Today....

[JediJohnnie]

Nov 25....


Joe DiMaggio was born in 1914
Noel Neill the original live action "Lois Lane" was born in 1920
Ricardo Montalban was born in 1920
Jeffrey Hunter was born in 1926
Ben Stein was born in 1944
John Larroquette was born in 1947
Amy Grant was born in 1960
Christina Applegate was born in 1971
Barbara and Jenna Bush were born in 1981
Katie Cassidy was born in 1986

[kingozzy]

that was a good day

[DeliriousKris]

December 5 is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 26 days remaining until the end of the year.

1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
1831 – Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message to the U.S. Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California
1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States.)
2007 – Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska, mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.

[DeliriousKris]

December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of the year.

1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
1907 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

[hitch0403]

Today is Dec 6th.1 day after Dec 5th.1 day before Dec 7th.

I figure being a clown is better then putting any bad news up that may have happened on Dec 6th in history.

[dancer139]

  I like your thinking !!!!!!!!   

[hitch0403]

Dancer,i acknowledge your kindness.....thank you

[hitch0403]

I would like to dedicate a really beautiful song for the name of this topic.The song is called "Today"and it was sung by the New Christy Minstrels.Please go to YouTube and check it out if UR unfamiliar with it and let me know if u like it.And if UR familiar with it let me know also if you approve.

Thanx

[DeliriousKris]

I'll try to post more chipper history points today!

December 8 is the 342nd day of the year (343rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 23 days remaining until the end of the year.

1813 – Premier of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
1989 – Jen Ledger, English drummer of Skillet, is born
2004 – The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.

[hitch0403]

I am old enuff to remember John Lennon being gunned down in NYC and it being reported by Howard Cosell on Monday night football 33 yrs ago.A sad day indeed losing a musical genius as well as another un-called for murder.

His music and legacy will live forever and may the GOOD LORD love and remember him.

[DeliriousKris]

December 10 is the 344th day of the year (345th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining until the end of the year.

1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
1955 – Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on American television.

[DeliriousKris]

Happy Friday the 13th!!!

December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 18 days remaining until the end of the year.

1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.
1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
1962 – NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
1981 – Amy Lee, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Evanescence) is born.

[JediJohnnie]

Dec 15.....

Tim Conway was born in 1933
Don Johnson was born in 1949
Helen Slater was born in 1963
 
Glenn Miller died in 1944
Charles Laughton died in 1962
Walt Disney died in 1966

[DeliriousKris]

December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining until the end of the year.

687 – Pope Sergius I is elected.
1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
1939 – Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
1973 - The Pirates of the Caribbean ride opens in Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

[DeliriousKris]

January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). The preceding day is December 31 of the previous year.

45 BC – The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.
1502 – The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is first explored by the Portuguese.
1860 – First Polish stamp is issued.
1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
1932 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
1999 – The Euro currency is introduced in 11 countries - members of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).

Happy 2014!!!