Katylina
01-01-2004, 06:31 PM
Feliz cumpleanos eres tu.
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Born on this Day:
1449: Lorenzo de Medici
1484: Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer
1511: Prince Henry of England, who survives no more than six weeks
1618: Bartolom€ Esteban Murillo, Spanish Baroque artist (baptized)
1735: Paul Revere
1752: Betsy Ross, who, according to legend, made the first American flag.
1879: English novelist E.M. Forster
1895: J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Dircetor.
1900: Xavier Cugat (Francisco Deulogeo) Composer, band leader (The Lady in Red, Perfidia, Brazil, Begin the Beguine)
1909: Actor Dana Andrews (State Fair, The Best Years of Our Lives, A Walk in the Sun, Battle of the Bulge, Airport '75)
1909: Barry Goldwater the 1964 Republican candidate for president
1912: British-born Soviet master spy Harold "Kim" Philby
1919: J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
1921: Champion prize fighter Rocky Graziano (Rocco Barbella)
1923: Jazz musician Milt Jackson
1940: Actor Frank Langella
1942: Rock singer-musician Country Joe McDonald
1943: Writer-comedian Don Novello
1950: Country singer Steve Ripley (The Tractors)
1958: Rapper Grandmaster Flash.
1964: Actress Dedee Pfeiffer ("Cybill")
1969: Actor Verne Troyer ("Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me")
1970: Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson ("Boogie Nights"; "Magnolia")
Events in History on this day:
0045: BC Julian Calendar introduced
0379: Death of St. Basil
0533: Death of St. Fulgentius
0898: Death of Odo, King of the Franks; Charles "the Simple" becomes King
1189: Saladin abandons his siege of Tyre
1356: The Pope publishes the "Golden Bull"
1387: Death of Charles II, "The Bad", King of Navarre
1391: Jean Gerson preaches against warfare to the King of France
1500 :Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers the coast of Brazil
1515: Death of Louis XII, King of France
1531: Rio de Janerio, Brazil, discovered
1559: Death of Christian III, King of Denmark and Norway
1562: Huguenots abolish Catholicism in Castres, France
1651: King Charles II crowned King of Scotland, the last King crowned at Scone
1766: Old Pretender, son of James III dies.
1782: "The English Bach "John Christian Bach died. He composed operas in the Italian style but also played organ like his dad.
1797: Albany became the capital of New York state, replacing New York City.
1804: Haiti gains it's independence
1863: The Emancipation Proclamation, declared the previous September by Abraham Lincoln, took effect. It declared freedom for slaves in all areas of the Confederacy that were still in rebellion against the Union.
1879: The Brahms Violin Concerto was premiered in Leipzig on this day, with Brahms' close friend Joseph Joachim in the solo spotlight. Virtually no previous violin concerto had been so thickly orchestrated and symphonic in its mood.
1892: The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.
1900: Musical Records, W.J. Henderson wrote "No gentleman would have written that thing. There are places for such music, but surely not before miscellaneous assemblages of ladies and gentlemen." It was the work of Strauss that he was offending, "Till Eulenspiegel."
1901: The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed.
1902: 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
1906: British Parliament curtails immigration for the insane, impoverished, criminal and diseased.
1907: he Pure Food and Drug Act becomes law in the U.S.
1909: London astronomers hint of sightings of a planet beyond Neptune.
1923: Sadi Lecointe sets a new aviation speed record flying an average of 208 mph at Istres.
1927: Massachusetts becomes the first state to require automobile insurance.
1934: Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
1945: France was admitted to the United Nations.
1953: Country singer Hank Williams Senior, 29, died of a drug and alcohol overdose while en route to a concert date in Canton, Ohio.
1956: Sudan gains it's independence
1958: Treaties establishing the European Economic Co
http://64.177.177.182/katylina/spictoonsig.jpg
Born on this Day:
1449: Lorenzo de Medici
1484: Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer
1511: Prince Henry of England, who survives no more than six weeks
1618: Bartolom€ Esteban Murillo, Spanish Baroque artist (baptized)
1735: Paul Revere
1752: Betsy Ross, who, according to legend, made the first American flag.
1879: English novelist E.M. Forster
1895: J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Dircetor.
1900: Xavier Cugat (Francisco Deulogeo) Composer, band leader (The Lady in Red, Perfidia, Brazil, Begin the Beguine)
1909: Actor Dana Andrews (State Fair, The Best Years of Our Lives, A Walk in the Sun, Battle of the Bulge, Airport '75)
1909: Barry Goldwater the 1964 Republican candidate for president
1912: British-born Soviet master spy Harold "Kim" Philby
1919: J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
1921: Champion prize fighter Rocky Graziano (Rocco Barbella)
1923: Jazz musician Milt Jackson
1940: Actor Frank Langella
1942: Rock singer-musician Country Joe McDonald
1943: Writer-comedian Don Novello
1950: Country singer Steve Ripley (The Tractors)
1958: Rapper Grandmaster Flash.
1964: Actress Dedee Pfeiffer ("Cybill")
1969: Actor Verne Troyer ("Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me")
1970: Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson ("Boogie Nights"; "Magnolia")
Events in History on this day:
0045: BC Julian Calendar introduced
0379: Death of St. Basil
0533: Death of St. Fulgentius
0898: Death of Odo, King of the Franks; Charles "the Simple" becomes King
1189: Saladin abandons his siege of Tyre
1356: The Pope publishes the "Golden Bull"
1387: Death of Charles II, "The Bad", King of Navarre
1391: Jean Gerson preaches against warfare to the King of France
1500 :Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers the coast of Brazil
1515: Death of Louis XII, King of France
1531: Rio de Janerio, Brazil, discovered
1559: Death of Christian III, King of Denmark and Norway
1562: Huguenots abolish Catholicism in Castres, France
1651: King Charles II crowned King of Scotland, the last King crowned at Scone
1766: Old Pretender, son of James III dies.
1782: "The English Bach "John Christian Bach died. He composed operas in the Italian style but also played organ like his dad.
1797: Albany became the capital of New York state, replacing New York City.
1804: Haiti gains it's independence
1863: The Emancipation Proclamation, declared the previous September by Abraham Lincoln, took effect. It declared freedom for slaves in all areas of the Confederacy that were still in rebellion against the Union.
1879: The Brahms Violin Concerto was premiered in Leipzig on this day, with Brahms' close friend Joseph Joachim in the solo spotlight. Virtually no previous violin concerto had been so thickly orchestrated and symphonic in its mood.
1892: The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.
1900: Musical Records, W.J. Henderson wrote "No gentleman would have written that thing. There are places for such music, but surely not before miscellaneous assemblages of ladies and gentlemen." It was the work of Strauss that he was offending, "Till Eulenspiegel."
1901: The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed.
1902: 1st Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
1906: British Parliament curtails immigration for the insane, impoverished, criminal and diseased.
1907: he Pure Food and Drug Act becomes law in the U.S.
1909: London astronomers hint of sightings of a planet beyond Neptune.
1923: Sadi Lecointe sets a new aviation speed record flying an average of 208 mph at Istres.
1927: Massachusetts becomes the first state to require automobile insurance.
1934: Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
1945: France was admitted to the United Nations.
1953: Country singer Hank Williams Senior, 29, died of a drug and alcohol overdose while en route to a concert date in Canton, Ohio.
1956: Sudan gains it's independence
1958: Treaties establishing the European Economic Co