Scrabble Day

Today is Blame Someone Else Day, Scrabble Day and Begin to Organize Your Files Day

This week we begin Medical Labs Week. In honor, everyone on the planet must go and get bloodwork done, okay, ready, set, GO!

1360- A hail storm killed an estimated 1000 English soldiers in Chartes, France during the 100 Years War. The largest (officially measured) recorded hailstone appears to have been 183/4"circumfrence (looks like about 7" if you lay it on top of a ruler) and recovered in Aurora, Nebraska in 2003. It kind of looks like the inside of a geode. Click here if you wanna see a pic.
1740- Handel's Messiah (Now a Christmas tradition) premiered in Dublin.
1743- Thomas Jefferson, US President, Was born in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA (near Charlottesville.
1861- Major Robert Anderson, commander at Fort Sumter surrendered to Beauregard.
1866- Robert LeRoy Parker was born. He renamed himself George Cassidy, after the man who taught him how to shoot and received the nickname, Butch, when he was laying low in Wyoming working, you guessed it, at a butcher's shop.
1899- Alfred Butts was born. Okay, stop snickering, he invented Scrabble, hence Scrabble Day!
1906- Samuel Beckett was born. This popular playwright wrote Waiting for Godot.
1909- Eudora Welty was born. She is known for her writing, including The Optimist's Daughter and The Death of a Traveling Salesman. 
1919- Howard Keel was born. Annie Get Your Gun was his second film and you might remember him in  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Day of the Triffids.
1926- Don Adams was born. The infamous C.O.N.T.R.O.L. agent (86) Maxwell Smart.
1935- Lyle Waggoner was born. Don't recognize the name? He was a regular on later seasons of The Carol Burnett Show and the (always seeming to get into trouble that a chick could easily get him out of) hunky Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman. I can't believe he was older than my dad!!!
1944- Jack Casady was born. Okay, I thought I knew who this was. I was wrong. My Jack spelled his last name differently. This one plays bass guitar, most notably with Jefferson Airplane (that was before Jefferson Starship, Starship, Jefferson Starship-The Next Generation...whatever.)
1945- Tony Dow was born. I feel like the only thing he ever did was be big brother for The Beave. I am probably wrong. Cool he does sculpture now, seems to like the beautiful burlwood.
1946- Al Green was born. This singer is known for the song, Let's Stay Together.
1950- Ron Perlman was born. Chances are, you won't recognize his face, although I do. Best known for Beauty and the Beast (no he didn't play Beauty he played Vincent, "the beast") the TV series with Linda Hamilton, and Hellboy.
1951- Peabo Bryson was born. Beauty and the Beast (with Celine Dion) & It's a Whole New World.
1963- Garry Kasparov was born. He is known for beating the IBM computer Deep Blue at chess.
1964- Sidney Poitier won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in Lilies of the Field. 
1970- Apollo 13's oxygen tank exploded in mid flight causing a major disaster and a offering a fine story line for Ron Howard to create a GREAT movie. (The only problem with the movie, you already knew how it was going to end.
1970- Ricky Schroder was born. The cute little guy is known for his roles in The Champ, Silver Spoons, Lonesome Dove, NYPDBlue and a host of others.
1976- Jonathan Brandis was born. This guy became know in The Never Ending Story and SeaQuest DSV.
1997- Tiger Woods won his first major (that is golf guys, if you have been living under a rock), The Master's Tournament at Augusta. He won by a record 12 (whatever that means, I guess it is good).

Do you think these are getting too long? Any suggestions for shortening it?