Sunday, April 25, 2010

It just takes one letter

East Meets West Day and World Penguin Day

HISTORY

1719  Daniel Defoe had his ‘based-on-a-true-story’ novel The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe published.
1831  The Lion of the West opened at the Park Theater in NYC. The story followed the life (with artistic license applied) of Davy Crockett.
1859  Suez Canal construction began. The 101 mile canal crosses the isthmus to connect the Mediterranean and Red Seas.
1945   New UN forms with 45 Countries meeting in San Francisco.
1947  A two-lane bowling alley constructed earlier in the year was inaugurated by Harry Truman, beer and pretzels came later.
1983  The USSR released a letter that Russian Leader, Yuri Andropov sent to an American girl, Samantha Smith, 5th grader from Maine, who asked the ‘Cold War’ leader if they were going to start a nuclear war with the US. He assured her something that US leaders were not so sure of…that they wished to live in peace on the planet. He invited her to visit, which she (and her parents) did. 14 months later, Andropov died of kidney failure, and 18 months after that (August, 1985) at the age of 13, Samantha Smith died in a plane crash.
1989  James Richardson was released from prison. It turns out, he did not kill his 7 children as the prosecutor claimed and manipulated evidence to prove it. Even after the neighbor said she killed the little ones by poisoning their rice and beans, even after checking her background, which included being on parole for killing her second husband and being a suspect in the poisoning murder of her first husband.
1990 The Hubble Telescope is placed in Earth’s orbit by the space shuttle Discovery.
1995  Golden Toes Ginger Rogers died.

BIRTHDAYSBIRTHDAYSBIRTHDAYS BIRTHDAYSBIRTHDAYSBIRTHDAYS
1874
Guglielmo Marconi
Inventor
Wireless telegraph
1906
William J Brennan, Jr
Justice
Supreme Court
1908
Edward R Murrow
Journalist

1918
Ella Fitzgerald
Singer
Queen of Jazz/Scat
1923
Albert King
Musician
Blues Guitarist
1930
Paul Mazursky
Director
An Unmarried Woman
1932
Meadowlark Lemon
Athlete
Harlem Globetrotters
1940
Al Pacino
Actor
Scent of a Woman, Scarface, Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon
1946
Talia Shire
Actress
Rocky
1964
Hank Azaria
Actor
The Simpsons,
1969
Renee Zelweger
Actress
Jerry Maguire, Chicago
1970
Jason lee
Actor
My Name is Earl

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