History Blog

November 7

Happy Birthday RIP Dana Plato Strain(1964–1999) ; Joni Mitchell(Roberta Anderson)–69 David Petraeus–60 Judy Tenuta–56 Christopher Knight–55 David Guetta–45 Michelle Clunie–43 Jason and Jeremy London–40 ; 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

November 6

Happy Birthday RIP Charles Henry Dow(Founder WSJ and creator Dow Industrial Average 1851–1902) ; Sally Field-66 Glenn Frey-64 Maria Shriver-57 Ethan Hawke-42 Rebecca Romijn-40 ; 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the U.S. presidency.

November 5

Happy Birthday RIP Roy Rogers(Leonard Slye 1911–1998) Vivien Leigh Hartley(1913–1967) ; Elke Sommer(Elke von Schletz)-72 Art Garfunkel-71 Samuel Shepard Rogers-69 Bryan Adams-54 Katherine Matilda Swinton-52 Tatum O’Neal-49 Famke Janssen-48 Sam Rockwell-44 Samuel Page Elliot-36 ; 1935 Parker Brothers began marketing the board game “Monopoly.”

November 4

Happy Birthday RIP Art Carney(1918–2003) ; Doris Roberts(Green)-87 Loretta Swit-75 Laura Bush-66 Marjorie “Markie” Post-62 Kathleen “Kathy” Griffin-52 Ralph Macchio-51 Matthew McConaughey-43 Sean John Combs-43 ; 2008 California voters approved Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage.

November 3

Happy Birthday RIP Charles Bronson(Charles Buchinsky 1921–2003) ; Tom Savini-66 Roseanne Barr-60 Kate Capshaw(Kathleen Nail)-59 Kathy Kinney-59 Dennis Miller-59 Adam Ant(Stuart Goddard)-58 Hans Dolph Lundgren-55 ; 1911 The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant ; 1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred Landon.

November 2

Happy Birthday RIP Burton Lancaster(1913–1994) ; Stefanie Powers(Stefania Federkiewicz)-70 Kate Linder-65 Kathryn Dawn “k.d.” Lang-51 David Schwimmer-46 Sean Kanan(Sean Perelman)-46 Cornell “Nelly” Haynes-37 Randy Harrison-35 ; 1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states. ; 1898 –Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.

November 1

Happy Birthday Barbara Bosson-73 Larry Flynt-70 Marcia Wallace-70 Lyle Lovett-55 Rachel Ticotin-54 Anthony Kiedis-50 Antonia “Toni” Collette-40 Jennifer “Jenny” McCarthy-40 ; 1512 Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.

October 31

Happy Birthday RIP John Candy (1950–1994) ; Lyova Rosenthal(Lee Grant)-85 Dan Rather-81 Saul “Ron” Rifkin-73 Sally Kirkland-71 David Ogden Stiers-70 Graham “Stephen” Rea-66 Margaret Jane Pauley-62 Peter Jackson-51 Dermot Mulroney-49 Rob Schneider-48 Robert Van Winkle(Vanilla Ice)-45 Adam Bouska-29 Sean Lockhart-26

October 30 #History

Happy Birthday RIP Ruth Gordon Jones(1896–1985) ; Grace Slick(Wing)–73 Henry Winkler–67 Timothy B. Schmit–65 Harry Hamlin–61 Kevin Pollak–55 Jack Plotnick–44 Matthew Morrison-34 Shaun Sipos–31

October 29 — Happy Birthday to the Internet!

The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30 pm on 29 October 1969, from Boelter Hall 3420.[16] Kline transmitted from the university’s SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the Stanford Research Institute’s SDS 940 Host computer. The message text was the word login; the l and the o letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. Hence, the literal first message over the ARPANET was lo. About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer effected a full login.     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET