Post by SHELBYSALEEN on Jan 3, 2008 14:16:43 GMT -5
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OSRCT message board member ALBECROSS. We hope your day is great and the rest of the year even better.
TODAYS NASCAR BIRTHDAYS 3 Tony Eury Jr.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1521 Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
1777 Gen. George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.
1833 Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic
1892 J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1938 The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was organized.
1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.
1961 The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1967 Jack Ruby, the man who shot accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital.
1980 Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," was killed in Kenya by a servant.
1990 Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City.
also born this day
27 Eli Manning
Football player
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33 Danica McKellar
Actress ("The Wonder Years")
62 John Paul Jones
Rock musician (Led Zeppelin)
58 Victoria Principal
Actress ("Dallas")
52 Mel Gibson
Actor, director
76 Dabney Coleman
Actor
69 Bobby Hull
Hockey Hall of Famer
TODAYS NASCAR BIRTHDAYS 3 Tony Eury Jr.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1521 Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
1777 Gen. George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.
1833 Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic
1892 J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1938 The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was organized.
1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.
1961 The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1967 Jack Ruby, the man who shot accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital.
1980 Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," was killed in Kenya by a servant.
1990 Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City.
also born this day
27 Eli Manning
Football player
.
33 Danica McKellar
Actress ("The Wonder Years")
62 John Paul Jones
Rock musician (Led Zeppelin)
58 Victoria Principal
Actress ("Dallas")
52 Mel Gibson
Actor, director
76 Dabney Coleman
Actor
69 Bobby Hull
Hockey Hall of Famer
