McCain's favorite day, 2008

[fluffy]

Today is my friend Mark's birthday. Lucky him!

qotd: What neat stuff happened on your birthday? My birthday was also the first successful batch of bourbon (1789), the day "Under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance (in 1954), the first publication of Superman (1938), and the birth of Chris Onstad (1975).

[Hoblit]

QotD: Not much. Second round of bombing in Tokyo during WWII. There was audit on the FBI for using the Patriot Act inappropriately... everything else on March 9th is kinda obscure.

I think I'm getting sick. Coughing, sore throat.

Whats weird is my right forearm is stiff and swollen... I THINK I might have done that damage on Tuesday night when I recorded drums and bass for a song.

[fluffy]

Maybe you should give the hand-waving a rest for a while? I mean, jeeze, you've been doing it practically non-stop for 6 years.

[Niveous]

Today is my friend Mark's birthday. Lucky him!

Lucky him??

Should he sit around and fret that his birthday is today?

How about my kids? Both of my kids are celebrating their birthday today. My eldest turns 9. My youngest turns 7. Yes, 7. Do the math.

Yes, something terrible happened 7 years ago today. But life has to go on. (something pretty awesome happened that day too.)

Happy Birthday Mark, My Boys, Ludacris, Moby, Harry Connick Jr., Tommy Shaw, Kay Hanley and anyone else who has today as a birthday.

[erik]

On the day that I was busy being born, Betty Grable was busy dying.

[roymond]

The only ones listed as born on the actual day of my birth were:
Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist

[HeuristicsInc]

The most famous one for my birthday is far from neat; in fact, it was pretty darn messy, and that's the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in 1979 (I was six). The wiki doesn't list anything from my birthyear.
-bill

[Spud]

So what's wrong with that?

[ujnhunter]

QotD: King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth, 17 years later on the same day King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada. The Beatles played to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock. The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opened. The United States stopped bombing Cambodia. Napoleon Bonaparte & Nicolas Roeg were born. Will Rogers died.

[Albatross]

My birthday has seen the overthrowing of Pol Pot, Carter's bailout of Chrysler, and the beginnings of both Operation Desert Storm and the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

I share birthdays with baseball players Francisco "K-Rod" Rodriguez, Eric Gagne and Alfonso Soriano, actors David Caruso, Doug E. Doug and Nicolas Cage, "actor" Dustin Diamond, and music figures Paul Revere (no, not THAT Paul Revere, I mean the one from the Raiders), Kenny Loggins and Kathy Valentine form the Go-Go's. And oddly enough, Donna Rice. And Katie Couric. And seemingly a crapload of famous German people.

[Hoblit]

If anybody here is following the West Memphis 3 debacle then today is another day of disappointment.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/20 ... feedback=1

[Spud]

Oh, the birthday thing, let see:

Woolworth's opened their first store.
Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
Samual Byeck tries and fails to execute President Richard M. Nixon.
In Roslin, Scotland, scientist announce that an adult sheep, Dolly, has been cloned.
At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

born on the same date were:

Charles VII of France
George Washington
Rembrandt Peale
Frederic Chopin
Buddy Tate
Robert Wadlow
Edward Gorey
Ted Kennedy
Julius Irving
Bill Frist
Jeri Ryan (Oi, Oi, Oi!)
Jenna Haze (porn actress)

and of course, Andy Warhol died.

SPUD

[roymond]

Well,

1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States

[Billy's Little Trip]

QOTD: What neat stuff happened on my birthday? Oh not much, just the birth of our lord and savior, Jeebus!
Well, wikipedia has a long list, so I'll just post the things I care about.

Events
1990 - The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web
1973 - The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.

Births
God's hippie son
1642 (O.S.) - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician
1878 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver
1887 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier
1890 - Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts
1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor
1907 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman
1924 - Rod Serling, American television writer
1946 - Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter
1954 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer, from Aberdeen
1977 - Jim Greco, American skateboarder

Deaths
Me - started dying the day I was born - thanks for making me think about that, Cake.

[jimtyrrell]

I was born 4/20/69.

4/20 is a day that lives in infamy. It's the birthday of Adolf Hitler and the day of the Columbine shootings.

But it's also the birthday of Crispin Glover, Mike Portnoy, and Tito Puente. And the college kids seem to have a good time that day.

[blue]

tommorrow is my birthday. i'm catching up to spud quick.

[king_arthur]

On my precise day of birth:

the concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.

also, the guy who eventually invented the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and drew the comic book was born.

Other than that, it was apparently a pretty quiet day...

As far as others who share my birth month & day but not year, well, Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma), American actress.

Charles (KA)

[jack]

And the college kids seem to have a good time that day.

especially, here in the Cruz

[Hoblit]

On my precise day of birth:

the concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.


Charles (KA)

HA!

And then there is the half related joke; is he any relation to Mr. Dummy? The creator of the line of helpful computer books?

[rone rivendale]

QotD: Holy crap, alot of stuff has happened on my b-day (March 22nd). I'll list the ones I gave a crap about.

Events:
1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags
1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1871 - In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1888 - The Football League is formed (actually I don't care, but I figured alot of you would since it was the first major soccer league in Europe.)
1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
1989 - Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
1997 - Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition

Births:
1923 - Marcel Marceau, world renown French Mime (d. 2007)
1930 - Pat Robertson, American televangelist
1931 - William Shatner, Canadian actor
1942 - Dick Pound, Canadian chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (his parents must have hated him)
1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, English theatre composer
1952 - Bob Costas, American sports commentator
1959 - Matthew Modine, American actor
1974 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress
1977 - Joey Porter, American football player

Deaths:
2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)

Also in the Gregorian Calendar 22 March is the earliest date on which Easter Sunday can fall (25 April is the latest).

[fluffy]

QotD: King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth

Oh, is that why we haven't heard from Level Nivelo in a while?

(joke only potentially funny to people who know him on LJ)

[fluffy]

gah, I was just setting up my electric drumkit for the first time since leaving Seattle, and the damn plastic on the thumbscrews is pretty brittle, and one of them just broke while I was tightening it and put a gash in my thumb. Annoying.