Happy Birthday....!
zoara
Today it's Martin Orpen's birthday, so lots of cake and cherry coke all
round! Bagsey the first jelly and ice cream...
Hope you have a good day, Martin!
-zoara-
You share your birthday with:
1372 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of
France (died 1407)
1615 - Pope Innocent XII (died 1700)
1683 - John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher
(died 1744)
1700 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (died 1768)
1719 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British
field marshal (died 1797)
1720 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (died 1793)
1733 - Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (died 1804)
1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1790)
1763 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (died 1815)
1764 - Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1845)
1781 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (died 1841)
1784 - Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician (died 1842)
1798 - Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (died 1853)
1815 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist
(died 1911)
1855 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (died 1916)
1860 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (died 1903)
1864 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (died 1941)
1870 - Albert Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s
(died 1953)
1884 - Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (died 1941)
1898 - Henry Hathaway, American film director and producer
(died 1985)
1899 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate (died 1980)
1899 - Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (died 1956)
1900 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (died 1981)
1900 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
1907 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer
(died 1986)
1908 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist
(died 2002)
1910 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (died 1985)
1910 - Sammy Kaye, American musician (died 1987)
1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, American author (died 1986)
1913 - William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director
(died 1987)
1913 - Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer
1913 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (died 1985)
1914 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (died 1943)
1914 - W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (died 1998)
1921 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
1926 - Raúl Alfonsín, President of Argentina
1926 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (died 2003)
1927 - Robert Denning, interior designer (died 2005)
1929 - Peter Breck, American actor
1930 - Jan Howard, American singer
1930 - Liz Anderson, American singer
1933 - Mike Stoller, American songwriter
1934 - Barry Hughart, American author
1935 - Michael Walzer, American philosopher
1938 - Erma Franklin, American singer (died 2002)
1939 - Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter
1942 - Dave Cutler, American software engineer
1942 - Scatman John, American singer (died 1999)
1943 - André Téchiné, French film director and screenwriter
1945 - Michael Martin Murphey, American musician
1945 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician
1946 - Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (died 1976)
1947 - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
1949 - Julia Migenes, American soprano
1950 - William H. Macy, American actor
1951 - Fred Berry, American actor and dancer (died 2003)
1952 - Wolfgang Rihm, German composer
1953 - Deborah Raffin, American actress
1955 - Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
1957 - Steve Lake, baseball player
1960 - Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2)
1960 - Joe Ranft, Pixar animator (died 2005)
1960 - Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political
essayist
1963 - Fito Páez, Argentine musician and songwriter.
1964 - Will Clark, baseball player
1967 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (died 1994)
1968 - Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Tim Story, American film director
1971 - Annabeth Gish, American actress
1971 - Robert Lanham, American author and satirist
1972 - Common, American rapper
1973 - Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
1973 - Bobby Jackson, American basketballer
1973 - David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
1974 - Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player
1976 - Danny Masterson, American actor
1977 - Ed Sloan, American musician, member of Crossfade
1977 - Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
1978 - Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian dancer
1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress
1981 - Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
1983 - Mallory R. Evans, American writer and artist
1983 - Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
1984 - Nanri Yuuka, Japanese seiyū
1984 - Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete
1985 - Emile Hirsch, American actor
1986 - Natalie and Nicole Albino, American musicians (Nina Sky)
1986 - Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
1987 - Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario
Andretti)
1987 - Lucas Henderson, American tennis player
1989 - Harry Melling, British actor
On this day in history:
483 - St. Felix becomes Pope.
874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of
the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected anti-pope as Victor IV,
succeeding Anacletus II.
1639 - Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard.
1781 - William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
1846 - Ballinglass Incident: eviction of 300 tenants at the village
of Ballinglass in Ireland during the Irish Potato famine.
1862 - American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all
Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus
effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and
setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America
reluctantly agrees to the use of African American troops.
1881 - Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb
is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the
Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
1884 - The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885)
1897 - San Diego State University founded.
1900 - Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free
State.
1900 - In France, length of a workday for women and children is
limited to 11 hours by law
1921 - Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its
independence from China.
1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of
evolution.
1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto was telegraphed to the
Harvard College Observatory.
1933 - Great Depression: Banks in the United States begin to re-open
after the Presidentially mandated "bank holiday".
1940 - Russo-Finnish Winter War ended.
1943 - World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their
assault on American forces at Hill 700.
1943 - Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in
Kraków.
1954 - Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
1957 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.
1962 - Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the
USA, proposes a document, called Operation Northwoods,
regarding performing terrorist attacks in Guantanamo Bay to
Secretary of Defense Robert Mcnamara. The proposal is scrapped
and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his
position.
1964 - A young woman, Kitty Genovese is murdered in front of multiple
witnesses who all fail to help her, in an incident which
shocks the world and prompts investigation into the Bystander
effect.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing
the Lunar Module.
1971 - In New York City, Rock group The Allman Brothers Band record a
concert that will be released as their classic live album At
Fillmore East
1979 - The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime
Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in
Grenada.
1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
1988 - I. King Jordan becomes the first Deaf president of Gallaudet
University after the Deaf President Now demonstrations.
1991 - The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has
agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez
oil spill in Alaska.
1992 - An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over
500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1993 - The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing
record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba
to Québec.
1996 - The Dunblane Massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and
1 adult teacher are shot dead by a spree killer who then
commits suicide.
1997 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to
succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 - In Phoenix, Arizona, USA, the Phoenix Lights, one of the most
widely witnessed UFO sightings, take place.
2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that
350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been
found in Italy.
2006 - Earthquake struck Salta, Argentina
2006 - Six men in London are hospitalised during trials of the drug
TGN1412, raising concerns about testing on humans.
Deaths on this day:
1271 - Henry of Almain, English crusader (born 1235)
1395 - John Barbour, Scottish poet
1516 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (born 1456)
1569 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Huguenot general
(born 1530)
1573 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman
1604 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (born 1537)
1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor (born 1567)
1711 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (born 1636)
1778 - Charles le Beau, French historian (born 1701)
1803 - William Emes, English landscape architect (born 1729 or 1730)
1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark (born 1749)
1842 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (born 1761)
1854 - Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle, French
statesman (born 1773)
1879 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (born 1818)
1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia (born 1818)
1884 - Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate,
Stanford University named for him (born 1868)
1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
(born 1833)
1906 - Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist
(born 1820)
1911 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient
(born 1844)
1918 - César Cui, Russian composer (born 1835)
1925 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (born 1909)
1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and
intellectual (born 1888)
1938 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (born 1857)
1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (born 1898)
1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (born 1879)
1955 - King Tribhuvan of Nepal (born 1906)
1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (born 1884)
1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (born 1882)
1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (born 1941)
1975 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(born 1892)
1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (born 1925)
1988 - John Holmes, American actor (born 1944)
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (born 1903)
1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (born 1915)
1995 - Leon Day, American baseball player (born 1916)
1996 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (born 1941)
1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (born 1920)
1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (born 1911)
1999 - Lee Falk, American cartoonist (born 1911)
1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director (born 1912)
1999 - Bidu Sayao, Brazilian born soprano (born 1902)
2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (born 1900)
2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna
(born 1905)
2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (born 1944)
2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck)
(born 1942)
2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (born 1925)
BBC: On This Day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/13
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PeterD
> 1764 - Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1845)
Celebrate with a nice cup of tea?
> 1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, American author (died 1986)
Just author? No mention of Tom Cruise and John Travolta?
> 483 - St. Felix becomes Pope.
Orders the rounding up of all mice in Vatican City.
> 874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of
> the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
Nice for us. I wonder if it was nice for him?
> 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected anti-pope as Victor IV,
> succeeding Anacletus II.
Brilliant! If you get the Pope and the Anti-Pope together, the resulting
explosion can cause an enormous schism.
> 1781 - William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
Apparently he found it with both hands.
> 1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of
> evolution.
Isn't it wonderful that the Merkins have put that era of ignorance
behind them? Oops...
> 1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto was telegraphed to the
> Harvard College Observatory.
Planet Pluto 1930-2006 R.I.P.
> 1962 - Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the
> USA, proposes a document, called Operation Northwoods,
> regarding performing terrorist attacks in Guantanamo Bay to
> Secretary of Defense Robert Mcnamara. The proposal is scrapped
> and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his
> position.
I wonder if Lemnitzer was removed for proposing the terrorist attacks,
or for not just doing it with provable deniability by the
administration.
> 1979 - The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime
> Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in
> Grenada.
Fat lot of good it did them.
> 2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that
> 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been
> found in Italy.
How can that be? The Earth's only 6000 years old. Evolution? Pah.
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Pd
Peter Ceresole
> > 1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, American author (died 1986)
>
> Just author? No mention of Tom Cruise and John Travolta?
Or of his sure-fire formula for making a million dollars? Which
worked...
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Peter
Andrew Stephenson
pd....@dsl.pipex.invalid "PeterD" writes:
> > 2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that
> > 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been
> > found in Italy.
>
> How can that be? The Earth's only 6000 years old. Evolution? Pah.
Satan's footprints, brother: one must be ever-watchful for his
snares... Although I'm more intrigued by how those footprints
apparently were walking upright. Good trick, wot.
--
Andrew Stephenson
Sara Kirk
zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
> Today it's Martin Orpen's birthday, so lots of cake and cherry coke all
> round! Bagsey the first jelly and ice cream...
>
> Hope you have a good day, Martin!
>
Yay! Have candles and cakes and booze and stuff.
--
Sara
David Kennedy
> Today it's Martin Orpen's birthday, so lots of cake and cherry coke all
> round! Bagsey the first jelly and ice cream...
>
> Hope you have a good day, Martin!
>
Yes indeed.
--
David Kennedy
Andrew Stephenson
am...@deltrak.demon.co.uk "Andrew Stephenson" writes:
And, oh yes, Happy Thingday to the birthday person(s). As ever,
beware of cake. Strong drink, too. Dry toast is okay. (Amen.)
--
Andrew Stephenson
PeterD
He was probably wearing human-foot shoes on those cloven hoofs.
--
Pd
Gareth Slee
> Hope you have a good day, Martin!
Happy Birthday that man!
--
Gareth
http://www.meroffice.com
zoara
Don't be silly - the Devil wears Prada.
-z-
--
"I'm sorry, that's not a hair-related question."
Woody
> Happy Brithdy Martin!
Yes, happy birthday
> > 2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that
> > 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been
> > found in Italy.
>
> How can that be? The Earth's only 6000 years old. Evolution? Pah.
Pretty impressive they found a 350,000 year old human to check they were
theirs.
--
Woody
Bella Jones
> Today it's Martin Orpen's birthday, so lots of cake and cherry coke all
> round! Bagsey the first jelly and ice cream...
>
> Hope you have a good day, Martin!
Very embarrassed! This has been lingering in my outbox for ages - I had
a huge job on last week and tend to go almost underwater while doing
bread and butter stuff.
Anyway, later happy birthday Martin. How could I not wish a hb to the
capturer of the 'Frasier! How can you not like Frasier!' dialogue. I
played it to a friend recently, who screeched with laughter.
--
bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
Sara Kirk
m...@privacy.net (Bella Jones) wrote:
Oh heavens yes! That was a classic.
--
Sara
zoara
Bella Jones
> Bella Jones <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > I had a huge job on last week
>
> Fnnnever mind.
Come on, out with it.
James Dore
> zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Bella Jones <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I had a huge job on last week
> >
> > Fnnnever mind.
>
> Come on, out with it.
I bet you say that to all the boys....
--
james dore
IT Officer,
New College, Oxford
http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/ it-support@new....