdate with:

Jules Verne (pioneer sci-fi/ fantasy writer – Journey to the Centre of the Earth, etc)
Demchugdongrub (Mongolian politician and winner of this months “cool name” award)
Jack Lemmon (actor – Grumpy Old Men, etc)
James Dean (actor – Rebel Without a Cause, etc)
Nick Nolte (actor – 48hrs, Teachers, etc)
John Grisham (novelist – The Firm, Pelican Brief, etc)
Vince Neil (singer – Mötley Crüe)
Gary Coleman (actor – “Watchoo talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?” – Different Strokes)

You also share the same day with these events:

1855: The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1883: Louis Waterman begins experiments that eventually lead to the invention of the fountain pen
1918: "Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, is first published
1942: Congress advises that Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they won't oppose the US war effort
1952: Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom
1969: Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
1983: Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland and is never found; Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance
1992: "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday John Grisham!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 9th, you share your birthdate with:

Frank Frazetta (fantasy artist/ illustrator)
Smokey Robinson (song-writer extraordinaire)
Carol King (singer/ song-writer)
Joe Pesci (actor – Goodfellas, Lethal Weapon 3, etc)
Mia Farrow (actress – Rosemary’s Baby, The Color Purple, etc)
Lennox Lewis (heavy-weight boxing champion)
James “Rachel” Bolan (musician – Skid Row)

You also share the same day with these events:

1540: The first recorded horse race meet in England takes place at Roodee Fields, Chester.
1822: Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
1895: Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1953: "Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres
1969: World's largest airplane, Boeing 747 (Jumbo Jet), makes first commercial flight
1985: Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for three weeks
1997: The "Simpsons" airs 167th episode to become the longest-running animated series in cartoon history

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Lennox Lewis!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 10th, you share your birthdate with:

Lon Chaney Jnr (actor – best known for roles in early horror movies; Frankenstein, etc)
Jim Whittaker (first American to climb Mt Everest)
Robert Wagner (actor – Hart To Hart, etc)
Roberta Flack (singer – If I Ever Saw Your Face, etc)
Mark Spitz (US Olympic swimming sensation)
Greg Norman (professional golfer)
Sharon Stone (actress – Basic Instinct, Total Recall, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1763: Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England
1897: New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1906: Britain's first modern, and largest, battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
1942: Glenn Miller awarded first ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
1971: American Mensa Ltd incorporates in New York City
1992: Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
1996: IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov
1997: Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 closest approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Sharon Stone!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 11th, you share your birthdate with:

Thomas Alva Edison (Scientist/ Inventor – he lit up your life!)
Sidney Sheldon (novelist – Bloodline, etc)
Leslie Nielson (actor – Naked Gun, Forbidden Planet, etc)
Burt Reynolds (actor – Smokey & the Bandit, Cannonball, etc)
Sheryl Crow (musician/ singer)
Sarah Palin (US politician)
Jennifer Aniston (actress – The Good Girl, Along Came Polly, etc)
Kelly Slater (world champion surfer)

You also share the same day with these events:

660BC: Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu
55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
1858: First apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes, France
1905: James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½ – last pin breaks but stands
1970: Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
1977: 20.2kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
1990: Nelson Mandela freed from prison in South Africa

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Sarah Palin!

[spencer]

OK, now I have an issue!! How could you possibly pick Sarah Palin as a special shout out when you have Leslie Nielson on the same list!!?? :D

[Elrond]

It seems that Badstench was giving the special shout to the least worthy on this day! I checked all the other names; and all of them come before Palin on my list. After all, she lost an election! How could that be commended?

[Badstench]

Criteria for special shout-outs

1) Generally, if I'm shouting out to a person (rather than to the originating date of an event), I shout-out to a "living" person.

2) I don't select the recipient of a shout-out based on historical importance or achievement. It's done merely by whim... some of the recipient's might be favourite musicians, or actors I admire, or woman I think are gorgeous... or maybe I recently saw something in the newspaper or on TV which makes my selection topical or ironic.

3) Sometimes it amuses me to pick out a person for no other reason than it amuses me.

In the case of Sarah Palin, she amuses me. Whenever I see her on TV, I find myself watching with a half-smile on my face, waiting for the inevitable gaffe that will justify my belief that she does to politics the one thing that makes it fun to be involved with... she makes it entertaining!

Having said that, I did recognise that Spencer's original remark was "tongue-in-cheek".

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 12th, you share your birthdate with:

Abraham Lincoln (16th US President)
Charles Darwin (Naturalist – Origin of Species)
Lorne Green (actor – Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica, etc)
Ray Manzarek (musician/ keyboardist – The Doors)
Michael Ironside (actor – Starship Troopers, etc)
Andie MacDowell (model/ actress – Groundhog Day, Four Weddings & A Funeral, etc”
Christina Ricci (actress – Monster, Addams Family, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1502: Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1879: News about the slaughter of a British army division at Isandlwana during the Zulu War reaches London
1908: New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in New York City. George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1914: In Washington DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1984: Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics
2002: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear waste repository.
2004: The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Andie MacDowell!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 13th, you share your birthday with:

Oliver Reed (actor – the original bad boy/ alcoholic and waster)
Chuck Yeager (first man to break the sound barrier)
Jerry Springer (US talk show host)
Stockard Channing (actress)
Peter Gabriel (musician/ singer – “Shock the Monkey”, "Sledgehammer" – Genesis)
Penelope Anne Miller (actress – Awakenings, Freshman, etc)
Robbie Williams (singer – and extrovert extraordinaire)

You also share the same date with these events:

1777: Marquis de Sade is arrested and imprisoned. He quite likes it!
1866: Jesse James commits his first bank robbery and gets away with $15,000. He quite likes it!
1867: “Blue Danube”, by Johann Sebastian Straus premiers. His audience quite like it!
1922: Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun’s tomb.
1959: Barbie doll goes on sale for the first time.
1982: Pink Floyd’s, “Dark Side of the Moon” enters its 402nd week on the music charts.
2000: The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
2009: Unix time passed 1,234,567,890 seconds 0n February 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Peter Gabriel!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 14th, you share your birthday with:

Margaret Knight (inventor/ businesswoman – invented square bottoms in paper bags)
Jack Benny (actor/ comedian/ vaudevillian)
Edward Platt (actor – played “Chief” in Get Smart!)
Teller (magician/ entertainer, first name unknown. Half of the Penn & Teller duo)
Ken Wahl (actor – Wiseguy)
Meg Tilly (actress – The Big Chill, Impulse, etc)
Rob Thomas (singer/ song-writer – Matchbox 20)

You also share the same date with these events:

1849: In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1895: Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
1924: IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1957: Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
1966: Australian currency is decimalised.
1989: Ayatollah Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie
1989: The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Rob Thomas!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 15th, you share your birthdate with:

Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero (emperor of Rome – the one who supposedly fiddled while the city burned)
Galileo Galilei (astronomer/ physicist – the one who dared to suggest that the earth was round, like a ball, and wasn’t the centre of God’s universe)
Henry Engelhard Steinway (piano maker – the famous one)
Cesar Romero (actor – played “The Joker” in the original Batman TV series)
Jane Seymour (actress – Dr Quin; Medicine Woman)
Matt Groening (cartoonist – The Simpsons)
Brandon Boyd (musician – Incubus)

You also share the same day with these events:

399: Socrates sentenced to death
1764: The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
1882: World’s first refrigerated sea cargo consists of frozen meat shipped from New Zealand to England
1931: First Dracula movie released
1965: Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf
1971: After 1,200 years, Britain abandons antiquated 12-shilling currency for decimal system.
1989: Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends
2005: YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Matt Groening!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 16th, you share your birthdate with:

Richard McDonald (fast food pioneer)
Patty Andrews (singer – one of the “Andrews Sisters”)
Sonny Bono (singer – of Sonny & Cher fame)
Ice-T (rapper/ actor – New Jack City, Johnny Mnemonic, etc)
John McEnroe (tennis brat: “You cannot be serious!?!”)
Dave Lombardo (drummer for Slayer)
Mr Jefferson (world’s first cloned calf)

You also share the same day with these events:

600: Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
1878: Silver dollar becomes US legal tender
1950: Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line", debuts on CBS
1959: Fidel Castro names himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista
1992: LA Lakers retires Magic Johnson's #32 uniform
2005: The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2006: The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Ice-T!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 17th, you share your birthdate with:

Andrew “Banjo” Paterson (Australian poet – wrote “Waltzing Matilda)
William Cadbury (chocolate manufacturer)
Yasser Arafat (Palestinian politician)
Barry Humphries (Australian entertainer – also known as “Dame Edna Everidge”)
Rene Russo (actress – Ransom, Lethal Weapon 3, etc)
Lou Diamond Philips (actor – La Bamba, Young Guns, etc)
Michael Jordan (basketball superstar)
Denise Richards (actress – Wild Things, The World is Not Enough, etc)
Paris Hilton (heiress/ socialite)

You also share the same day with these events:

1795: Thomas Seddal harvests an 8.3kg potato from his garden in Chester, England
1878: First telephone exchange in San Fransico opens with 18 phones
1933: Blondie Boopadoop marries Dagwood Bumstead in the comic strip, “Blondie”
1936: Billed as the world’s first superhero, The Phantom comic strip debuts
1989: A six week study of the Arctic atmosphere shows there is no ozone "hole"
1995: A federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
2008: Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Paris Hilton!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 18th, you share your birthdate with:

Enzo Ferrari (car manufacturer)
Jack Palance (actor – City Slickers, etc)
Yoko Ono-Lennon (artist/ singer)
Cybill Shepherd (actress – Moonlighting, etc)
John Travolta (actor – Pulp Fiction, Face Off, etc)
Matt Dillon (actor – Flamingo Kid, Tex, etc)
Molly Ringwald (actress – 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

3102BC: Epoch of the Kali Yuga; Hindu age of the male demon, Kali
1678: John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published
1885: Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is published
1954: The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
1968: David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
1995: Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed
1998: Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday John Travolta!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 19th, you share your birthdate with:

Nicolaus Copernicus (astronomer/ mathematician)
Lee Marvin (actor – Paint Your Wagon, The Dirty Dozen, etc)
“Mama” Cass Elliot (singer – The Mamas & the Papas)
Tony Iommi (musician/ guitarist – Black Sabbath)
Jeff Daniels (actor – Dumb & Dumber, Something Wild, etc)
Prince Andrew Windsor (the Duke of York)
Benecio Del Toro (actor – The Usual Suspects, Wolfman, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano, “Huaynaputina”, explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1859: US law – first time the defence of temporary insanity is used successfully.
1945: 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
1977: Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released
1981: George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" of his song, "My Sweet Lord"
1985: Cherry Coke is introduced by Coca-Cola
1986: USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Prince Andrew!

[Badstench]

YOUR STARS IN SRYTH
Pisces: February 20 – March 20
Element: Water
Symbol: Two fish
Ruler: Neptune

There’s a saying: “Clear as mud”! Pisceans have a reputation for being kind souls, generous and friendly. Well, I’m going to let you in on a secret – outwardly, they are exactly as described, and there’s a similarity between the face you see and the face they show you. However...

People born under the sign of Pisces are, more likely than not, blonde… which is a cynical way of branding them as being a bit vague. They’re not actually stupid, but their thoughts are prone to the inconsequential and the unimportant. In short, they are the dreamers and fantasists of the world who see things very differently to the rest of us.

The fact is, Pisceans can often be found with looks of utter confusion written across their features when the real world intrudes on their otherwise idyllic existences. For example, it came as quite a shock to the sage Elumyr (of Hawklor) when his most favourite of all things (a tree) clubbed him over the head recently. His look of stunned incredulity might have been hilarious to see had the clubbing not resulted in his skull being crushed and him falling down dead, but the fact remains that Elumyr had had enough time to avoid the clubbing if he’d heeded previous warnings; he hadn’t, because he didn’t (and wouldn’t) believe that trees could be harmful.

Pisceans are the opposite of Capricans. Whereas the latter are studious, hard-working and ambitious, Pisceans tend to favour the easy roads through life, letting the cards fall how they will and accepting whatever comes their way. In fact, the phrase most often used by Pisceans is, “Whatever”.

But, do not think lowly of Pisceans, for they are a bunch of people who appear honestly happy with their lives. Joy and laughter follows them, and this attracts new friends and admirers with oft regularity. Their propensity for inventiveness and the ability to look at things from different angles makes them good story-tellers and philosophers. They are not particularly clever with their hands, so machinery or items of an intricate nature befuddle them, but they are extremely creative of mind and imagination, which puts the vocations of bard, actor or con-artist right up their respective alleys.

Pisces and Money: It would be fair to say that Pisceans aren’t particularly wise in financial affairs. They are actually quite good at accumulating and saving money, but hopeless when it comes to spending it; they aren’t good at bargain-hunting or bartering, and couldn’t care less what things cost as long as those “things” do what is required. The whole idea of finances and money is viewed as being a rather tawdry subject better left to menial labourers and the working classes, dontchaknow.

However, their nonchalant way of dispensing with money does not mean Pisceans are generous by any means. In fact, their kind and caring nature belies a low tolerance level for beggars and people who squander money. They believe that poor people can best be helped by being made to earn their own keep; charity is just a way to engender laziness! In this respect, Pisceans honestly believe that they are doing the world a favour by being miserly.

The truth is, although Pisceans can spend money on themselves without any thought to personal expense, they are otherwise a tight-fisted bunch!

Pisces and Romance: Pisceans romanticize the reality of romance to the point where they dwell in a fairy tale world of romantic vomit. If people could experience one zillionth of the perfection inherent of how a Piscean views inter-personal relationships, there wouldn’t be any wars. This view of looking at love and relationships has a polarising effect on the partners of the Piscean: 1) they live completely happy lives oblivious to the fact that it’s all a façade, or 2) they take out a restriction order against the loopy Piscean and buy a gun for protection.

However, Pisceans who aren’t completely loopy are usually loyal, faithful, and loving. If you can find one of the good Pisceans, snap him/ her up quickly…. Just don’t open a joint bank account together!

Famous Pisceans in Sryth: There aren’t any. At least, there aren’t any who will readily admit to it. In these dangerous times, one needs to keep a firm grip on reality, so walking with your head in the clouds is frowned upon (unless you happen to be a giant, of course).

Actually, the trader Mezaryl is rumoured to be Piscean, which would explain why her wares and services are never offered at sale prices. Her disarming smile and girlish charm has a way of lulling her male customers into feeling like they’ve got the better of any transaction when, in fact, that isn’t the case at all.

It’s also interesting to note that certain branches of the occult include a high proportion of practitioners born between February 20 and March 20, these mainly being conjurers and illusionists (The late Elumyr is a point in case). This is probably because of the link between mind-magics and the creative imaginations inherent of your average Piscean.

Other people who fall under the influence of Pisces are: Havoc (Feb 20) and Zmflavius (March 15)

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 20th, you share your birthday with:

Jackie Gleason (comedian/ actor – Navy Blues, Smokey & the Bandit, etc)
Sidney Poitier (actor – Porgy & Bess, Blackboard Jungle, etc)
Robert Altman (movie director – M*A*S*H, Brewster McLeod, etc)
Jerome Geils (musician/ guitarist – J Geils Band – Freeze Frame, Centrefold, etc)
Ivana Trump (American socialite)
Patty Hearst (infamous kidnap hostage-that-wasn’t)
Kelsey Gramar (actor – Cheers, Fraiser, etc)
William Baldwin (actor – Backdraft, Sliver, Flatliners, etc)
Cindy Crawford (supermodel)
Kurt Cobain (musician/ song-writer – Nirvana)
Rihanna (singer)
Havoc (Sryth gaming legend and forum administrator)

You also share the same date with these events:

1472: Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment.
1673: First recorded wine auction held, in London
1872: Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City
1943: In Mexico, a new volcano (Paracutin) erupts in a farmer's corn patch
1944: Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
1947: Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles
1953: US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
1960: Jimi Hendrix, rock and roll guitarist, plays his first gig.
1971: National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake isn't resolved for 30 minutes
1974: Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
1985: After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
1994: Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
1998: US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year. It takes just 51 days.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Havoc!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 21st, you share your birthday with:

Robert Mugabe (president of Zimbabwe – E-ba-gum!)
Larry Hagman (actor – I Dream of Genie, Dallas)
Nina Simone (singer/ pianist)
Alan Rickman (actor – Truly Madly Deeply, Harry Potter movies, etc)
Jean-Jacques Brunel (bass guitarist – The Stranglers)
Christopher Atkins (actor – Blue Lagoon, etc)
Jennifer Love Hewitt (actress – Ghost Whisperer)
Charlotte Church (singer)

You also share the same date with these events:

1878: First telephone book is issued to 50 subscribers in New Harbor, Connecticut
1887: Oregon becomes first US state to make Labor Day a holiday
1916: During World War 1, the battle of Verdun begins, in which there will ultimately be one million casualties.
1918: The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1952: Dick Button performs first figure skating triple jump in competition
1972: Richard Nixon becomes first US president to visit China
1981: Charles Rocket clearly says "fuck" on Saturday Night Live
1988: Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Jennifer Love Hewitt!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 22nd, you share your birthdate with:

George Washington (1st President of the United States – although he was actually born before the change from Julian to Gregorian reckoning, so his birthdate was originally February 11)
“Chico” Marx (comedian – The Marx Brothers)
Sir John Mills (actor – King Rat, The Thirty Nine Steps, Gandhi, etc)
Nikki Lauder (formula 1 racing champion)
Julie Walters (actress – Educating Rita, etc)
Nigel Planer (actor – played “Neil” in The Young Ones)
Vijay Singh (professional golfer)
Jeri Ryan (actress – plays “7 of 9” in Star Trek Voyager)
Drew Barrymore (actress – Poison Ivy, ET, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1630: Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn
1774: English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
1797: The last time Britain is invaded is perpetrated by those damnable French near Fishguard, Wales.
1888: John Reid, of Scotland, demonstrates golf to Americans
1935: From this date, aircraft are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1989: UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud" (the political militarization of space, not the movie!)
2006: At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Drew Barrymore!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 23rd, you share your birthdate with:

George Friedrich Handel (composer – Messiah)
Victor Fleming (movie director – Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, etc)
Paul Tibbets (pilot of “Enola Gay” when it flew over Hiroshima)
Johnny Winter (musician/ blues guitarist)
Brad Whitford (musician/ guitarist – Aerosmith)
Dana Catherine Scully (fictional character from “X-Files”)
Dakota Fanning (actress – War of the Worlds, The Secret Life of Bees, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1836: The Alamo is besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison is eventually killed
1904: US acquire control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million
1916: By a terrible mistake, French artillery kills the entire French 72nd division at Samogneux, Verdun, during World War 1.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1945: US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, as per the famous photo and statue
1997: Scientists in Scotland announce they have succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
2008: A B-2 Spirit of the US Air Force crashes at Guam. The crew survives but the aircraft is written off, making it the most expensive air crash in human history (the aircraft alone cost $1.2Bn)

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Dakota Fanning!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 24th, you share your birthdate with:

Wilhelm Karl Grimm (story teller – one of the Brothers Grimm)
Abe Vigoda (actor – Barney Miller, Fish)
Edward James Olmos (actor – Miami Vice, Battlestar Galactica)
George Thorogood (musician/ guitarist – Bad To the Bone)
Michelle Shocked (musician/ singer)
Bill Bailey (comedian/ actor – Black Books)
Billy Zane (actor – Titanic, Millions, etc)
Oscar del la Hoya (boxing champion)
Lleyton Hewitt (professional tennis player)

You also share the same day with these events:

303: First official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued
1821: Mexico gains independence from Spain
1938: Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
1979: Highest price ever paid for a pig is recorded; $42,500 at Stamford, Texas
1981: Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
1996: The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
1999: The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
2008: Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Oscar de la Hoya!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 25th, you share your birthdate with:

Zeppo Marx (comedian/ actor – one of the Marx Brothers)
Anthony Burgess (novelist – A Clockwork Orange, etc)
George Harrison (musician/ guitarist – one of the Beatles)
Sally Jessy Raphael (talk-show host)
Elkie Brooks (singer – Pearl’s a Singer)
Tea Leoni (actress – Spanglish, Bad Boys, etc)
Sean Astin (actor – played Samwise Gamgee in Lord of the Rings)

You also share the same day with these events:

1540: Francisco Vasquez de Coronado begins his search for the fabled 7 cities of Gold
1751: First performing monkey exhibited in America, New York City (admission 1 cent)
1862: Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln
1910: Dali Lama flees Chinese troops from Tibet to the British-Indies
1972: Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single, which is promptly banned in England
1990: On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long
1998: Switzerland's first legal brothel opens in Zurich

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Tea Leoni!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 26th, you share your birthdate with:

Victor Hugo (author – Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, etc)
Levi Strauss (clothes designer – Levi’s jeans)
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody (famous cowboy/ frontiersman)
Tony Randall (actor – The Odd Couple, etc)
Antoine “Fats” Domino (musician/ pianist)
Johnny Cash (musician/ singer – A Boy Named Sue, Ring of Fire, etc)
Michael Bolton (singer)

You also share the same day with these events:

1815: Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
1919: Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
1952: Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
1979: Continental US experiences its last total eclipse of the sun during the 20th century
1983: Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 and stays at that position for 37 weeks
1995: London finance house, Barings, collapses after stock losses in Singapore through illegal trading by Nick Leeson
2001: The Taleban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
2004: The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Michael Bolton!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 27th, you share your birthday with:

Constantine I (The Roman emperor (306-337) who adopted Christianity)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet – Hiawatha)
John Steinbeck (author – The Grapes of Wrath)
Elizabeth Taylor (actress – Cleopatra, etc)
Ralph Nader (consumer advocate)
Johnny Van Zant (musician/ singer – Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Adam Baldwin (actor – Full Metal Jacket, etc)
Chelsea Clinton (Bill’s daughter)

You also share the same date with these events:

837: 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1700: William Dampier discovers and names the island of New Britain (part of Papua New Guinea), the 38th largest island in the world – there’s some trivia for you!
1827: The first Mardi Gras celebration takes place in New Orleans
1939: The US Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
1964: The government of Italy first asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1967: Pink Floyd release their first single, "Arnold Layne"
1981: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
1992: At 16, Tiger Woods becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
1998: Britain's House of Lords agree's to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Chelsea Clinton!

[Badstench]

If you were born on February 28th, you share your birthday with:

Bugsy Siegal (Gangster and driving force behind Las Vegas as a gambling town)
Harry Corbett (actor – Steptoe & Son)
Mario Andretti (race-car driver)
Brian Jones (musician – Rolling Stones)
Randy Jackson (music manager and American Idol judge)
Cindy Wilson (singer – The B52’s)
John Turturro (actor – Transformers, O Brother Where Art Thou, etc)

You also share the same date with these events:

1646: Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts... for falling asleep in church
1939: The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1970: Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
1983: Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs; record 125 million viewers watch
1993: Gun battle erupts at Waco Texas between FBI & Branch Davidians
1997: Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US
1998: First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday John Turturro!

[Badstench]

White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits

If you were born on March 1st, you share your birthdate with:

Frederick Chopin (composer/ pianist)
Glen Miller (musician/ song-writer/ band leader – In The Mood)
David Niven (actor – The Guns of Navarone, Casino Royale, etc)
Harry Belafonte (calypso singer)
Roger Daltrey (singer – The Who)
Ron Howard (actor/ director – Happy Days, etc)
Catherine Bach (actress – played Daisy Duke on “Dukes of Hazard”)

You also share the same day with these events:

752BC: Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women.
1260: Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquers Damascus
1565: The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
1872: Yellowstone becomes world's first national park
1912: Albert Berry makes first parachute jump from an airplane
1953: Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
1977: Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
1978: Charlie Chaplin’s coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery
2006: English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Roger Daltrey!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 2nd, you share your birthdate with:

Samuel Houston (1st President of Texas)
Theodor Geisel (kids book author, better known as Dr Seuss)
Dezi Arnaz (actor – I Love Lucy)
Mikhail S Gorbachev (Russian politician who dismantled the communist union)
Lou Reed (musician/ singer/ The Grandfather of Punk)
Rory Gallagher (musician/ guitarist)
Karen Carpenter (singer/ drummer)
Jon Bon Jovi (musician/ singer – Bon Jovi)
Daniel Craig (actor – the newest incarnation of James Bond)
Chris Martin (musician/ singer/ song writer – Coldplay)
Elizabeth Jagger (model/ actress)

You also share the same day with these events:

1836: Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico
1888: The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
1925: US road numbering system and shield markers adopted
1927: Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
1976: Walt Disney World logs its 50 millionth guest
1983: Sony introduces music compact discs to the world
1998: Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Lou Reed!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 3rd, you share your birthdate with:

George M Pullman (inventor – designed the first railway sleeping car)
Alexander Graham Bell (inventor – telephone)
James Doohan (actor – played “Scotty” on Star Trek)
Zico (Brazillian soccer great)
Terence Charles "Snowy" White (musician/ guitarist - Thin Lizzy)
Tone-Loc (rapper)
Ronan Keating (singer – Boyzone)
Jessica Biel (actress – Stealth, The Illusionist, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1284: Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England
1855: Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
1891: Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
1923: Time Magazine is published for the first time.
1997: The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
2004: Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agree to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that forms InBev, the world's largest brewer.
2005: Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops and without refuelling

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Jessica Biel!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 4th, you share your birthdate with:

Antonio Vivaldi (composer/ violinist – 4 Seasons)
Bobby Womack (musician/ singer)
Chris Squire (musician/ bass guitarist – Yes)
Shakin’ Stevens (singer – Green Door)
Chris Rhea (musician/ singer/ song-writer – Fool If You Think it’s Over, Let’s Dance, etc)
Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini (boxer who earned notoriety with an accidental “death” punch)
Patsy Kensit (actress – Lethal Weapon 2, Hanover St, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1804: The Battle of Vinegar Hill in colonial New South Wales, Australia; when Irish convicts stage the colony’s only significant convict uprising.
1861: Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
1885: Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres
1933: President Roosevelt pledges to pull US out of Depression and says, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
1966: John Lennon says about the Beatles, "We are more popular than Jesus"
1995: Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
2005: The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
2006: Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response is received.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Chris Squire!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 5th, you share your birthday with:

James B Sikking (actor – Hill St Blues, Star Trek 3, etc)
Eddie Grant (reggae musician – Electric Avenue)
Elaine Paige (singer/ actress
Andy Gibb (singer – the youngest of the Bee Gee brothers)
Charlie and Craig Reid ( singers – better known as “The Proclaimers”)
Evil Jared Hasselhoff (musician – Bloodhound Gang)
Eva Mendes (actress – “phwar”!)

You also share the same date with these events:

1558: Smoking tobacco introduced to Europe by Francisco Fernandes.
1912: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1936: The Spitfire makes it's first flight over Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton. Later design modifications save England during the “Battle of Britain”.
1949: Donald Bradman, considered the finest cricket batsman of all time, plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket... scores 30 runs.
1970: Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
1994: Largest milkshake is mixed in South Africa (1,955 gallons of chocolate flavour)
1998: Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Lee Jones (What?... I didn’t know she was involved with him!)

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Eva Mendes (phwar!)

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 6th, you share your birthday with:

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (better known simply as Michaelangelo – artist and sculptor)
Cyrano de Bergerac (playwright, famous for his big nose)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poet
Lou Costello (comedian/ actor – half of the duo “Abbot & Costello)
Frankie Howerd (comedian/ actor – That Was The Week That Was)
David Jon Gilmour (musician/ guitarist – Pink Floyd)
Kiri Te Kanawa (opera singer/ diva – she’s a kiwi, dontchaknow!)
Tom Arnold (actor – True Lies, etc)
Shaquille O’Neal (basketballer)

You also share the same date with these events:

1521: Magellan discovers Guam
1836: The battle of The Alamo culminates with the Mexicans winning after a 13 day siege. Among the American dead lie James Bowie and Davy Crockett.
1853: Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
1896: First automobile appears in Detroit – Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899: Bayer Pharmaceuticals registers aspirin as a trademark.
1918: US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in the Bermuda Triangle
1921: Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1950: Silly Putty invented
1974: An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
1985: Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "The King & I"
1992: The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Kiri Te Kanawa!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 7th, you share your birthday with:

Maurice J Ravel (composer – Bolero)
Daniel J Travanti (actor – Hill St Blues)
Tammy Faye Bakker (Television evangelist)
Matthew Fisher (musician/ keyboardist – Procol Harum)
Peter Wolf (singer – J Giels Band)
Rik Mayall (actor/ comedian – Drop Dead Fred, The Young Ones, etc)
Ivan Lendl (professional tennis player)

You also share the same date with these events:

322BC: Greek philosopher, Aristotle, dies.
1876: Patent for the telephone is awarded to Alexander Graham Bell
1908: Cincinnati Mayor, Mark Breith, stands before the city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
1933: “King Kong” premiers in New York City
1967: Teamster president, Jimmy Hoffa, begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering
1994: Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for a separate homeland in South Africa
1997: Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is sued because his smoking violates the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Rik Mayall!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 8th, you share your birthdate with:

Robert Roy Macgregor (better known as Rob Roy – Scottish folk hero)
Alan Hale (actor – played the Skipper on “Gilligan’s Island”)
Lynn Redgrave (actress)
Micky Dolenz (musician/ actor – The Monkees)
Gary Numan (musician/ singer – Are Friends Electric, Cars, etc)
Aidan Quinn (actor – Avalon, Desperately Seeking Susan, etc)
Freddy Prinz Jr (actor – I know What You Did Last Summer, etc)

You also share the same day with these events:

1817: The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1894: The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law.
1918: The first case of Spanish flu is diagnosed at the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1959: Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx’s final TV appearance together
1978: The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1983: President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire"
1987: The "A Team," last airs on NBC-TV

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Gary Numan!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 9th, you share your birthdate with:

Amerigo Vespucci (explorer/ cartographer – namesake of America)
Micky Spillane (novelist/ mystery writer)
Yuri Gagarin (cosmonaut and first man into space)
Raul Julia (actor – The Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman, etc)
Robin Trower (musician/ guitarist – Bridge of Sighs, etc)
Linda Fiorentino (actress – Men In Black, Dogma, etc)
Chingy (rapper)

You also share the same day with these events:

1562: In Naples, kissing in public is banned and made punishable by death
1796: Napoléon Bonaparte marries Joséphine de Beauharnais
1864: Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1916: Fransisco "Pancho" Villa invades US
1942: Construction of the Alaska Highway begins
1967: Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defects to the West
2006: Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Linda Fiorentino!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 10th, you share your birthdate with:

James Herriot (veterinarian/ author – All Creatures Great & Small)
Chuck Norris (martial arts actor – Missing In Action, etc)
Dean Torrence (singer – half of the duo, “Jan & Dean”)
Tom Scholz (musician/ guitarist/ keyboardist – Boston)
Shannon Lee Tweed (model/ playmate/ married to Gene Simmons)
Osama Bin Laden (needs no explaining)
Carrie Underwood (country & western singer)

You also share the same day with these events:

241BC: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
1681: English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1831: The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
1893: New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony. Its only graduate, Sam Steele, was robbed and killed the night before
1896: After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world heavy weight championship he coins the phrase, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
1969: James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr
1975: Dog spectacles patented in England
2000: The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signalling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Carrie Underwood!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 11th, you share your birthday with:

Henry Benedict Stuart (pretender to the English throne)
Thomas Hastings (architect – New York City Library)
Douglas Adams (author – Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy)
Jesse Jackson Jr (politician)
John Dalton (otherwise known as “Johnny Fairplay”, from the 6th season of Survivor)
Eric the Midget (radio personality)
Benji & Joel Madden (musician brothers – Good Charlotte)
Shadowblack (Sryth gaming legend and forum administrator)

You also share the same date with these events:

1425BC: Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1302: Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1986: 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome in 4/21/753 BC
1988: British pound note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by one pound coin
1991: Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as women’s tennis #1
1997: Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
2006: Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday Shadowblack!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 12th, you share your birthdate with:

Thomas Augustine Arne (composer – “Rule Britannia”)
U Win Tin (jailed Burmese journalist and recipient of the “strange name award” for March)
Liza Minnelli (singer/ actress – Cabaret, etc)
Ron Jeremy (actor best known for his “prowess” in porn movies)
Steve Harris (musician/ bassist – Iron Maiden)
Aaaron Eckhart (actor – Batman: The Dark Knight, etc)
Pete Doherty (musician and ex-partner of Kate Moss. A total knob!)

You also share the same day with these events:

1642: Abel Tasman sets foot on New Zealand soil – the first European to do so.
1894: Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time, in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1912: Captain Albert Berry performs first parachute jump from an airplane
1958: British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1969: Beatle, Paul McCartney, marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1971: Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger, marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias
1984: British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become first skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1994: Church of England ordains first women priests

Today’s special shout-out goes to…

Happy Birthday Liza Minnelli!

[Badstench]

If you were born on March 13th, you share your birthday with:

Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu (French marshal and cardinal – the one portrayed as a villain in “The Three Musketeers”)
L Ron Hubbard (founder of the Church of Scientology)
Allan Jaffee (comic strip cartoonist – MAD Magazine)
Clarence Nash (the voice of Donald Duck)
Neil Sedaka (singer/ song-writer)
William H Macy (actor – The Client, Mr Holland’s Opus, etc)
Adam Clayton (musician/ bassist – U2)

You also share the same date with these events:

1519: Cortez lands in Mexico
1900: In France the length of the workday for children is limited to 11 hours by law.
1965: Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton for the Yardbirds
1981: Mehemet Ali Agca shoots and wounds Pope John Paul II
1991: Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1997: The Phoenix lights are witnessed over Phoenix, Arizona, by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
2003: The journal, “Nature”, reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
2008: Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time.

Today’s special shout-out goes to

Happy Birthday William H Macy!