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[LSUFAN]

On this day in history ..
1138 - Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1560 - Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa
1573 - Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1621 - John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1633 - Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
1644 - Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
1696 - English king Willem III departs Netherlands
1774 - British close port of Boston to all commerce
1778 - Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1801 - Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1808 - Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
1824 - Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice
1835 - HMS Beagle returns from Concepci¢n to Valparaiso
1843 - 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 - US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1848 - In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1850 - Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1851 - Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
1852 - Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
1854 - Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1857 - Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch & McIntosh killed
1865 - -10] Battles round Kinston NC
1870 - Cin Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East
1872 - -8øF in Boston, MA
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1876 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1896 - Gilbert & Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London

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1900 - Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger flees
1900 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
1902 - Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
1906 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
1908 - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
1911 - US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1911 - Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1914 - Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
1917 - 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ
1918 - H Carroll & J McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!," premieres in NYC
1918 - Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1921 - Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1922 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1922 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1925 - American Negro Congress organizes
1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
1927 - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
1930 - Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
1932 - Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4
1933 - Game of "Monopoly" invented
1935 - Saar incorporated into Germany
1936 - Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
1937 - Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR
1939 - Glamour magazine begins publishing
1939 - Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1940 - Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
1940 - Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1941 - 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1")
1941 - 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
1941 - British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1942 - 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
1942 - 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1943 - Gen-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
1944 - Japans begins offensive in Burma
1945 - Cologne taken by allied armies
1945 - US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
1945 - Yugoslavia govt of Tito forms
1946 - "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 perfs
1946 - Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Z�rich
1950 - Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy & P Kennedy (USA)
1950 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
1950 - Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA)
1951 - Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title
1951 - Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in NYC
1953 - Jackie McGlew scores 255* v NZ at Wellington
1954 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1954 - Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition
1955 - 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas & Loretta Young
1955 - Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
1955 - Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1958 - Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
1959 - "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 perfs
1959 - 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1959 - West Indies all out 76 v Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34
1960 - Dutch Builders strike for CLA
1962 - Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
1962 - Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
1965 - Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1965 - Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton
1965 - Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
1966 - "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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1967 - Teamster pres Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
1970 - Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina & Ulanov (URS)
1970 - Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
1970 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
1970 - WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 - Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire
1973 - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1973 - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
1974 - "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC
1974 - 1st general striking in Ethiopia
1975 - Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
1977 - Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 - Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
1978 - Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
1978 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
1979 - Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro & amateur umpires
1979 - Warren Giles & Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
1981 - "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1981 - 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic
1982 - Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec)
1982 - NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
1986 - South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends
1986 - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
1987 - Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs
1987 - Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 - Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants & Negligee Party"
1988 - Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award
1989 - Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book
1989 - Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
1990 - 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Phila)
1990 - H Wayne Huizenga buys « Joe Robbie Stadium & 15% of Dolphins for $30M
1991 - Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1992 - Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78)
1993 - 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises
1993 - Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
1994 - 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins
1994 - Charles Taylor resigns as pres of Liberia
1994 - David Platt appointed captain of English football team
1994 - US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1994 - ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1995 - Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
1995 - NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
1996 - British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million œ order
1996 - Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists
1997 - 11th Soul Train Music Awards
1997 - Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome & Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
1997 - 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

[LSUFAN]

Famous Birthdays
1543 - Johan Casimir, count of Rhine (occupied Gent)
1574 - John Wilbye, composer
1602 - Kano Tanju, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits)
1621 - Georg Neumark, composer
1659 - Henry Purcell, English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas)
1663 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer
1682 - Johan W van Ripperda, Dutch diplomat/baron/duke
1693 - Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69)
1707 - Stephen Hopkins, (Gov-RI) signed Decl of Ind
1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyric poet (Der Fr�hling)
1731 - Jean-Louis Laruette, composer
1762 - Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, director-general (East Indies Company)
1765 - Joseph N Ni‚pce, French inventor (photography)
1769 - Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
1773 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer
1785 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)
1792 - John Herschel, Slough England, William Herschel's son, astronomer
1797 - Karl Schwencke, composer
1799 - Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech poet (national anthem, folk song)
1807 - Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Der Alchemist)
1811 - Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer
1813 - Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time)
1820 - Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer
1822 - Victor Masse, composer
1827 - Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1831 - John Bratton, [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brig Gen
1832 - Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1837 - Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)
1841 - Olegario V¡ctor Andrade, Argentina, poet (El nido de c¢ndores)
1842 - Anne CAI van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist
1844 - Anthony Comstock, New Canaan Ct, anti-vice crusader/philatelist
1849 - Luther Burbank, Lancaster, Mass, horticulturist
1850 - Tom s G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35)
1856 - Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne)
1857 - Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
1858 - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer
1866 - Paul Ernst, writer
1869 - Ernst J Cohen, Dutch chemist
1872 - Piet Mondriaan, Holland, abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
1872 - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
1875 - Maurice Joseph Ravel, Cibourne France, composer (Bol‚ro)
1883 - Carl Deis, composer
1886 - Raymond Largay, Wisc, actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl)
1887 - Heino Eller, composer
1888 - Alidius WLT van Starkenborch Stachouwer, gov of Neth Indies (1936-45)
1891 - Marcel Barger, [Meyer Streliskie], cabaret performer (I keep Susy)
1895 - Juan Jose Castro, composer
1896 - Erwin Bodky, composer
1898 - Jan Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer

[LSUFAN]

1900 - Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter
1900 - [Albert] Carel Willink, Dutch painter (magic realism)
1902 - Heinz Ruehmann, German actor/director (Der Hauptmann von K”penick)
1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norway, Olympic speed skater (4 gold, 2 silver)
1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, German governor (Bohemen/Moravia (Lidice))
1904 - Virginia Downing, actress (Gig, Butterfield
1904 - Willy Forst, Austria actor/director (Vienna Blood)
1905 - Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki)
1906 - Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer
1906 - Hans Lachman, composer
1907 - Juan Francisco Giacobbe, composer
1907 - Mircea Eliade, religious historian (Le Yoga)
1908 - Anna Magnani, Alexandria Egypt, actress (Rose Tattoo, Miracle)
1908 - Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st chamber member (CPN)
1908 - Tomas de Manzarraga, composer
1909 - Greta Schoon, writer
1909 - Leo Malet, writer
1911 - Stefan Kisielewski, composer
1914 - Morton DaCosta, Phila, director (Island of Love, Music Man)
1915 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician
1917 - Davis Roberts, Mobile Ala, actor (Mr Johnson-Boone)
1917 - Janet Collins, ballerina
1917 - Robert Erickson, composer
1918 - June Wayne, artist/lithographer/teacher
1919 - Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier
1919 - Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian writer (Twilight in Djakarta)
1920 - Willie Watson, cricketer (England batsman & soccer international)
1924 - Eduardo Paolozzi, British sculptor (Hydra)
1924 - Kobo Abe, Tokyo Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
1930 - James Broderick, Charleston NH, actor (Brenner-Brenner, Doug-Family)
1930 - Lord Snowdon, [Anthony Armstrong-Jones], London, photographer
1931 - C W Stubblefield, music promoter
1931 - Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press
1931 - Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White)
1934 - King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], rocker
1934 - Nari Contractor, cricketer (Indian batsman & captain)
1934 - Willard Scott, weather forecaster (Today Show)
1936 - Georges Perec, French writer (Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee)
1937 - Anne Kristen, actress (Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr Finlay, Sunset Song)
1937 - Don Bonker, (Rep-D-WA, 1975- )
1938 - Homero Blancas, Houston TX, PGA golfer (1972 Phoenix Open)
1938 - Janet Guthrie, race car driver (1st woman to race in Indie 500)
1939 - Marion Marlowe, St Louis Mo, singer (Arthur Godfrey & Friends)
1940 - Daniel J Travanti, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues)
1940 - Harald Gerlach, writer
1940 - Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader (Glasnost Berlin)
1940 - Viktor Petrovich Savinykh, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4, T-13, TM-5)
1942 - Al[bert] Tanara, WLAF defensive coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1942 - Michael Eisner, Mt Kisko NY, CEO (Walt Disney)
1942 - Paul Preuss, US, sci-fi author (Medusa Encounter, Starfire)
1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, gospel singer/wife of Jim Baker (PTL)
1942 - Tommy F Robinson, (Rep-D-AR, 1985- )
1942 - U N Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in four Tests 1967-68)
1943 - Carole Peel, Australian softball asst coach (Olympics-bronze-96)
1943 - Chris White, rock bassist (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1943 - Leon Frank Sylvers, rocker
1944 - Elton Gallegly, (Rep-R-California)
1944 - J�rgen Theobaldy, writer
1944 - Townes Van Zandt, musician
1945 - Arthur Lee, rocker (Vindicator)
1945 - John Heard, actor (Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD)
1946 - Matthew Fisher, London, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1946 - Peter Wolf, rock singer (J Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame)
1947 - Donna Loren, Boston Mass, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)
1947 - Lewis J Stadlen, Bkln NY, actor (John-Benson, Savages, Windy City)
1947 - Richard Lawson, actor (Eddie-O'Neills)
1947 - Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician
1950 - Franco Harris, NFL fullback (Pitts Steelers)
1950 - Mark Pinter, Decorah Iowa, actor (Behind the Screen, Another World)
1952 - Ernie Isley, US vocalist/guitarist (It's Your Thing, Heat is On)
1952 - Lynn Swann, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster
1952 - Vivian Richards, West Indian master blaster
1953 - Jules Shear, rock musician
1953 - Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (E!)
1954 - Matt Frenette, rock drummer (Loverboy)
1958 - Rik Mayall, comedian (Drop Dead Fred, Bottom, Little Noises)
1959 - Thomas Edward Lehman, Austin MN, PGA golfer (1994 Memorial Tournament)
1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakia, tennis pro (US Open 1985-87)
1960 - Joe Carter, Oklahoma City OK, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1961 - Mary Beth Evans, Pasadena Calif, actress (Katherine-General Hospital)
1962 - Taylor Dayne, [Leslie Wunderman], NY, vocalist (I'll Always Love You)
1963 - Mike Eagles, Sussex, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1963 - Mohammad Ishaq, cricketer (UAE batsman 1996 World Cup)
1964 - Amy Baltus, Bloomington IND, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-13th-1992)
1964 - Jeff Criswell, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)
1965 - Cameron Daddo, Melbourne Australia, actor (Brian Petersen-Models Inc)
1965 - Jesper Bo Parnevik, Stockholm Sweden, PGA golfer (1995 Nestle-5th)
1965 - Steve Beuerlein, NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars, Car Panthers)
1965 - [Willie] Flipper Anderson, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1966 - Jeff Feagles, NFL punter (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 - Mel Rojas, Haina Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Terry Carkner, Smiths Falls, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1967 - Zheng Haixia, WNBA center (LA Sparks)
1968 - Jeff Kent, Bellflower CA, infielder (NY Mets)
1968 - Ricky Proehl, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears)
1969 - Anne Marie Lauck, Rochester NY, marathoner (Olympics-10th-96)
1969 - Anthony Davis, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1969 - Brian Jamieson, Livingston NJ, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1969 - Geoff Smith, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1969 - Matt Blundin, NFL quarterback (KC Chiefs, Detroit Lions)
1969 - Sam Gash, NFL running back (New England Patriots)
1970 - Jacquelyn Doucette, Miss Massachusetts USA (1996)
1970 - James Calvin Spivey, Schiller Park Ill, miler
1970 - Kathy Gedney, Indianapolis Ind, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25th-1994)
1971 - Alison Herst, Toronto Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-5-92, 96)
1972 - Andrew Finch, rower (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Marina Hatzakis, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Joost Volmer, soccer player (FC Twente)
1975 - Andrey Savenkov, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1975 - William Hampton, CFL defensive back (Calgary Stampeders)
1977 - Ludmila Richterova, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star (1995 Bournemouth)

[LSUFAN]

Famous Deaths
0161 - Antoninus Pius, [Titus Aurelius], emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74
1040 - Harold I, King of England (1035-40), dies
1111 - Bohemund I of Tarente, French ruler of Antioch, dies
1274 - Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48
1305 - Gwijde van Dampierre, count of Flanders/count of Namur, dies at 78
1719 - Steven J Vennekool, Amsterdam's master builder, buried
1724 - Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Pope (1721-24), dies at 68
1737 - Guido Starhemberg, Austrian earl/fieldmarshal, dies at 79
1750 - Cornelis Troost, Dutch painter (Beslikte Zwaentje), dies at 52
1761 - Antonio Palella, composer, dies at 68
1786 - Frantisek Benda, composer, dies at 76
1802 - Johann Georg Witthauer, composer, dies at 50
1804 - John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies
1809 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer, dies at 73
1810 - Albertus H Wiese, gov-gen of Neth Indies, dies at about 48
1833 - Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61
1842 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer, dies at 61
1862 - Ben McCulloch, US Confederate brig-general (KIA), dies at 50
1862 - John Baillie McIntosh, US general-major (Union Army), dies at 32
1862 - William Slack, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1907 - Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer, dies at 64
1911 - Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68
1924 - Pat Moran, manager (Cin Reds), dies of Bright's Disease
1926 - Jindrich Z Albestu Kaan, composer, dies at 73
1931 - Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at 65
1931 - Theo van Doesburg, [Christian Kupper], painter/architect, dies at 47
1932 - Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69
1939 - Amadeo Roldan, composer, dies at 38
1941 - Arnold Schering, German musicologist, dies at 63
1941 - G�nther Prien, German commandant (U-47), dies in battle
1945 - Adolf Bartels, German writer/racist, dies at 82
1951 - Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated
1951 - Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58
1951 - Shah Ali Razmara, of Iran, assassinated
1955 - Tom Dugan, actor (Pick a Star), dies at 66
1959 - Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies
1959 - Hinsdale Smith, developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88
1961 - Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter, dies at 42
1961 - Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60
1964 - Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analyst, dies at 73
1968 - Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31
1973 - Andr‚ de Meulemeester, Belg WW I pilot [Eagle of Flanders], dies at 78
1975 - Ben Blue, actor (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 73
1975 - Francine Larrimore, actress (John Meade's Woman), dies at 76
1976 - Erwin Kroll, composer, dies at 90
1979 - Guiomar Novaes, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84
1979 - Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer (Fanitullen), dies at 72
1981 - John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73
1981 - Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, Russian conductor/composer, dies at 67
1982 - Charles Borromeo Mills, composer, dies at 68
1983 - Igor Markevich, composer, dies at 70
1983 - Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65
1985 - George Schick, Czech conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76
1985 - Robert W Woodruff, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies at 95
1985 - Victor W Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies
1986 - Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY), dies in Palm Beach, Fla at 81
1988 - Divine, [Harris Milstead], female impersonator (Pink Flamingos), dies
1988 - Robert Livingston, actor (Lone Ranger), dies at 83 of emphysema
1990 - Max Neuhaus, composer, dies at 50
1993 - Arnold Franchetti, Ital/US composer, dies
1993 - Earl Wrightson, singer/actor (Pinafore), dies of heart failure at 77
1993 - Tony Harris, cricketer (8 Tests for S Afr 1947-49, 100 runs), dies
1995 - Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74
1995 - Jaap van den Hurk, TV-director (NCRV), dies
1995 - Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force gen, commits suicide at 64
1995 - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69
1995 - Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, dies at 87
1995 - Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82
1996 - Aled Eames, mAritime historian, dies at 74

[LSUFAN]

What Kind of Job You Have?
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Bob, a lawyer, was driving home over the Golden Gate Bridge after spending a great day on the ocean fishing. His catch, cleaned and filleted, was wrapped in newspaper on the passenger-side floor. He was late getting home and was speeding... Wouldn't you know that a cop jumped out, radar gun in hand, and motioned him to the side of the bridge. Bob pulled over like a good citizen.

The cop walked up to the window and said, "You know how fast you were going, boy?"

Bob thought for a second and said, "Uh, 60?"

"67 miles per hour, son! 67 miles per hour in a 55 zone!" said the cop.

"But if you already knew, officer," replied Bob, "why did you ask me?"

Fuming over Bob's answer, the officer growled and said in his sarcastic fashion, "That's speeding, and you're getting a ticket and a fine!"

The cop took a good close look at Bob in his stained fishing attire and said, "You don't even look like you have a job! Why, I've never seen anyone so scruffy in my entire life!"

Bob answered, "I've got a job! I have a good, well-paying job!"

The cop leaned in the window, smelling Bob's fish, and said, "What kind of job would a bum like you have?"

"I'm a rectum stretcher!" replied Bob.

"What did you say, boy?" asked the patrolman.

"I'm a rectum stretcher!"

The cop, scratching his head, asked, "What does a rectum stretcher do?"

Bob explained, "People call me up and say they need to be stretched, so I go over to their house. I start with a couple of fingers, then a couple more, then one whole hand, and then two. Then I slowly pull them farther and farther apart until it's a full six feet across."

The cop, absorbed with these bizarre images in his mind, asked, "What the hell do you do with a six-foot assh*le?"

Bob said, "You give him a radar gun and place him by a bridge!"

[LuvTooGolf]

Morning Chip.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Morning LSU & Golf

[LSUFAN]

Morning LSU & Golf

Good morning guys.

[LSUFAN]

Saturday sheesh.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Saturday sheesh.

I took a nap.

[LSUFAN]

Saturday sheesh.

I took a nap.

I tried to do the same but no luck, I will get mine after the soccer game now.