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Good morning guys.

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On this day in history ..
0493 - Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
0933 - Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
1360 - France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1382 - Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
1391 - Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1560 - Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France
1562 - General Fran‡ois de Guise enters Paris
1580 - Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
1672 - King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
1729 - Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1744 - French King Louis XV declares war on England
1778 - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
1781 - Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (British suffer heavy losses)
1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1820 - Maine admitted as 23rd state
1827 - Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
1827 - University of Toronto is chartered
1855 - Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN
1864 - Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA
1867 - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7
1875 - 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1877 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at MCG
1885 - 1st performance of C‚sar Franck's "Lesson Djinns"
1887 - 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1889 - 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
1892 - NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1897 - 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden

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1901 - Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa
1906 - Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1907 - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
1908 - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1913 - 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1913 - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1915 - Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
1916 - Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos
1916 - University of Gent goes under Dutch control
1917 - Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [3/3 OS]
1919 - American Legion forms (Paris)
1922 - 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
1923 - Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
1926 - Belgium's "black monday," franc falls
1928 - Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1930 - 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY
1930 - 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1933 - NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1934 - US Information Service opens
1935 - George Headley completes 270 in cricket v England at Kingston
1937 - 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)
1937 - 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1939 - Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ
1940 - G”ring says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1941 - Blizzard in ND kills 151
1943 - Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1943 - Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 - 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win
1945 - Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
1945 - Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
1945 - Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
1945 - Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY
1946 - British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1947 - John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer

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1948 - Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team v Western Australia
1948 - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
1948 - WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
1950 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul," premieres in NYC
1950 - NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
1951 - Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1952 - "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 perfs
1952 - Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La R‚union, Indian Ocean
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 - West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
1954 - "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1954 - WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
1955 - US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1955 - WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 perfs
1956 - Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ
1957 - 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1958 - "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
1958 - KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Oscar Robertson of Cin scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts
1958 - Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1959 - Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway
1959 - Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
1959 - WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1960 - National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1961 - South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
1962 - "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
1962 - 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
1962 - Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
1962 - KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 - Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings," premieres in NYC
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season
1963 - WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 - Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

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1965 - T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
1965 - WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Striesand
1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1967 - AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
1967 - Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Brazil
1967 - WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 - Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")
1968 - British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1968 - LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1968 - US Mint stops buying & selling gold
1968 - Uprising in South Yemen
1968 - Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1969 - US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 - Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead?)
1970 - "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1970 - Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
1970 - Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in NYC
1971 - CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 - Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
1972 - Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama
1972 - Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
1972 - NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1974 - Brazilian president Garastazu M‚dici resigns
1975 - Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo
1975 - Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
1976 - Failed coup in Niger

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1977 - "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV
1977 - US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
1978 - -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
1978 - A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
1978 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1979 - Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 - Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
1979 - Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
1981 - "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1981 - Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1981 - Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
1982 - Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 - KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 - Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1983 - Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1984 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 - Tanzania adopts constitution
1985 - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme
1987 - "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
1987 - "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
1987 - 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1987 - Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
1987 - NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 - US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1988 - Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 - NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 - NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1989 - "Les Miserables," opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 - Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 - NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1990 - Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil
1991 - 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
1991 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20¬'
1991 - Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
1992 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1992 - UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1993 - Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1994 - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 - Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
1997 - Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1998 - "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
1998 - Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet

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Famous birthdays for this day ..

0076 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
1493 - Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France
1666 - Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden)
1678 - Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop
1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere
1733 - Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized
1750 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer
1754 - Silvestro Palma, composer
1767 - Andrew Jackson, Carolinas, General/(D) 7th pres (1829-37)
1779 - William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
1790 - Nicola Vaccai, composer
1801 - Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer
1808 - Gaetano Gaspari, composer
1809 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
1810 - Aernout Drost, Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
1811 - Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
1824 - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
1830 - Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910)
1831 - Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1835 - Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer (318 Dance)
1836 - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
1838 - Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)
1844 - Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test)
1851 - Jozef Surzynski, composer
1852 - Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
1855 - L£tzen Wagenaar, Frisian writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages)
1858 - Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding)
1864 - Johan Halvorsen, composer
1864 - Leslie Stuart, composer
1867 - Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems)
1867 - Will Rossiter, composer
1871 - Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
1873 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer
1873 - Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him)
1874 - Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
1878 - Hanson Carter, cricketer (Yorkshire Aussie WK of early 20th century)
1879 - Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)
1884 - Rudolf Piskacek, composer
1894 - Slava Vorlova, composer

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1900 - Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer
1901 - Colin McPhee, Montr‚al Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)
1901 - J Pat O'Malley, England, actor (Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star!)
1901 - Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader
1902 - Kitty Masters, actress
1902 - Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer/actress (Gabriela)
1904 - George Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel)
1905 - Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler
1905 - Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
1907 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer/actor (Magic Horn)
1907 - Paul Maxey, Wheaton Ill, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice)
1910 - An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)
1912 - Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot
1912 - Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
1912 - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan)
1913 - Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1913 - MacDonald Carey, Sioux City Iowa, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl)
1915 - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris)
1915 - Richard Ward, Glenside Pa, actor (Beacon Hill)
1916 - Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy Bee)
1916 - Harry James, Albany Ga, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
1918 - Janet Leach, potter
1918 - Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde)
1919 - John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)
1919 - Lawrence Tierney, Brooklyn, actor (Abduction, Dillinger)
1920 - Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1922 - Louis Boon, writer
1923 - George Vogel, race horse trainer
1923 - Laurence A Tisch, NYC, CEO (Loews Corp)
1924 - Juij Bondarew, writer
1924 - Lockrem Johnson, composer
1926 - Benjamin Burwell Johnson, composer
1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB/coach (LA Rams), hall of famer
1926 - Tim Valentine, (Rep-D-NC, 1983- )
1927 - Carl Smith, Maynardville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1927 - Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect
1928 - Nicolas Flagello, composer
1929 - Tiezo Matsumura, composer
1932 - Alan Lavern Bean, Wheeler Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3)
1932 - David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire
1933 - Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer/jazz pianist (U of Wisconsin)
1933 - Ronald Roseman, composer
1934 - Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter
1934 - Wolfgang Hufschmidt, composer
1935 - Jimmy Lee Swaggart, evangelist
1935 - Judd Hirsch, Bronx, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People)
1936 - Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983- )
1938 - Dick Higgins, composer

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1939 - Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man)
1940 - Phil Lesh, [Chapman], Calif, rock bassist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead)
1941 - Dick Top, Dutch actor/director (Witch of Haarlem)
1941 - Mike Love, Calif, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
1942 - Hughie Flint, London England, rock drummer (Bonzo Dog Band)
1943 - Brenda Scott, Cincinnati Oh, actress (Midge-Road West)
1943 - David Cronenberg, Toronto Ontario, director (Shivers, Fly, Brood)
1944 - Chi Cheng, Taiwan, sprinter/80m hurdler (Oly-Bronze-68)
1944 - David Costell, Pitts, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring)
1944 - Davld Costell, rocker
1944 - Jacques Doillon director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans)
1944 - Ralph MacDonald, rock percussionist (Graceland)
1944 - Sly Stone, Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
1945 - J”rgen Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
1945 - Mark J Green, Bkln NY, lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System)
1945 - Tracy Smith, runner
1946 - Bobby Bond, baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)
1946 - David Wall, English ballet dancers/director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1946 - Howard Scott, San Pedro Cal, rock guitarist/vocalist (War, Cisco Kid)
1947 - David Colley, cricketer (NSW quickie, 3 Tests for Australia 1972)
1947 - Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut
1947 - Ry[land] Cooder, LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
1947 - Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
1947 - Tomas Pettersson, Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
1949 - John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)
1953 - Colin Croft, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler 1977-82)
1953 - Judi Spiers, TV presenter
1954 - Craig Wasson, Oregon, actor (Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club)
1955 - Dee Snider, Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1955 - Marcia McCabe, Bryn Mawr Pa, actress (Alicia Grande-1 Live to Live)
1955 - Mohsin Khan, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s)
1956 - Clay Matthews, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1957 - Park Overall, Tenn, actress (Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning)
1958 - Laura Carrington, actress (Louisa-Alphabet City)
1959 - Eliot Teltscher, Calif, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
1959 - Harold Baines, Easton MD, outfielder (Chic White Sox, Texas Rangers)
1960 - Donna Smith, Portland Oregon, playmate (March, 1985)
1961 - Craig Ludwig, Rhinelander, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1961 - Fabio [Lanzoni], Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark)
1961 - John Melendez, jockey
1961 - Terry Cummings, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks, Phila 76ers)
1962 - Igor Aleinikov, film Maker
1962 - Jimmy Baio, Bkln, actor (Billy Tate-Soap, Brass, Playing for Keeps)
1962 - Steve Coy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1962 - Terrence Trent D'Arby, NYC, rock vocalist (Wishing Well)
1963 - Bret Michaels, Harrisburg Pa, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1963 - Don Simington, jockey
1963 - Frans Koenn, Dutch rock bassist (Lo‹s Lane-Precious)
1964 - Alison Johnson, Tustin CA, WPVA volleyball player (US Open-4th-1993)
1964 - Rockwell, [Kennedy Gordy], Det MI, rock vocalist (Someone Watching Me)
1964 - Ron Hall, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1965 - Marianne Morris, Middletown OH, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA-3rd)
1966 - Chris Bruno, actor (Michael-All My Children, Dennis-Another World)
1966 - Karen Weiss, St Paul MN, LPGA golfer (1995 Chick-fil-A Charity-7th)
1967 - Kirk Scrafford, NFL tackle (SF 49ers)
1968 - John Tardy, US heavy metalist (Obituary, Slowly We Rot)
1968 - Rob Anderson, Kamloops BC, Canadian Tour golfer (BC Amateur-1990, 92)
1968 - Sabrina [Salerno], Genoa Italy, Miss Italy (1984)/singer (Boys)
1969 - Louis Riddick, NFL safety (Cleve Browns, Atlanta Falcons)

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1970 - Josef Martin Bauer, writer, dies at 68
1970 - Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72
1971 - Jean-Pierre Monser‚, Flemish cyclist, dies at 22
1973 - Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
1975 - Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49
1975 - Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69
1977 - Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered
1983 - Jos‚ Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80
1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedian, collapses & dies on stage
1987 - Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY), dies at 82
1988 - Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for US, executed
1990 - Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70
1991 - Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84
1991 - Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93
1992 - Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes
1992 - Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64
1992 - Vanessa Lee, actress (Split), dies at 71
1993 - Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61
1993 - Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40
1993 - Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies
1994 - Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68
1995 - Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26
1996 - Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42
1996 - Olga Rudge, violinist, dies at 100
1996 - Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat, dies at 89
1997 - Gail Davis, ( Annie Oakley), dies at 72

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Race Horses
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I believe that earlier this year the US Postal Service also issued a set of
stamps featuring american racehorses.

This must be one of the great ironies of the horse racing industry. If a
horse wins its races it gets put on the front of a postage stamp. If it
loses it gets put on the back!

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Time to hit the road for work guys, enjoy your day. 

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Time for a couple of sheesh's.