21 Dec 06 - Thursday
birthdays:
1879 Joseph Stalin
1935 Phil Donahue
1937 Jane Fonda
1940 Frank Zappa
1946 Carl Dean Wilson
1948 Samuel L Jackson
1956 Lee Roy Parnell
this day:
1937 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Disney's Snow White)
1946 Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" premieres
1959 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
1962 US & Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
1968 Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell & Bill Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
1968 David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in California
1988 New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet (Flight 103) explodes over Scotland , killing all 259 people on the plane and 11 people on the ground
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
quote:
Without deviation progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa
