Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXI

[Flynbyu]

Sun came out here, but it's gone again.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Alllll byyyyy myyyyyyyseellllllllllllllllllllllllllllffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff 
:'(

[disco]

No yer not!

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Mar 28 0

According to Des Pascha Comutus, written in 243 CE, 's birthday was March 28. It later became the familiar December 25 after Rome changed it in 336.

Mar 28 193

The Roman ruler Pertinax is murdered by the Praetorian Guard. There being no obvious successor and no Senatorial volunteers, the Guard auctions off the emperorship. The high bidder is Senator Didius Julianus, for 300 million sesterces. After hearing of this, Roman general Septimus Severus in Dalmatia marched on Rome, beheading the new emperor upon arrival.

Mar 28 1930

Constantinople becomes Istanbul.

Mar 28 1941



British author Virginia Woolf commits suicide. Her note: "I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer."

Mar 28 1947

Leftover Jap boobytrap from WWII explodes in Corregidor, killing 28.

Mar 28 1975

A fire in the maternity wing at Kucic Hospital, Rijeka, Yugoslavia, kills 25 incubating babies.

Mar 28 1979

Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Harrisburg PA.

Mar 28 1996

78 people apparently perish in a fire at the Pasar Anyar shopping center in Bogor, West Java. The estimate is lowered to 10 after it is discovered that most of the dead are store mannequins.

Mar 28 1997

Martin Lawrence slugs someone in a barroom brawl at the "Gate" nightclub in Hollywood, apparently because he was jostled while dancing. He receives two years probation and community service.

Birthdays today...
1472 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
1515 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun (d. 1582)
1522 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
1569 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
1592 - Comenius, Czech bishop (d. 1670)
1599 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1613 - Xiaozhuangwen Grand Empress Dowager, Empress of Manchu (d. 1688)
1652 - Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
1725 - Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
1750 - Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1816)
1760 - Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)
1773 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
1793 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
1795 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
1806 - Thomas Hare, English barrister (d. 1891)
1815 - Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
1818 - Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902)
1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
1836 - Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)
1840 - Emin Pasha, Equatorian politician (d. 1892)
1842 - William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officer (d. 1908)
1849 - James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
1851 - Bernardino Machado, Portuguese politician (d. 1944)
1862 - Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1866 - Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
1871 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
1890 - Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
1892 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1892 - Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
1893 - Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
1895 - Christian Herter, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1966)
1895 - Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1985)
1897 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
1899 - Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
1899 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
1899 - Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)
1899 - Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
1900 - Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004)
1902 - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
1902 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
1903 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
1903 - Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)
1905 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist and television host (d. 1986)
1905 - Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)
1907 - "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
1909 - Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)
1910 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American Librarian (d. 2001)
1910 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
1911 - J. L. Austin, British philosopher of language (d. 1960)
1912 - A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984)
1912 - Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
1914 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1914 - Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
1914 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
1914 - Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
1915 - Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1919 - Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1921 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
1921 - Herschel Grynszpan, German political assassin
1922 - Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
1922 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (d. 1990)
1922 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
1924 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)
1925 - Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress
1926 - Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
1927 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. National Security Adviser
1928 - Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician
1929 - Paul England, Australian racing driver
1930 - Robert Ashley, American composer
1930 - Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1933 - Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
1933 - Frank Murkowski, American politician
1935 - Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician
1937 - Liz Trotta, American journalist
1940 - Tony Barber, Australian television personality
1941 - Alf Clausen, America orchestra conductor
1941 - Jim Turner, American football player
1941 - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
1942 - Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
1942 - Neil Kinnock, British politician
1942 - Mike Newell, English film director
1942 - Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
1942 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
1942 - Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and head coach
1943 - Conchata Ferrell, American actress
1944 - Rick Barry, American basketball player
1944 - Ken Howard, American actor
1945 - Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
1946 - Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
1946 - Henry Paulson Jr., Former U.S. Treasury Secretary
1946 - Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
1947 - John Landecker, American disk jockey
1948 - Dianne Wiest, American actress
1948 - Gerry House, American radio personality
1948 - John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull)
1948 - Milan Williams, American musician The Commodores (d. 2006)
1948 - Matthew Corbett, English retired actor
1948 - Jayne Ann Krentz, née Castle (Amanda Quick), American novelist
1951 - Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
1951 - Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)
1952 - Tony Brise, racing driver (d. 1975)
1953 - Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
1954 - Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985)
1955 - John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician
1955 - Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
1956 - April Margera, Bam Margera's mother
1958 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1958 - Edesio Alejandro, Cuban music composer.
1959 - Chris Myers, American sportscaster
1960 - Chris Barrie, British actor
1960 - José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician
1960 - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist
1961 - Orla Brady, Irish actress
1961 - Byron Scott, American basketball player
1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
1962 - Terry Szopinski, American pro-wrestler
1965 - Steve Bull, English footballer
1967 - John Ziegler, American talk-show host
1968 - Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
1968 - Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
1968 - Jon Lee, British drummer (d. 2002)
1968 - Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter
1968 - Max Perlich, American actor
1969 - Brett Ratner, American film director
1969 - Rodney Atkins, American country music singer-songwriter
1970 - Vince Vaughn, American actor
1970 - Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician
1971 - Mr. Cheeks, American rapper
1972 - Nick Frost, English comedian and actor
1972 - Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
1973 - Eddie Fatu, Samoan professional wrestler
1973 - Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter
1974 - Mark King, English snooker player
1974 - Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey
1975 - Shanna Moakler, former beauty queen
1975 - Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
1975 - Matt Reis, American soccer goalkeeper
1975 - Richard Kelly, American film director
1975 - Derek Hill, American racing driver
1976 - David Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)
1977 - Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player
1977 - Lauren Weisberger, American novelist
1979 - Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress
1979 - Crystal Cox, American Olympian/reality television contestant
1980 - Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper
1980 - Luke Walton, American basketball player
1981 - Julia Stiles, American actress
1981 - Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh Actor
1981 - Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
1981 - Lindsay Frimodt, American model
1982 - Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
1983 - Ryan Ashington, English footballer
1984 - Christopher Samba, French-born footballer
1984 - Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
1984 - Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
1984 - Ol Drake, lead guitarist with Thrash Metal band Evile
1986 - J-Kwon, American rapper
1986 - Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player
1988 - Lacey Turner, British soap actress
1989 - Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
1989 - Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
1989 - Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
1989 - Afrikan Boy, a Nigerian rapper
1991 - Amy Bruckner, American actress

Famous deaths...
193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
1072 - Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
1239 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
1285 - Pope Martin IV
1563 - Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
1566 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
1677 - Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor (b. 1607)
1687 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
1794 - Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
1818 - Antonio Capuzzi, Italian composer (b. 1755)
1850 - Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
1866 - Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
1910 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
1910 - Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
1928 - Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor
1929 - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
1939 - Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
1941 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
1941 - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
1942 - Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)
1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
1944 - Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist (b. 1869)
1946 - Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
1947 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
1949 - Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
1953 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
1958 - William Christopher Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
1962 - Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
1965 - Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
1965 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
1969 - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1974 - Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
1976 - Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
1976 - Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
1977 - Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountaineer (b. 1907)
1978 - Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (b. 1941)
1979 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
1980 - Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1984 - Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
1985 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
1986 - Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
1987 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905)
1987 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
1993 - Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
1994 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (b. 1909)
1995 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
1999 - Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
2001 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
2003 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
2004 - Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
2004 - Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
2005 - Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
2006 - Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
2006 - Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
2006 - Kevin Pro Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
2006 - Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)
2006 - Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian Philosopher (b. 1911)

Holidays and observances...
China - Serfs Emancipation Day
Slovakia, Czech Republic - Teachers' Day.

Have a great Saturday.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

We just sold a Challenger SRT8!

Since we are not an SRT dealer, we had to get it from another dealer.

Hemi orange, 6 speed.

On the way, pics Monday or Tuesday.

~Brian

[disco]

Nice 

I bet everybody is happy all around.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Mar 29 1951

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are both convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

Mar 29 1977

Lee Harvey Oswald's best friend, and coincidentally a friend of both Jackie Kennedy and George HW Bush, Dallas socialite George de Mohrenschildt dies from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the mouth, at 3:45 pm. It is likely he was going to be called to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

Mar 29 1979

A U.S. House of Representatives committee report finds that John F. Kennedy's assassination was the result of a conspiracy.

Mar 29 1992

Arkansas Governor and Presidential candidate Bill Clinton tells the New York Times: "When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale, and never tried it again."

Mar 29 1997

Kazuo Konya, a former member of the Aum cult, tells Tokyo Municipal Court that he paid $8,100 for the privilege of drinking the guru's blood in a 1988 initiation ritual. Other former cult members also testify they paid for blood, strands of Shoko Asahara's hair, and his bath water. Some say they paid $2,400 for an intravenous injection of an unknown substance. Ironically, all throughout, Asahara preached to his followers that they should renounce materialism.

Mar 29 2006

Jack Abramoff, Washington D.C. lobbyist extraordinaire, is sentenced to almost six years in prison for defrauding Native American tribes, corruption of public officials and other various fraud charges. He is also ordered to pay $21M in fines. In exchange for a short sentence, Jack agrees to name names. This makes Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay very nervous.

Birthdays today...
1553 - Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet
1584 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)
1602 - John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675)
1668 - Thomas Coram, Founder of the Foundling Hospital (d. 1751)
1713 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
1746 - Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1785)
1769 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1799 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
1826 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
1867 - Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
1869 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist living in the United States (d. 1943)
1870 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (d. 1904)
1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
1874 - Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
1888 - Enea Bossi, Italian-American engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1963)
1889 - Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
1891 - Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d. 1950)
1891 - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1980)
1892 - József Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975)
1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
1899 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953)
1900 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
1900 - Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1901 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)
1902 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
1902 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
1905 - Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)
1906 - E. Power Biggs American concert organist (d. 1977)
1907 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
1908 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
1908 - Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d. 1968)
1911 - Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)
1912 - Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
1913 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
1914 - Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985)
1916 - Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
1917 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)
1918 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)
1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
1919 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
1920 - John Belk, American head of Belk, Inc. (d. 2007)
1927 - John McLaughlin, American political commentator
1927 - John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1928 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (d. 2005)
1929 - Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)
1929 - Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist.
1929 - Richard Lewontin, American biologist
1929 - Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut
1931 - Norman Tebbit, British politician
1933 - Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet
1934 - Paul Crouch, American televangelist
1936 - Judith Guest, American author
1936 - Mogens Camre, Danish politician
1937 - Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (d. 1988)
1939 - Terence Hill, Italian actor
1939 - Roland Arnall, American businessman and diplomat (d. 2008)
1940 - Ray Davis, American musician (d. 2005)
1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1941 - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Eden Kane, British singer
1943 - Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer
1943 - Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1943 - Vangelis, Greek musician and composer
1944 - Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist
1944 - Denny McLain, American baseball player
1945 - Walt Frazier, American basketball player
1946 - Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (d. 2007)
1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer
1948 - Bud Cort, American actor
1949 - Keith Simpson, British politician
1949 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2007)
1949 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)
1949 - Dave Greenfield, English Keyboardist of The Stranglers
1952 - Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer
1954 - Dianne Kay, American actress
1954 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)
1955 - Earl Campbell, American football player
1955 - Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor
1955 - Christopher Lawford, Irish actor
1955 - Marina Sirtis, English actress
1956 - Patty Donahue, American singer (d. 1996)
1956 - Stephen Cole, English journalist
1956 - Kurt Thomas, American gymnast
1957 - Christopher Lambert, French actor
1958 - Victor Salva, American film director
1959 - Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
1959 - Perry Farrell, American musician
1959 - Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Mike Kingery, American baseball player
1961 - Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian
1961 - Gary Brabham, Australian racing driver
1964 - Michael A. Jackson, Maryland politician
1964 - Elle Macpherson, Australian model
1965 - William Oefelein, American Astronaut
1965 - Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete
1965 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)
1967 - Brian Jordan, American baseball player
1967 - John Popper, American musician
1968 - Sue Foley, Canadian singer and guitarist
1968 - Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
1971 - Robert Gibbs, US White House Press Secretary
1971 - Lara Logan, South-African born journalist and reporter
1972 - Michel Ancel, French game designer
1972 - Rui Costa, Portugal footballer
1972 - Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor
1973 - Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
1973 - Sebastiano Siviglia Italian footballer
1974 - Kristoffer Cusick, American actor
1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish racing car driver
1974 - Rachel Jones, Radio Producer
1976 - Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist
1976 - Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
1978 - Michael Kaczurak, American singer and actor
1980 - Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress
1980 - Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
1980 - Amy Mathews, Australian actress
1981 - Megan Hilty, American actress
1981 - Jlloyd Samuel, West Indian-born footballer
1982 - Hideaki Takizawa, Japanese artist
1983 - Luiza Sá, Brazilian musician
1985 - Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey forward
1985 - Mickey Pimentel, National Football League linebacker
1986 - Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer

Famous deaths...
1058 - Pope Stephen IX (b. c. 1020)
1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)
1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
1625 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
1628 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
1629 - Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)
1683 - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
1751 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist
1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
1788 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (b. 1707)
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden (shot) (b. 1746)
1800 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)
1803 - Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch composer (b. 1733)
1826 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
1848 - John Jacob Astor, American businessman (b. 1763)
1855 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799)
1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)
1888 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)
1906 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
1912 - Henry Robertson Bowers - member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1883)
1912 - Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer - member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1868)
1912 - Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist - member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1872)
1924 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer (b. 1852)
1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)
1937 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
1940 - Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(b. 1916)
1948 - Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (b. 1881)
1956 - Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
1957 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)
1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
1970 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
1971 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)
1972 - Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner (b. 1888)
1980 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
1981 - Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago (b. 1911)
1982 - Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
1982 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (b. 1897)
1985 - Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)
1985 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun, The Singing Nun (b. 1933)
1986 - Harry Ritz, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
1988 - Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (b. 1924)
1989 - Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916)
1991 - Lee Atwater, American political consultant (b. 1951)
1992 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b. 1908)
1994 - Bill Travers, British actor (b. 1922)
1995 - Jimmy McShane, Irish frontman, of the group, Baltimora (b. 1957)
1995 - Terry Moore, American baseball player (b. 1912)
1996 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher (b. 1926)
1996 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
1999 - Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
2001 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)
2001 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist (b. 1920)
2002 - Rico Yan, Philippine Young Movie & TV Actor (b. 1975)
2002 - Rachel Levy and Ayat al-Akhras, Israeli and Palestinian children
2003 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)
2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
2005 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
2005 - Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)
2006 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (b. 1932)
2007 - Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances...
Día del joven combatiente a remembrance day celebrated with civil disorder in Chile by leftists and anarchists
Youth Day in Taiwan
Have a great Sunday.

~Brian

[Mad Dog]

My Gmail account has been Hi-jacked.  Google customer service sends me back to the website and the searches I have done tell me the only course of action is to either keep using it or delete it and no one at google will be concerned or able to do anything else.

So I think I'll have to come up with a new email address.

[Warren]

damn that sucks man. sounds like gmail isn't that secure.

[kyledvor61]

hi

[Colorado700R]

where's my bitches?

[BLU700R]

At work wishing I was at home on the raptorsource site hah I hate 6 to 6 its boring. 

[Krandall]

ahoy hoy

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

March 30 1842

Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.

March 30 1858

Hymen () Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.

March 30 1867

Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The media call this Seward's Folly.

March 30 1939



The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph.

March 30 1945



A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to the Americans.

March 30 1965

A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.

March 30 1981



President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.

Birthdays today...
1135 - Maimonedes, philosopher (d. 1204)
1326 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
1432 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
1640 - John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)
1746 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
1750 - John Stafford Smith, English composer (d. 1836)
1820 - Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878)
1844 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
1857 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
1864 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)
1879 - Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
1880 - Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964)
1882 - Melanie Klein, British Psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
1892 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
1894 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (d. 1977)
1895 - Jean Giono, French author (d. 1970)
1899 - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1970)
1902 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007)
1902 - Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
1903 - Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946)
1903 - Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984)
1904 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (d. 1970)
1905 - Albert Pierrepoint, English executioner (d. 1992)
1907 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)
1913 - Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
1913 - Richard Helms, American CIA director (d. 2002)
1913 - Frankie Laine, American singer (d. 2007)
1913 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta
1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
1919 - McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
1922 - Turhan Bey, Turkish actor
1923 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
1926 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur
1926 - Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (d. 1992)
1927 - Peter Marshall, American game show host
1928 - Robert Badinter, French politician
1928 - Tom Sharpe, English satirical author
1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor
1930 - John Astin, American actor
1930 - Rolf Harris, Australian artist and entertainer
1932 - Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer
1933 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)
1935 - Karl Berger, German musicologist and musician
1935 - Willie Galimore, American football player (d. 1964)
1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
1940 - Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
1940 - Hans Ragnemalm, Swedish professor of public law, and judge
1941 - Graeme Edge, British musician (Moody Blues)
1941 - Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
1941 - Bob Smith, former American politician
1942 - Ruben Kun, Nauruan politician and former President of Nauru
1943 - Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (d. 1998)
1945 - Eric Clapton, British guitarist
1945 - Johnnie Walker, British DJ
1947 - Ryszard Kotla, Polish travel writer and activist
1948 - Mervyn King, British economist
1948 - Eddie Jordan Former owner of Jordan Grand Prix
1949 - Naomi Sims, American fashion model and businesswoman
1949 - Liza Frulla, Quebec politician
1950 - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian
1951 - Yves Séguin, Quebec politician
1952 - Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach
1953 - Cydney Bernard, American film producer
1955 - Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1956 - Bill Butler, Scottish politician
1956 - Juanito Oiarzabal, Basque mountaineer
1957 - Paul Reiser, American actor
1958 - Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
1959 - Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis, New Zealander convicted child abuser
1959 - Sabine Meyer, German clarinetist
1961 - Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
1962 - MC Hammer, American rap musician
1962 - Bil Dwyer, American actor
1963 - Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor
1964 - Tracy Chapman, American singer
1964 - Vlado Bozinovski, Australian former footballer
1964 - Dave Ellett, Canadian hockey player
1964 - Ian Ziering, American actor
1965 - Piers Morgan, British journalist
1966 - Joey Castillo, American drummer (Queens of the Stone Age)
1966 - Efstratios Grivas, Greek chess grandmaster and author
1967 - Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (d. 2008)
1967 - Hayashibara Megumi, Japanese voice actress and singer
1968 - Donna D'Errico, American actress and model
1968 - Celine Dion, Canadian singer
1970 - Secretariat, American racehorse (d. 1989)
1971 - Mark Consuelos, American actor
1971 - Mari Holden, American cycle racer
1972 - Mili Avital, Israeli-American actress
1973 - Jan Koller, Czech footballer
1973 - Matthew Pritchard, Welsh Stuntman
1975 - Bahar Soomekh, American actress
1976 - Mark McClelland, Northern Irish musician (Degrassi)
1976 - Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player
1976 - Obadele Thompson, Barbadian athlete
1978 - Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
1979 - Norah Jones, American singer and pianist
1979 - Simon Webbe, English singer
1980 - Ricardo Osorio, Mexican footballer
1980 - Yalin, Turkish singer and songwriter
1982 - Jason Dohring, American actor
1983 - Jérémie Aliadière, French footballer
1983 - Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler
1983 - Scott Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter
1983 - Davis Romero, Panamanian baseball player
1983 - Hebe Tian, Taiwanese singer (S.H.E)
1984 - Mario Ančić, Croatian tennis player
1984 - Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter.
1984 - Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
1986 - Beni Arashiro, Japanese singer
1986 - Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer

Famous deaths...
1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
1526 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1540 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
1707 - Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)
1764 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718)
1806 - Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, English duchess(b. 1757)
1840 - Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)
1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
1886 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, French Canadian politician (b. 1838)
1896 - Charilaos Trikoupis, seven times prime-minister of Greece (b. 1832)
1912 - Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
1925 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861)
1936 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (b. 1895)
1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
1950 - Léon Blum, French prime minister (b. 1872)
1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
1959 - Riccardo Zanella, president of Free State of Fiume (b. 1875)
1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1966 - Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
1966 - Newbold Morris, American politician (b. 1902)
1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1970 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
1972 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)
1977 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1981 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889)
1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)
1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (heart attack) (b. 1908)
1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
1988 - Edgar Faure, French politician (b. 1908)
1992 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (b. 1919)
1999 - Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924)
2002 - Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (b. 1930)
2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
2003 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)
2004 - Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)
2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)
2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)
2005 - Emil Dimitrov, Bulgarian singer (b. 1940)
2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
2005 - Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913)
2005 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)
2005 - O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930)
2005 - Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b. 1971)
2006 - Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)
2008 - Dith Pran, The Killing Fields Photographer (b. 1942)
2008 - David Leslie, Touring Car Driver (b. 1953)
2008 - Richard Lloyd, Racing Car Driver (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances...
Roman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus.
United States - National Doctors' Day.
Land Day.
Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day - Public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago.
Saint John Climacus
Saint Quirinus of Neuss
Tola of Clonard
Blessed Amadeus IX of Savoy

Have a great Monday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

March 30 1867

Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The media call this Seward's Folly.


How come no countrie's are selling or buying land anymore?