Happy Birthday!
zoara
It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
You share your birthday with:
15 BC - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (died 19)
1494 - Pontormo, Italian painter (died 1557)
1522 - John Jewel, English bishop (died 1571)
1544 - William Gilbert, English natural philosopher (died 1603)
1616 - John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, (died 1682)
1671 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1737)
1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer (died 1736)
1689 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician
(died 1769)
1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (died 1793)
1794 - William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian
of science (died 1866)
1810 - Charles Clark, Governor of Mississippi (died 1877)
1810 - Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (died 1874)
1816 - Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (died 1868)
1819 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (died 1901)
1836 - Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (died 1925)
1854 - John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy
(died 1918)
1855 - Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright (died 1934)
1863 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (died 1938)
1870 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (died 1938)
1870 - Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (died 1950)
1878 - Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American engineer (died 1972)
1886 - Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (died 1979)
1891 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar
(died 1971)
1899 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (died 1938)
1899 - Henri Michaux, French poet (died 1984)
1900 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (died 1954)
1900 - Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (died 1984)
1901 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (died 1968)
1905 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize
laureate (died 1984)
1909 - Wilbur Mills, American politician (died 1992)
1914 - Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (died 1986)
1923 - Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (died 1986)
1925 - Mai Zetterling, Swedish-born entertainer (died 1994)
1926 - Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor
1928 - William Trevor, Irish writer
1930 - Hans-Martin Linde, German conductor
1934 - Jane Byrne, Mayor of Chicago
1934 - Barry Rose, English choir-trainer and organist
1935 - Joan Micklin Silver, American director
1936 - Harold Budd, American musician
1938 - Tommy Chong, Canadian-born actor and comedian
1940 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(died 1996)
1941 - Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter
1943 - Gary Burghoff, American actor
1944 - Patti LaBelle, American singer
1945 - Priscilla Presley, American actress
1946 - Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska, Russian-born Polish athlete
1946 - Concepcion Fuertes Rojo, Spanish Teacher and mother
1949 - Jim Broadbent, English actor
1953 - Alfred Molina, English actor
1955 - Rosanne Cash, American singer
1956 - Michael Jackson, Northern Irish clergyman
1959 - Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish professional goaltender (died 1985)
1960 - Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
1962 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (died 2003)
1963 - Joe Dumars, American basketball player
1963 - Kathy Leander, Swiss singer
1964 - Adrian Moorhouse, British swimmer
1964 - Pat Verbeek, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - John C. Reilly, American actor
1966 - Eric Cantona, French footballer
1967 - Heavy D, American rapper and actor
1969 - Rich Robinson, American musician (Black Crowes)
1970 - Tommy Page, American singer
1971 - Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings)
1972 - Greg Berlanti, American television writer and producer
1973 - Bartolo Colón, Dominican Major League Baseball player
1973 - Dermot O'Leary, English television presenter
1973 - Ruslana, Ukrainian singer
1975 - Marc Gagnon, Canadian short track speed skater
1976 - Alessandro Cortini, Italian musician
1978 - Bryan Greenberg, American actor
1979 - Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
1980 - Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress
1984 - Sarah Hagan, American actress
1984 - Brandon Kovacic, American Performer
1987 - Dominika Kasprzycka, Polish singer
1988 - Billy Gilman, American singer
On this day in history:
1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 - Magnus Ladulås crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487 - Imposter Lambert Simnel is crowned as "King Edward VI" at
Dublin.
1595 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first
printed catalog of an institutional library.
1621 - Protestant Union formally dissolved.
1626 - Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1668 - Glen Cove, New York is founded.
1689 - The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting
Protestants (Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded).
1738 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist
movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as
Aldersgate Day.
1787 - The United States Constitutional Convention is convened after a
quorum of delegates arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1798 - Irish republican rebellion against British rule begins.
1822 - Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the
independence of the Presidency of Quito.
1830 - Mary had a little lamb by Sarah Hale is published.
1844 - The first electric telegram is sent by Samuel F. B. Morse, from
Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God
wrought?".
1846 - Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures
Monterrey.
1856 - John Brown and his men murder five slavery supporters at
Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1861 - American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge in New York is opened to traffic after 14
years of construction.
1893 - The Niagara Falls Park and River Railway opens in Ontario.
1895 - Henry Irving becomes the first personage from the theatre to be
knighted.
1899 - The first public parking garage in the United States is opened
in Boston, Massachusetts.
1900 - Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free
State.
1911 - The New York Public Library opened.
1915 - World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1921 - The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
1929 - The Cocoanuts, the first film to star the Marx Brothers, opens.
1930 - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the
first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5
for the 11,000 mile flight).
1935 - Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, hosts major-league
baseball's first night game ever as the Cincinnati Reds beat
the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.
1940 - Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor
helicopter flight.
1941 - World War II: In the North Atlantic, the German Battleship
Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood killing all but three crewmen on
what was the pride of the Royal Navy.
1943 - Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer in
Auschwitz concentration camp.
1949 - The Soviet Union ends the 11-month Berlin Blockade.
1958 - United Press International is formed through a merger of the
United Press and the International News Service.
1961 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in
Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after
disembarking from their bus.
1962 - American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times
in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1968 - Students set fire to the Paris bourse.
1968 - FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1974 - After a nine-year run, The Dean Martin Show airs for the last
time.
1976 - London to Washington, DC Concorde service begins.
1980 - The International Court of Justice calls for the release of
United States embassy hostages in Tehran.
1981 - First International Women's Day for Disarmament.
1988 - Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United
Kingdom.
1989 - Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded a
six-figure sum in damages after winning a libel action against
Private Eye.
1990 - A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and
Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically
injuring both.
1991 - Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews
to Israel.
1992 - The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns
following pro-democracy protests.
1993 - Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
1993 - Microsoft unveils Windows NT.
2000 - Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of
occupation.
2001 - Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the
youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 - The Versailles wedding hall collapse in Jerusalem, Israel,
kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel's worst-ever civil
disaster.
Deaths on this day:
1153 - King David I of Scotland (born 1084)
1351 - Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco
1425 - Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician
(born 1362)
1456 - Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (born 1396)
1543 - Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer (born 1473)
1612 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and
spymaster (born 1563)
1627 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (born 1561)
1725 - Jonathan Wild, English criminal (born 1683)
1734 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (born 1660)
1749 - Graf Valentin Potocki, Polish nobleman (burned at the stake)
1792 - George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer
(born 1718)
1806 - John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal
(born 1723)
1879 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist, writer, and
publisher (born 1805)
1881 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (born 1805)
1883 - Abdel Kadir, Algerian leader (born 1808)
1919 - Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (born 1870)
1945 - Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (born 1892)
1947 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (born 1878)
1948 - Jacques Feyder, Belgian director and screenwriter (born 1885)
1949 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (born 1873)
1950 - Archibald Wavell, American general (born 1883)
1959 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State
(born 1888)
1963 - Elmore James, American musician (born 1918)
1969 - Willy Ley, German-born rocket scientist (born 1906)
1974 - Duke Ellington, American composer and musician (born 1899)
1981 - George Jessel, American actor (born 1898)
1984 - Vincent J. McMahon, American pro wrestling promoter (born 1914)
1991 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds)
(born 1944)
1995 - Harold Wilson, British statesman and prime minister (born 1916)
1997 - Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (born 1923)
1999 - Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (born 1965)
2000 - Kurt Schork, American reporter and war correspondent
(born 1947)
2003 - Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, English actress, widow of Sir
Michael Redgrave, and the mother of Corin Redgrave, Vanessa
Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave (born 1910)
2004 - Henry Ries, American photographer (born 1917)
2005 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and resistance fighter
(born 1913)
2005 - Vivian Liberto, first wife of Johnny Cash (born 1934)
BBC: On This Day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/24
Hope you have a good one!
-zoara-
Jim
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> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
Ratty birthday mate!
Jim
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Chris Ridd
"zoara" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
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> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
>
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> You share your birthday with:
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> 1943 - Gary Burghoff, American actor
Raise a radar with Apple to celebrate!
> 1944 - Patti LaBelle, American singer
> On this day in history:
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> 1993 - Microsoft unveils Windows NT.
Er...
> Hope you have a good one!
Hope you get plenty of shiny things!
Cheers,
Chris
David Kennedy
> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
>
Have a good one and don't get too close to the candles...
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David Kennedy
Flavio Matani
> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
>
Happy Birthday!!
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Gareth Slee
> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
Have a great one!
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Gareth
Jon B
> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
>
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Have a good one!!
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Jon B
> zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
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> > It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
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> Happy B-day.
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> You share your birthday with the incomparable Rebekka on flickr:
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> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebba/151355527/>
Actually hers in on the 25th :p
and thank you for wasting half my afternoon, I ended up following some
of her experimental pic links...
Jon B
> Jon B <black...@jonbradbury.com> wrote:
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> > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebba/151355527/>
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> > Actually hers in on the 25th :p
> >
> > and thank you for wasting half my afternoon, I ended up following some
> > of her experimental pic links...
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> Oops!
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> She's not only gorgeous but she's a fine photographer too.
Very.
I'm hoping now a few other things have fallen into place I can start
getting out and trying to take some good pictures.
Woody
> On 24/5/06 11:12, in article bf4198kckup7$.tk7kk11djyfx$.d...@40tude.net,
> "zoara" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
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> >
> > It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
> >
> > Hope you have a good one!
>
> Hope you get plenty of shiny things!
Sadly all the money got spent on houses!
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Woody
Woody
> zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
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> > It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
>
> Happy B-day.
>
> You share your birthday with the incomparable Rebekka on flickr:
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> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebba/151355527/>
Wrong day and she isn't a patch on me!
--
Woody
Woody
> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
>
>
> Hope you have a good one!
Thanks all - been pretty good so far!
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Woody
David Kennedy
Hope you got plenty of Houses...
Woody
> On 24/5/06 5:40 pm, Woody wrote:
> > Chris Ridd <chri...@mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 24/5/06 11:12, in article bf4198kckup7$.tk7kk11djyfx$.d...@40tude.net,
> >> "zoara" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
> >>>
> >>> Hope you have a good one!
> >> Hope you get plenty of shiny things!
> >
> > Sadly all the money got spent on houses!
> >
>
> Hope you got plenty of Houses...
I certainly greatly increased the number of houses I have.
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Woody
Ian Robinson
(in article <bf4198kckup7$.tk7kk11djyfx$.d...@40tude.net>):
> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
Have a good one!
Ian
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<http://www.canicula.com/wp/>
Chris Ridd
44749101$0$10747$ed26...@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net, "David Kennedy"
<davidk...@dmnc.NOSPAM.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24/5/06 5:40 pm, Woody wrote:
>> Chris Ridd <chri...@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 24/5/06 11:12, in article bf4198kckup7$.tk7kk11djyfx$.d...@40tude.net,
>>> "zoara" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
>>>>
>>>> Hope you have a good one!
>>> Hope you get plenty of shiny things!
>>
>> Sadly all the money got spent on houses!
>>
>
> Hope you got plenty of Houses...
Perhaps Woody got a new set of Monopoly?
Cheers,
Chris
PeterD
David Kennedy
Go for it. Why not.
Giles
zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
New year, new house, new *book(*)? Shirley not a mid life thingy? ;-)
Giles
Woody
Jim
> > > It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
> >
> > New year, new house, new *book(*)? Shirley not a mid life thingy? ;-)
>
> No, no new car. Plus the mid life thing was ages ago!
I'm firmly of the opinion that in order to have a mid-life thingy you
have to grow up first. Since I never had, it's not going to be an issue
:-)
Jim
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Roger Merriman
well it does look a nice house! happy beladed birthday by way!
roger
Giles
j...@magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote:
> Woody <use...@alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > > It's Woody's birthday today - happy birthday Woody!
> > >
> > > New year, new house, new *book(*)? Shirley not a mid life thingy? ;-)
> >
> > No, no new car. Plus the mid life thing was ages ago!
>
> I'm firmly of the opinion that in order to have a mid-life thingy you
> have to grow up first. Since I never had, it's not going to be an issue
> :-)
Now that is a sensible policy, plus you ever grow out of toys...
Giles