Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XIX

[Peelz]

Happy haitian independence day !!!!!!



Today in history...

Jan 1

Annual Catholic Feast of the Circumcision, to celebrate the removal of the Holy Foreskin.

New quote!


"HOLY FORESKIN!"   

morning B-rad and Brian. Hope this new year goes well for you both.

[Flynbyu]

Happy Haitian Independence Day to you as well.

May you have a blessed new year.

~Brian

[kyledvor61]

turdnuggets

[who else but rk]

"adios turd nuggets" -jp ( robot voice)

love that movie

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 2 1611

Elizabeth Bathory is charged with the murder of 610 people, which she apparently committed as Countess of Csejthe Castle. Bathory had the theory that the blood of youth would give her everlasting youth. An eviscerated victim would have blood drained into a vat for her bathing.

Jan 2 1878

While hunting, farmer John Martin spies a rapidly moving flying disk high in the sky near Denison, Texas. He is the first to use the word "saucer" to describe a UFO phenomenon.

Jan 2 1935



Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, N.J., on charges of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of aviator Charles A. and Anne Lindbergh (Broken link for Lindbergh Baby). (He would later be found guilty and executed for that crime.).

Jan 2 1939

Time magazine named chancellor Adolf Hitler its "Man of the Year."

Jan 2 1971

Sixty-six soccer fans are trampled or fall to their deaths during a panic in Ibrox Park Stadium, Glasgow.

Jan 2 1995

Marion Barry inaugurated as mayor of Washington, D.C., four years after leaving the office in disgrace to serve a six-month sentence for smoking crack.

Birthdays today...
1642 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)
1699 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757)
1713 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1719 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
1727 - James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
1777 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
1822 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
1833 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
1836 - Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
1836 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
1837 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
1866 - Prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957)
1870 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (d. 1938)
1873 - Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
1877 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906)
1886 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
1886 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1959)
1888 - Tito Schipa, Italian tenor (d. 1965)
1889 - Sir Bertram Stevens, Premier of New South Wales 1932-39 (d. 1973)
1892 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
1893 - Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
1895 - Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
1896 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
1896 - Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)
1897 - Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975)
1902 - Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007)
1904 - Sally Rand, American fan dancer (d. 1979)
1905 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
1905 - Luigi Zampa, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1905 - Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
1909 - Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer
1910 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
1913 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
1917 - Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)
1918 - Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943)
1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russian author (d. 1992)
1921 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1925 - William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (d. 2007)
1925 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (d. 2008)
1928 - Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988)
1928 - Avie Bennett, Canadian philanthropist
1928 - Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer
1930 - Julius LaRosa, American singer
1931 - Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese politician
1933 - Ed Casey, Australian politician (d. 2006)
1933 - Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist
1936 - Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
1938 - Ian Brady, British serial killer
1938 - Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
1939 - Jim Bakker, American televangelist
1940 - S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
1942 - Dennis Hastert, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1942 - Hugh Shelton, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1943 - Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television producer (d. 1999)
1944 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
1946 - Richard Cole, American tour manager
1947 - Jack Hanna, American zoologist
1947 - Calvin Hill, American football player
1949 - Christopher Durang, American playwright
1950 - David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist
1951 - Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter
1952 - Graeme Strachan, Australian rock singer (Skyhooks) (d. 2001)
1954 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
1954 - Dawn Silva, American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
1955 - Tex Brashear, American voice actor
1955 - Vivien Savage, French singer
1956 - Lynda Barry, American cartoonist
1957 - Joanna Pacula, Polish actress
1958 - Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
1960 - Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author
1961 - Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
1961 - Todd Haynes, American film director
1963 - David Cone, American baseball player
1963 - Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
1964 - Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
1965 - Greg Swindell, American baseball player
1967 - Tia Carrere, American actress
1967 - Jón Gnarr, Icelandic comedian
1967 - Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
1968 - Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion
1968 - Evan Parke, Jamaican actor
1968 - Goichi Suda, Japanese video game developer
1969 - Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
1969 - Patrick Huard, Quebec actor and comedian
1969 - Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer
1969 - Tommy Morrison, American boxer
1969 - Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player
1969 - Christy Turlington, American model
1969 - Robby Gordon, American racing driver
1970 - Royce Clayton, American baseball player
1970 - Robert Fertitta, American opera singer
1970 - Sanda Ladoşi, Romanian singer
1971 - Taye Diggs, American actor
1971 - Renee Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
1971 - Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
1972 - Adam Elliot, Australian animator
1972 - Christopher Lennertz, American composer
1972 - Hristos Meletoglou, Greek triple jumper
1973 - Lucy Davis, British actress
1973 - Will Kirby, American actor
1975 - Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End)
1975 - Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank)
1975 - Dax Shepard, American actor
1975 - Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player
1976 - Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek triple jumper
1976 - Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
1976 - Cletidus Hunt, American football player
1976 - Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
1976 - Paz Vega, Spanish actress
1977 - Ales Pisa, Czech ice hockey player
1977 - Scott Proctor, American baseball player
1978 - Toyoguchi Megumi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
1979 - Suranne Jones, British actress
1979 - Jonathan Greening, British footballer
1980 - Mac Danzig, American Mixed martial arts combatant
1981 - Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
1981 - Ryan Garko, American baseball player
1981 - Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
1981 - Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
1982 - Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
1983 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
1984 - Colleen Taylor, American journalist
1985 - Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
1987 - Loui Batley, British actress
1987 - Syesha Mercado, American singer
1988 - Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer

Famous deaths...
1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b. c1460)
1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
1861 - King Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
1892 - George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801)
1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1913 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
1915 - Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
1920 - Paul Adam, French novelist (b. 1862)
1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
1936 - Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia (b. 1862)
1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
1941 - Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist (b. 1898)
1945 - Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (b. 1883)
1946 - Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1950 - James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (b. 1884)
1951 - Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
1959 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (b. 1880)
1960 - Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
1963 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
1963 - Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
1971 - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (b. 1906)
1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
1984 - Dick Emery, English comedian (b. 1915)
1986 - Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
1986 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (b. 1914)
1986 - Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (b. 1920)
1990 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
1994 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (b. 1914)
1994 - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (b. 1915)
1995 - Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
1995 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
1997 - Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit) (b. 1951)
1998 - Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)
1999 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (b. 1920)
2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
2001 - William P. Rogers, American politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
2002 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
2003 - Eric Jupp, British-Australian pianist, composer, arranger (b. 1922)
2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
2005 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
2006 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
2007 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2007 - David Perkins, Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
2007 - Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
2007 - Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
2007 - Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
2007 - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
2007 - Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
2007 - Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. 1950)
2007 - Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
2007 - Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)
2008 - Gerry Staley, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2008 - Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krommaluang Narathiwat Rajanagarindra, elder sister of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (b. 1923)
2008 - George MacDonald Fraser, British author (b. 1925)
2008 - Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances...
Second day of the Hogmanay Bank Holiday, Scotland
Second day of New Year, Slovenia - Public holidays in Slovenia
Second day of New Year, Serbia - Public holidays in Serbia
Day after New Year's Day, New Zealand - Public holidays in New Zealand

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[kyledvor61]

i learned a new word, twatwaffle

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 3 1946

William Joyce, the "Lord Haw-Haw" who broadcasted Nazi propaganda to Britain during World War II, is hanged for treason in London.

Jan 3 1958

The editor of the scandal magazine Confidential, Howard Rushmore, murders his wife and then suicides in the back of a taxicab in NYC.

Jan 3 1961

Three technicians -- John Byrnes, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg -- are killed when the SL-1 experimental nuclear reactor explodes in Idaho Falls, Idaho. McKinley's corpse is found stuck to the containment dome ceiling, impaled on a control rod. The crewmen's radioactive bodies are so hot they have to be buried in lead-lined caskets.

Jan 3 1962

Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.

Jan 3 1967

Jack Ruby dead of natural causes.

Jan 3 1987

Four non-cancerous polyps are removed from President Ronald Reagan's colon.

Jan 3 1990

Manuel Noriega surrenders at the Papal Nunciature. He is brought to Miami and charged with drug trafficking and money laundering.

Birthdays today...
106BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
1196 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
1698 - Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
1710 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)
1719 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
1722 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
1733 - Sir Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)
1760 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
1778 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
1793 - Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist (d. 1880)
1802 - Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
1803 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright (d. 1857)
1806 - Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
1810 - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
1819 - Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)
1831 - Savitribai Phule, Female social activist, first female teacher in India, and first female poet in Marathi language.
1836 - Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
1840 - Father Damien, Flemish missionary (d. 1889)
1855 - Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914)
1861 - William Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904)
1862 - Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)
1865 - Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)
1870 - Henry Handel Richardson, Australian author (d. 1946)
1873 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
1876 - Wilhelm Pieck, first President of East Germany (d. 1960)
1879 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
1883 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
1884 - Raoul von Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948)
1886 - Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)
1887 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
1887 - Helen Parkhurst, American educator (d. 1973)
1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
1894 - ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
1895 - Borys Lyatoshynsky, Ukrainian composer
1897 - Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961)
1898 - Carlos Keller, Chilean fascist politician (d. 1974)
1901 - Ngô Đình Diệm, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
1905 - Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
1905 - Ray Milland, Welsh actor (d. 1986)
1909 - Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
1910 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1911 - John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
1912 - Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002)
1912 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
1916 - Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
1916 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
1916 - Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist
1917 - General Vernon Walters, U.S. military officer, diplomat (d. 2002)
1917 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
1920 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
1921 - John Russell, American actor (d. 1991)
1922 - Bill Travers, English actor and director (d. 1994)
1922 - Ronald Smith, British pianist (d. 2004)
1923 - Hank Stram, American football coach (d. 2005)
1923 - Charles Tingwell, Australian actor
1924 - André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (d. 1997)
1924 - Nell Rankin, American singer (d. 2005)
1924 - Doug Ellis, British entrepreneur
1926 - George Martin, British producer
1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
1929 - Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
1930 - Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright
1930 - Robert Loggia, American actor
1932 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
1932 - Dabney Coleman, American actor
1932 - Tongolele, US-born dancer in Mexican movies
1935 - Raymond Garneau, French Canadian politician and businessman
1936 - David Vine, British sports commentator
1937 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
1939 - Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager
1939 - Janice Crosio, Australian politician
1939 - Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
1939 - Ruben Reyes, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1941 - Van Dyke Parks, American musician
1942 - John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)
1942 - John Marsden, Australian lawyer, gay activist (d. 2006)
1944 - David Atherton, English conductor
1944 - Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer and second wife of Bob Hawke
1945 - Stephen Stills, American musician
1946 - John Paul Jones, British musician (Led Zeppelin)
1946 - Cissy King, American entertainer
1949 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)
1950 - Victoria Principal, American actress
1951 - Gary Nairn, Australian politician
1952 - Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer
1954 - Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
1954 - Ned Lamont, American businessman
1954 - Ross the Boss, American guitarist
1955 - Palmolive, English musician (The Slits, The Raincoats)
1956 - Mel Gibson, Australian actor and director
1956 - Willy T. Ribbs, American race-car driver
1957 - Bojan Križај, Slovenian skier
1958 - Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker
1960 - Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India
1962 - Francesca Lia Block, American author
1963 - Vic Grimes, American professional wrestler
1963 - Jerome Young, American professional wrestler
1963 - Alex Wheatle, British novelist
1964 - Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker
1966 - Martin Galway, Northern Ireland composer
1969 - Michael Schumacher, German seven-time F1 World Champion
1969 - Gerda Weissensteiner, Italian bobsledder and luger
1970 - Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
1970 - Christian Duguay, American comic actor
1970 - Matt Ross, American actor
1971 - Cory Cross, Canadian ice-hockey player
1972 - Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
1972 - Nichole Nordeman, American singer
1974 - Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
1975 - Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
1975 - Jason Marsden, American actor
1975 - Danica McKellar, American actress
1976 - Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
1976 - Alisen Down, Canadian actress
1976 - Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress
1976 - Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor
1977 - Lee Bowyer, English footballer
1977 - A.J. Burnett, American baseball player
1977 - Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
1977 - Michelle Stephenson, English singer (The Spice Girls)
1978 - Kimberley Locke, American singer
1978 - Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
1978 - Dominic Wood, English children's television presenter and magician
1978 - Mike York, American ice hockey player
1979 - Francesco Bellissimo, Italian mangaka
1980 - Rob Arnold, American guitarist (Chimaira)
1980 - Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model
1980 - Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
1980 - David Tyree, American football player
1981 - Eli Manning, American football player
1981 - Chris Blais, California racecar driver
1985 - John David Booty, American football player
1985 - Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player for the Denver Nuggets
1986 - Lloyd Polite, American R&B singer
1986 - Jacob Timpano, Australian soccer player
1988 - Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican artist and performer
1989 - Alex D. Linz, American actor
1989 - Anya Rozova, Russian model and America's Next Top Model contestant
1989 - Mustapha Hussein Saddam Hussein's grandson, Qusay Hussein's son (d. 2003)

Famous deaths...
235 - Pope St Anterus
1098 - Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester
1322 - King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
1437 - Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
1571 - Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618)
1656 - Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
1670 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (b. 1608)
1690 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
1701 - Prince Louis I of Monaco (b. 1642)
1743 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
1779 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b. 1730)
1813 - Bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c.1764)
1826 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
1871 - Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Indian Saint (b. 1805)
1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
1882 - William Harrison Ainsworth, English novelist (b. 1805)
1895 - James Merritt Ives, American lithographer with Nathaniel Currier (b. 1824)
1903 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
1911 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
1915 - James Elroy Flecker, English author (b. 1884)
1916 - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
1927 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
1931 - Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
1933 - Wilhelm Cuno, 6th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
1933 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1943 - Sir Walter James, Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
1944 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
1945 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
1945 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
1946 - William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906)
1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
1956 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
1956 - Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
1967 - Mary Garden, Scottish singer (b. 1874)
1967 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
1969 - Howard McNear, American actor (b. 1905)
1969 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (b. 1909)
1970 - Gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902)
1974 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
1980 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
1980 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
1981 - Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
1988 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
1988 - Joie Chitwood, American racedriver & Daredevil (b. 1912)
1989 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1990 - Arthur Gold, American pianist, half of Gold and Fizdale duo (b. 1917)
1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
1993 - Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
1994 - Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
2002 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
2002 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
2004 - Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
2004 - Leon Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
2005 - JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
2006 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
2006 - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
2007 - William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)
2007 - Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961–1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
2007 - Sir Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast 1983–2001 (b. 1924)
2007 - Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings (b. 1930)
2007 - Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
2007 - Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
2008 - Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
2008 - Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
2008 - Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
2008 - Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer/former WBC light flyweight champion (b. 1972)

Holidays and observances...
Festival in honour of Pax, Roman Empire

Have a great Saturday.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 4 1847

Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

Jan 4 1865

The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.

Jan 4 1964

The Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo kills his final victim, Mary Sullivan, age 19, at her Charles Street apartment.

Jan 4 1986

Phil Lynott, founder of heavy metal band "Thin Lizzy", dies from heart failure brought on by a drug overdose.

Jan 4 1997

Rumors run rampant through Israel, particularly over talk radio, that a UFO will land at Tel Aviv on the following day. The predictions are purported to have been made by spoonbender Uri Geller. Thousands flock to the beaches, but no saucers.

Birthdays today...
1077 - Emperor Zhezong of Song Dynasty in China (d. 1100)
1334 - Amadeus VI of Savoy (d. 1383)
1581 - James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop (d. 1656)
1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727)
1664 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742)
1672 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
1710 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. 1736)
1720 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer (d. 1774)
1785 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
1809 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (d. 1852)
1813 - Isaac Pitman, English inventor (Pitman shorthand) (d. 1897)
1832 - George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
1838 - Charles Sherwood Stratton, American circus performer (d. 1883)
1839 - Carl Humann, German engineer (d. 1896)
1842 - Frederic T. Greenhalge, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1848 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913)
1869 - Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960)
1870 - Percy Pitt, English organist and conductor (d. 1932)
1874 - Josef Suk, Czech composer (d. 1935)
1878 - Augustus John, Welsh painter (d. 1961)
1881 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (d. 1919)
1882 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1943)
1883 - Max Eastman, American writer (d. 1969)
1891 - Edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)
1892 - Maria Diaz Cortes, Claimant to the world's oldest person
1893 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese, became world's oldest living person on January 29, 2007. (d. 2007)
1894 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (d. 1962)
1895 - Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
1896 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
1896 - André Masson, French artist (d. 1987)
1900 - James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
1901 - C. L. R. James, writer and journalist (d. 1989)
1902 - John McCone, CIA Director (d. 1991)
1910 - Arthur Villeneuve, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
1913 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (d. 2007)
1914 - Herman Franks, American baseball player
1916 - Lionel Newman, American film music composer (d. 1989)
1916 - Robert Parrish, U.S. film editor and director (d. 1995)
1920 - William Colby, American CIA director (d. 1996)
1922 - Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (d. 1997)
1924 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (d. 1993)
1925 - Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2003)
1927 - Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman
1927 - Barbara Rush, American actress
1930 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
1930 - Don Shula, American football coach
1931 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, First Lady of Fiji (d. 2004)
1931 - Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia 1996-2001
1932 - Carlos Saura, Spanish director
1933 - Ilia II Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia.
1934 - Rudolf Schuster, President of Slovakia
1935 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006)
1937 - Grace Bumbry, American singer
1937 - Dyan Cannon, American actress
1940 - Helmut Jahn, German architect
1940 - Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Maureen Reagan, American political activist (d. 2001)
1941 - George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (d. 2005)
1941 - John Bennett Perry, American actor
1942 - John McLaughlin, English jazz guitarist
1943 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer
1945 - Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish entertainer
1945 - Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Susannah McCorkle, American jazz singer (d. 2001)
1946 - Dr.S.Rajasekharan, Poet , Critic, PVC Sree Sankaracharya University.
1946 - Arthur Conley, American singer (d. 2003)
1947 - Chris Cutler, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1947 - Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter
1948 - Eugeniusz Wycisło, Polish politician
1950 - John Louis Evans, convicted murderer (d. 1983)
1951 - Barbara Cochran, American alpine skier
1953 - Norberto Alonso, Argentine footballer
1954 - Eugene Chadbourne, American composer and musician
1955 - Mark Hollis, English musician and composer (Talk Talk)
1956 - Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer
1956 - Bernard Sumner, English musician (Joy Division, New Order, Electronic)
1957 - Patty Loveless, American singer
1958 - Andy Borowitz, American comedian and satirist
1958 - Matt Frewer, American actor
1958 - Gary Jones, Welsh-born actor
1958 - Julian Sands, English actor
1959 - Yoshitomo Nara, Japanese pop artist
1960 - Michael Stipe, American singer (R.E.M.)
1960 - April Winchell, American actress
1961 - Lee Curreri, American actor
1962 - Laila Eloui, Egyptian actress
1962 - Robin Guthrie, Scottish guitarist (Cocteau Twins)
1962 - André Rouvoet, Dutch politician
1962 - Peter Steele, American musician (Type O Negative)
1963 - Dave Foley, Canadian comedian and actor
1963 - Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein)
1964 - Tom Westman, American reality-show contestant
1965 - Yvan Attal, French actor and director
1965 - Guy Forget, French tennis player
1965 - Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead)
1965 - Cait O'Riordan, British musician (The Pogues)
1965 - Julia Ormond, English actress
1966 - Deana Carter, American singer
1967 - David Berman, American poet and singer/songwriter (Silver Jews)
1967 - Johnny Nelson, English boxer
1967 - Marina Orsini, Canadian actress
1967 - David Toms, American professional golfer
1968 - Mike Wilpolt, Head Coach of the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League
1969 - Corie Blount, American basketball player
1969 - Kees van Wonderen, Dutch footballer
1970 - Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler
1971 - Junichi Kakizaki, Japanese artist, sculptor
1972 - James Longley, American documentary filmmaker
1973 - Greg de Vries, Canadian hockey player
1973 - Frank Høj, Danish cyclist
1973 - Harmony Korine, American film director and artist
1974 - Ian Moor, English singer
1976 - Benoît Joachim, Luxembourg cyclist
1976 - Ted Lilly, American baseball player
1977 - Irán Castillo, Mexican actress
1977 - Dan Shanahan, Irish hurler
1977 - Tim Wheeler, Irish singer (Ash)
1978 - Dominik Hrbatý, Slovakian tennis player
1978 - Mai Meneses, Spanish singer
1979 - Tristan Gommendy, French racing driver
1979 - Jeph Howard, American musician (The Used)
1979 - Charity Rahmer, American actress
1980 - Greg Cipes, American actor
1980 - Yaroslav Popovych, Ukrainian cyclist
1980 - Bobbi Eden, Dutch pornostar
1980 - Miguel Monteiro, Portuguese footballer
1982 - Paulo Ferrari, Argentinian footballer
1982 - Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress
1982 - Richard Logan, English footballer
1985 - Al Jefferson, American basketball player
1985 - Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver
1986 - James Milner, English footballer
1986 - Steve Slaton , American football player
1988 - Nabila Jamshed, Indian writer
1989 - Graham Rahal, American race car driver
1990 - Toni Kroos, German footballer
1991 - Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress
1995 - María Isabel, Spanish singer
2000 - Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress

Famous deaths...
1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207)
1428 - Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, 'The Warlike' (b. 1370)
1564 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
1584 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)
1695 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (b. 1628)
1752 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704)
1761 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist (b. 1677)
1773 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (b. 1737)
1782 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
1786 - Moses Mendelssohn, German Jewish philosopher (b. 1729)
1804 - Charlotte Lennox, English author and poet (b. c.1730)
1821 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (b. 1774)
1825 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751)
1863 - Roger Hanson, Confederate general (b. 1827)
1874 - Thomas Gregson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794)
1882 - John William Draper, English scientist, photographer (b. 1811)
1883 - Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
1891 - Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
1896 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
1903 - Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
1903 - Topsy the elephant (b. c. 1875)
1919 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
1920 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
1924 - Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist, composer (b. 1852)
1931 - Art Acord, American actor (b. 1890)
1941 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1944 - Kai Munk, Danish playwright, Lutheran pastor (b. 1898)
1947 - Julian Ashby Burruss, American academic (b. 1876)
1960 - Albert Camus, Algerian-born French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
1961 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1962 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)
1965 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1967 - Donald Campbell, English motorboat racer (b. 1921)
1969 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
1970 - Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
1971 - Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
1975 - Carlo Levi, Italian painter, writer and activist (b. 1902)
1981 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1914)
1985 - Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)
1985 - Lovro von Matacic, Croatian conductor (b. 1899)
1986 - Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)
1986 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949)
1988 - Lily Laskine, French harpist (b. 1893)
1990 - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
1990 - Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
1993 - Charles Bridgford, Australian politician
1994 - RD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1939)
1995 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
1995 - Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (b. 1942)
1996 - Ramón Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor (b. 1911)
1997 - Harry Helmsley, American real estate mogul (b. 1909)
1998 - Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
1998 - John Gary, American singer (b. 1932)
1999 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
2000 - Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
2001 - Les Brown, American bandleader (b. 1912)
2003 - Sabine Ulibarri, Mexican American writer (b. 1919)
2003 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
2003 - Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
2004 - John Toland, American historian (b. 1912)
2004 - Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)
2004 - Jake Hess, American singer (b. 1927)
2004 - Jeff Nuttall, English writer (b. 1933)
2004 - Brian Gibson (director), English film director (b. 1944)
2005 - Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
2005 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (b. 1919)
2005 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921)
2005 - Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
2005 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927)
2005 - Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946)
2005 - Ali al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad (assassinated)
2006 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912)
2006 - Robert Howard White, New Zealander politician (b. 1914)
2006 - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946)
2007 - Marais Viljoen, South African politician (b. 1915)
2007 - Sir Lewis Hodges, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918)
2007 - Steve Krantz, American film and TV producer (b. 1923)
2007 - Osman Waqialla, Sudanese artist and calligrapher (b. 1925)
2007 - Gren, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934)
2007 - Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
2007 - Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
2007 - Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949)
2007 - Ben Gannon, Australian theatre producer (b. 1952)
2007 - Helen Hill, American filmmaker (b. 1970)
2008 - Joyce Carlson, American artist (b. 1923)
2008 - Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan print editor (b. 1932)
2008 - Jimmy Nah, Singapore comedian and actor (b. 1968)
2009 - Giselle Salandy, Trinidad & Tobago female boxer (b. 1987)

Holidays and observances...
Independence Day of Burma/Myanmar
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People

Have a great Sunday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Happy "Burmese Independence Day" Flynbyu and friends.    Partying like a mofo in Myanmar. 

[BRAD]

Whats up peels?

[Peelz]

hola b-rizzle

I am a bit late...downloading real player on new laptop. Watching vids of my boys riding their power wheels rappy

[who else but rk]

anyone get cod wow? this game is awsome and i hate fps!!

[Mad Dog]

hola b-rizzle

I am a bit late...downloading real player on new laptop. Watching vids of my boys riding their power wheels rappy

RealPlayer BAD.

[who else but rk]

vlc GOOD 

[Mad Dog]

K-lite codec mega pack better, includes realplayer alternative.