RF Godfather
02-02-2004, 03:04 AM
HB to our Latina spice girl on our board.
All my best to you. Show your love peeps.
PEOPLE BORN TODAY
Gvac
LATINSPICEXOXO
Liz Smith
Farrah Fawcett
James Joyce
Christie Brinkley
Graham Nash
Martin Spanjers
Stan Gertz
Osmau Kido
Genichiro Tenryu
Seiji Sakaguchi
Brent Spiner
Michael T. Weiss
Jennifer Westfeldt
Shakira
Sean Elliott
Charles Correll
George Halas
Ayn Rand
Gale Gordon
Tom Smothers
Mike Fanning
John Tudor
FAMOUS EVENTS
First lie detector test given (1935).
Singing debut made by Frank Sinatra (1940).
Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose in New York. His death came just one day after he was released from prison on bail after his arrest on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend (1979).
The last German troops in the Soviet city of Stalingrad surrender to the Red Army, ending one of the pivotal battles of World War II (1943).
One week after toppling the regime of Ugandan leader Milton Obote, Major General Idi Amin declares himself president of Uganda and chief of the armed forces. Amin, head of the Ugandan army and air force since 1966, seized power while Obote was out of the country (1971).
details of ABSCAM, an FBI operation to uncover political corruption in the government, are released to the public. Thirty-one public officials were targeted for investigation, including Representative John Murphy of New York, five other representatives, and Harrison Williams, a Democrat senator of New Jersey. In the operation, FBI agents posed as representatives of Abdul Enterprises, Ltd., a fictional business owned by an Arab sheik. Under FBI video surveillance, the agents met with the officials and offered them money or other considerations in exchange for special favors, such as the approval of government contracts for companies in which the sheik had invested (1980).
The world's first movie stuntman performs for a newsreel. Stuntman Frederick Rodman Law jumped off the Statue of Liberty with a parachute. Later that year, he performed a similar stunt off the Brooklyn Bridge (1912).
The MGM studio fires slapstick star Buster Keaton on this day in 1933, on the grounds of Keaton's alleged excessive drinking. As a child, Keaton performed in vaudeville, then went on to star in silent films, where his skillful physical comedy reduced audiences to tears of laughter. Keaton enjoyed creative control over his own work until he joined MGM. After joining MGM, his career deteriorated. He was divorced from his wife of 11 years in 1932, landed smaller and smaller film roles, and in 1937 he entered a psychiatric clinic. However, after more than a decade in decline, he staged a successful comeback in the 1950s (1928).
David Letterman's offbeat late-night talk show debuts. A favorite of college students, the show aired after Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show. When Carson retired in 1992, Letterman and rival comic Jay Leno engaged in a heated battle for the coveted host slot. When Letterman was passed over, he left NBC for CBS, where his new program, Late Show with David Letterman, outperformed Leno's show almost every week in its first year (1982).
America Online announced it would limit the number of users allowed on the system during peak evening hours. The company had added 70,000 new users in January, boosting its overall membership to 600,000. The company said members might receive refunds if denied access to the service (1994).
LUCKY NUMBER: 4 BIRTHSTONE: AmethystPOSITIVE TRAITS: Tasteful, stylish, smoothNEGATIVE TRAITS: Uncooperative, distant, detached
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"Time to make a little noise!" --Shane Douglas
All my best to you. Show your love peeps.
PEOPLE BORN TODAY
Gvac
LATINSPICEXOXO
Liz Smith
Farrah Fawcett
James Joyce
Christie Brinkley
Graham Nash
Martin Spanjers
Stan Gertz
Osmau Kido
Genichiro Tenryu
Seiji Sakaguchi
Brent Spiner
Michael T. Weiss
Jennifer Westfeldt
Shakira
Sean Elliott
Charles Correll
George Halas
Ayn Rand
Gale Gordon
Tom Smothers
Mike Fanning
John Tudor
FAMOUS EVENTS
First lie detector test given (1935).
Singing debut made by Frank Sinatra (1940).
Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose in New York. His death came just one day after he was released from prison on bail after his arrest on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend (1979).
The last German troops in the Soviet city of Stalingrad surrender to the Red Army, ending one of the pivotal battles of World War II (1943).
One week after toppling the regime of Ugandan leader Milton Obote, Major General Idi Amin declares himself president of Uganda and chief of the armed forces. Amin, head of the Ugandan army and air force since 1966, seized power while Obote was out of the country (1971).
details of ABSCAM, an FBI operation to uncover political corruption in the government, are released to the public. Thirty-one public officials were targeted for investigation, including Representative John Murphy of New York, five other representatives, and Harrison Williams, a Democrat senator of New Jersey. In the operation, FBI agents posed as representatives of Abdul Enterprises, Ltd., a fictional business owned by an Arab sheik. Under FBI video surveillance, the agents met with the officials and offered them money or other considerations in exchange for special favors, such as the approval of government contracts for companies in which the sheik had invested (1980).
The world's first movie stuntman performs for a newsreel. Stuntman Frederick Rodman Law jumped off the Statue of Liberty with a parachute. Later that year, he performed a similar stunt off the Brooklyn Bridge (1912).
The MGM studio fires slapstick star Buster Keaton on this day in 1933, on the grounds of Keaton's alleged excessive drinking. As a child, Keaton performed in vaudeville, then went on to star in silent films, where his skillful physical comedy reduced audiences to tears of laughter. Keaton enjoyed creative control over his own work until he joined MGM. After joining MGM, his career deteriorated. He was divorced from his wife of 11 years in 1932, landed smaller and smaller film roles, and in 1937 he entered a psychiatric clinic. However, after more than a decade in decline, he staged a successful comeback in the 1950s (1928).
David Letterman's offbeat late-night talk show debuts. A favorite of college students, the show aired after Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show. When Carson retired in 1992, Letterman and rival comic Jay Leno engaged in a heated battle for the coveted host slot. When Letterman was passed over, he left NBC for CBS, where his new program, Late Show with David Letterman, outperformed Leno's show almost every week in its first year (1982).
America Online announced it would limit the number of users allowed on the system during peak evening hours. The company had added 70,000 new users in January, boosting its overall membership to 600,000. The company said members might receive refunds if denied access to the service (1994).
LUCKY NUMBER: 4 BIRTHSTONE: AmethystPOSITIVE TRAITS: Tasteful, stylish, smoothNEGATIVE TRAITS: Uncooperative, distant, detached
http://hometown.aol.com/nycsmart/images/douglassig2%20copy.jpg
"Time to make a little noise!" --Shane Douglas