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March 8

Jim Rice

By the way, you are twenty-something years old. It's time to get over birthdays.

 

Huh?

 

JUNE 26


BIRTHDAY
Ariana Grande (Nickelodeon's Victorious), Jennette McCurdy (iCarly), Derek Jeter, Michael Vick, Deron Williams, actor Chris Isaak, actress Eleanor Parker, actor Peter Lorre, athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias, singer-songwriter Ryan Tedder, singer Gretchen Wilson, singer Harriet Wheeler, cyclist Greg LeMond, actor Sean Hayes (Will & Grace), baseball "inventor" Abner Doubleday, actress Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Rec), author Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth), former NFL star Shannon Sharpe, actor Chris O'Donnell, NBA player Iman Shumpert (2011 draft pick by Knicks), singer Leigh Bingham Nash (Sixpence None the Richer), NBA guard J.J. Barea, actor Robert Davi (villain in The Goonies), Nick Offerman (Parks and Rec), Mick Jones (Lead guitarist and songwriter for The Clash), Hollywood's Paul Thomas Anderson (Director and producer of Adam Sandler's Punch Drunk Love), baseball's Jason Kendall, Brazilian soccer player Felipe Melo, actor Jason Schwartzman (I Heart Huckabees), X Factor season 1 winner Melanie Ann Amaro, Basketball Hall of Famer Hal Greer, Dynasty actress Pamela Bellwood.

ON THIS DATE
1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.

DEATHS
American wrestler Buddy Rogers (1992), Baseball's Roy Campanella (1993), Politician Strom Thurmond (2003), fashion designer Liz Claiborne (2007), Hollywood's Nora Ephron (2012)

 

Dec 16

Shared birthday with Beethoven.

He got all of the musical talent allocated to that date. I cannot carry a tune in a backpack.

 

"Mad Men" reference.

 

Same day here.

1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation.
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
1945 – World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.

Other births: Catherine the Great of Russia (1729), Benjamin Spock (1903), Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, 3rd Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan (1928), Jacques Rogge (1948), former Leeds United and Aston Villa boss David O'Leary (1958), Mika Brzezinski (1967), World Cup autogloazo scorer Jeff Agoos (1968), Brian Lara (1969), former yokozuna Musashimaru (1971) and, perhaps most importantly, Jenna von Oy (1977).

Notable clog-poppings: Joe McCarthy (1957), J. Edgar Hoover (1972), Norm van Brocklin (1983) and Jack Kemp (2009).

 

It is also my uncle's birthday.

 

April 15 (tax day)

Was born on Easter Sunday.

Share it with Leonardo da Vinci, Joseph Seagram (of Seagram Company Ltd fame, and I do like cheap Canadian whiskey, even if it is redundant), Nikita Khrushchev, Kim Il-sung, Ken Lay, Heloise, Michael Cooper, Emma Thompson, Samantha Fox, model Stacey Williams, Arturo Gatti, goalie Tim Thomas, Milton Bradley (the baseball player), Seth Rogan, porn star Amy Reid and Emma Watson.

Major events include the Titanic sinking (1912), GE was formed (1892), Rand McNally published its first road atlas (1924), the great Mississippi flood of 1927 begins, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball (1947), the first McDonald's opened (1955-it wasn't called McDonald's), the Hillsborough Disaster resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool (soccer) fans (1989).

Deaths include Abe Lincoln, the many who perished in the Titanic, former Rams owner Dan Reeves and Joey Ramone.

 

Manky Jimy will now consider you a life-long friend.

 

Aug. 4, and you'll all get a laugh out of this first one:

Barack Obama ...

also
B.J. Surhoff, Roger Clemens, Louie Armstrong, Jeff Gordon, Louis Vuitton, Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Billy Bob Thornton, Helen Thomas, Alberto Gonzales.

Historical events
1824 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces. (winner goes on to create a shitty website).
1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1977 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".

Not many famous deaths, although actor Victor Mature and Rodney Ansell (the inspiration for Crocodile Dundee) -- both 1999 -- and porn actress Leslie Glass (2000) did succumb on that glorious date.

 

June 28

Shared: Mark Grace, Bobby Hurley, Brandon Phillips, Mr. Miyagi, Kelly Pickler, John Cusack, John Elway, Rob Dyrdek, Kathy Bates, Mel Brooks and King Henry VIII, among others.

Deaths: James Madison, Mickey Cochrane, Billy Mays.

Famous Events: 1st Council of Lyons, the Ottomans defeat the Serbs, the Battle of Monmouth, Molly Pitcher, Branch Rickey gives up 13 stolen bases in one game, Austria invades Siberia, Treaty of Versailles is signed, FDR orders the Gold Vault to be built on Fort Knox, Germany occupies Poland, Doc Gooden was suspended 60 days in 1994, Elian Gonzalez goes back to Cuba.

 

Add on expendable to the December 16 list.

Also,
Jane Austen
Lesley Stahl
Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top)
William "The Refrigerator" Perry
Billy Ripken
Danielle Lloyd

Deaths:
Colonel Sanders
John Spencer

Events:
1773 -- Boston Tea Party (actually, they were celebrating expendable's birth 200 years early)
1944 -- Battle of the Bulge begins