Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXI

[Krandall]

I do NOT own an Xb

[Flynbyu]

WTF.

The CHP can't catch up with a Scion XB?

It's like a rolling crackerbox.

~Brian

[Peelz]

WTF.

The CHP can't catch up with a Scion XB?

It's like a rolling crackerbox.

~Brian

They caught her, spun her by hitting the bumper, but she just kept on rolling , middle finger extended out the window. Got out at one point, flipped them the double bird, but left the car in Drive, and had to go catch it

[Flynbyu]

WTF.

The CHP can't catch up with a Scion XB?

It's like a rolling crackerbox.

~Brian

They caught her, spun her by hitting the bumper, but she just kept on rolling , middle finger extended out the window. Got out at one point, flipped them the double bird, but left the car in Drive, and had to go catch it

I was watching some of it while getting ready this morning.......I'm suprised it went as long as it did.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Brian's on facebook!

[Peelz]

Brian's on facebook!

he tracked me down. Guess he didn't believe the link preddy posted was me.

[robkd]

I'm on facebook.........is that bad? or just sad?

[Peelz]

I'm on facebook.........is that bad? or just sad?

facebook is actually kinda fun. It is like RS for the rest of the world. Just gottta remember, the rest of the world doesn't get most of our meth, and homo jokes

And...Raptor Source smily codes don't work there either.

Have a great weekend guys!

[Krandall]

I'm on facebook.........is that bad? or just sad?

facebook is actually kinda fun. It is like RS for the rest of the world. Just gottta remember, the rest of the world doesn't get most of our meth, and homo jokes

And...Raptor Source smily codes don't work there either.

Have a great weekend guys!

I tried texting Aaron smiley codes... didn't work

[Krandall]

anyone know of a site I could find a record of what the temprature was on a specific date last year? 

[BRAD]

have you tried the Farmers Almanac website if they have one?

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Apr 11 34

resurrected.

Apr 11 1890

Death of Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man.

Apr 11 1979

Kampala, the capital of Uganda, falls to the Tanzanians and dictator Idi Amin is overthrown. Amin, an occasional cannibal who killed perhaps 300,000 during his reign, had made the mistake of invading Tanzania.

Apr 11 1991

Brian Huntley of Hull, England is convicted of raping a prostitute, aged 19. Because she demanded the rapist use a condom, Huntley is given a short 3 years imprisonment. The next day's headline of the Daily Mirror: "Judge praises rapist who wore condom".

Apr 11 1996

Jessica Dubroff, a 7-year-old pilot hoping to become the youngest American ever to fly coast-to-coast, is killed along with her father and flight instructor when their single-engine plane crashes on takeoff in Cheyenne, WY.

Apr 11 2006

Rapper Proof is shot to death at the CCC Club on 8 Mile Road in Detroit, Michigan. He manages to kill Keith Bender Jr. before dying from a gunshot to the head. Proof was a founding member of D-12, a rap supergroup featuring Eminem.

Birthdays today...
146 – Septimius Severus (d. 211)
1357 – John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
1374 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)
1492 – Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
1592 – John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
1721 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
1722 – Christopher Smart, English poet (d. 1771)
1755 – James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
1769 – Jean Lannes, French marshal (d. 1809)
1770 – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
1794 – Edward Everett, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
1798 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
1810 – Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
1819 – Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
1827 – Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, Indian social reformer (d. 1890)
1852 – Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)
1862 – Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1948)
1862 – William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1866 – Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (d. 1953)
1867 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)
1869 – Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)
1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
1873 – Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)
1876 – Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
1889 – Nick LaRocca, American musician (d. 1961)
1890 – Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
1893 – Dean Acheson, American statesman (d. 1971)
1896 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
1899 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (d. 1975)
1900 – Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
1905 – József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
1906 – Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
1907 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer and entrepreneur (d. 2001)
1908 – Jane Bolin, first African-American woman judge (d. 2007)
1908 – Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (d. 1997)
1908 – Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (d. 1992)
1908 – Leo Rosten, American humorist and author (d. 1997)
1910 – António de Spínola, Portuguese politician (d. 1996)
1911 – Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish runner (d. 1980)
1913 – Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
1914 – Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
1914 – Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
1916 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
1916 – Howard W. Koch, American film director (d. 2001)
1917 – Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993)
1917 – David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
1918 – Richard Wainwright, English politician (d. 2003)
1921 – Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1923 – George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (d. 1980)
1925 – Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and newspaper editor (Quebecor) (d. 1997)
1926 – Victor Bouchard, Quebec pianist and composer
1928 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
1930 – Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
1931 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor
1931 – Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
1932 – Joel Grey, American singer and actor
1933 – Tony Brown, American journalist
1934 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet
1935 – Richard Berry, American singer and composer (d. 1997)
1935 – Richard Kuklinski, American mafia hitman (d. 2006)
1938 – Michael Deaver, Deputy White House Chief of Staff (d. 2007)
1938 – Kurt Moll, German bass
1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress
1941 – Ellen Goodman, American political columnist
1941 – Shirley Stelfox, English actress
1943 – Harley Race, American professional wrestler
1944 – John Milius, American director and writer
1946 – Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter
1947 – Peter Riegert, American actor
1947 – Meshach Taylor, American actor
1947 – Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach
1949 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer
1949 – Carl Franklin, American actor
1951 – Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
1951 – Paul Fox, English guitarist (The Ruts) (d. 2007)
1951 – James Patrick Kelly, American author
1952 – Peter Windsor, English motor racing journalist and reporter
1953 – Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
1953 – Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
1955 – Kevin Brady, American politician
1955 – Michael Callen, American musician (d. 1993)
1958 – Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)
1958 – Brynn Hartman, American murderer (d. 1998)
1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist
1961 – Doug Hopkins, American musician
1962 – Vincent Gallo, American actor
1963 – Chris Ferguson, American poker player
1963 – Billy Bowden, New Zealand umpire
1964 – Steve Azar, American singer-songwriter
1964 – Bret Saberhagen, American baseball player
1964 – Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist
1966 – Mason Reese, American actor
1966 – Dustin Patrick Runnels, American professional wrestler
1966 – Steve Scarsone, American baseball player
1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English singer
1968 – Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author
1969 – Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
1969 – Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer
1970 – Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Delroy Pearson, former singer, Five Star
1970 – Johnny Messner, American actor
1971 – Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
1971 – Vicellous Reon Shannon, American actor
1972 – Jason Varitek, American baseball player
1972 – Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler
1973 – Jennifer Esposito, American television actor
1974 – Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player
1974 – Ashot Danielyan, Armenian weightlifter
1974 – Anton Glanzelius, Danish actor
1974 – Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actor
1974 – Zöe Lucker, British television actor
1974 – Trot Nixon, American baseball player
1975 – Walid Soliman, Tunisian author
1978 – Brett Claywell, American actor
1978 – Josh Hancock, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1978 – Tom Thacker, Canadian musician
1979 – Malcolm Christie, English footballer
1979 – Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Canadian beauty pageant winner
1979 – Chris Gaylor, American drummer
1979 – Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
1979 – Josh Server, American actor
1979 – Sebastien Grainger, Canadian musician
1980 – Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
1980 – Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
1981 – Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazillian model
1981 – Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Ian Bell, English cricketer
1983 – Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch racing driver
1984 – Kelli Garner, American actress
1985 – Will Minson, Australian rules footballer
1986 – Roman Heart, American porn actor
1987 – Joss Stone, English singer
1994 – Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
2000 – Morgan Lily, actress
2002 – Alexa Gerasimovich, American actress

Famous deaths...
1034 – Romanus III, Byzantine emperor (b. 968)
1240 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
1554 – Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)
1612 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)
1612 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
1626 – Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
1712 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
1723 – John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
1798 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
1856 – Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
1861 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)
1873 – Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
1890 – Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (b. 1862)
1894 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
1906 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (b. 1847)
1906 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
1908 – Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
1916 – Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)
1926 – Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
1947 – Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
1953 – Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1958 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1967 – Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
1970 – Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)
1970 – John O'Hara, American author (b. 1905)
1977 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1983 – Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b. 1905)
1985 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist dictator (b. 1908)
1985 – Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900)
1987 – Erskine Caldwell, American author (b. 1903)
1987 – Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (b. 1919)
1990 – Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
1990 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
1991 – Walker Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1915)
1992 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
1992 – Eve Merriam, American playwright, director, and poet (b. 1916)
1996 – Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)
2000 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
2001 – Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)
2001 – Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
2003 – Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
2005 – André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)
2005 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
2006 – June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
2006 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
2007 – Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, American author (b. 1922)
2007 – Ronald Speirs, American Army officer(CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)
2007 – Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
2008 – Merlin German, United States Marine (b. 1985)

Holidays and observances...
Juan Santamaría Day, anniversary of his death in the Second Battle of Rivas (State holiday in Costa Rica).

Have a great Saturday.

~Brian

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Easter Sunday

According to Christian scripture, Jesus was resurrected from the dead three days after his crucifixion. Many Christian denominations celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday (also Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday), two days after Good Friday and three days after Maundy Thursday. The chronology of his death and resurrection is variously interpreted to be between A.D. 26 and 36. Easter also refers to the season of the church year called Eastertide or the Easter Season. Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late April each year (early April to early May in Eastern Christianity), following the cycle of the Moon. After several centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the Alexandrian Church (now the Coptic Church) that Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, which is the first moon whose 14th day (the ecclesiastic "full moon") is on or after March 21. (the ecclesiastic "vernal equinox").



Apr 12 1934

The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, US.

Apr 12 1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president ever elected to four terms of office, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, GA. The following day, Vice President Harry S. Truman assumes the post and is told for the first time about the Manhattan Project.

Apr 12 1960

Eric Peugeot, 4-year-old son of the auto manufacturer, is kidnapped in Paris. The child is later freed after a $300,000 ransom is paid. Ultimately, the perpetrators are caught and sent to prison.

Apr 12 1961

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gargarin is the first man in space, aboard Vostok I.

Apr 12 1988

U.S. patent 4,736,866 is granted to Harvard University for a genetically-modified mouse, engineered to be particularly susceptible to carcinogens. The cancer-prone "Harvard Oncomouse" is the world's first patented creature, and perhaps also the most screwed.

Apr 12 1989

1960s counterculture icon Abbie Hoffman kills himself by overdosing on barbiturates.

Apr 12 1992

EuroDisney opens to the public, attracting a meager 50,000 visitors. Expectations had been about ten times as many. This underwhelming response by the European public will continue for more than a year. Finally, after 18 months of retooling, the resort is ultimately rechristened Disneyland Paris.

Apr 12 1994

The US Tax Court rules that Indiana exotic dancer Chesty Love can claim a $2,088 tax credit for depreciation on her 56FF breast implants. The judge found that Love's surgical augmentation did in fact increase her income, also that she was unable to derive any personal benefit from them, as the oversized mammaries "contorted her body into a grotesque appearance."

Apr 12 1995

To celebrate David Letterman's 49th birthday, actress Drew Barrymore climbs atop the Late Night desk and flashes her bosomy protuberances at the man.

Apr 12 1995

The Hong Kong Eastern Express reports that China sanctions the consumption of aborted human fetuses as a "health benefit." One practitioner willing to admit a taste for this is Dr. Zou Qin of the Luo Hu Clinic, who boasts having consumed more than 100 meals of human veal -- stew and soup, mostly.

Birthdays today...
599BC – Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
812 – Muhammad at-Taqi, Muslim Shia Imam (d. 835)
1484 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
1500 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574)
1526 – Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)
1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)
1577 – Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1648)
1705 – William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780)
1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
1722 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (d. 1793)
1724 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
1726 – Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman (d. 1852)
1794 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1847)
1796 – George N. Briggs, 19th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1861)
1799 – Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
1823 – Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (d. 1886)
1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888)
1848 – José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1880)
1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (d. 1939)
1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer (d. 1937)
1868 – Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander (d. 1918)
1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922)
1871 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (d. 1941)
1883 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1959)
1884 – Otto Meyerhof, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1951)
1884 – Tenby Davies, Welsh world champion runner (d. 1932)
1887 – Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918)
1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet musician (d. 1964)
1892 – Johnny Dodds, American musician (d. 1940)
1893 – Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920)
1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 13th President of Portugal (d. 1964)
1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano (d. 1976)
1901 – Lowell Stockman, American representative (d. 1962)
1902 – Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
1903 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1907 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
1907 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (d. 1979)
1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American Air Force pilot (d. 2006)
1908 – Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer.
1911 – Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (d. 1976)
1912 – Walt Gorney, American actor (d. 2004)
1912 – Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, Second Vice President of Indonesia (d. 1988)
1914 – Armen Alchian, American economist
1916 – Beverly Cleary, American writer
1916 – Benjamin Libet, American scientist (d. 2007)
1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer (d. 1999)
1919 – Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader (d. 1991)
1921 – Robert Cliche, Quebec politician and magistrate (d. 1978)
1923 – Ann Miller, American actor and dancer (d. 2004)
1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
1924 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician (d. 2003)
1928 – Hardy Krüger, German actor
1928 – Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
1930 – Manuel Neri, American artist
1930 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (d. 2006)
1931 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (d. 1995)
1932 – Dennis Banks, American activist
1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2005)
1932 – Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
1933 – Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano
1934 – Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer
1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English writer
1939 – Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league footballer
1940 – Herbie Hancock, American musician and composer
1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist
1941 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (d. 1993)
1942 – Carlos Reutemann, Argentine racing driver and politician
1944 – John Kay, German-born musician
1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the WHO (d. 2006)
1946 – Ed O'Neill, American actor
1947 – Tom Clancy, American author
1947 – Woody Johnson, sports team owner
1947 – Antonin Kratochvil photographer
1947 – David Letterman, American talk show host
1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television presenter (d. 2008)
1948 – Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister of Germany
1948 – Sandra "Lois" Reeves, American singer
1949 – Scott Turow, American writer
1950 – Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman and F1 team principal (Renault F1)
1950 – David Cassidy, American singer and actor
1950 – Kari Palaste, Finnish architect
1952 – Ralph Wiley, American sports journalist (d. 2004)
1952 – Reuben Gant, American professional football player
1954 – Pat Travers, Canadian musician
1954 – Jon Krakauer, American author
1956 – Andy Garcia, Cuban-born actor
1956 – Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer
1957 – Vince Gill, American musician
1958 – Will Sergeant, English musician
1958 – Howard Stableford, English actor and host
1960 – Ron MacLean, Canadian sportscaster
1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician
1961 – Magda Szubanski, Australian actress
1962 – Art Alexakis, American musician
1962 – Takada Nobuhiko, Japanese wrestler
1964 – Amy Ray, American musician
1965 – Tom O'Brien, American actor-producer
1967 – Sarah Cracknell, English singer
1967 – Mellow Man Ace, Afro-Cuban rapper
1968 – Adam Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Lucas Radebe, South African footballer
1970 – Nick Hexum, American musician
1971 – Nicholas Brendon, American actor
1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actor
1972 – Sebnem Ferah, Turkish singer
1972 – Paul Lo Duca, American baseball player
1972 – Dimitrios Kokotis, Greek high jumper
1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American comic book artist
1973 – Antonio Osuna, Mexican baseball player
1973 – Claudia Jordan, American model
1974 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actor(d. 2006)
1974 – Roman Hamrlik, Czech ice hockey player
1974 – Marley Shelton, American actor
1974 – Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Brad Miller, American basketball player
1977 – Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 – Glenn Rogers, Scottish cricketer
1977 – Sarah Jane Morris, American actor
1977 – Jordana Spiro, American actor
1978 – Guy Berryman, British musician (Coldplay)
1978 – Riley Smith, American actor
1979 – Claire Danes, American actor
1979 – Elena Grosheva, Olympic gymnast
1979 – Mateja Kežman, Serbian footballer
1979 – Jennifer Morrison, American actress and model
1979 – Paul Nicholls, English actor
1979 – Jordan De Jong, American baseball player
1980 – Brian McFadden, Irish Singer
1980 – Erik Mongrain, Canadian musician
1981 – Nicolás Burdisso, Argentine footballer
1981 – Jaspreet Singh, businessman
1981 – Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist
1982 – Deen, Bosnian singer
1983 – Jelena Dokić, Yugoslav/Australian tennis player
1983 – Dwayne Smith, West Indian cricket player
1985 – Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer
1985 – Jeisa Chiminazzo, Brazilian supermodel
1985 – Ted Ginn, American football player
1985 – Paul Murphy, Irish footballer
1985 – Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer
1986 – Blerim Džemaili, Swiss footballer
1994 – Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
1994 – Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer

Famous deaths...
45BC – Gnaeus Pompeius, the Younger, Roman general
  65 – Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist
238 – Gordian I, Roman Emperor (suicide)
238 – Gordian II, heir to the Roman Empire (killed in battle)
352 – St. Julius I, 35th Pope
434 – Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople
1125 – Vladislaus I of Bohemia
1443 – Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
1550 – Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (b. 1496)
1555 – Juana of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)
1675 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
1687 – Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer
1704 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (b. 1627)
1748 – William Kent, English architect
1782 – Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
1788 – Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (b. 1719)
1795 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
1814 – Charles Burney, English music historian (b. 1726)
1817 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (b. 1730)
1850 – Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary (b. 1788)
1872 – Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
1878 – William Marcy Tweed, aka Boss Tweed, American politician (b. 1823)
1898 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1820)
1902 – Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (b. 1842)
1912 – Clara Barton, American nurse and Red Cross advocate (b. 1821)
1938 – Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (b. 1873)
1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
1962 – Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer (b. 1861)
1962 – Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (b. 1923)
1968 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer and Volkswagen director (b. 1899)
1971 – Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1971 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1975 – Josephine Baker, American dancer (b. 1906)
1977 – Phil Wrigley, American manufacturer and baseball executive (b. 1894)
1980 – Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards and snooker player (b. 1895)
1980 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia (b. 1913)
1981 – Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914)
1983 – Carl Morton, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1986 – Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (b. 1897)
1987 – Mike Von Erich, American wrestler
1988 – Alan Paton, South African writer (b. 1903)
1989 – Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
1989 – Abbie Hoffman, American political leader (b. 1936)
1989 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
1999 – Boxcar Willie, American singer (b. 1931)
2001 – Harvey Ball, American inventor (b. 1921)
2003 – Cecil H. Green, American manufacturer (b. 1900)
2006 – Dr. Rajkumar, Kannada language film actor/singer (India)(b. 1929)
2006 – Puggy Pearson, American poker player (b. 1929)
2007 – Kevin Crease, Australian TV anchor (b. 1936)
2008 – Paddy Hillery, 6th President of Ireland, EEC Commissioner and Irish Minister (b. 1923)
2008 – Cecilia Colledge, British ice skater and Olympian (b. 1920)
2008 – Jerry Zucker, Israeli-born American businessman (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances...
Halifax Day in North Carolina.
The Roman holiday of Cerealia begins.

Happy Easter.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Apr 13 1883

Convicted cannibal Alfred Packer is sentenced to death in Colorado.

Apr 13 1919

British troops fire on a crowd of Indians peacefully protesting the occupation, leaving 379 dead and 1,200 wounded.

Apr 13 1970

56 hours and 205,000 miles from planet Earth, the crew aboard Apollo 13 hears "a pretty loud bang" when oxygen tank number two spontaneously explodes. Astronaut Jack Swigert informs Mission Control in Houston: "Hey, we've got a problem here." Miraculously, the crew manages to return home in their crippled spacecraft.

Apr 13 1981

Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke wins a Pulitzer Prize for her story about Jimmy, an 8 year old heroin addict. Strangely, police could find no trace of this boy. And this was one of those investigative journalism Pulitzers, not a fiction Pulitzer, so she was forced to return the award two days later. Cooke later clerked part-time at a department store cosmetics counter in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Apr 13 1982

David Crosby of CSNY arrested while freebasing cocaine and for illegal possession of a .45 handgun. Sentence: 5 years.

Apr 13 1984

Itinerant serial killer Henry Lee Lucas found guilty by a Texas jury for the murder of "Orange Socks", a hitchhiker whose name is not known. Lucas and his partner Ottis Toole are thought to have killed as many as 200 people. Ironically new evidence places Lucas in Florida at the supposed time of the Orange Socks murder.

Apr 13 1990

The Soviet Union admits to Katyn Massacre of 15,000 Polish army officers.

Apr 13 1992

Chicago's downtown business center is crippled by massive flooding, as 124 million gallons of water inundate 50 miles of underground freight tunnels and adjoining basements. City workers dump sandbags, rocks, and mattresses into the Chicago River in a vain attempt to slow the floodwaters. All told, it will take 12 days to seal the leak and drain the tunnels. The disaster causes $800 million in damage, and the IRS graciously grants one week of amnesty for Chicago-area residents to file their tax returns.

Apr 13 1994

The United Nations Human Rights Committee declares sodomy to be a basic human right. The committee determined that laws against assfucking (particularly in Tasmania) breach articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Birthdays today...
1506 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)
1519 – Catherine de' Medici, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
1547 – Elisabeth of Valois, third wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568)
1570 – Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606)
1573 – Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1625)
1584 – Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
1593 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641)
1618 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
1648 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
1715 – John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1783)
1729 – Thomas Percy, Bishop and magazine editor (d. 1811)
1732 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
1735 – Isaac Low, delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791)
1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
1747 – Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
1764 – Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830)
1769 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
1771 – Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor (d. 1833)
1780 – Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
1784 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
1787 – John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
1802 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1896)
1825 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
1828 – Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English theologian and Bishop (d. 1889)
1832 – Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889)
1841 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
1850 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917)
1851 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)
1852 – F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
1860 – James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
1866 – Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
1872 – Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
1873 – John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
1875 – Ray Lyman Wilbur, U.S. university president and politician (d. 1949)
1879 – Edward Bruce, Director art projects (d. 1943)
1880 – Charles Christie, Canadian film studio owner (d. 1955)
1885 – Georg Lukács, Hungarian-born philosopher and literary critic (d. 1971)
1885 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1887 – Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995)
1889 – Herbert Osborne Yardley, American cryptographer (d. 1958)
1890 – Frank Murphy, American public servant (d. 1949)
1891 – Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921)
1891 – Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)
1892 – Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris, British Air Force commander (d. 1984)
1892 – Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1973)
1895 – Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
1897 – Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917)
1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and Scrabble inventor (d. 1993)
1900 – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
1901 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
1902 – Philippe de Rothschild, French race car driver and wine grower (d. 1988)
1904 – Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987)
1906 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
1906 – Bud Freeman, American musician (d. 1991)
1907 – Harold Stassen, American Presidential candidate (d. 2001)
1909 – Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician (d. 1984)
1909 – Eudora Welty, American writer (d. 2001)
1911 – Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
1911 – Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1994)
1916 – Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist, and publisher (d. 2006)
1917 – Robert O. Anderson, American businessman (d. 2007)
1919 – Roland Gaucher, French journalist (d. 2007)
1919 – Howard Keel, American actor, singer, and president of the Screen Actors Guild (d. 2004)
1919 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (d. 1995)
1919 – Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000)
1920 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
1920 – Claude Cheysson, French politician
1920 – Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
1920 – John LaPorta, American musician (d. 2004)
1922 – John Braine, British novelist (d. 1986)
1922 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (d. 1999)
1923 – Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1924 – Jack Chick, American evangelist
1924 – Stanley Donen, American film director
1926 – John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
1926 – Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983)
1927 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor (d. 1983)
1928 – Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
1931 – Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1931 – Dan Gurney, American race car driver and team owner
1931 – Jon Stone, co-creator of Sesame Street (d. 1997)
1932 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (d. 1976)
1933 – Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. politician
1935 – Lyle Waggoner, American actor
1937 – Edward Fox, English actor
1937 – Lanford Wilson, American playwright
1939 – Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel laureate
1939 – Paul Sorvino, American actor
1940 – Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (d. 1988)
1940 – J.M.G. Le Clézio, French novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature.
1940 – Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1941 – Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
1942 – Bill Conti, American composer
1942 – Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer.
1943 – Billy Kidd, American skier
1944 – Jack Casady, American musician
1944 – Susan Davis, American politician
1944 – Brian Pendleton, musician (d. 2001)
1945 – Tony Dow, American actor
1945 – Lowell George, American singer/guitarist (d. 1979)
1945 – Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970)
1945 – Judy Nunn, Australian actress
1945 – Charles Robinson, American actor
1946 – Al Green, American singer and pastor
1947 – Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer & former minister
1948 – Sue Doughty, British politician
1948 – Nam Hae-il, Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy
1949 – Frank Doran, Scottish politician
1949 – Christopher Hitchens, English-born journalist, critic, and author
1949 – Ricardo Zuniño, Argentine racing driver
1950 – Terry Lester, American actor (d. 2003)
1950 – Ron Perlman, American actor
1950 – William Sadler, American actor
1951 – Peabo Bryson, American singer
1951 – Peter Davison, English actor
1951 – Joachim Streich, East German footballer
1951 – Max Weinberg, American drummer
1952 – Ron Dittemore, American space administrator
1952 – David Drew, British politician
1952 – Erick Avari, British-Indian actor
1953 – Stephen Byers, British politician
1954 – Niels Olsen, Danish singer
1955 – Ole von Beust, Mayor of Hamburg
1955 – Lupe Pintor, Mexican boxer
1956 – Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand rally driver (d. 2003)
1957 – Saundra Santiago, American actress
1957 – Dallas Moir, Scottish cricketer
1957 – Amy Goodman, American activist, host of Democracy Now
1960 – Rudi Völler, German football coach
1960 – Bob Casey, Jr., Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
1960 – Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist
1961 – Hiro Yamamoto, American rock bassist
1962 – Dave Miley, former baseball player and manager
1962 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988)
1962 – Jennifer Rubin, American actress
1963 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
1964 – Davis Love III, Professional Golfer
1964 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress
1965 – Patricio Pouchulu, Argentine architect
1966 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian football player
1966 – Marc Ford, American musician
1967 – Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer
1970 – Monty Brown, American professional wrestler
1970 – Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer
1970 – Rick Schroder, American actor
1970 – Szilveszter Csollány, Hungarian gymnast, Olympic gold medalist
1970 – Ricardo Rincon, Mexican baseball player
1971 – Dina Korzun, Russian actress
1971 – Bo Outlaw, American basketball player
1971 – Valensia, Dutch singer
1972 – Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player
1972 – Aaron Lewis, American singer (Staind)
1974 – Darren Turner , British Race Driver
1974 – Sergei Gonchar, Russian ice hockey player
1974 – David Zdrilić, Australian soccer player
1975 – Lou Bega, German-born musician and artist
1975 – Bruce Dyer, English footballer
1976 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)
1976 – Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
1976 – Patrik Eliáš, Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Yu Ji-tae, South Korean actor
1978 – Arron Asham, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Kyle Howard, American actor
1978 – Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer
1978 – Chris Sligh, American Idol finalist
1979 – Baron Davis, American basketball player
1979 – Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player
1980 – Jana Cova, Czech pornographic actress
1980 – Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
1980 – Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
1981 – Courtney Peldon, American actress
1981 – Nat Borchers, American soccer player
1982 – Nellie McKay, American singer
1982 – Janice Vidal, Hong Kong singer
1982 – Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer
1983 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
1983 – Hunter Pence, American baseball player
1984 – Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor
1987 – Brandon Hardesty, American internet entertainer
1988 – Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1992 – Emma Degerstedt, American actress

Famous deaths...
799 – Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and chronicler (b. c. 720)
814 – Krum of Bulgaria
1093 – Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
1279 – Boleslaw the Pious, Polish duke
1605 – Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (b. c. 1551)
1612 – Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai
1635 – Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (b. 1572)
1638 – Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)
1641 – Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
1695 – Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)
1722 – Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian (b. 1650)
1793 – Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
1794 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
1826 – Franz Danzi, German composer (b. 1763)
1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
1853 – James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788)
1855 – Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)
1868 – Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
1880 – Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
1882 – Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)
1890 – Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828)
1909 – Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)
1910 – William Quiller Orchardson, British painter (b. 1835)
1911 – George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)
1911 – John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)
1912 – Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1918 – Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1936 – Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
1938 – Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
1941 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
1944 – Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (b. 1857)
1945 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
1954 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
1959 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (b. 1901)
1961 – John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (b. 1935)
1962 – Culbert Olson, American politician (b. 1876)
1966 – Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)
1966 – Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
1971 – Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
1971 – Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921)
1975 – Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
1975 – François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (b. 1918)
1978 – Jack Chambers, Canadian artist (b. 1931)
1980 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
1981 – Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
1983 – Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896)
1984 – Richard Hurndall. British actor (b. 1910)
1984 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)
1984 – Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
1986 – Stephen Stucker. American actor (b. 1947)
1993 – Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
1997 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896)
1997 – Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)
1998 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfer (b. 1960)
1999 – Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
1999 – Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914)
2000 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
2001 – Robert Moon, American postal inspector (b. 1917)
2002 – Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
2004 – Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2004 – Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)
2005 – Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2005 – Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (b. 1924)
2005 – Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2005 – Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)
2006 – Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2007 – Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. c. 1936)
2008 – John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)

Holidays and observances...
First day of Lao New Year.
First day of Thai New Year.
First day of Cambodian New Year.
Have a great Monday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

happy cambodian new year!  I will be partying like mofo today!