Happy Birthday
zoara
Today it's Richard P Grant's birthday. Upside-down cake for all!
You share your birthday with:
1336 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (died 1374)
1527 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (died 1598)
1572 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (died 1632)
1578 - King Philip III of Spain (died 1621)
1629 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician & astronomer (died 1695)
1714 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (died 1788)
1741 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (died 1762)
1788 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas
(died 1870)
1827 - Augustus Pitt-Rivers, English archaeologist (died 1900)
1866 - Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (died 1936)
1868 - Peter Behrens, German architect and designer (died 1940)
1872 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Islamic scholar and translator (died 1953)
1886 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (died 1956)
1897 - Claire Windsor, American actress (died 1972)
1902 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Ukrainian rabbi (died 1994)
1904 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (died 2000)
1907 - François Duvalier, Haitian politician (died 1971)
1917 - Marvin Miller, American labor activist
1921 - Thomas Schelling, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
1925 - Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minster of Zimbabwe
1925 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (died 1974)
1925 - Rod Steiger, American actor (died 2002)
1930 - Bradford Dillman, American actor
1933 - Morton Subotnick, American composer
1935 - Loretta Lynn, American singer
1935 - Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer
1936 - Kenneth Mars, American actor
1936 - Frank Serpico, American policeman
1941 - Julie Christie, British actress
1941 - Pete Rose, baseball player
1942 - Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (died 2003)
1942 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist
1949 - John Shea, American actor
1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist and composer
1960 - Brad Garrett, American actor
1961 - Robert Carlyle, British actor
1964 - Brian Adams, American professional wrestler
1966 - David Justice, baseball player
1966 - Greg Maddux, baseball player
1967 - Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
1970 - Shizuka Kudo, Japanese singer
1973 - Adrien Brody, American actor
1974 - Da Brat, American rapper
1975 - Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
1975 - Veronika Zemanová, Czech model and pornstar
1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
1980 - Ben Wells, American actor
1981 - Mary Castro, American model and actress
1983 - Simon Burnett, British swimmer
1983 - James McFadden, Scottish footballer
On this day in history:
43BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's
assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of
the consul Pansa, who is killed.
69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in
the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
1028 - Henry III, son of Conrad, was elected king of the Germans.
1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Crusaders.
1450 - Battle of Formigny. French attack and nearly annihilate English,
ending English domination in northern France.
1471 - In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the
Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of
Warwick was killed and Edward IV resumed the throne.
1632 - Battle of Rain, Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy
Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1699 - Sikhism. Birth of the Sikh religion in Northern India in
accordance with the Nanakshahi Calender.
1775 - The first abolition society in the North America was established.
The "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in
Bondage" was organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and
Benjamin Rush.
1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1846 - The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for
California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship,
cannibalism, and survival.
1849 - Hungary declared itself independent of Austria with Louis
Kossuth as its leader.
1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
1864 - Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and
gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in
the following peace settlement.
1865 - Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next
day.
1890 - The Pan-American Union was founded by the First International
Conference of American States at their meeting in Washington.
Known originally as the International Bureau of American
Republics, William Elleroy Curtis became its first director.
1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for
peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a
precursor to movies.
1910 - President William Howard Taft becomes the first president to
throw out the first baseball on opening day.
1912 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the
North Atlantic on its maiden voyage, plunging beneath the waves
and taking with it over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the
following morning.
1915 - The Turks invaded Armenia.
1927 - The first Volvo car premieres, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd
Spanish Republic.
1935 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl.
1935 - Babe Ruth played his first National League game in Fenway Park
in Boston, Massachusetts. He was playing for the Boston Braves,
not his old team the Red Sox, in this, his last year of pro ball
in the major leagues. In this season, Ruth played 28 games,
getting 13 hits and six home runs, before retiring.
1940 - Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points,
preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later.
1941 - World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organisation
that pursued Nazi and fascist policies, was put in charge of the
Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the April
6 invasion of Yugoslavia during Operation Castigo.
1944 - Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing
a loss of 20 million pounds at that time.
1945 - Osijek, Croatia, was liberated from fascistic occupation.
1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB)
convention in Chicago, Illinois. It was the demonstation of the
first practical and commercially successful format called 2"
Quadruplex.
1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France.
1964 - A Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an
assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
1965 - In Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, convicted
of murdering four members of the Herbert Clutter family of
Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at the Kansas State
Penitentiary For Men in Lansing, Kansas.
1969 - At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and
Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress
Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best
Actress Oscars.
1970 - One of Apollo 13's oxygen tanks explodes, causing a cancelled
moon mission. The explosion occurred on April 13th in several
time zones.
1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia passes its first test flight.
1986 - In retaliation for the April 5 bombing of the La Belle
Discotheque in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were
killed, Ronald Reagan ordered major bombing raids against
Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which killed 60 people.
1986 - 2.2 lb (1 kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of
Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever
recorded.
1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during
Operation Earnest Will. U.S. retaliates against Iran on April 18
with Operation Praying Mantis, the world's largest naval battle
since World War II.
2003 - Human Genome Project successfully completed with 99% of the
human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
2003 - Jean Charest's Parti libéral du Québec defeats Bernard Landry
and the Parti Québécois in Quebec's general elections.
2003 - The body of Laci Peterson is found in California.
Deaths on this day:
1132 - Prince Mstislav of Kiev (born 1076)
1279 - Duke Boleslaus of Greater Poland
1322 - Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier
(born 1275)
1345 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (born 1287)
1471 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker
(born 1428)
1574 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (killed in battle) (born 1538)
1578 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of
Scotland
1599 - Henry Wallop, English statesman
1662 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman
(born 1582)
1682 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (born 1621)
1716 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
1721 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (born 1652)
1759 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (born 1685)
1785 - William Whitehead, English writer (born 1715)
1792 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (born 1720)
1912 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (born 1835)
1914 - Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society
(born 1855)
1917 - Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto
(born 1859)
1925 - John Singer Sargent, English artist (born 1856)
1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (born 1893)
1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (born 1882)
1964 - Rachel Carson, American writer and environmentalist (born 1907)
1968 - Al Benton, baseball player (born 1911)
1975 - Fredric March, American actor (born 1897)
1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (born 1908)
1995 - Burl Ives, American singer and actor (born 1909)
1999 - Ellen Corby, American actress (born 1911)
1999 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (born 1931)
2000 - Phil Katz, American computer programmer (born 1962)
2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (born 1927)
BBC - On This Day:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/14
Have a good one, Richard!
-zoara-
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Jim
> Today it's Richard P Grant's birthday. Upside-down cake for all!
Happy birthday matey.
Jim
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Andy Hewitt
> Today it's Richard P Grant's birthday. Upside-down cake for all!
>
Many happy returns old chap.
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Woody
> Today it's Richard P Grant's birthday. Upside-down cake for all!
> Have a good one, Richard!
oh, we do foreigners now :-)
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PeterD
> Today it's Richard P Grant's birthday. Upside-down cake for all!
Hapy Brithday Richard. I hope you will abide by the Antipodean tradition
of shouting everyone whose name begins with P as many beers as they can
drink. Mine's a Newcastle Brown. That's Newcastle upon Tyne, not that
cheap Aussie imitation.
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Flavio Matani
> Today it's Richard P Grant's birthday. Upside-down cake for all!
Hope you had/are having a very good one
bit of a hassle, i should imagine, lighting the candles at the bottom of
the upside-down cake...
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Sara Kirk
<1hdumx5.1k26oaz1ymca5iN%spamtrap.5....@spamgourmet.com>,
Charles Kooij <spamtrap.5....@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> Thanks chaps.
>
> Well, I bought drinks for everyone who showed, unfortunately that was
> only Charles. Didn't the rest of you get the memo?
>
> Unfortunately I had to spend today on the beach, so not having a good
> time at all. You'd hate it here, you're better off staying in cold,
> damp Blighty.
>
> (rpg, masquerading as CK)
Well.... I *was* about to send belated birthday greetings but I don't
think I will now!
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I'm smaller than people think
Jim
> Thanks chaps.
>
> Well, I bought drinks for everyone who showed, unfortunately that was
> only Charles. Didn't the rest of you get the memo?
>
> Unfortunately I had to spend today on the beach, so not having a good
> time at all. You'd hate it here, you're better off staying in cold,
> damp Blighty.
>
> (rpg, masquerading as CK)
I knew it...he's gone soft.
Bruce Horrocks
>> (rpg, masquerading as CK)
>
> I knew it...he's gone soft.
Fnarr! What do you people get up to down there? (Double fnarr!)
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PeterD
> Well, I bought drinks for everyone who showed, unfortunately that was
> only Charles. Didn't the rest of you get the memo?
I was there, but forgot the time difference so it was all a bit lonely.
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Bella Jones
> Today it's Richard P Grant's birthday. Upside-down cake for all!
A a very late happy birthday. I trust not too many deadly jellyfish on
the effing beach. ;-)
> 1629 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician & astronomer (died 1695)
A scientist! Didn't he do the ripples on a pool thing?
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Flavio Matani
> zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Today it's Richard P Grant's birthday. Upside-down cake for all!
>
> A a very late happy birthday. I trust not too many deadly jellyfish on
> the effing beach. ;-)
>
> > 1629 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician & astronomer (died 1695)
>
> A scientist! Didn't he do the ripples on a pool thing?
IRTA 'nipples'. More coffee is needed.
Jim
> > > 1629 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician & astronomer (died 1695)
> >
> > A scientist! Didn't he do the ripples on a pool thing?
>
>
> IRTA 'nipples'. More coffee is needed.
'Nipples on a pool'?
Actually, I think I've got a film that...never mind.
David Kennedy
> Today it's Richard P Grant's birthday. Upside-down cake for all!
>
Belated greetings. Hope you had lots of presents and plenty of cake.
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Bella Jones
> Bella Jones <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> >> 1629 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician & astronomer (died 1695)
> >
> > A scientist! Didn't he do the ripples on a pool thing?
>
> Pendulum clock . . . and some rocks around Saturn.
Maybe them as well, but there were definitely pools involved.
zoara
Today is Ian Robinson's birthday - as I only discovered a few minutes ago.
A hitch-hiking 42 today! Happy birthday!
-zoara-
You share your birthday with:
1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (died 1367)
1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (died 1504)
1603 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (died 1685)
1658 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (died 1716)
1665 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (died 1721)
1686 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (died 1750)
1721 - Thomas McKean, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
(died 1817)
1721 - Roger Sherman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
(died 1793)
1785 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (died 1858)
1793 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (died 1875)
1832 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(died 1916)
1874 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist
(died 1952)
1882 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (died 1954)
1883 - Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (died 1953)
1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (died 1983)
1897 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist
(died 1970)
1897 - Constance Talmadge, American actress (died 1973)
1899 - George O'Brien, American actor (died 1985)
1900 - Richard Hughes, English novelist (died 1976)
1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (died 1957)
1912 - Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(died 1999)
1919 - Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographher
1922 - Erich Hartmann, German pilot (died 1993)
1925 - Hugh O'Brian, American actor
1928 - Alexis Korner, English musician (died 1984)
1930 - Dick Sargent, American actor (died 1994)
1931 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (died 2004)
1932 - Dickie Goodman, American humorist (died 1989)
1933 - Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
1933 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (died 1967)
1935 - Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer
(died 2002)
1936 - Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium
1937 - Elinor Donahue, American actress
1937 - Joseph Estrada, actor and President of the Philippines
1940 - Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten
Wheel Drive)
1941 - Alan Price, English Musician (The Animals), (The Alan Price Set)
1944 - James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize
1944 - Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk)
1946 - Tim Curry, British actor
1947 - Murray Perahia, American pianist
1947 - Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles)
1948 - Rick Miller, American baseball player
1952 - Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer
1953 - Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger)
1953 - Ruby Wax, British television personality
1960 - Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
1960 - Frank Viola, baseball player
1962 - Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
1965 - Suge Knight, American record producer
1967 - Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
1967 - Greg Ferrara, Independent Filmmaker, writer
1967 - Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
1968 - Mswati III, King of Swaziland
1968 - Ashley Judd, American actress
1970 - Kelly Holmes, English athlete
1970 - Luis Miguel, Puerto Rican singer
1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
1975 - Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer (Goalkeeper)
1977 - Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
1978 - James Franco, American actor
1978 - Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
1979 - Kate Hudson, American actress
1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
1981 - Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
1985 - Nick Eaton, American inventor
1987 - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
1987 - Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
On this day in history:
1012 - Martyrdom of St Alphege in Greenwich, London.
1529 - At the Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and
independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the
reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant
movement.
1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
1692 - Bridget Bishop goes on trial in Salem, Massachusetts for
witchcraft.
1713 - With no living male heirs, Emperor Charles VI issues the
Pragmatic Sanction to ensure that Habsburg lands and the
Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria
Theresa.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord
– British General Thomas Gage attempts to confiscate American
colonists' firearms. Captain John Parker orders his band of
minutemen to not fire unless fired upon. Random shots rang out
among the British soldiers. The minutemen promptly fired back.
This was the "shot heard round the world." The British are
driven back to Boston, Massachusetts, thus beginning the
American Revolutionary War.
1809 - The army of Austria attacks and is defeated by the forces of the
Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles
of the Fifth Coalition.
1810 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy
General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is
installed.
1839 - The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
1861 - American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-Secession mob
in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops
marching through the city.
1892 - Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the
United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.
1909 - Joan of Arc receives beatification.
1919 - Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful
parachute jump and free-fall.
1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her
play Sex.
1928 - The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is
published.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the United States
will be abandoning the gold standard.
1934 - Shirley Temple debuts in Stand Up and Cheer.
1936 - First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
1938 - RCA–NBC begins regular television broadcasts.
1943 - World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto
to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising.
1943 - Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately
takes LSD for the first time.
1950 - Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright
treaty.
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco.
1960 - Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest
against their president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to
resign.
1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in failure.
1971 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day
demonstration in Washington, DC.
1971 - Charles Manson is sentenced to life in prison for the Sharon
Tate murders.
1971 - Launch of Salyut 1, first human-made space station.
1976 - Executive Order 9066 is rescinded.
1978 - Lagumot Harris is elected President of Nauru.
1980 - In The Hague, Netherlands, Johnny Logan wins the twenty-fifth
Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "What's Another
Year".
1989 - A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1989 - Trisha Meili, the "Central Park Jogger" is raped.
1993 - The 50-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco,
Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
1999 - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
2000 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao
International Airport, killing 131.
2005 - Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of
the Papal conclave.
Deaths on this day:
1012 - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 954)
1054 - Pope Leo IX (born 1002)
1390 - King Robert II of Scotland (born 1316)
1560 - Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (born 1497)
1578 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1530)
1588 - Paolo Veronese, Italian painter
1608 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet
(born 1536)
1627 - John Beaumont, English poet (born 1583)
1629 - Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
1632 - King Sigismund I of Sweden (born 1561)
1686 - Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (born 1610)
1689 - Queen Christina of Sweden (born 1626)
1733 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England
1751 - Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (born 1678)
1768 - Canaletto, Italian artist (born 1697)
1791 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (born 1723)
1813 - Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (born 1745)
1824 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (born 1788)
1854 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (born 1774)
1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(born 1804)
1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (born 1809)
1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
1914 - Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician
(born 1839)
1916 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (born 1839)
1926 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician
(born 1874)
1930 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (born 1827)
1937 - William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer
(born 1856)
1949 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (born 1877)
1950 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (born 1886)
1967 - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (born 1876)
1971 - Russ Hodges, American sports broadcaster (born 1910)
1971 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (born 1895)
1973 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist
1974 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (born 1907)
1975 - Percy L. Julian, American chemist (born 1899)
1987 - Hugh Brannum, American actor (born 1910)
1987 - Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat (born 1901)
1989 - Daphne du Maurier, English author (born 1907)
1992 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian and actor (born 1917)
1993 - David Koresh, American cult leader (born 1959)
1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(born 1914)
1999 - David Sanes, US Navy employee whose death led to Navy's
withdrawal from Puerto Rico
2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (born 1967)
2004 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of
Records (born 1925)
2004 - John Maynard Smith, English bioligist (born 1920)
2005 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (born 1911)
2005 - Bryan Ottoson, American musician (born 1978)
2005 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (born 1946)
BBC's "On This Day":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/19
Jim
>
> Today is Ian Robinson's birthday - as I only discovered a few minutes ago.
> A hitch-hiking 42 today! Happy birthday!
<waves> We demand cake!
Jim
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David Kennedy
> Today is Ian Robinson's birthday - as I only discovered a few minutes ago.
> A hitch-hiking 42 today! Happy birthday!
>
> -zoara-
>
Have a really good one Ian.
Ian Robinson
(in article <151qn1boikvej.1...@40tude.net>):
> Today is Ian Robinson's birthday - as I only discovered a few minutes ago.
Thanks.
> A hitch-hiking 42 today! Happy birthday!
Does that mean I'm now supposed to know the ultimate question? Hmm...
Ian
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Ian Robinson
(in article <slrne4bvm...@odin.magrathea.local>):
> <waves> We demand cake!
Talking of cake. I've been watching the BrassEye DVD over the last few
days. Brilliant :-)
Ian Robinson
(in article <44460139$0$9250$ed26...@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>):
> Have a really good one Ian.
Ta. Off work, which is good.
Flavio Matani
> Today is Ian Robinson's birthday - as I only discovered a few minutes
> ago. A hitch-hiking 42 today! Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
cake? pint?
Sara Kirk
> 1953 - Ruby Wax, British television personality
Did the septics disown her then?
> 1529 - At the Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and
> independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the
> reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant
> movement.
Diet... Worms... there must be a way getting this into the vege thread!
Oh and of course, Happy Birthday Ian!
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Feeling the cold: <http://www.sarlet.com/ucsm_get_cold/pictures/p0002534.html>
PeterD
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:11:49 +0100, Jim wrote
> (in article <slrne4bvm...@odin.magrathea.local>):
>
> > <waves> We demand cake!
>
> Talking of cake. I've been watching the BrassEye DVD over the last few
> days. Brilliant :-)
Happy Birthday Ian - try to stay off the Cake. It's the new scourge of
our youth.
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Pd
Bella Jones
> Today is Ian Robinson's birthday - as I only discovered a few minutes ago.
> A hitch-hiking 42 today! Happy birthday!
Happy Brithday! <adds to cake requests>
> 1928 - The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is
> published.
Flying cripes. Sounds like something else that should be removed
surgically.