Happy Birthday!
zoara
Today's a double birthday, buyers and grills! Hugh Chaloner (45) and
Patrick Navin (37) will be fighting over who gets the biggest piece of cake
today... At least, they will if Patrick is still around - you there,
Patrick?
You both share your birthday with:
1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (died 1336)
1472 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
(died 1510)
1479 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (died 1574)
1523 - Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat and cryptographer
(died 1596)
1588 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (died 1679)
1604 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (died 1675)
1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist
(died 1703)
1649 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (died 1721)
1692 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (died 1730)
1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (died 1806)
1784 - Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (died 1859)
1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (died 1890)
1827 - Joseph Lister English surgeon (died 1912)
1832 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (died 1893)
1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (died 1909)
1856 - Booker T. Washington, American educator (died 1915)
1871 - Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer
1875 - Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (died 1956)
1893 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (died 1973)
1900 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (died 1967)
1901 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (died 1981)
1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (died 1989)
1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (died 1989)
1908 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (died 1986)
1909 - Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (died 1996)
1911 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (died 1960)
1912 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (died 1983)
1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (died 2003)
1917 - Robert Bloch, American author (died 1994)
1920 - Arthur Hailey, American writer (died 2004)
1920 - Rafique Zakaria, Indian author and legal expert (died 2005)
1922 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (died 2001)
1922 - Gale Storm, American singer and actress
1923 - Michael Gazzo, American actor (died 1995)
1923 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (died 2001)
1926 - Roger Corman, American film director, producer, and writer
1929 - Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (died 2001)
1929 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer
1933 - Larry Felser, American sports columnist and writer
1934 - Frank Gorshin, American actor (died 2005)
1934 - Roman Herzog, German politician
1935 - Peter Grant, British rock manager, actor (Led Zeppelin, Bad
Company) (died 1995)
1937 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State (2000-2004)
1941 - Michael Moriarty, American actor and political activist
1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director
1943 - Max Gail, American actor
1944 - Pedro Rossello, former Governor of Puerto Rico
1945 - Tommy Smith, English footballer
1946 - Jane Asher, British actress, writer
1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 14th President of the Philippines
1948 - Dave Holland, British musician (Judas Priest)
1949 - Judith Resnik, astronaut (died 1986)
1950 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer (ABBA)
1954 - Stan Ridgway, American musician (Wall of Voodoo)
1955 - Janice Long, English broadcaster
1961 - Lisa Zane, American actress
1962 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (died 2003)
1964 - Christopher Reid, American actor, rapper (Kid 'n Play)
1965 - Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1968 - Paula Cole, American musician
1973 - Pharrell Williams, American musician and producer (The
Neptunes)
1976 - Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
1978 - Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
1978 - Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
On this day in History:
1242 - During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces
rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English
colonist John Rolfe.
1621 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to
Great Britain.
1654 - The Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War,
is signed.
1792 - U.S. President George Washington vetoes a bill designed to
apportion representatives among U.S. states. This was the
first time the presidential veto had been used in the United
States.
1804 - The first recorded meteorite falls in Possil, Scotland (High
Possil Meteorite).
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Yorktown. The battle begins when
Union forces under General George McClellan close in on the
Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.
1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts production of
balloon-tires.
1930 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks
British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
1936 - Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: A F5 tornado slams into the north
side of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 233. It is the 4th
deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
1942 - Second World War: Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon
(Sri Lanka). Royal Navy Cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS
Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
1945 - Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement
with the USSR allowing "temporary entry of Soviet troops into
Yugoslav territory."
1949 - Fireside Theater debuts on television.
1949 - A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, United States,
kills 77 people.
1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for
performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1956 - In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna won the general
elections in a lanslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike sworn in as
the Prime Minister.
1957 - In India, Communists won the first elections in united Kerala
and E. M. S. Namboodiripad sworn in as the first chief
minister.
1969 - Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations are held in New
York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and
other cities around the United States.
1971 - In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection
against the United Front government of Mrs Sirimavo
Bandaranaike.
1972 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces invade Binh Long
Province, launching a second front of the Nguyen Hue Offensive.
1973 - Pierre Messmer becomes Prime Minister of France.
1976 - In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement
leads to the Tiananmen incident.
1986 - Bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin, Germany,
kills three.
1991 - ASA Embraer EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, United
States, killing all 23 aboard.
1992 - Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march
in Washington, D.C.
1992 - Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace
protestor Suada Dilberovic on the Skenderija Bridge.
1993 - The Child Support Act 1991, administered by the Child Support
Agency, comes into effect in the United Kingdom.
1998 - In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu
and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming
the largest suspension bridge in the world.
1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in
1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
Deaths on this day:
1168 - Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (born 1104)
1419 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (born 1350)
1605 - Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland
1617 - Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer
1676 - John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut
(born 1606)
1693 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (born 1627)
1695 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and
statesman (born 1633)
1697 - King Charles XI of Sweden (born 1655)
1717 - Jean Jouvenet, French painter (born 1647)
1735 - William Derham, English minister and writer (born 1657)
1735 - Samuel Wesley, English poet and religious leader (born 1662)
1765 - Edward Young, English poet (born 1683)
1794 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (born 1759)
1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of
Egyptian excavations (born 1866)
1928 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (born 1890)
1964 - General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. general (born 1880)
1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1890)
1967 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-born violinist (born 1891)
1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (born 1891)
1972 - Brian Donlevy, American actor (born 1901)
1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese nationalist leader (born 1887)
1976 - Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer, film director, and
eccentric (born 1905)
1976 - Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (born 1891)
1982 - Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born 1910)
1983 - Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors)
(born 1941)
1991 - John Tower, U.S. Senator from Texas (born 1925)
1991 - Sonny Carter, astronaut (born 1947)
1992 - Molly Picon, French actress (born 1898)
1992 - Sam Walton, American retailer (born 1918)
1994 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (born 1967)
1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (born 1926)
1998 - Cozy Powell, British musician (born 1947)
2000 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (born 1914)
2001 - Brother Theodore, German-born comedian (born 1906)
2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (born 1967)
2004 - Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (born 1936)
2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(born 1915)
2005 - Dale Messick, American comic strip artist (born 1906)
2005 - Debralee Scott, American actress (born 1953)
BBC: On This Day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/5
Have a great day!
-zoara-
PeterD
Sara Kirk
<pd....@dsl.pipex.invalid> wrote:
Felicitations from sunny Kingston, too.
--
Sara
Feeling the cold: <http://www.sarlet.com/ucsm_get_cold/pictures/p0002534.html>
Hugh Browton
(in article <12jnfs1ujpqqg.c...@40tude.net>):
>
> Today's a double birthday, buyers and grills! Hugh Chaloner (45) and
> Patrick Navin (37) will be fighting over who gets the biggest piece of cake
> today...
Grown men fighting over cake? .jpgs, I demand .jpgs!
> 1472 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
> (died 1510)
.......and still sadly missed....
--
regards
hugh
hugh at clarity point uk point co
(by the sea) (using Hogwasher)
You never can truly tell when you have run out of invisible ink.
Jim
I shall raise a glass for you both tonight!
Several glassesd. No, I insist!
Jim
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Jim
> zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> Today's a double birthday, buyers and grills! Hugh Chaloner (45) and
>> Patrick Navin (37) will be fighting over who gets the biggest piece of cake
>> today...
>
>
> Looks like I'm precisely the same age as Lisa Zane (actor) but unlike
> her, I don't allow people to take nude photos of me. Even for large
> amounts of money. Even for VERY large amounts of fmoney.
How about nude photographers taking your picture?
Bella Jones
> Today's a double birthday, buyers and grills! Hugh Chaloner (45) and
> Patrick Navin (37) will be fighting over who gets the biggest piece of cake
> today... At least, they will if Patrick is still around - you there,
> Patrick?
Happy birthday, guys. Whipped cream all round, and mpegs, pls!
--
bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
David Kennedy
> Today's a double birthday, buyers and grills! Hugh Chaloner (45) and
> Patrick Navin (37) will be fighting over who gets the biggest piece of cake
> today... At least, they will if Patrick is still around - you there,
> Patrick?
>
All the best to you both.
--
David Kennedy