brit69's blog: "this day"

5 May 07 - Saturday 1813 Søren Kierkegaard Denmark, philosopher (founded Existentialism) 1818 Karl Marx philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital) 1883 Charles Bender only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame 1899 Freeman Gosden Richmond VA, radio actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy) 1900 Spencer Tracy actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) 1908 Rex [Reginald Carey] Harrison Huyton Lancashire England, actor (My Fair Lady, Doctor Dolittle, Cleopatra) 1940 Eric Burdon Walker-on-Tyne England, rock singer (Animals) 1942 Tammy Wynette Redbay AL, country singer (Stand by your Man) 1943 Michael Palin Sheffield Yorkshire England, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda) 1948 Bill Ward Birmingham England, heavy metal drummer (Black Sabbath) 1953 Billy Burnette Memphis TN, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) 1961 Hiro Hase wrestler (NJPW) 1976 Sage Stallone Sylvester's son/actor (Rocky V) 1382 Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army 1504 Anton of Burgundy the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82 1780 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston) 1821 Napoleon I Bonaparte emperor France (1799-1815), dies in St Helena 1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) 1865 1st US train robbery (North Bend OH) 1867 Battle of Pueblo; Mexicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo) 1893 Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange 1900 "The Billboard" began weekly publication 1920 US President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal 1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" 1944 Gandhi freed from prison 1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) 1948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier 1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7) 1969 Ben Alexander actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57 1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings 1992 Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection 1995 James Pack naval officer museum curator, dies at 81 1997 "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. - Bill Maher - PS This will be my last blog for awhile. I'll be on tower guard for the next week and away from the computer. Some one else will be doing the board. I'll be back in about a week... thanx

2 May - Wednesday 1729 Catherine II (the Great) empress of Russia (1762-96) 1844 Elijah McCoy black inventor, held over 50 patents including a lubricator for steam engines ("the Real McCoy") 1892 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [the Red Baron], German WWI ace 1907 Pinky Lee children's show host (Pinky Lee Show) 1908 William Bakewell Los Angeles CA, actor (Stage manager-Pinky Lee Show) 1933 Bunk Gardner rocker (Mothers Of Invention) 1935 Faisal II King of Iraq (1939-58)/son of Ghasi I 1935 Hussain ibn Talal King of Jordan (1952-99) 1937 Lorenzo Music Brooklyn NY, writer/actor/voice (Carlton the doorman-Rhoda, Garfield) 1945 Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias Jagger Nicaragua, model/Mick's ex-wife 1945 Bob Henrit English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset) 1945 Goldy McJohn rocker (Steppenwolf) 1948 Larry Gatlin Seminole TX, country singer (Gatlin Brothers-Broken Lady) 1950 Lou Gramm Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-I Want to Know What Love Is) 1961 Doctor Robert [Bruce R Howard] rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways) 1519 Leonardo Da Vinci artist/scientist, dies at 67 1776 France & Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels 1780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris 1847 Sabbath famine 1863 Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville VA, wounded by his own men; South defeats North 1865 President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis 1878 US stops minting 20¢ coin 1885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published 1890 Territory of Oklahoma created 1916 US President Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act 1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua 1932 Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network) 1936 "Peter & the Wolf" premieres in Moscow 1945 German Army in Italy surrenders and Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders 1946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die 1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman" 1953 Feisal II installed as king of Iraq 1953 Hussein I installed as king of Jordan 1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) 1960 House investigating committee, looking into payola questions 1957 Joseph McCarthy commie hunting senator (R-WI), dies at 47 1960 Caryl Chessman rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39 1968 Donald L Hall airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69 1972 J Edgar Hoover head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77 1975 Apple records closes down 1980 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa 1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men 1984 Jack Barry game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66 1990 South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid 1993 Julio Gallo wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82 1994 Dr Kevokian found innocent on assisting suicides 1994 Michael Bolton found to have plagiarized Isley Brothers "Love is Wonderful Thing" 1997 Police arrest transsexual hooker Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy The future is finally something that we can now put into focus. Lou Gramm -

1 May 07 - Tuesday 1764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe engineer/architect (built Capitol) 1769 Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30) 1830 Mary Harris Jones [Mother Jones], hell-raiser 1852 Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke] frontier adventurer/Indian fighter 1909 Ethel Jane Cain original UK Speaking Clock voice 1916 Jack Parr Canton OH, TV host (Jack Paar Show) 1927 Harry [Harold George Jr] Belafonte New York NY, calypso singer (The Banana Boat Song) 1939 Judy Collins Seattle WA, singer (Send in the Clowns, Both Sides Now, Clouds) 1944 Rita Coolidge Nashville TN, singer (Higher & Higher, We're All Alone) 1953 Felix Hanemann rocker (Zebra) 1954 Ray Parker Jr Detroit MI, rock guitarist/vocalist (Ghostbusters-Who You Gonna Call?) 1966 Johnny Colt Cherry Point NC, rock bassist (Black Crowes- Shake Your Money Maker) 1968 Mark Scott Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good) 1707 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain 1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued 1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence MO for California 1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message 1853 Argentina adopts its constitution 1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry 1864 Wilderness campaign 1869 ? colt reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord OH 1883 "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show 1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages 1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) 1931 Empire State Building opens in New York NY 1935 Boulder Dam completed 1939 Batman Comics hit the street 1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled 1941 "Citizen Kane", directed by & starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York 1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios 1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star" 1945 Paul Josef Goebbels Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide 1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII 1948 Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham AL for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes" 1951 Mickey Mantle's 1st homerun 1952 William Fox [Fried] US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73 1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast 1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk 1961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba 1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba 1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) 1965 Spike Jones composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53 1966 Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) 1967 Elvis Presley & Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas 1971 Amtrak railroad begins operation 1971 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar" 1979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel 1981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett 1989 David Webster South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered 1989 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to the public 1991 Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual & heterosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC 1997 Bebe AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40 1997 Toni Blair elected PM of UK 1898 George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila -

30 Apr 07 - Monday 1933 Willie Nelson Abbott TX, country singer (On the Road Again) 1952 Tom Pesek PC programmer (creator of HAL 9000 program) 1961 Isiah Thomas 1963 Michal Waltrip 1968 Paulo Jr Brazilian pop bassist (Sepultura, Morbid Visions) 1982 Kirsten Dunst actress (Interview with the Vampire) 0311 Emperor Galerius recognizes Christians legally in the Roman Empire 1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed 1763 London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower 1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st President of US 1798 Department of the Navy is established 1803 US doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase ($15 million) 1804 Hague's Theater opens 1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state 1828 Shaka the great Zulu king, killed 1864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee 1885 Boston Pops Orchestra forms 1898 Championship wrestling match at the Metropolitan turns into a brawl 1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut 1945 Adolf Hitler German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56 1945 Eva Braun mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at 33 1952 Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television 1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize 1970 US troops invade Cambodia 1974 Agnes Moorehead actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies from cancer at 67 1983 Muddy Waters US blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at 68 1986 Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles 1988 Largest banana split ever, at 4.55 miles long, is made in Selinsgrove PA 1990 US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians 1991 George Sperti Sperti inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91 1992 208th & final episode of "The Cosby Show" on NBC-TV 1997 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay 1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx -

29 Apr 07 - Sunday 1972 SFC Armstrong 1899 Duke Ellington 1951 Dale Earnhardt 1954 Jerry Seinfeld 1955 Kate Mulgrew 1957 Michelle Pfeiffer 1970 Uma Thurman 1970 Andre Agassi 1429 Joan of Arc relieved Orleans 1862 Union captures New Orleans 1969 Duke Ellington received “Presidential Medal of Freedom” 1974 Watergate tapes released 1992 LA riots erupt There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter. Duke Ellington -

28 Apr 07 - Saturday 1758 James Monroe Westmoreland VA, 5th US President (1817-25, Democratic Republican) 1917 Robert Anderson New York NY, writer (Tea & Sympathy, Never Sang for My Father) 1926 Harper Lee author (To Kill a Mockingbird) 1937 Saddam Hussein [At-Takriti] President of Iraq (1979- ) 1941 Ann-Margret Valsjobya Sweden, actress (Bye Bye Birdie, Tommy) 1950 Jay Leno New Rochelle, comedian/talk show host (Tonight Show) 1958 Kathy Willets nymphomaniac (1991 Florida Sex Scandal) 0585 War between Lydia & Media ended by solar eclipse 1521 Treaty of Worms Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria 1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office 1881 Robert W Ollinger US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies 1914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner 1923 Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup) 1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced 1942 "WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll 1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats 1945 Benito Mussolini Fascist leader (Italy), captured, tried, & shot 1945 Claretta Petacci mistress of Mussolini, executed 1952 WWII Pacific peace treaty takes effect 1956 Last French troop leave Vietnam 1965 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966 1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title 1975 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo on "Smothers Brothers" 1975 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon 1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling US secrets to the Russians 1980 Tommy Caldwell rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies 1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess 1989 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money 1989 Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie 1991 Ken Curtis actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74 1994 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power. Benito Mussolini -

27 Apr 07 - Friday SPC Butler (home havin’ a beer) 1737 Edward Gibbon England, historian (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) 1822 [Hiram] Ulysses S[impson] Grant Point Pleasant OH, 18th US President (1869-77, Republican) 1840 Edward Whymper 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865) 1900 Walter Lantz animator (Woody Woodpecker's creator) 1922 Jack Klugman Philadelphia PA, actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus) 1932 Casey Kasem Detroit MI, radio personality (American Top 40) 1939 Judy Carne Northhampton England, comedienne (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange) 1939 Jerry Mercer Montréal Québec Canada, rock drummer (April Wine) 1944 Cuba Gooding US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool) 1947 Pete Ham Swansea South Wales, rock guitarist/pianist/vocalist (Badfinger) 1949 Yoshiaki Fujiwara wrestler (NJPW/PWF/UWF) 1951 Ace Frehley Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss, Frehley's Comet) 1959 Sheena [Shirley Orr] Easton Belshill Scotland, singer (Morning Train, For Your Eyes Only) 4977 -BC- Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe 1521 Ferdinand Magellan world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50 1773 British Parliament passes the Tea Act (eventually leads to Boston Tea Party on December 16) 1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli 1813 Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed 1813 Zebulon M Pike US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34 1859 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard 1860 Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry 1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus 1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US 1865 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" explodes on the Mississippi River 1870 Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi 1877 President Rutherford Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends 1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated 1932 Harold "Heart" Crane US poet (Bridge), commits suicide by jumping from a steamer while sailing from México to New York at 32 1937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment 1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through the US 1953 Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins the term "Pencil neck geek" 1957 Mario A Gianini creator of the maraschino cherry, dies 1959 Gordon Armstrong inventor of baby incubator, dies 1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in the US 1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper 1972 Phil King rock (Blue Oyster Cult), shot in head at 24 while gambling 1972 NYC Mayor John Lindsay appeals that John Lennon not be deported 1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston WV, kills 51 1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr, attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan, begins 1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle," and the other isn't. Ulysses S. Grant -

26 Apr 07 - Thursday Birthdays: 1880 Mikhail Fokine Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance 1886 Ma Rainey [Gertrude Pridgett] "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer 1893 Anita Loos author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) 1904 William "Count" Basie jazz pianist (Policy Man, Blazing Saddles) 1906 Gracie Allen Mrs George Burns, comedienne (George Burns Show) 1933 Carol Burnett San Antonio TX, comedian/actress (Annie, 4 Seasons) 1942 Bobby Rydell Philadelphia PA, rock singer (Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie) 1943 Gary Wright Creskill NJ, singer/keyboardist (Dream Weaver, Spooky Tooth -Love Is Alive) This day: 1478 Easter is celebrated for the first time 1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated 1865 John Wilkes Booth assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green VA at 27 1928 Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition opens in London 1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs) 1948 The XP-86 prototype for the Sabre Jet first "officially" breaks the sound barrier. The first operational F-86A Sabres entered service in May of the same year 1970 Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Louise Hovick] stripper/actress (Pruitts of Southampton), dies from cancer at 56 1977 New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens 1981 Largest US bank robbery (Tucson AZ), more than $33 million stolen 1982 Rod Stewart is mugged, the gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche 1984 William "Count" Basie jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday 1984 Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens 1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die 1989 Lucille Ball comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy), dies of a massive heart attack at 78 1990 Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle “Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!” - William “Count” Basie -

25 Apr 07 - Wednesday Birthdays: 1599 Oliver Cromwell Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58) 1912 Gladys L Presley mother of Elvis 1918 Ella Fitzgerald Newport News VA, jazz singer (The First Lady of Song) 1932 Meadowlark [George] Lemon basketball star (Harlem Globetrotter) 1940 Al Pacino New York NY, actor (And Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio) 1941 Chris Augustine rocker (Every Mother's Son) 1945 Björn Ulvaeus Gothenburg Sweden, guitarist/songwriter (ABBA) 1946 Talia [Rose Coppola] Shire Jamaica NY, actress (Adrian-Rocky, Constanzia Corleone-Godfather) 1950 Steve Ferrone Brighton England, drummer (Average White Band) This day: 1607 Don Juan Alvarez Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle 1684 Patent granted for the thimble 1719 Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe" 1792 Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier 1850 Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices 1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal 1867 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade 1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek CO) 1898 US declares war on Spain over Cuba 1901 New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee) 1905 Whites win right to vote in South Africa 1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind 1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin 1953 Scientists identify DNA 1957 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government 1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium 1967 Abortion legalized in Colorado 1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington DC 1972 George Sanders actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65 1976 Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues US flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire 1980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran 1981 Dixie a mouse who lived 6½ years, dies 1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal 1984 Rock group Wings disbands 1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust 1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery 1993 Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts. Ella Fitzgerald -

24 Apr 07 - Tuesday Birthdays: 1766 Robert Bailey Thomas founded Farmer's Almanac 1905 Robert Penn Warren 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men) 1942 Barbra [Joan] Streisand Brooklyn NY, singer/actress/award winner (Funny Girl, The Way We Were) 1943 Richard Sterban Camden NJ, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys) 1944 [Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun] US singer (Rock the Boat) 1945 Doug Clifford Palo Alto CA, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival) 1947 Glenn Cornick rock bassist (Jethro Tull) 1954 Jack Blades rock bassist (Damn Yankees & Night Ranger) 1963 Billy Gould Los Angeles CA, rock bassist (Faith No More) This day: 1061 Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed 1704 "Boston News-Letter", 1st successful newspaper in US, is established 1731 Daniel Defoe English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies 1800 Library of Congress is established with $5,000 allocation 1824 Herman Muntinghe theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71 1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain to Jacob Evert & George Dulty 1897 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), is assigned to White House 1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba 1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day) 1928 Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented 1950 President Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government 1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II 1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs 1961 The Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised 1967 Vladimir M Komarov cosmonaut (Voshkod I), is 1st to die in space, aboard Soyuz 1 at 40 1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York NY 1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to the rumours he is dead 1974 Bud Abbott comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 78 1980 US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die 1987 Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC 1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st 1992 Vinson Pike fined £1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures 1995 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray 1997 Pat Paulsen comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), dies at 69 I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. Paul McCartney -