Friday, April 11, 2008

It's my birthday


So, this is it. today is the day... It is shower time and then leaving fr the airport.. have a great my birthday weekend and I will chat with you all on tuesday.

Here are all the things that share my birthday.

Today is Barbershop Quartet Day.

Today is Iinternational "Louie Louie" Day, an opportunity to celebrate what many call the greatest party song of all time (louieday.org).

Today is National Dandelion Day.

Today is M&Ms Crisis Day, marking the day in 1966 when American astronaut Shannon Lucid reported from the Russian space station Mir she was "absolutely, totally out" of M&Ms. Lucid spent 188 days aboard the Mir and asked only for regular resupplies of M&Ms.

Today is National Cheese Fondue Day.

Today is 8-Track Tape Day.

Today is Liberation Day in Uganda.

1973- I was born- Thanks mom!!!

1979: Rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control of Uganda's government deposing the brutal dictator Idi Amin.

1981: Guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli were married in Los Angeles.

1986: Kellogg’s of Battle Creek, Michigan, stopped an 80-year tradition of tours of its breakfast-food plant, believing that spies from other companies were taking the tours to steal company secrets.

1989: The U.S. issued a patent (#4,821,247) to Reginald Grooms of Conway, South Carolina, for his Ear-Mounted Alarm Clock, a digital alarm clock so tiny it can be hidden in your ear and awaken you without bothering your spouse.

1990: Astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Arizona named four asteroids after John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

1999: Florida accountant Jim Akin finished his annual count of dollar bills stapled to the walls and ceiling at McGuire’s Irish Pub & Brewery in Pensacola. Since 1977 customers had signed and stapled up 175,000 dollar bills, which every April have to be inventoried and reported to the IRS.

2003: Thieves broke into a safe and stole $1,020 -- from a prison. A spokesman for Spring Hill Prison near Aylesbury, England, said the crime took place in the prison's reception area.

2006: Sicilian Mafia leader Bernardo Provenzano was arrested near Palermo, Sicily, after eluding capture for 43 years.

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