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1972 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1974 - Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash
1975 - Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1976 - South African troops leave Angola
1977 - Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 - Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1977 - Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 - NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
1981 - Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
1981 - Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
1982 - 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica v Leeward Islands
1982 - PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1983 - Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1984 - Coal Miners' strike ended
1984 - National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1984 - British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1985 - Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1986 - 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs
1987 - David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 - Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 - Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1987 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN)
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 - 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 - Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1990 - LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1991 - 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1993 - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 - Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 - Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 - Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2« week speech
1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 - Congress party loses India national election
1995 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 - Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1995 - Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
1995 - Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 - Letitia Vriesde runs S Amer indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1995 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1995 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
1996 - Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 - "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC

[LSUFAN]

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1336 - Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern
1479 - Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence
1515 - Caspar Othmayr, composer
1685 - George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
1710 - Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
1755 - Georges Couthon, French politician
1758 - Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician [or March 22]
1768 - Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
1788 - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
1793 - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
1800 - Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian
1806 - Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57)
1808 - Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
1816 - David Stuart, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1818 - John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897
1821 - John Abbott, Qu‚bec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
1821 - Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern
1823 - William Flank Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1824 - Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
1826 - Robert Lowry, composer
1827 - John Robert Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1827 - William Richard Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1830 - William Felix Brantley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
1831 - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
1832 - Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts
1835 - Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer
1837 - Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer
1838 - William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)
1848 - Cyrill Kistler, composer
1855 - John White, composer
1859 - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
1860 - Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
1862 - Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1863 - Adolf A Wolfschoon, Cura‡ao, poet
1863 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder)
1874 - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
1875 - Julio Garreta, composer
1877 - Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
1878 - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
1878 - Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
1880 - House Peters, England, silent film actor (Kansas Territory)
1881 - Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
1881 - Kemal Atat�rk, 1st pres of Rep of Turkey
1881 - V„in” A Tanner, premier of Finland (1926-27)
1883 - Judge Jackson, composer
1885 - Rapha‰l HLAJM Verwilghen, Flemish architect/urban developer
1888 - Hall Johnson, composer
1889 - Philip Guedalla, historian
1890 - A Evert Taube, Swedish writer/troubadour
1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian/US ballet dancer (Petroesjka) [OS=Feb 28]
1891 - Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
1896 - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great
1898 - Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Sold Grandpa)

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1900 - David Croll, QC senator
1900 - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer
1904 - Ken James, cricket wicketkeeper (NZ's 1st Test, later Northants)
1907 - (Margaret Peggy McCrorie) Herbison, politician
1908 - David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician
1908 - Inez Courtney, NYC, actress (13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven)
1910 - Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant)
1910 - Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, Orange NJ, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront)
1910 - Wilhelmus L Reijers, sculptor
1911 - Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico
1912 - James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
1912 - Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
1912 - Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orch leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
1913 - Harold Butler, cricketer (England pace bowler late 40's)
1914 - Jan Kapr, composer
1915 - Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/abstract painter
1917 - Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
1917 - Tom Normanton, British MP
1918 - James Bracken, race horse trainer
1921 - Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers)
1921 - Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel)
1921 - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator
1921 - Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1922 - Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
1922 - Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues)
1922 - Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO)
1922 - Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer
1923 - Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, 1500, 5K, 10K speed skater (Oly-gold-1952)
1923 - Mstislav Rostropovich
1923 - Norbert Brainin, violinist
1923 - Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7)
1925 - Georges Delerue, composer
1925 - Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy)
1925 - Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1925 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55)
1925 - William G Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va)
1926 - David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE)
1926 - George R Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii)
1926 - Gudrun Ure, British actress (Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer)
1926 - Hildy Park, Wash DC, actress (To Tell the Truth)
1926 - John C[lellon] Holmes, US writer (Horn)
1926 - Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer
1926 - Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist (Cello Concerto) [3/22 NS]

[LSUFAN]

1927 - Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina)
1928 - Edward Albee, Washington, DC, playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
1928 - Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music)
1928 - Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority)
1929 - Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956)
1929 - Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
1930 - Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador (to US)
1930 - Robin Cavendish, disabled campaigner
1930 - Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda)
1930 - Stanko Horvat, composer
1931 - Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection)
1931 - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascals)
1932 - Andrew Young, US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
1934 - Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields)
1935 - Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
1935 - John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
1936 - Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
1936 - Keith Slater, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1958-59 series)
1936 - Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Va, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1936 - Patrick Procktor, painter
1937 - Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (Victor-Victoria)
1938 - Dimitri Terzakis, composer
1938 - Johnny Rutherford, auto racer (26 championship races)
1938 - Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
1938 - Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
1938 - Norman Hogg, British MP
1938 - Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer
1938 - Vijay Mehra, cricketer (Indian Test batsman from age 17)
1939 - Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
1939 - David Mlinaric, British interior director
1940 - Al Jarreau, Milwaukee WI, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
1940 - Albert Johanneson, soccer star
1942 - Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's)
1942 - Brian O'Hara, rocker
1942 - Paul Kantner, SF Calif, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
1942 - Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti)
1945 - Hans van Emden, Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques)
1946 - Liza Minnelli, Hollywood CA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
1947 - Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
1948 - Dana Walden, rock keyboardist (Champaign)
1948 - James Taylor, Boston MA, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof)
1948 - Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota)
1948 - Les Holroyd, Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1948 - Virginia Bottomley, secretary (Heritage)
1948 - Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health
1949 - Bill Payne, Waco TX, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
1949 - David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury/MP
1949 - Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV)
1949 - Mike Gibbons, Swansea Wales, rock drummer (Badfinger)
1949 - Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian)
1950 - Jon Provost, actor (Timmy-Lassie)

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1950 - Willie Duggan, rugby football player
1951 - Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties)
1951 - Jack Green, rocker
1953 - Labamba, [Richard Rosenberg], rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1956 - Dale Murphy, Portland Ore, slugger (Atlanta Braves, 2 time NL MVP)
1957 - Jerry Levine, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Born on 4th of July)
1957 - Marlon D Jackson, Gary IN, singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow)
1957 - Steve Harris, London, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss)
1958 - Debra Jensen, Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978)
1960 - Courtney B Vance, Detroit MI, actor (Hamburger Hill)
1960 - Eldine Baptiste, cricketer (WI all-rounder early 80's)
1962 - Darryl Strawberry, LA Calif, right fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees)
1962 - Gunde Svan, Swedish long jumper (Olympics-gold-1984, 88)
1963 - Candy Costie, Seattle Wash, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - John Andretti, race car driver
1963 - Julia Campbell, Huntsville Ala, actress (Opportunity Knocks)
1963 - Paul Way, British golfer
1964 - Tony Terry, rock producer (Tony Terry)
1965 - Fran Harris, WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1965 - Molly Van Nostrand, West lslip NY, tennis star
1965 - Randy Dixon, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1965 - Steve Finley, Union City TN, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1966 - Alecia Stephenson, North Vancouver BC, softball ss (Olympics-96)
1966 - Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92)
1966 - Grant Long, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks)
1967 - Irvin Smith, CFL cornerback (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Rowelle Blenman, WLAF cornerback/safety (London Monarchs)
1968 - Merton Hanks, NFL safety (SF 49ers)
1969 - Graham Coxon, singer (Blur)
1969 - J P Izquierdo, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Karen Snelgrove, London Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1969 - Muhammad Oliver, NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins)
1970 - Michael Bankston, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Rex Walters, NBA guard (Phila 76ers, Miami Heat)
1970 - Rod Smith, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1971 - Greg Hansell, Bellflower CA, pitcher (Minn Twins)
1971 - Isaiah Rider, NBA guard/forward (Minn Timberwolves, Port Trailblazers)
1971 - Raul Mondesi, San Cristobal Dom Rep, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1972 - Alisa Castillo, Miss Nevada USA (1996)
1973 - Antonio Banks, cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Gabriel Mendez, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Keif Bryant, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Louis Laros, Dutch soccer player (Willem II, Vitesse)
1974 - Chris Carr, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Minn Timberwolves)
1978 - Cristina Teuscher, New Rochelle NY, 4X200m freestyle (Olymp-gold-96)
1978 - Tara Mounsey, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)

[LSUFAN]

For All You Lexophiles (Lovers of Words)
-------------------------

1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.

2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).

3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

4. A backward poet writes inverse.

5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism
it's your count that votes.

6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.

7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

8. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.

9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

10. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and
I'll show you A-flat minor.

11. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is
fully recovered.

13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France
would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down
under.

16. He often broke into song because he couldn't
find the key.

17. Every calendar's days are numbered.

18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and
'taint mine.

19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

20. He had a photographic memory which was never
developed.

21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

22. The short fortune teller who escaped from
prison was a small medium at large.

23. Those who get too big for their britches will
be exposed in the end.

24. When you've seen one shopping center you've
seen a mall.

25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.

26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray
hair she thought she'd dye.

27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know
basis.

28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.

30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the
agony of defeat.

[LSUFAN]

7 Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real Toro (6.0"x54)
          5/24.50
 6 Alec Bradley Tempus
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 5 E.P. Carrillo Dark Rituals Robusto (5.0"x50)
          5/23.50
 4 AVO Maduro Robusto (5.0"x50)
         10/39.99
 3 PDR 1878 Cubano Especial Capa Madura
          5/19.50
 2 Diesel Uncut
         10/27.50
 1 Rocky Patel Catch 22
          5/19.99

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         10/32.50
 7 Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real Toro (6.0"x54)
          5/24.50
 6 Alec Bradley Tempus
         10/39.99
 5 E.P. Carrillo Dark Rituals Robusto (5.0"x50)
          5/23.50
 4 AVO Maduro Robusto (5.0"x50)
         10/39.99
 3 PDR 1878 Cubano Especial Capa Madura
          5/19.50
 2 Diesel Uncut
         10/27.50
 1 Rocky Patel Catch 22
          5/19.99

[LSUFAN]

Talk about a slow morning, sheesh!

[A Friend of Charlie]

Good morning, Chip.  I'm driving to the NJ office today so less posts from me too.

[LSUFAN]

Good morning, Chip.  I'm driving to the NJ office today so less posts from me too.

Good morning Tony.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Good morning, Chip.  I'm driving to the NJ office today so less posts from me too.

Good morning Tony.

Who knows, maybe today is the day the jam will bring much excitement to the banter?

[A Friend of Charlie]

I see the Diesel Uncut went down a little in price.  I need to revisit that one.  The last one I gave Charlie didn't smoke right.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Morning LSU and Mayor.

[LSUFAN]

Morning LSU and Mayor.

Good morning Native.