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You share your birthday with:
9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (died 79)
1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (died 1533)
1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (died 1572)
1576 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (died 1628)
1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (died 1679)
1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (died 1650)
1681 - Pierre François le Courayer , French theologian (died 1776)
1685 - Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer
(died 1749)
1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (died 1783)
1755 - Louis XVIII of France (died 1824)
1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal
(died 1840)
1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (died 1868)
1793 - Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (died 1865)
1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (died 1885)
1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (died 1876)
1835 - Andrew L. Harris, Governor of Ohio (died 1915)
1854 - Hubert Lyautey, French general (died 1934)
1857 - Joseph Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (died 1932)
1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (died 1912)
1868 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (died 1918)
1878 - Grace Abbott, American social worker (died 1939)
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (died 1968)
1887 - Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (died 1976)
1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician
(died 1972)
1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (died 1975)
1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (died 1966)
1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (died 1934)
1897 - Frank Fay, American actor (died 1961)
1899 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (died 1971)
1901 - Walter Hallstein, German politician (died 1982)
1901 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (died 1982)
1902 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(died 1995)
1904 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (died 1988)
1905 - Queen Astrid of the Belgians (died 1935)
1905 - Mischa Auer, American actor (died 1967)
1906 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (died 1992)
1906 - Rollie Stiles, American Baseball Player
1907 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (died 1985)
1911 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (died 1974)
1916 - Shelby Foote, American historian (died 2005)
1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (died 2005)
1922 - Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine
1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (died 2001)
1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (died 1985)
1925 - Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor
1928 - Rance Howard, American actor
1929 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (died 1999)
1935 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier
1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (died 2005)
1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (died 1995)
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (died 2001)
1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
1942 - Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician
1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress
1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
1944 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
1944 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
1945 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
1946 - Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
1948 - Howard Dean, American politician
1949 - Nguy?n T?n Dung, Prime Minister of Vietnam
1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, British businessman
1951 - Yaruch Bann, French poet
1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (died 1987)
1952 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
1960 - Jonathan Ross, British presenter
1960 - Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
1960 - RuPaul, American actress
1962 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (died 2000)
1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (died 1997)
1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress
1969 - Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
1969 - Kianna Dior, Korean-Canadian porn star
1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
1972 - Leonard Roberts, American actor
1973 - Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
1973 - Bernd Schneider, German footballer
1973 - Eli Marrero, American baseball player
1975 - Diane Neal, American actress
1976 - Brandon Call, American actor
1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
1979 - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
1980 - Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
1983 - Christopher Paolini, author
1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor
1994 - Raquel Castro, American actress
On this day in history:
1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is
succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes
on trial for treason.
1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for
ratification.
1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat
the Austrians in Italy.
1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its
first session of the U.S. Congress.
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoe.
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see
Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
1827 - The Delta Phi Fraternity, America's oldest continuous social
fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
1839 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio
opens in Milan.
1856 - American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day
southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort
Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the
Gadsden Purchase.
1858 - Modified Julian Day zero.
1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate
forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville,
Tennessee under siege.
1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with
the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the
state of New York.
1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its
premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two
groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks
(Russian for "minority").
1905 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaimed Armistice Day
(later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward
George Honey.
1922 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI went on exile in Italy.
1941 - World War II: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to
Japan, cables the State Department that Japan has plans to
launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable is
ignored).
1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's
head of state at the age of fifteen.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International
Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on
November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation
that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting
greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
1968 - NBC preempts the final 1:05 minutes of a very close AFL
football game between the New York Jets and the Oakland
Raiders with Heidi, prompting an outrage amongst sport fans.
1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis condemned to death by the Greek
Colonels' Junta.
1969 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United
States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at
limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
1970 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City
which later becomes the album 11-17-70.
1970 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the
My Lai massacre.
1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare
Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving
remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was
released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer
mouse.
1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard
Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a
crook".
1973 - Student uprising against the military regime in Athens, Greece.
1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded
in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).
1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS.
1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded.
1985 - The first edition of Phrack is released. It became the oldest
computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years
of existence.
1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a
student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police.
This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist
government (it succeeds on December 29).
1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki
prefecture, Japan became active again and erupted.
1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants
outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (police killed the
assailants).
2000 - Catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7,
and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst
catastrophies in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
2000 - Grand opening of the first free-standing Khaneghah (Sufi
center) outside of a majority Muslim country, in Falls Church,
VA by Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi.
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated Governor of California.
2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for
$11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings
Corporation.
2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani,
becomes officialised in law for the first time, almost 60 years
after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the
republic.
Deaths on this day:
375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (born 321)
594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (born c.539)
641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (born 593)
680 - Hilda of Whitby (born 614)
1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary
(born 1207)
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician
(born 1285)
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (born 1463)
1558 - Mary I of England (born 1516)
1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1500)
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (born 1518)
1592 - John III of Sweden (born 1537)
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (born 1542)
1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal
(born 1594)
1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France
(born 1602)
1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
1665 - John Earle, English bishop
1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (born 1634)
1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier
(born 1610)
1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (born 1631)
1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
(born 1653)
1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate
1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (born 1668)
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1693)
1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (born 1710)
1789 - Charlotte, Duchess of Albany, child of Bonnie Prince Charlie
(born 1753)
1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (born 1738)
1796 - Catherine II of Russia, empress of Russia (born 1729)
1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (born 1721)
1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (born 1758)
1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement
(born 1771)
1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (born 1847)
1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (born 1817)
1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (born 1840)
1922 - Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council
(born 1847)
1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (born 1860)
1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (born 1861)
1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (born 1860)
1938 - Ante Trumbic, Croatian politician (born 1864)
1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (born 1882)
1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (born 1879)
1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (born 1879)
1947 - Victor Serge, French anarchist, novelist, historian (born 1890)
1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (born 1894)
1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (born 1913)
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (born 1887)
1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (born 1911)
1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
1980 - Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi Sufi order (born 1916)
1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (born 1905)
1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (born 1924)
1986 - Georges Besse, president of Renault (born 1927)
1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (born 1906)
1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (born 1960)
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Quebec politician (born 1926)
2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (born 1948)
2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (born 1915)
2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (born 1946)
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (born 1928)
2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (born 1970)
2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (born 1941)
2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (born 1942)
2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (born 1927)
BBC: On This Day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/17
> Yesterday was Rexx Magnus's birthday. Happy Birthday Rexx! I know that
> this year wasn't the best, but I'm sure next year will be better....
Aye, count me in on a Happy Belated Birthday mate. If you're anywhere
near Stafford then feel free to drop in for a dram.
Jim
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> Yesterday was Rexx Magnus's birthday. Happy Birthday Rexx
Yep, Happy Birthday Rexx from your Welsh neighbours.
--
Gareth Slee
http://www.meroffice.com
Hope it was a good one.
>
> You share your birthday with:
>
> 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (died 79)
Cool.
--
David Kennedy
Who lives in Stafford ?
> Yesterday was Rexx Magnus's birthday. Happy Birthday Rexx! I
> know that this year wasn't the best, but I'm sure next year
> will be better....
Like, right on, dude -- Hippy Bath Day from the Commune (but
only if you really want to enjoy one, this being a matter of
individual free choice rather than any stereotyping activity
or other attempt to make you conform to The Man's credos).
--
Andrew Stephenson
"The water's a bit cloudy, Rik..."
Happy weekend, Rexx - hope the neck clears up!
Cheers - Jaimie
--
"If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected
abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the
last time you needed one?" - Tom Cargil, C++ Journal
> Who lives in Stafford ?
Universal Grinding, last time I went there. Great name, nice people.
And Rexx, have a nice one.
--
Peter
That is a good name. I like it.
> Yesterday was Rexx Magnus's birthday. Happy Birthday Rexx! I know that
> this year wasn't the best, but I'm sure next year will be better....
>
Yea, happy birthday!
>
> You share your birthday with:
>
> 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (died 79)
Ah, yes, the rather nasty guy with the nice name (he was one of the
Flavius -er, what's the plural of that? Flaviuses?)
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> Yesterday was Rexx Magnus's birthday. Happy Birthday Rexx! I know that
> this year wasn't the best, but I'm sure next year will be better....
Happy birthday Rexx - I read your other post. Sorry you had a shite
day, but the 30s are cool, honest! :-)
> 1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer
> mouse.
Interesting...
--
bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
> zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Yesterday was Rexx Magnus's birthday. Happy Birthday Rexx! I know that
> > this year wasn't the best, but I'm sure next year will be better....
>
> Happy birthday Rexx - I read your other post. Sorry you had a shite
> day, but the 30s are cool, honest! :-)
Indeed, she is right, the 30s are almost as good as the 40s :-)
Hope you enjoy them!
--
Woody
> On 17/11/06 5:02 pm, Jim wrote:
> > zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Yesterday was Rexx Magnus's birthday. Happy Birthday Rexx! I know that
> >> this year wasn't the best, but I'm sure next year will be better....
> >
> > Aye, count me in on a Happy Belated Birthday mate. If you're anywhere
> > near Stafford then feel free to drop in for a dram.
>
> Who lives in Stafford ?
Well, I do for a start.
Jim
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Flavians IIRC
> Bella Jones <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Yesterday was Rexx Magnus's birthday. Happy Birthday Rexx! I know that
> > > this year wasn't the best, but I'm sure next year will be better....
> >
> > Happy birthday Rexx - I read your other post. Sorry you had a shite
> > day, but the 30s are cool, honest! :-)
>
> Indeed, she is right, the 30s are almost as good as the 40s :-)
I haven't had a long enough sample size to judge the 40s, and I will not
consign them to the fire for the six months of shite and shite avoidance
mine have consisted of so far.
> Flavians IIRC
Flavinoids-- Oops, no, that's booze. IIRC.
But there is a theory that the Ancient Romans managed to clobber
themselves by adding lead-based sweeteners to their wine. Hence
so many dotty Emperors. I wonder what iSteve's fave flavour is?
--
Andrew Stephenson
> But there is a theory that the Ancient Romans managed to clobber
> themselves by adding lead-based sweeteners to their wine.
Known as sapa, HTH.
> Hence so many dotty Emperors. I wonder what iSteve's fave flavour is?
You can still buy sapa today, it's grape juice concentrated by boiling. The
Roman's error was to use lead pans for cooking and to concentrate the grape
must in these pans, which created soluble lead acetate in the sapa.
Although sapa wasn't the only source of lead in their diet, it was a
significant one. Since no one knew about the dangers of lead and indeed
mercury they were everywhere in Roman food and cosmetics. Water was
supplied through lead pipes, and stored in lead lined cisterns for example.
> > 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (died 79)
>
> Ah, yes, the rather nasty guy with the nice name (he was one of the
> Flavius -er, what's the plural of that? Flaviuses?)
You of all people should know the answer to that one.
--
Pd
40s? They're wonderful. I'm the happiest I've ever been. Especially now.
--
Sara
I've lost Lord Byron's pic somehow. When I find it linky will be resumed.
> > I haven't had a long enough sample size to judge the 40s, and I will not
> > consign them to the fire for the six months of shite and shite avoidance
> > mine have consisted of so far.
>
> 40s? They're wonderful. I'm the happiest I've ever been. Especially now.
Sure. But there's an over-riding reason, isn't there? My '60s have been
the same (lovely) for a different, but similarly over-riding cause. If
it proves anything, it's that circumstance not decades make the running.
The important thing is to be able to enjoy happiness if the opportunity
crops up. And that isn't necessarily easy.
Jeez, that's a bit Polyannawise... But true.
--
Peter
> "The water's a bit cloudy, Rik..."
>
> Happy weekend, Rexx - hope the neck clears up!
>
> Cheers - Jaimie
It's still a bit achey now, but better than it was. On the upside
I've managed to buy some suitable boots and gloves for my trip to
Iceland next month and had a fair bit of birthday money from my Dad
to put towards the trip.
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I'd missed Andrew S's reply to this.
Of course, the Flavinoids is about right..
> PeterD <pd....@dsl.pipex.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Flavio Matani <flavio_matani...@mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (died 79)
> > >
> > > Ah, yes, the rather nasty guy with the nice name (he was one of the
> > > Flavius -er, what's the plural of that? Flaviuses?)
> >
> > You of all people should know the answer to that one.
>
> I'd missed Andrew S's reply to this.
>
> Of course, the Flavinoids is about right..
Forsan et *hic* haec olim meminisse iuvabit. ;-)
--
Andrew Stephenson