I just heard some news: Happy Belated 26th Birthday bennyhill1978! Everyone be sure to leave best wishes!
Posted by Skywalker at February 21, 2004 12:27 PM | TrackBackHow'd you find that out? So bennyhill1978's has a February birthday too, huh? Happy belated birthday:-) What day was yours on? Mine was on the 3rd....but I'm a little older than you and *I* was also sick (as were my kids) on mine:-P Hope YOU had a better one than I did :-)
Posted by: mrs. muddy at February 21, 2004 12:53 PM:-D Happy Birf-day brother!
Posted by: muddy at February 21, 2004 01:32 PMHappy Birthday Bennyhill!!!
Posted on Fri, Feb. 20, 2004
Today in History - Feb. 21
Associated Press
Today is Saturday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2004. There are 314 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 21, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death in New York by assassins identified as Black Muslims.
On this date:
In 1878, the first telephone directory was issued, by the District Telephone Company of New Haven, Conn.
In 1885, the Washington Monument was dedicated.
In 1916, the World War I Battle of Verdun began in France.
In 1925, The New Yorker magazine made its debut.
In 1947, Edwin H. Land publicly demonstrated his Polaroid Land camera, which could produce a black-and-white photograph in 60 seconds.
In 1972, President Nixon began his historic visit to China as he and his wife, Pat, arrived in Shanghai.
In 1973, Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan Airlines jet over the Sinai Desert, killing more than 100 people.
In 1986, Larry Wu-tai Chin, the first American found guilty of spying for China, killed himself in his Virginia jail cell.
In 1988, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart tearfully confessed to his congregation in Baton Rouge, La. that he was guilty of an unspecified sin, and said he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. (Reports linked Swaggart to an admitted prostitute, Debra Murphree.)
In 2000, consumer advocate Ralph Nader announced his entry into the presidential race, bidding for the nomination of the Green Party.
Ten years ago: With Bosnian Serbs complying with a NATO ultimatum to remove its heavy guns from around Sarajevo, President Clinton promised renewed U.S. efforts to help "reinvigorate the peace process." Jury selection began in Pensacola, Fla., in the trial of Michael F. Griffin, an anti-abortion activist accused of killing Dr. David Gunn outside a women's clinic (Griffin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison).
Five years ago: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright reported little progress toward a Kosovo peace settlement during talks in Rambouillet, France.
One year ago: The owners of The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., where 100 people perished in a fast-moving fire the night before, denied giving the rock band Great White permission to use fireworks blamed for setting off the blaze, although the band's singer insisted the use of pyrotechnics had been approved. Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix ordered the destruction of dozens of Iraqi missiles with ranges that violated U.N. limits. Michael Jordan became the first 40-year-old in NBA history to score 40 or more points, getting 43 in the Washington Wizards' 89-86 win over the New Jersey Nets.
Today's Birthdays: Fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy is 77. Movie director Bob Rafelson is 71. Actor Gary Lockwood is 67. Actor-director Richard Beymer is 65. Actor Peter McEnery is 64. Recording executive David Geffen is 61. Actor Alan Rickman is 58. Actress Tyne Daly is 58. Tricia Nixon Cox is 58. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, is 57. Rock musician Jerry Harrison (The Heads) is 55. Actor William Petersen is 51. Actor Kelsey Grammer is 49. Country singer Mary-Chapin Carpenter is 46. Actor Jack Coleman is 46. Actor Christopher Atkins is 43. Rock singer Ranking Roger is 43. Actor William Baldwin is 41. Rock musician Michael Ward is 37. Blues musician Corey Harris is 35. Country singer Eric Heatherly is 34. Rock musician Eric Wilson (Sublime) is 34. Rock musician Tad Kinchla (Blues Traveler) is 31. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is 25. Singer Charlotte Church is 18.
LOL!
Wow cwilli....I guess that was for those of us who missed our history the *first* time around :-)
Posted by: mrs. muddy at February 21, 2004 02:01 PMHey now. I was trying to show some enthusiasm.... :>)
Posted by: cwilli at February 21, 2004 02:17 PMCharlotte Church is legal now!?!?!? Time for a little trip to Wales err I mean...my ancestor's homeland for a cultural visit. *cough* *cough*
Posted by: skywalker at February 21, 2004 09:48 PMSkywalker:
Charlotte Church, eh? So how long have you been waiting for this one :-) She is a cutie.
Well, bon voyage! And may your journey back to *cough cough* your, uh, ancestor's homeland - prove to be a fruitful one :-D But not TOO fruitful mister!!!
Posted by: mrs. muddy at February 21, 2004 10:02 PMMrs. Muddy, I have considered Charlotte Church to be a hottie for YEARS!
It's nice being a duke's mixture of ancestors - I can claim any trip to one of a half-dozen nations to be a trip to my ancestor's homeland, when in reality...I'm just going for the chicks. To bad I have no Swedish blood.
Posted by: skywalker at February 22, 2004 11:41 AMSkywalker... WHAT!? Your just going for the chicks! *Gasp* I really though you *were* going for *cough* educational purposes :-) Of, course, going for the chicks can be very educational as well....BUTTTTT I'lllll leave THAT one alone :-D hahahahaha!!!
Posted by: mrs. muddy at February 22, 2004 12:48 PMYou never cease to scare me me. :-)
Posted by: skywalker at February 22, 2004 03:02 PMThanks --uh, I think :-P Sorry, I didn't realize I possessed that talent....but, I guess it's always nice to have a talent for *something* :-)
Posted by: mrs. muddy at February 22, 2004 03:44 PMTHANKS ALL
it was actually on the 18th, starting my 2nd 25 years, hope they are as good as the last 25.