Happy Birthday to Me!
Hey everybody,
It is my birthday today, and thank you so much to everybody who sent good wishes!!
According to Wikipedia, today marks these anniversaries:
608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope
921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
1620 - The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England
1776 - British land at Kip's Bay during New York Campaign
1789 - The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).
1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador proclaimed independent
1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens. (see also deaths, below)
1862 - Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia
1883 - The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India
1894 - Japan defeats China in the Battle of Ping Yang
1914 - The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France
1916 - Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme
1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold, to become known as penicillin, growing in his laboratory
1931 - The Invergordon Mutiny begins
1950 - United States forces land at Incheon, Korea
1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
1981 - Vanuatu is member of the UN
and these births:
Births
973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)
1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, novelist (d. 1851)
1857 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States and Supreme Court Justice (d. 1930)
1876 - Bruno Walter, conductor (d. 1962)
1879 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1889 - Robert Benchley, author (d. 1945)
1890 - Agatha Christie, writer (d. 1976)
1894 - Jean Renoir, film director (d. 1979)
1903 - Roy Acuff, country musician (d. 1992)
1907 - Fay Wray, actress (d. 2004)
1913 - John N. Mitchell, former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, writer (d. 1999)
1915 - Igor Cassini, fashion designer (d. 2002)
1922 - Jackie Cooper, actor, director
1924 - Bobby Short, jazz musician
1924 - Lucebert, Dutch painter and poet
1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
1928 - Cannonball Adderley, saxophonist, bandleader (d. 1975)
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist.
1933 - Henry Darrow, actor
1938 - Gaylord Perry, Baseball star
1940 - Merlin Olsen, American football star, actor
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor (The Fugitive, Men in Black)
1946 - Oliver Stone, film director (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK) [boooo, booooo! well, at least it's not Michael Moore]
1961 - Dan Marino, American football star
1984 - Prince Harry of Wales
UPDATE:
This was my favorite birthday wish:
From: Ravi Kamble [mailto:ravikamble@*************.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:06 AM
To: Marc Cenedella
Subject: FYI
Hey Marc:
Just a quick reminder that your birthday is today.
Ravi
P.S. Have a great one.
