Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XIX

[Flynbyu]

Appears that 2 people have to stay. I have OT, so I get to go home.

I'll be on a bit later, have a Merry Christmas to those that I don't hear from

Have a good one Randy!

Christmas nookie rules!

~Brian

[Peelz]

Guilted one of my employees into staying....I'll be out before 2:00.

Nice work peels.


Little kids are awesome. So Innocent.

Per my mom, the calendars arrived @ their house yesterday!!

Brian, you should have one for your desk, you're in it. Peels Too!

I almost forgot about the calendars. I'll try to remember to hit up paypal.

Have a great holiday. Though I am sure I will see alot of you on tonight.

[Peelz]

Bye guys, have a great XMas. Be strong Flynbyu, it will be over soon.

[Flynbyu]

Bye guys, have a great XMas. Be strong Flynbyu, it will be over soon.

Have a good one Eric.

~Brian

[Peelz]

I am sure I'll be back on later. You here til 6?

[Flynbyu]

I am sure I'll be back on later. You here til 6?

I think 3ish.

~Brian

[exentix]

ho ho ho's? 

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...



Dec 25

December 25 marks and honors the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

Dec 25 272

First official public celebration of Dies Natalis Invicti Solis, a pagan Roman holiday that was later co-opted by Christians to celebrate the birth of their favorite Jew. Turning the holiday into "Christmas" (in 336 AD) was part of a pattern of the church stealing various pagan festivals and feast days.

Dec 25 1642

Sir Isaac Newton born.

Dec 25 1926

Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan.

Dec 25 1946

W.C. Fields dead at 67, due to the cumulative effects of his drinking and lifestyle.

Dec 25 1989

An eager firing squad executes Romanian dictator Nikolai Ceaucescu and his wife Elena on live television. Ceaucescu had run Romania as his private communist fiefdom, garnering the animosity of nearly the entire population. The new government abolishes capital punishment shortly thereafter.

Dec 25 1995

Rat pack member Dean Martin dead at 78, a martini glass in his hand.

Birthdays today...
1250 - John IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (d. c. 1305)
1461 - Christina of Saxony, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1521)
1583 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
1587 - Margarita of Austria, queen of Philip III of Spain (d. 1611)
1628 - Noël Coypel, French painter (d. 1707)
1642 - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1727)
1652 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)
1665 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (d. 1746)
1667 - Ehrengard von der Schulenburg, English royal mistress (d. 1743)
1674 - Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
1700 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1758)
1711 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (d. 1772)
1716 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (d. 1774)
1730 - Philip Mazzei, Italian physician and friend of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1816)
1742 - Charlotte von Stein, German friend of Goethe (d. 1827)
1757 - Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (d. 1839)
1763 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (d. 1805)
1771 - Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and sister of William Wordsworth (d. 1855)
1810 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (d. 1892)
1821 - Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross (d. 1912)
1856 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913)
1856 - Pud Galvin, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1902)
1860 - Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (d. 1921)
1861 - Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University (d. 1946)
1863 - Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries (d. 1957)
1864 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (d. 1951)
1865 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1950)
1870 - Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics industrialist (d. 1965)
1873 - Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-born American dairy educator (d. 1959)
1874 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (d. 1944)
1875 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian archbishop (d. 1955)
1876 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (d. 1948)
1876 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Nobel laureate (d. 1959)
1878 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver (d. 1941)
1884 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967)
1886 - Kid Ory, American musician (d. 1973)
1887 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979)
1889 - Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (d. 1984)
1890 - Noel Odell, British mountaineer (d. 1987)
1890 - Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts (d. 1949)
1891 - Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (d. 1980)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
1901 - Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)
1902 - Barton MacLane, American actor (d. 1969)
1904 - Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1906 - Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born film producer (d. 1998)
1906 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
1907 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)
1907 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (d. 1988)
1907 - Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1990)
1908 - Quentin Crisp, English author (d. 1999)
1908 - Jo-Jo Moore, baseball player (d. 2001)
1908 - Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-American automotive engineer (d. 1996)
1911 - Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
1912 - Tony Martin, American singer and actor
1912 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (d. 1969)
1913 - Henri Nannen, German journalist (d. 1966)
1914 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (d. 2007)
1915 - Pete Rugolo, Italian-born composer
1918 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
1918 - Ahmed Ben Bella, politician, first President of Algeria
1919 - Naushad Ali, Indian music director (d. 2006)
1919 - Paul David, French Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999)
1919 - Noele Gordon, English actress (d. 1985)
1921 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist (d. 2000)
1923 - Rene Girard, French historian, literary critic and philosopher
1924 - Rod Serling, American television writer (d. 1975)
1924 - Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India
1925 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born author (d. 1998)
1926 - Enrique Jorrín, Cuban composer and musician (d. 1987)
1927 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (d. 1975)
1928 - Dick Miller, American actor
1929 - Stuart Hall, British radio and television presenter
1929 - Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (d. 1976)
1930 - Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian boxer and father of Andre Agassi
1930 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (d. 1986)
1932 - Mabel King, American actress (d. 1999)
1935 - Al Jackson, baseball player
1936 - HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent
1936 - Ismail Merchant, Indian-born film producer (d. 2005)
1937 - O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (d. 1986)
1938 - Noel Picard, Quebec ice hockey player
1938 - Duane Armstrong, American painter
1940 - Pete Brown, English poet and lyricist
1943 - Hanna Schygulla, German actress
1943 - Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Brazilian racing driver
1944 - Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer
1944 - Kenny Everett, British entertainer (d. 1995)
1944 - Henry Vestine, American musician (d. 1997)
1944 - Nigel Starmer-Smith, English Rugby Union commentator.
1945 - Noel Redding, English musician (d. 2003)
1945 - Rick Berman, Star Trek producer
1945 - Gary Sandy, American actor
1945 - Mike Pringle, Scottish politician
1946 - Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter
1946 - Larry Csonka, American football player
1946 - Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager
1948 - Barbara Mandrell, American singer and actress
1948 - Alia al Hussein, of Jordan (d. 1977)
1948 - Joel Natalino Santana, Brazilian soccer coach
1949 - Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan
1949 - Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Singer and icon of the Brazilian music
1949 - Sissy Spacek, American actress
1949 - Joe Louis Walker, American musician
1950 - Peter Boardman, British mountaineer (d. 1982)
1950 - Manny Trillo, baseball player
1950 - Yehuda Poliker, Israeli singer-songwriter
1950 - Karl Rove, former American presidential advisor
1952 - CCH Pounder, Guyana-born actress
1952 - Desireless, French singer
1954 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer, from Aberdeen
1954 - Steve Wariner, American country music singer
1955 - Alannah Myles, Canadian singer
1957 - Chris Kamara, English footballer and commentator
1957 - Shane MacGowan, Irish musician
1958 - Hanford Dixon, American football player
1958 - Rickey Henderson, baseball player
1959 - Michael P. Anderson, astronaut (d. 2003)
1960 - Ron Bottitta, British actor
1961 - Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator
1962 - Dean Cameron, American actor
1962 - Darren Wharton, British Keyboardist (Thin Lizzy and Dare)
1964 - Gary McAllister, Scottish footballer
1964 - Tim Royes - Music Video Director and Editor
1964 - Bob Stanley, English musician (Saint Etienne), filmmaker and journalist
1967 - Jason Thirsk, American bass player (d. 1996)
1968 - Helena Christensen, Danish model
1968 - Jim Dowd, American ice hockey player
1971 - Dido, English singer
1971 - Justin Trudeau, Canadian media personality
1971 - Noel Hogan, Irish musician
1972 - Josh Freese, American drummer
1972 - Mac Powell, American musician, singer/songwriter (lead singer of Third Day)
1973 - Robbie Elliott, English footballer
1973 - Chris Harris, American professional wrestler
1973 - Alexandre Trudeau, Canadian journalist
1974 - Nagma, Indian actress
1975 - Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer
1975 - Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player
1975 - Rob Mariano, American reality show contestant
1976 - Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keyboardist and songwriter
1976 - Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ & Producer
1977 - Jim Greco, American skateboarder
1977 - Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress
1977 - Israel Vasquez, Current WBC Super bantamweight champion
1978 - Joel Porter, Australian footballer
1978 - Simon Jones, English cricketer
1980 - Marcus Trufant, American football player (Seattle Seahawks)
1980 - Reika Hashimoto, Japanese actress
1980 - Locó, Angolan footballer
1980 - Laura Sadler, British actress (d. 2003)
1981 - Katie Wright, American actress
1981 - Willy Taveras, baseball player
1982 - Shawn Andrews, American football player
1982 - Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer
1982 - Shystie, British rapper-songwriter
1982 - Trenesha Biggers, American professional wrestler
1984 - Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer
1984 - Alastair Cook, English cricketer
1984 - Georgia Moffett, British actress
1984 - The Veronicas, Australian singers (twin sisters)
1985 - Leon Pisani, Welsh singer
1985 - Perdita Weeks, British actress
1986 - Doug Loft, English footballer
1987 - Justin Sweeney, Australian rules footballer
1988 - Eric Gordon, American basketball player

Famous deaths...
795 - Pope Adrian I
820 - Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (assassinated) (b. 775)
1156 - Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny (b. c.1092)
1635 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City (b. 1567)
1676 - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
1676 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592)
1683 - Kara Mustafa, Ottoman general (b. 1634)
1758 - James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)
1765 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)
1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
1824 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (b. 1764)
1868 - Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (b. 1821)
1875 - Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851)
1880 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1828)
1916 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)
1921 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (b. 1853)
1925 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
1926 - Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
1933 - Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
1935 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (b. 1852)
1938 - Karel Čapek, Czech author (b. 1890)
1940 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)
1944 - George Steer, British Journalist (b. 1909)
1946 - W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880)
1947 - Gaspar G. Bacon, was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
1950 - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
1953 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1865)
1954 - Johnny Ace, American singer (b. 1929)
1961 - Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1961 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1888)
1963 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born writer (b. 1896)
1973 - İsmet İnönü, Turkish statesman (b. 1884)
1973 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880)
1975 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (b. 1881)
1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor, song writer, composer and film producer (b. 1889)
1979 - Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906)
1979 - Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (b. 1932)
1983 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)
1988 - Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (b. 1909)
1988 - Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (b. 1920)
1989 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1918)
1989 - Elena Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (executed) (b. 1916)
1989 - Billy Martin, American baseball manager (b. 1928)
1992 - Monica Dickens, British writer (b. 1915)
1993 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
1994 - Zail Singh, President of India (b. 1916)
1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)
1995 - Emmanuel Levinas, French Philosopher (b. 1906)
1996 - JonBenet Ramsey, American beauty queen and murder victim (b. 1990)
1997 - Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer (b. 1958)
1997 - Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
1998 - Bryan MacLean, American singer, musician and songwriter (Love) (b. 1946)
1998 - John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1926)
1999 - Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929)
2000 - Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939)
2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908)
2002 - William T. Orr, American television producer (b. 1917)
2003 - Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)
2004 - Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1940)
2005 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (b. 1930)
2005 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish opera singer (b. 1918)
2005 - Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944)
2006 - James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
2006 - Hiroaki Hidaka, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2007 - Desmond Barrick, English Cricketer (b. 1927)
2007 - Mighty King Kong, Kenyan reggae musician. (b. 1973)
2007 - Jim Beauchamp, American baseball player (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances...
Christmas Day Christian Feast Day to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
(Re) birth of Sol Invictus. The winter solstice feast in the Roman Empire from 274 to 391
Quaid-e-Azam's Day - Pakistan
Constitution Day - Republic of China now based in Taiwan
The feast day of Anastasia of Sirmium
Yule

From Aaron, Erich, Randy, and myself,

Have a great Christmas!

~Brian

[exentix]

merry christmas everyone 

posting from the new laptop  :grin_nod:

[who else but rk]

what kinda laptop you get?

[Peelz]

Happy Quaid-e-Azam's Day 

oh and merry christmas.

hos and minihos alike.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Dec 26 1893

Dictator Mao Tse-tung born in Hunan province.

Dec 26 1980

Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento" who drank the blood of two of his six victims, commits suicide on death row by overdosing on hoarded medication.

Dec 26 1985

"Gorillas in the Mist" author Dian Fossey killed with machete in Africa.

Dec 26 1996

The body of Jon Benet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the Boulder, Colorado home of John and Patsy Ramsey. Her skull had an 8 inch crack, and the child's mouth was covered with duct tape. In late 1997 it was leaked to the media that a Taser gun may have been involved in the killing. The family remains under an "umbrella of suspicion":

Jon Benet's body was found only after police searched the house, and John Ramsey tainted the crime scene by moving the body
The garrote used in strangulation was made from one of Patsy's paintbrushes
A rough draft of the ransom note was found on Patsy's notepad. Handwriting comparisons between the note and the mother remain inconclusive
In any event, the Ramsey's treatment of the six year old child by entering her in beauty contests dressed like a young adult nymph is perverse.
Dec 26 2004

A 9.15 magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra unleashes a series of powerful tsunamis. Just under 230,000 people are either killed or missing. The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake affects a huge geographical area from Indonesia to Bangladesh to Somalia, even triggering earthquakes in Alaska.

Birthdays today...
1194 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
1532 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
1536 - Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1584)
1542 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, unifier of Japan and first Tokugawa Shogun (d. 1616)
1646 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (d. 1709)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism (d. 1708)
1687 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755)
1716 - Thomas Gray, English writer (d. 1771)
1716 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803)
1723 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
1737 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815)
1751 - Clement Hofbauer, Austrian missionary and saint (d. 1820)
1771 - Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples (d. 1845)
1780 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)
1782 - Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867)
1791 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871)
1819 - E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899)
1822 - Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890)
1837 - George Dewey, U. S. admiral (d. 1917)
1837 - Morgan Bulkeley, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1922)
1853 - René Bazin, French novelist (d. 1932)
1859 - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (d. 1944)
1872 - Norman Angell, British politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
1873 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (d. 1953)
1883 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (d. 1955)
1887 - Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (d. 1966)
1890 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (d. 1992)
1891 - Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
1893 - Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976)
1894 - Jean Toomer, American writer (d. 1967)
1902 - Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter (d. 1980)
1903 - Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995)
1904 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
1905 - William Loeb, American newspaper publisher, (d. 1981)
1906 - Imperio Argentina, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2003)
1907 - Albert Gore Sr., American Politician (d. 1998)
1911 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (d. 1962)
1913 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
1914 - Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006)
1914 - Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008)
1918 - George Rallis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
1921 - Steve Allen, American comedian (d. 2000)
1922 - Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006)
1924 - Frank Broyles, American athlete, long time athletic director of the University of Arkansas.
1926 - Gina Pellón, Cuban painter
1927 - Alan King, American comedian (d. 2004)
1927 - Stu Miller, American baseball player
1927 - Denis Quilley, British actor (d. 2003)
1929 - Régine, French singer and nightclub owner
1930 - Donald Moffat, English-born actor
1930 - Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter
1933 - Ugly Dave Gray, Australian television personality
1933 - Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer
1935 - Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer (The Four Tops)
1935 - Norm Ullman, Canadian hockey player
1937 - John Horton Conway, British mathematician
1937 - Jay Heimowitz, American poker player
1938 - Bahram Beizai, Iranian playwright and film director
1938 - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (d. 1989)
1939 - Fred Schepisi, Australian film director
1940 - Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Ray Sadecki, American Major league baseball pitcher
1940 - Phil Spector, American music producer
1941 - Daniel Schmid, Swiss film director (d. 2006)
1942 - Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, Guatemalan president
1942 - Gray Davis, former Governor of California
1944 - Jane Lapotaire, British actress
1945 - John Walsh, American talk show host
1947 - James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
1947 - Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
1948 - Candy Crowley, American journalist
1949 - José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel laureate
1951 - Richard Skinner, British radio presenter
1953 - Leonel Fernández, Dominican politician and current President of the Dominican Republic
1953 - Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1954 - Ozzie Smith, American baseball player
1954 - Steve Steen, English actor
1955 - Evan Bayh, American politician
1956 - David Sedaris, American essayist
1957 - Dermot Murnaghan, British broadcaster
1958 - Adrian Newey, British engineer
1959 - Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director
1960 - Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor
1960 - Jim Toomey, American syndicated cartoonist
1960 - Tina Wesson, Winner of Survivor: The Australian Outback
1961 - John Lynch, Irish actor
1963 - Lars Ulrich, Danish-born drummer (Metallica)
1964 - Elizabeth Kostova, American author
1966 - Sandra Taylor, American model and actress
1968 - Dennis Knight, American professional wrestler
1970 - James Mercer, American musician (The Shins)
1970 - Krissada Terrence, Thai singer and actor
1971 - Jared Leto, American actor and singer (30 Seconds to Mars)
1971 - Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer
1971 - Jonathan M. Parisen, American film director
1972 - Esteban Fuertes, Argentine footballer
1972 - Robert Muchamore, English children's author
1973 - Reichen Lehmkuhl, American television personality
1974 - Josie Ho, Hong Kong singer and actor
1974 - Joshua John Miller, American actor
1975 - Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
1976 - Simon Goodwin, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (d. 2004)
1978 - Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
1979 - Fabián Carini, Uruguayan footballer
1979 - Chris Daughtry, American singer
1979 - Mzbel, Ghanaian singer
1979 - Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
1980 - Todd Dunivant, American soccer player
1982 - Kenneth Darby, American National Football League player
1982 - Oguri Shun, Japanese Actor/Model
1984 - Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
1985 - Yuu Shirota, Japanese Idol
1987 - Adam Walker, British flautist
1989 - Sergio Pérez, Mexican racing driver
1990 - Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
1995 - Zach Mills, American actor

Famous deaths...
211 - Publius Septimius Geta - Roman Emperor (b. 189)
268 - Pope Dionysius
418 - Pope Zosimus
1350 - Jean de Marigny, French bishop
1458 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
1476 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1444)
1530 - Babur, Emperor of the Mogul empire (b. 1483)
1574 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1524)
1624 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
1731 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (b. 1672)
1771 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (b. 1715)
1780 - John Fothergill, English physician (b. 1712)
1784 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
1786 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (b. 1713)
1869 - Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, French physiologist (b. 1797)
1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (b. 1822)
1909 - Frederic Remington, American artist (b. 1861)
1923 - Dietrich Eckart, German Nazi politician (b. 1868)
1931 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (b. 1851)
1933 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (b. 1875)
1957 - Charles Pathé, French film and recording industries pioneer (b. 1863)
1960 - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
1963 - George Wagner (Gorgeous George), American professional wrestler and television personality (b. 1915)
1966 - Herbert Otto Gille, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1970 - Lillian Board, British athlete (b. 1948)
1972 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
1973 - Harold B. Lee, 11th president of The Church of of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
1974 - Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
1974 - Jack Benny, American comedian (b. 1894)
1977 - Howard Hawks, American film director and writer (b. 1896)
1980 - Tony Smith, American sculptor (b. 1912)
1981 - Savithri, Indian actress (b. 1937)
1981 - Amber Reeves, feminist writer (b. 1887)
1983 - Violet Carson, British actress (b. 1898)
1985 - Dian Fossey, American gorilla specialist (b. 1932)
1985 - Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1928)
1986 - Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (b. 1902)
1988 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (b. 1907)
1989 - Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1992 - Nikita Magaloff, Russian pianist (b. 1912)
1996 - JonBenét Ramsey, noted murder victim (b. 1990)
1997 - Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (b. 1922)
1999 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician (b. 1942)
1999 - Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (b. 1918)
2000 - Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
2001 - Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
2002 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (b. 1952)
2002 - Armand Zildjian, American cymbal manufacturer (b. 1921)
2004 - Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent (b. 1928)
2004 - Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator (b. 1945)
2004 - Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African pediatric heart surgeon (b. 1959)
2004 - Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian jazz musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1959)
2004 - Reggie White, American football player (b. 1961)
2004 - Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1962)
2004 - Mieszko Talarczyk, Lead singer/Guitarist of grindcore band, Nasum, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1974)
2004 - Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1980)
2004 - Khun Bhumi Jensen, One of the member of Thai Royal Family, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1983)
2005 - Erich Topp, German submarine commander (b. 1914)
2005 - Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1937)
2005 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (b. 1937)
2005 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)
2006 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
2006 - Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier (b. 1951)
2007 - John A. Garraty, American biographer (b. 1920)
2007 - Stu Nahan, American Sportscaster (b. 1926)
2007 - Joe Dolan, Irish singer and entertainer (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances...
St. Stephen's Day, a public holiday in Alsace, Austria, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Italy, and Ireland.
Synaxis of Theotokos and feast of St. Joseph,King and Prophet David and St. James the Just (Orthodox Christianity)
The second of the twelve days of Christmas in Western Christianity.
Boxing Day in the Commonwealth of Nations except when 26 December is a Sunday Boxing Day is transferred to 27 December by Royal Proclamation.
Wren day in Ireland and the Isle of Man.
Australia - Proclamation Day (South Australian public holiday), for the foundation of the Australian state of South Australia on December 28, 1836 but commemorated on this day.
Solomon Islands - Thanksgiving public holiday.
South Africa - Day of Goodwill, a public holiday.
First day of Kwanzaa
Abadiu of Antinoe is commemorated in the Coptic Church on this date.
First day of Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas (the second day is on the New Year's Day)
In USA, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Poland, Slovakia, Suriname,Cyprus and Sweden, the 26th is known as the Second day of Christmas In some of these countries it is also a public holiday.
Slovenia - Carrie Purta Day

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Merry late Christmas everyone.  Had a great time up here.  Everyone went nuts on Owen and now i have to figure out a way to get it all home.  Eating like a fat pig so I'm sure I'll put on a few the next few days.  Should be back in chicago for a family party tomorrow night, then off to cali on Tuesday. 

[Krandall]

Dec 26 1980

Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento" who drank the blood of two of his six victims, commits suicide on death row by overdosing on hoarded medication.




Yumm-ay

[BRAD]

Whats up Randy?  How did Christmas go for you?