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| It's me again | Happy Birthday Vis, here are some people that share your birth date and significant events that occurred today (other than your birth) Birthdates which occurred on July 31: 1803 John Ericsson US, invented screw propeller, built USS Monitor 1841 George Melville polar explorer, naval engineer 1894 Roy Bargy Mich, orch leader (Jimmy Durante Show) 1904 Arthur Daley sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956) 1911 George Liberace Menasha Wisc, violinist (Liberace Show) 1912 Irv Kupcinet Chicago Ill, TV host (Tonight! America After Dark) 1912 Milton Friedman economist (Nobel 1976) 1919 Curt Gowdy Green River Wyo, sportscaster (ABC) 1919 Primo Levi Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz) 1921 Whitney M Young Jr civil rights leader, head of Urban League 1923 Ahmet Ertegun CEO (Atlantic Records) 1929 Don Murray Calif, actor (Bus Stop, Advise & Consent, Endless Love) 1935 Geoffrey Lewis Plainsfield NJ, actor (Earl-Flo, Gun Shy) 1939 France Nuyen Marselles France, actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head) 1940 Stanley Jaffe producer (Fatal Attraction) 1943 Susan Flannery NYC, actress (Leslie Stewart-Dallas) 1943 William Bennett US Secretary of Education/drug czar 1944 Geraldine Chaplin Santa Monica Ca, actress (Dr Zhivago, 3 Musketeers) 1944 Sherry Lansing Chicago Ill, actress (China Syndrome, Black Rain) 1946 Bob Welch r ocker (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well) 1946 Gary Lewis Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring) 1950 Lane Davies actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts) 1951 Barry Van Dyke Atlanta Ga, actor (Lt Dillon-Battlestar Galactica) 1951 Evonne Goolagong Australia, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1971) 1953 Hugh McDowell chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line) 1957 Dirk Blocker LA Calif, actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four) 1957 Irina Nazariva USSR, 4 X 400m relay (Olympic-gold-1980) 1957 Victoria E Cooke Hollywood Ca, playmate (Aug, 1980) 1958 Wally Kurth actor (Days of Our Lives) 1962 Kym Malin Dallas Tx, playmate (May, 1982) 1962 Sandra "Sweetness" Hodge basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters) 1963 Norman Cook rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There) 1973 Jerry Rivera Puerto Rico, spanish singer On this day... 432 St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 768 [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad 1777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army 1790 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process 1809 1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila 1813 British invade Plattsburgh, NY 1872 C H F Peters discovers asteroids #122 Gerda & #123 Brunhild 1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U 1910 Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game 1912 US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship) 1913 Bryan Hextall, NHL hall of famer 1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn) 1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England 1930 Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13 1932 Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0 1934 St Louis Cards defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean & Tony Freitos go the distant 1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1362 Griqua & #2865 1938 NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club" 1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1948 Pres Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY 1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills the SS & 3rd baseman 1953 Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created 1954 Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double) 1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state 1961 2nd All Star Game of 1961 ends 1-1 due to rain at Fenway Park 1962 Federation of Malaysia formed 1963 Cleve ties record of 4 consecutive HRS (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown) 1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor 1964 US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon 1966 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark 1966 Charles Whitman wounds 46 & kills 5 at University of Texas 1968 Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free 1969 Mariner 6 flies past Mars 1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La 1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report" 1972 Chic White Sox Dick Allen hits 2 inside-the-park-homers in Minn 1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate 1973 ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to the NY Nets 1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later 1978 Gunman shoots his way into the Iraqi Embassy in Paris 1978 NY Yanks now 7« out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks 1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2402 Satpaev & #2416 Sharonov 1980 John Phillips of the Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges 1980 Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36 1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends 1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of the Natl Bar Assn 1982 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France 1984 US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics 1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle 1988 Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London 1988 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame 1990 Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
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| Senior Member | Birthdates which occurred on July 31: 1980 - The Visitor On this day... 1972 NorthEastofya got a dent in his bigwheel from a rock 1979 Drinks started going on the Lensmans tab 1984 Cymro discovers the word that would change his life forver.... "Bollocks!" 1986 Bean started "post whoring" on his bedroom walls 1989 Stag realised that his mullet truly had gone out of style and finally got it cut.... into a rat-tail 1998 Sirgets is driven further insane by a hunchback he was doin at the time ![]() 2001 Pencil Monkey was finishing up a week of camping and sweet sweet monkey lovin with his then girlfriend in a far away land called Nova Scotia damn.. you guys would NOT believe how man spelling mistakes I made on this sucker.. yeowza.. there's prolly still about 30... that's good enough for me
__________________ Pencil Monkey "I'm as lonely as a fat girl at a school dance" |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 1969 Location: New Hamster
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![]() | I'm going to assume you found all those birthdays on a website and don't have them memorized ... And pencil, it was 1972, not 78... ![]()
__________________ From the state where death is mentioned on its license plate "Everybody Wang Chung tonight!" |
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| It's me again | Quote:
__________________ "I want to do a motorboat on Shatner's manboobs" - Sam Cogley | |
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