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Category Archives: History

September 15 2011

Happy Birthday Norm Crosby-84 Tommy Lee Jones-65 Oliver Stone-65 Prince Harry Windsor-27 Heidi Montag-25 ; 2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history

September 14 2011

Happy Birthday Walter Koenig-75 Jon Bauman-64 Faith Ford-47 Jesse James-22 RIP Amy Winehouse(1983-2011) ; 1959, the Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.

September 13 2011

Happy Birthday Barbara Bain-80 Eileen Fulton-77 Jacqueline Bisset-67 Peter Cetera-67 Jean Smart-60 Geri Jewell-55 Fiona Apple-32 Ben Savage-31 ; 1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China

September 12 2011

Happy Birthday Ian Holm-80 Linda Gray-71 Joe Pantoliano-60 Peter Scolari-56 Paul Walker-36 Jennifer Hudson-30 ; 1954 “Lassie” made its TV debut on CBS.

September 11 2011

Happy Birthday Earl Holliman-83 Brian De Palma-71 Amy Madigan-61 Kristy McNichol-49 Moby-46 Harry Connick Jr.-44 ; 2001, suicide hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, causing the 110-story twin towers to collapse.

September 10 2011

Happy Birthday Arnold Palmer-82 Jose Feliciano-66 Bill O’Reilly-62 Harry Groener-60 Amy Irving-58 Colin Firth-51 Guy Ritchie-43 Ryan Phillippe-37 ; 1955 “Gunsmoke” premiered on CBS.

September 09 2011

Happy Birthday Cliff Robertson-88 Joe Theismann-62 Tom Wopat-60 Hugh Grant-51 Adam Sandler-45 Goran Visnjic-39 Michael Bublé-36 ; 1926 The National Broadcasting Co. was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America

September 08 2011

Happy Birthday Sid Caesar-89 Kimberly Peirce-44 David Arquette-40 Alecia (Pink) Moore-32 Jonathan Taylor Thomas-30 ; 1966 TV series “Star Trek” premiered on NBC.

September 06 2011

Happy birthday JoAnne Worley-74 Swoosie Kurtz-67 Jane Curtin-64 Jeff Foxworthy-53 CeCe Peniston-42 1901, President William B. McKinley was shot and killed by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.

September 05 2011

Happy Birthday Bob Newhart-82 Raquel Welch-71 Michael Keaton-60 Rose McGowan-38 (RIP Freddie Mercury 1946-1991) ; 1957 “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, the defining novel of the Beat Generation, was published.