Happy Birthday!
zoara
Today is (as I only recently discovered) Ryan Callaghan's birthday.
Happy Birthday Ryan!
You share your birthday with:
1667 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist
1727 - Jean-Georges Noverre, the creator of modern ballet
1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer
1863 - William Randolph Hearst, American publisher
1879 - Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor
1885 - Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author
1893 - Harold Urey, American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for
Chemistry
1894 - Paul Hörbiger
1895 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor
1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist, bandleader
1901 - Hirohito, Japanese emperor
1907 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director
1909 - Tom Ewell, American actor
1917 - Celeste Holm, American actress
1918 - George Allen, American football coach, Pro Football Hall
of Fame
1920 - Harold Shapero, American composer
1929 - Walter Kempowski, German author
1929 - Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer
1930 - Jean Rochefort, French actor
1931 - Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter
1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician
1933 - Mark Eyskens, Belgian minister and Prime Minister
1933 - Rod McKuen, poet, composer
1934 - Otis Rush, blues musician
1936 - Zubin Mehta, Indian-born American conductor
1937 - Jill Paton Walsh, English writer
1942 - Klaus Voormann, German illustrator and musician
1946 - John Waters, American film director & writer
1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
1947 - Tommy James, musician
1951 - Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR racer
1952 - David Icke, British conspiracy writer
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1955 - Kate Mulgrew, American actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
1957 - Daniel Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish actor
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1958 - Eve Plumb, actress (The Brady Bunch)
1960 - Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian science fiction writer
1964 - Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor
1966 - Phil Tufnell, English cricketer
1967 - Curtis Joseph, Canadian NHL goalie
1968 - Carnie Wilson, singer
1969 - Master P, rap musician, composer, actor, athlete, sports agent
1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 - Uma Thurman, actress
1975 - Eric Koston, professional skateboarder
On this day in history:
1672 - Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
1854 - The Ashmun Institute is officially chartered, becoming the first
college for African American students.
1861 - American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to
secede from the Union
1862 - American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under
Admiral David Farragut.
1903 - A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta,
Canada.
1910 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second
time.
1916 - Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the
rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish
nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
1932 - The radio program One Man's Family debuts.
1944 - "Dancing Romeo", the last Our Gang film, premiers.
1945 - World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally
surrenders to the Allies.
1945 - Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin
bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
1945 - Holocaust: The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United
States troops.
1946 - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former
Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.
1960 - Payola Scandal: Radio disk jockey Dick Clark denies involvement
in the scandal in front of a United States House of
Representatives subcommittee.
1967 - After refusing induction into the United States Army the day
before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of
his boxing title.
1969 - Jazz musician Duke Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of
Freedom.
1970 - Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade
Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
1974 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release
of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to
the scandal.
1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind - The last U.S. citizens
begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North
Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes
to an end.
1988 - Glasnost: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev promises
increased religious freedoms.
1991 - Richard Cheney gives a speech at the Washington Institute's
Soref Symposium explaining why he believed it would have been
"a mistake" to invade Iraq.
1992 - 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow
the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in
the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people
are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1997 - The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force,
outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons
among its signatories.
2002 - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission
on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for
50 years.
2004 - Richard Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11
Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
Deaths on this day:
1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (born 1678)
1937 - William Gillette, actor (born 1853)
1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (born 1889)
1957 - Belle Baker, American 1920s torch singer, film & tv actress
(born 1893)
1966 - William Eccles, physicist, radio pioneer
1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, director (born 1899)
1997 - Mike Royko, columnist (born 1932)
The BBC's "on this day" page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/29
Happy birthday, hope you have a fun day!
-zoara-
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of weeds known for advancing sexual longing and performance, causing
an increase in sexual craving, a betterment in your volume and
execution, besides as increased energy and joy during sexual activeness.
Jim
>
> Today is (as I only recently discovered) Ryan Callaghan's birthday.
> Happy Birthday Ryan!
>
Happy Birthday mate.
And zoara? For shame - you missed an important 'On this day' entry:
2005 - Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' released.
Applestore Birmingham opens its doors.
Jim
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"Brace yourself, this might make your eyes water."
leeg
> Today is (as I only recently discovered)
And how does this discovery process work? Presumably not through
nepotistic "hey zoara it's my birthday on <blah>, please swell my ego"
e-mails?
Bella Jones
> Today is (as I only recently discovered) Ryan Callaghan's birthday.
> Happy Birthday Ryan!
[...]
>
> Happy birthday, hope you have a fun day!
Many happy returns - but hold on, It's your birthday too, Zoara, isnit
it?
--
bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
David Kennedy
> zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Today is (as I only recently discovered) Ryan Callaghan's birthday.
>>Happy Birthday Ryan!
>
> [...]
>
>>Happy birthday, hope you have a fun day!
>
>
> Many happy returns - but hold on, It's your birthday too, Zoara, isnit
> it?
>
>
Ahhhhhhh
--
David Kennedy
Adrian Tuddenham
> On this day in history:
>
> 1854 - The Ashmun Institute for African American students.
> 1861 - American Civil War
> 1862 - American Civil War
> 1910 - Prime Minister of Australia
> 1932 - The radio program One Man's Family debuts.
> 1944 -Our Gang film
> 1945 - concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
> 1960 - Payola Scandal: United States House of Representatives
> 1967 - After refusing induction into the United States Army
> 1969 - Jazz musician Presidential Medal of Freedom.
> 1970 - Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces
> 1974 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon
> 1975 - Vietnam War: last U.S. citizens begin evacuation
> 1991 - Richard Cheney at the Washington Institute's Soref Symposium
> 1992 - 1992 Los Angeles riots:
> 2002 - The United States is re-elected..
> 2004 - Richard Cheney and George W. Bush testify
1854 - 2004 - Nothing at all happens in England
--
~ Adrian Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk
Tim Gowen
> You share your birthday with:
...and Uma Thurman, so says David Pogue in his Tiger review!
Tim
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Tim Gowen
zoara
Well, that would work... but more usually it's mentioned on this group
(Ryan was talking about HHGG's and Tiger's release dates, IIRC).
zoara
Sounds about right.
Do you know anything that happened on that day? If you do, you can edit
my source...
-z-
zoara
> zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Today is (as I only recently discovered) Ryan Callaghan's birthday.
> > Happy Birthday Ryan!
> [...]
> >
> > Happy birthday, hope you have a fun day!
>
> Many happy returns - but hold on, It's your birthday too, Zoara, isnit
> it?
Might be ;)
-z-
Bruce Horrocks
Adrian Tuddenham <popp...@ukonline.invalid.invalid> writes
>1854 - 2004 - Nothing at all happens in England
29-April-2001 - A new religion is created in the UK
(Or in other words, a lot of people were daft enough to put down "Jedi"
on the census)
--
Bruce Horrocks
Surrey
England
<firstname>@<surname>.plus.com -- fix the obvious for email
Bruce Horrocks
<m...@privacy.net> writes
> 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind - The last U.S. citizens
> begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North
> Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes
> to an end.
Appropriate code name to give to an evacuation.
Chris Ridd
"zoara" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> Bella Jones <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Today is (as I only recently discovered) Ryan Callaghan's birthday.
>>> Happy Birthday Ryan!
>> [...]
>>>
>>> Happy birthday, hope you have a fun day!
>>
>> Many happy returns - but hold on, It's your birthday too, Zoara, isnit
>> it?
>
> Might be ;)
Possibly many happy returns then!
Cheers,
Chris
Sara Kirk
> Today is (as I only recently discovered) Ryan Callaghan's birthday.
> Happy Birthday Ryan!
Happy birthday (slightly late - sorry!)
--
Sara
Sara Kirk
<m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> Bella Jones <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Today is (as I only recently discovered) Ryan Callaghan's birthday.
> > > Happy Birthday Ryan!
> > [...]
> > >
> > > Happy birthday, hope you have a fun day!
> >
> > Many happy returns - but hold on, It's your birthday too, Zoara, isnit
> > it?
>
> Might be ;)
>
Sneaky! Happy birthday :)
>
> -z-
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Sara
Ryan Callaghan
> Today is (as I only recently discovered) Ryan Callaghan's birthday.
> Happy Birthday Ryan!
<snipped>
Thanks, and a highly belated Happy Birthday to you.
--
Ryan Callaghan
Email: callagrm<at>aston<dot>ac<dot>uk
ICQ: 20957015
Lake1
zoara
Today is James Savage's birthday, but if he still reads this group it's
under an alias...
Happy Birthday, James, if you're listening!
You share your birthday with:
1008 - King Henry I of France
1733 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist,
political scientist, and sailor
1772 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher
1781 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher
1796 - Horace Mann, American educator
1820 - Julia Tyler, First Lady of the United States
1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist
1826 - Frederic Edwin Church, painter
1827 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer
1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in
Wonderland
1873 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director
1889 - Francis Cardinal Spellman, American religious leader
1903 - Luther Adler, American stage actor
1918 - Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese political leader
1921 - Edo Murti , Croatian painter
1923 - Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian
1928 - Maynard Ferguson, jazz musician
1928 - Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress
1929 - Sidney Lamb, linguist
1930 - Roberta Peters, American soprano
1936 - El Cordobes, bullfighter
1937 - Dick Dale, guitarist
1941 - George Will, writer
1942 - Tammy Wynette, country musician
1942 - Nickolas Ashford, producer, songwriter, musician (Ashford and
Simpson)
1944 - Roger Rees, British-born actor
1945 - Narasinham Ram, journalist
1949 - John Force, NHRA drag racer
1954 - Pia Zadora, actress
1956 - David Guterson, author
1956 - Ulrike Meyfarth, winner of Olympic Games in the high jump
1958 - Keith Haring, graphical artist
1959 - Randy Travis, country musician
1962 - Oleta Adams, US singer
1967 - Ana Gasteyer, actress
1971 - Mike Dirnt, musician (Green Day)
1979 - Lance Bass, musician (NSYNC)
1994 - Alexander Gould, actor (Finding Nemo)
On this day in history:
1471 - Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury - Edward IV defeats
a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
1493 - Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and
Portugal along the Demarcation Line.
1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica.
1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present
day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1675 - King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal
Greenwich Observatory.
1776 - Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce
allegiance to King George III.
1814 - Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the
island of Elba to begin his exile.
1855 - American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco
with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chancellorsville - The battle ends
with a Union retreat.
1869 - Naval Battle of Hakodate in Japan.
1871 - The National Association, the first professional baseball
league, begins its first season.
1886 - Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to
break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight
and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
1904 - Construction begins on the Panama Canal.
1910 - The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
1912 - Italy occupies the island of Rhodes.
1919 - May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in
Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of
Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
1924 - The 1924 Summer Olympics open in Paris, France.
1930 - British police arrest Mahatma Gandhi and place him in Yeravda
Central Prison.
1932 - In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an
eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1942 - World War II: Battle of the Coral Sea - The battle begins with
the launch of attack aircraft from American and Japanese
aircraft carriers.
1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp
near Hamburg by the British Army.
1945 - World War II: Surrender of the North Germany Army to Field
Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1946 - In San Francisco Bay, US Marines from the Treasure Island Marine
Barracks stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five
people are killed in the riot.
1948 - Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is
published.
1949 - The entire Torino football team (except for one player who did
not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash
at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
1953 - Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man
and the Sea.
1959 - The first Grammy Awards are announced.
1961 - American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus
trip through the South.
1970 - Vietnam War: Kent State shootings - The Ohio National Guard,
sent to Kent State University after the ROTC building was burnt
down, opens fire on students protesting at the United States'
invasion of Cambodia. Four students are killed, nine are
wounded.
1972 - The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental
organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changed its
name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1974 - An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu,
becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom.
1985 - In Gothenburg, Sweden, Bobbysocks win the thirtieth Eurovision
Song Contest for Norway singing "La det swinge" (Let it swing).
1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is
convicted of three crimes and was acquitted of nine other
charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on
appeal.
1990 - Latvia proclaims independence.
1991 - In Rome, Italy, Carola wins the thirty-sixth Eurovision Song
Contest for Sweden singing "Fångad av en stormvind" (Trapped in
a storm wind).
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser
Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy
granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1996 - José María Aznar is appointed Prime Minister of Spain, thus
ending 13 years of Socialist rule.
1998 - A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber"
Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after
Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement sparing him from the death
penalty.
1999 - Several tornadoes hit the Midwestern part of the United States
during the night, killing at least 45 people.
1999 - In California, Manuel Babbitt is executed for the 1980 murder of
Leah Schendel. While on death row Babbitt was awarded a Purple
Heart for injuries he received in the Vietnam War.
2002 - An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano,
Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
2003 - The Outbreak of 2003 begins. Ninety-four tornadoes begin the
week-long outbreak.
Deaths on this day:
1799 - Tipu Sultan, Muslim Indian military leader (born c. 1750)
1824 - Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (born 1754)
1849 - Hokusai, painter and ukiyo-e artist (born 1760)
1880 - Edward Clark, governor of Texas (born 1815)
1903 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (born 1872)
1969 - Osbert Sitwell, English writer (born 1892)
1970 - Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William
Schroeder, Kent State victims
1975 - Moe Howard, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges
(born 1897)
1980 - Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia (born 1892)
1984 - Bob Clampett, cartoonist, creator of Bugs Bunny (born 1913)
1984 - Diana Dors, British actress (born 1931)
1986 - Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally car driver (born 1956)
The BBC's "on this day" page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/4
Happy birthday, hope you have a good day!
-zoara-
Jim
> Today is James Savage's birthday, but if he still reads this group it's
> under an alias...
>
> Happy Birthday, James, if you're listening!
Happy Birthday, James!
We miss you.
Jim
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event horizons there exist ... special circumstances" - Use Of Weapons
Flavio Matani
> Today is James Savage's birthday, but if he still reads this group it's
> under an alias...
>
> Happy Birthday, James, if you're listening!
>
>
>
> You share your birthday with:
>
Ah, a few cool people, undoubtedly
Happy Birthday!
David Kennedy
> Today is James Savage's birthday, but if he still reads this group it's
> under an alias...
>
> Happy Birthday, James, if you're listening!
>
Have a purple one James.
Bella Jones
> Today is James Savage's birthday, but if he still reads this group it's
> under an alias...
>
> Happy Birthday, James, if you're listening!
[...]
> 1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the
> United Kingdom.
Eek!
Hapy birthday mate. :-)
Sara Kirk
<m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Today is James Savage's birthday, but if he still reads this group it's
> > under an alias...
> >
> > Happy Birthday, James, if you're listening!
>
And from me - Happy Birthday.
:)
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Roger Merriman
> zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Today is James Savage's birthday, but if he still reads this group it's
> > under an alias...
> >
> > Happy Birthday, James, if you're listening!
>
> [...]
> > 1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the
> > United Kingdom.
>
> Eek!
>
> Hapy birthday mate. :-)
ooh yes happy birthday! and i guess the eek! heh.
roger