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HAPPY BIRTHDAY VI

Posted: 04:43PM Dec 20, 2016
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Grayma V
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This year much of California either went up in smoke or suffered from the ultimate dry conditions. My big concern of course was with my dear friends, Diva and Sgt. Every time something came up on the TV I had to hurry to make sure my friends were not in the line of danger. With all of the water problems California had this year I really wondered how this family managed to keep the Frog Pond hydrated. Must have discovered their own active springs. All jokes aside, on December 3rd, I and all of Braingle, wish a great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to SgtAmmo. He, of course, lives in the Frog Pond with the well known diva, Froggygg, two of the best known members of Braingle.

Who else well known people have birthdays on December 3rd:

Ferlin Husky 1925
- Country music singer
Andy Williams 1927
- Singer
Ozzy Osbourne 1948
- Singer
Mickey Thomas 1949
- Musician (Jefferson Starship)
Don Barnes 1952
- Musician (.38 Special)
Daryl Hannah 1960
- Actress
Julianne Moore 1960
- Actress
Katarina Witt 1965
- Figure skater
Brendan Fraser 1968
- Actor ("George of the Jungle")

December 3rd Tidbits of News:

1818 - Illinois was admitted as the 21st state of the union.
1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.
1835 - In Rhode Island, the Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance Company issued the first fire insurance policy.
1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.
1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.
1973 - Pioneer 10 sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter. The first outer-planetary probe had been launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on March 2, 1972.
1982 - Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center removed the respirator of Barney Clark. The retired dentist had become the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart only one day before.
1993 - Britain's Princess Diana announced she would be limiting her public appearances because she was tired of the media's intrusions into her life.
1999 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander as it entered Mars' atmosphere. The spacecraft was unmanned.
2005 - Sgtammo joined Braingle.

So we not only have to wish Sgtammo Happy Birthday, but also Happy Anniversary on his 11th anniversary of being a Braingle member. And of course, we must post in Air Force Blue. Thank you for your service, Sir.


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The sound of the wild, but if there is no one there, does anyone hear their howls?
Posted: 04:45PM Dec 20, 2016
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Well folks, in an attempt to catch up with our December birthdays for December 4th, whoviandeb celebrated her birthday on December 4th. I enjoy the Werewolf Games which she actively participates in. She states her interest is Saving the Universe, with her occupation being a Time Lord, and her location: Gallifrey. Her byline states: "Welcome to the page of someone who kinda likes Doctor Who." I hope this birthday greeting brings happiness to you .. And brings to you the very best in everything you do.

HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS ON DECEMBER 4TH:

1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Empire, crowned himself emperor in a ceremony believed to have cost more than $100 million. He was deposed 2 years later.
1978 - Dianne Feinstein became San Francisco's first woman mayor when she was named to replace George Moscone, who had been murdered.
1979 - For the second time, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to urge Iran to free American hostages that had been taken on November 4.
1980 - The bodies of four American nuns slain in El Salvador two days earlier were unearthed. Five national guardsmen were later convicted of the murders.
1983 - U.S. jet fighters struck Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon in retaliation for attacks directed at American reconnaissance planes. Navy Lt. Robert O. Goodman Jr. was shot down and captured by Syria.
1984 - A five-day hijack drama began as four men seized a Kuwaiti airliner en route to Pakistan and forced it to land in Tehran. Two American passengers were killed by the hijackers.
1986 - Both U.S. houses of Congress moved to establish special committees to conduct their own investigations of the Iran-Contra affair.
1987 - Cuban inmates at a federal prison in Atlanta freed their 89 hostages, peacefully ending an 11-day uprising.
1988 - The government of Argentina announced that hundreds of heavily armed soldiers had ended a four-day military revolt.
1990 - Iraq promised to release 3,300 Soviet citizens it was holding.
1991 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was released after nearly seven years in captivity in Lebanon.
1991 - Pan American World Airways ceased operations.
1992 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered American troops to lead a mercy mission to Somalia.
1993 - The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopted terms for a truce. The conflict was killing an estimated 1,000 people per day.
1994 - Bosnian Serbs released 53 out of about 400 UN peacekeepers they were holding as insurance against further NATO airstrikes.
1997 - The play revival "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened.
1997 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended Latrell Sprewell of the Golden State Warriors for one year for choking and threatening to kill his coach, P.J. Carlesimo.
2000 - O.J. Simpson was involved in an incident with another motorist in Miami, FL. Simpson was accused of scratching the other motorists face while pulling off the man's glasses.
2001 - O.J. Simpson's home in Florida was raided by the FBI in an ongoing two year international investigation into drug trafficking, satellite service pilfering and money laundering. Some satellite equipment was taken from Simpson's home and no drugs were found.

THESE WELL KNOWN FOLKS SHARE YOUR BIRTHDATE OF 12/04:

Deanna Durbin 1921
Wink Martindale 1934
Max Baer Jr. 1937
John Cale 1940
Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon 1940
Chris Hillman 1942
Bob Mosley 1942 - Musician (Moby Grape)
Chris Hillman 1942 - Musician (Flying Burrito Brothers, Byrds)
Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys) 1944
Southside Johnny Lyon 1948
Jeff Bridges 1949
Patricia Wettig 1951
Gary Rossington 1951 - Musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Cassandra Wilson 1955
Brian Prout 1955 - Musician (Diamond Rio)
Bob Griffin 1959 - Musician (The BoDeans)
Vinnie Dombroski 1962 - Muscian (Sponge)
Jozef Sabovcik 1963
Marisa Tomei 1964 - Actress
Chelsea Noble 1964
Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) 1969 - Rapper, Jay-Z Merchandise
Tyra Banks 1973
Lila McCann 1981
Orlando Brown 1987

TIDBITS FROM THE MUSICAL WORLD FOR 12/4/16:

1956 - Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash recorded together (the Million Dollar Quartet). The session would not be released for 25 years.
1961 - Gene Chandler's "Duke of Earl" was released.
1971 - The Montreaux Casino was destroyed by fire during a show by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
1976 - Tommy Bolin of Deep Purple died of a drug overdose at the age of 25.
1980 - Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones made the announcement of their decision not to re-form Led Zeppelin in the wake of the death of drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham.
1987 - Madonna filed for divorce from actor Sean Penn. She changed her mind, but would file again in January 1988.
1987 - Metallica released the "Cliff 'Em All" video collection. The bootleg and unprofessional recordings had been shot during 1982-1986 when Cliff Burton was still with the band.
1988 - Roy Orbison gave his final concert in Akron, OH. He died two days later.
1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that said that Prince did not steal the song, "U Got The Look" from his half-sister. Lorna Nelson claimed the lyrics were similar to ones she had written.
1990 - Madonna appeared on "Nightline" to defend her "Justify My Love" video. She denied the video's explicit contents were intended to stir up controversy and get her publicity. The video was banned by MTV.
1991 - Paula Abdul was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1991 - Van Halen performed a free concert in Dallas. Sammy Hagar had promised the show because he had lost his voice during a show in Dallas 3 1/2 years earlier.
1995 - Michael Jackson appeared with legendary mime Marcel Marceau at New York news conference promoting a Jackson special airing on HBO.
2001 - Gene Simmons' book "Kiss and Make-Up" was released.

Your birthday is the perfect time to wish you nothing less .. Than favorite memories plans and dreams that bring you happiness. For birthdays are a link between the future and the past .. Reminding us, to treasure most those special joys that last. Happy Birthday, a couple days late. Hugs.


The sound of the wild, but if there is no one there, does anyone hear their howls?
Posted: 04:49PM Dec 20, 2016
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December 7th was etwizard's birthday. He is a self employed electronic tech from Indiana. He is also highly interested in Scouting. He has been a member of Braingle since August 11, 2005, which makes him a member of the "20 Year Club". Yes, I know there really isn't a "10 Year Club" but it does sound good, right? Sorry I have slacked off getting the birthday wishes up on time, but my surgery did slow me down just a bit. Hopefully this time they had done the right things and I will get some of my pep back. Anyhow we all hope you had a great birthday.

THESE PEOPLE SHARE YOUR BIRTHDAY OF DECEMBER 7TH:

Willa Cather 1873
Donald Albert Hall 1898 - Aircraft designer (Spirit of St. Louis)
Eli Wallach 1915
Ted Knight 1923
Bent Frabric 1924
Bobby Osborne 1931
Ellen Burstyn 1932
Carole Simpson 1940
Harry Chapin 1942
Johnny Bench (MLB) 1947
Gary Morris 1948
Tom Waits 1949
Larry Bird (NBA) 1956
Priscilla Barnes 1956
Edd Hall 1958
Tim Butler (Psychedelic Furs) 1958
C. Thomas Howell 1966
Nicole Appleton (All Saints) 1975
Sara Beth Bareilles 1979 - Singer

HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS ON DECEMBER 7TH:

1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States.
1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.
1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.
1889 - The first of 554 performances of "The Gondoliers" took place.
1907 - At London's National Sporting Club, Eugene Corri became the first referee to officiate from inside a boxing ring.
1925 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds. He went on to play "Tarzan" in several movies.
1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation.
1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta killed 119 people. It was America's worst hotel fire disaster. The hotel founder, W. Frank Winecoff, was also killed in the fire.
1971 - Libya announced the nationalization of British Petroleum's assets.
1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission.
1972 - Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant. The man was then shot and killed by her bodyguards.
1974 - President Makarios returned to Cyprus after five months in exile.
1980 - General Antonio Ramlho Eanes was reelected president of Portugal. His right-wing opposition was thrown into disarray by the death of Premier Francisco Sa Carneiro in a plane crash.
1982 - Charlie Brooks Junior, a convicted murderer, became the first prisoner in the U.S. to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, TX.
1983 - Madrid, Spain, an Aviaco DC-9 collided on a runway with an Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727 that was accelerating for takeoff. The collision resulted in the death of all 42 people aboard the DC-9 and 51 on the Iberia jet.
1987 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time. He had come to the U.S. for a Washington summit with U.S. President Reagan.
1987 - 43 people were killed when a gunman opened fire on a fellow passenger and the two pilots aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner.
1988 - An estimated 25,000 people were killed when a major earthquake hit northern Armenia in the Soviet Union. The quake measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale.
1988 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the reduction of the number of Soviet military troops by half a million.
1989 - East Germany's Communist Party agreed to cooperate with the plan for free elections and a revised constitution.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Mississippi abortion law which, required women to get counseling and then wait 24 hours before terminating their pregnancies.
1993 - Six people were killed and 17 were injured when a gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train.
1993 - Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary revealed that the U.S. government had conducted more than 200 nuclear weapons tests in secret at its Nevada test site.
1993 - Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders suggested that the U.S. government study the impact of drug legalization.
1995 - A probe sent from the Galileo spacecraft entered into Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe sent back data to the mothership before it was presumably destroyed.
1996 - The space shuttle Columbia returned from the longest-ever shuttle flight of 17 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes.
1998 - The U.N. evacuated 14 peacekeepers that were trapped by fighting between army and rebel forces in central Angola.
1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing.
1999 - A U.S. federal grand jury indicted a former convict in the 1995 disappearance of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
2002 - In Amsterdam, Netherlands, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum. The two works were "View of the Sea st Scheveningen" and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen." On July 26, 2004, two men were convicted for the crime and were sentenced to at least four years in prison each.
2002 - In Mymensingh, Bangladesh, four movies theaters were bombed within 30 minutes of each other. At least 15 people were killed and over 200 were injured.
2003 - A 12-inch by 26-inch painting of a river landscape and sailing vessel by Martin Johnson Heade was sold at auction for $1 million. The painting was found in the attic of a suburban Boston home where it had been stored for more than 60 years.

TIDBITS FROM THE MUSICAL WORLD FOR DECEMBER 7:

1842 - The New York Philharmonic gave its first concert.
1956 - Alan Freed's "Rock Rock Rock" film (with Connie Francis singing for Tuesday Weld) was released.
1963 - The Beatles appeared on the British TV show "Juke Box Jury."
1966 - Nancy Sinatra appeared on "Frank Sinatra: A Man & His Music Part II" on CBS-TV.
1984 - Michael Jackson testified in Chicago, IL, that he wrote the song "The Girl is Mine," not an Illinois man. Jackson won the case.
1986 - Huey Lewis and the News sang the U.S. national anthem a capella before a San Francisco 49ers-New York Jets NFL football game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA.
1993 - Guns N' Roses announced they would keep the tune written by Charles Manson "Look At Your Game, Girl" on their album, "The Spaghetti Incident?" The decision to keep the song came when the band learned that the royalties would go to the son of one of Manson's victims.
1996 - Jerry Lewis' white and red pinstriped devil suit was stolen from his dressing room at Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo. Lewis needed the costume, valued at $9,000, to play the role of Satan in the musical Damn Yankees.
1998 - Arturo Sandoval was granted U.S. citizenship after a six-year struggle with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Etwizard we here at Braingle are wishing you love sunshine and laughter .. Not just for the day but all the days after. Hope you had a fun filled day .. and all your wishes came your way. Happy Birthday,


The sound of the wild, but if there is no one there, does anyone hear their howls?
Posted: 05:51PM Dec 20, 2016
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Still playing catch up for the month of December. I am so glad everyone has been so patient with me. For once my health took precedence, but I am feeling so much better, I'm glad my surgeon did his job well. I am very aware that my body still has to build up some resistance and strength, but each day is such a joy.

So December 11th brought us two guys for birthday celebrations, James05, a student who recently posted his graduation pictures. Congratulations James, good job. He works at being a web programmer and is from Canada. Our second birthday celebrant is sciencesteven, a pupil from the USA. His byline is "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this! *gives chainsaw* and his interests are Video Games, Books, School, Music. I truly appreciate you two waiting for these birthday wishes and sincerely hope you both had blessed and very happy birthdays.



Celebrities with birthdays on December 11th:

Rey Mysterio, Jr. 41
Nikki Sixx, 57
Jermaine Jackson, 61
Mo'Nique. 48
Rita Moreno, 84
John Kerry, 72
Gary Dourdan, 49

Today in History:

1719 - The first recorded sighting of the aurora borealis took place in New England.
1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
1894 - The world's first motor show opened in Paris with nine exhibitors.
1936 - Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson. He became the Duke of Windsor.
1941 - Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The U.S in turn declared war on the two countries.
1946 - The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established by the U.N. General Assembly. The fund provides relief to children in countries devastated by war.
1951 - Joe DiMaggio (New York Yankees) announced his retirement from major league baseball. DiMaggio only played for the Yankees during his 13-year career.
1961 - The first direct American military support for South Vietnam occurred when a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon.
1981 - Muhammad Ali fought his last fight. He lost his 61st fight to Trevor Berbick.
1990 - Ivana Trump was divorced from Donald Trump after 12 years of marriage.
1991 - Salman Rushdie, under an Islamic death sentence for blasphemy, made his first public appearance since 1989 in New York, at a dinner marking the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment (which guarantees freedom of speech in the U.S.)
1998 - Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton.
2001 - U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft announced the first federal indictment directly related to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Zacarias Moussaoui was charged with six conspiracy charges. Moussaoui was in custody at the time of the attacks.
2001 - Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres in Nebraska for Bison ranches.

So Braingleland is wishing both of you have had very Happy Birthdays with family, friends and other loved ones and may you have many, many more birthdays to come.




The sound of the wild, but if there is no one there, does anyone hear their howls?
Posted: 07:28PM Dec 20, 2016
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New Braingle member, thenerdytuba, celebrated her birthday on December 12th. She is a student from Arkansas who enjoys band. Now I don't know if she plays a tuba or not, but that is an interesting username. Since she joined Braingle on August 24, 2016, I hope she is finding Braingle as entertaining a I do. And I apologize to you thenerdytuba for being late with your birthday wishes. My health hasn't been the best so I sort of backed off around the 1st of this month. Am better now and am trying to play catch up. Sorry your first Brangle birthday wishes are late.

CELEBRITIES WHO SHARED YOUR BIRTHDAY ON DECEMBER 12TH:

Arthur Fiedler 1896
George Lindsey 1935 - Actor
Nat Stuckey 1937
Art Neville (The Neville Brothers) 1937
Eddie Kendricks (The Temptations) 1939
Paul Butterfield (Paul Butterfield Blues Band) 1942
Ernie Hudson 1945 - Actor
Christopher Cazenove 1945 - Actor
Eugene Levy 1946
Paul Rodgers 1949 - Musician (Free, Bad Company)
Wanda Huntchinson (The Emotions) 1951
Sharon White 1953 - Singer
Barry Livingston 1953 - Actor
Mike Mills 1958 - Musician (R.E.M.)
Sarah Dallin 1961 - Singer (Bananarama)
Tim Chewning 1962 - Musician (Ricochet)
Duane Propes 1966 - Musician
Laurie Holden (Heather Laurie Holden) 1969 - Actress (TV: "The Walking Dead>")
Sean Patrick Thomas 1970 - Actor
DJ Homicide 1970 - Rapper (Sugar Ray)
Bree Sharp 1975 - Singer
Milla Jovovich 1975 - Actress
Vanessa Zima 1986 - Actress

TIDBITS FROM THE MUSIC WORLD ON DECEMBER 12TH:

1955 - Carl Perkins wrote "Blue Suede Shoes." Less than 48 hours later, he recorded it in Memphis, TN.
1965 - Judy Garland and The Supremes became first artists to perform at the Astrodome in Houston, TX.
1969 - Television history was made when Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
1970 - The Beach Boys played a show for Princess Margaret at London's Royal Albert Hall.
1977 - Elvis Costello and the Attractions appear on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in place of the Sex Pistols. The Sex Pistols could not get visas to enter the U.S.
1982 - The Who play the last concert of their It's Hard Tour at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens. The show was recorded and later released as "Live from Toronto." The show was also aired live on cable TV and FM radio across the U.S. and Canada.
1986 - The Doobie Brothers reunited for a benefit in Palo Alto, CA. The performance inspired a reunion tour in 1987.
1986 - Paul and Linda McCartney's limo caught fire en route to a TV taping in Newcastle, England. They were both unharmed.
1990 - Olivia Newton-John appeared in the TV movie "A Mom For Christmas."
1996 - Celine Dion said she was going to take a break from her career and concentrate on starting a family.
1997 - U.S. President Clinton signed the No Electronic Theft Act. The act removed protection from individuals who claimed that they took no direct financial gains from stealing copyrighted works and downloading them from the Internet.
1999 - Crossover jazz saxophonist, Grover Washington, collapsed and died in New York after taping a performance for CBS's "The Saturday Early Show." He was 56. The show aired the next day.


HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS FOR DECEMBER 12TH:

1777 - France recognized American independence.
1791 - A traffic regulation in New York City established the first street to go "One Way."
1830 - South American patriot Simon Bolivar died in Colombia.
1903 - The first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, NC. Orville and Wilbur Wright made the flight.
1925 - Col. William "Billy" Mitchell was convicted of insubordination at his court-martial.
1936 - The "The Rudy Vallee Show" debuted on NBC.
1944 - The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of excluding Japanese-Americans from the West Coast which ensured that Japanese-Americans were released from detention camps.
1953 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to approve RCA's color television specifications.
1957 - The United States successfully test-fired the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.
1969 - The U.S. Air Force closed its Project "Blue Book" by concluding that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings.
1969 - Television history was made when Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
1973 - Thirty-one people were killed at Rome airport when Arab guerillas hijacked a German airliner.
1975 - Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of U.S. President Ford.
1976 - WTCG-TV, Atlanta, GA, changed its call letters to WTBS, and was uplinked via satellite. The station became the first commercial TV station to cover the entire U.S.
1978 - OPEC decided to raise oil prices by 14.5% by the end of 1979.
1979 - Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive, was fatally beaten after a police chase in Miami, FL. Four white police officers were later acquitted of charges stemming from McDuffie's death.
1986 - Wayne "Danke Schoen" Newton won a $19.2 million suit against NBC News. NBC had aired reports claiming a link between Newton and mob figures. The reports were proven to be false.
1986 - Davina Thompson became the world's first recipient of a heart, lungs, and liver transplant.
1986 - Eugene Hasefus was pardoned and then released by Nicaragua. He had been convicted of running guns to the Contras.
1992 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari signed the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1992 - Israel deported over 400 Palestinians to Lebanese territory in an unprecedented mass expulsion of suspected militants.
1996 - Peruvian guerrillas took hundreds of people hostage at the Japanese embassy in Lima. The siege ended on April 22, 1997, with a commando raid that resulted in the deaths of all the rebels, two commandos and one hostage.
1996 - The Red Cross pulled all but a few of its western staff out of Chechnya after six foreign aid workers were killed by masked gunmen.
1997 - U.S. President Clinton signed the No Electronic Theft Act. The act removed protection from individuals who claimed that they took no direct financial gains from stealing copyrighted works and downloading them from the Internet.
1998 - U.S. House Speaker-designate Bob Livingston admitted he'd had extramarital affairs.
2000 - Terrell Owens (San Francisco 49ers) caught an NFL-record 20 passes for 283 yards and a touchdown against the Chicago Bears. The previous record was held by Tom Fears (Los Angeles Rams) with 18 catches on December 3, 1950, against the Green Bay Packers. Owens also broke Jerry Rice's franchise record of 16 receptions set in 1994 against the Los Angeles Rams.
2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush ordered the Pentagon to have ready for use within two years a system for protecting American territory, troops and allies from ballistic missile attacks.
2002 - McDonald's Corp. warned that they would report its first quarterly loss in its 47-year history.
2002 - The insurance and finance company Conseco Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection. It was the third-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
2002 - Congo's government, opposition parties and rebels signed a peace agreement that ended four years of civil war.
2004 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law the largest overhaul of U.S. intelligence gathering in 50 years. The bill aimed to tighten borders and aviation security. It also created a federal counterterrorism center and a new intelligence director.

May your life be filled with memorable ways, love, friendship and happy days.


The sound of the wild, but if there is no one there, does anyone hear their howls?
Posted: 07:20PM Dec 21, 2016
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Hats off to you Grayma... lots of work done yesterday!~ And Happy belated Birthday to all those listed...

When you Love someone, Love them with all your heart as you never know what can happen today!
Posted: 01:21AM Dec 28, 2016
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Well folks, sorry but I have done it again - got behind on our birthday wishes. Too much Christmas I guess and I do apologize. CosminBotoc of Bucharest turned another year older on December 22nd and here I had things ready to go and somehow missed getting his birthday message posted up here on time. I am so sorry CosminBotoc. So others will know, his byline is "Have fun and 'njoy life!!!" and he has been a member of Braingle since Dec.25, 2006. What a neat Christmas present! I seem not to have birthdays or history from Bucharest so I'm hoping some of what I have listed will be somewhat familiar to you. That does seem to be one of the flaws of my birthday wishes is that I find it difficult when I cannot include things more locally for our birthday wishes, and I truly don't know what I can do to correct this. Guess that is something Microsoft or whoever needs to do some updates on. Any how CosminBotoc, we here at Brangle hope you celebrated with family, friends and other loved ones on December 22 for your birthday.

OTHERS WHO WERE CELEBRATING ON 12/22:

Lady Bird Johnson 1912
Gene Rayburn (Rubessa) 1917
Barbara Billingsley 1922
Peggy Castle (Blair) 1927
Hector Elizondo 1936
Red Steagall 1937
Steve Carlton 1944 - Baseball player
Barry Jenkins (Nashville Teens, Animals) 1944
Diane Sawyer 1945
Steve Garvey 1948 - Baseball player
Robin Gibb (Bee Gees) 1949
Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees) 1949
Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick) 1950
Chuck Mead (BR5-49) 1960
Ted Cruz 1970 - Politician from Texas
Jordin Sparks 1989 - Singer
Meghan Trainor 1993 - Singer

HISTORICAL TIDBITS FROM DECEMBER 22:

1807 - The U.S. Congress passed the Embargo Act, designed to force peace between Britain and France by cutting off all trade with Europe.
1864 - During the American Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent a message to U.S. President Lincoln from Georgia. The message read, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."
1877 - The "American Bicycling Journal" went on sale for the first time.
1894 - The United States Golf Association was formed in New York City.
1894 - French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.
1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of his wife's hand.
1910 - U.S. Postal savings stamps were issued for the first time. They were discontinued in 1914.
1939 - Gloria Jacobs became the first girl to hold a world pistol record when she shot 299 out of a possible 300 points. She was 17 years old at the time.
1943 - Sporting goods manufacturers received permission to use synthetic rubber for the core of baseballs.
1941 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington for a wartime conference with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
1956 - Colo, the first gorilla to be born in captivity, was born at the Columbus, Ohio zoo.
1956 - The last British and French forces evacuated Egypt.
1961 - James Davis became the first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam, while U.S. involvement was still limited to the provision of military advisers.
1976 - The last show of "Let's Make A Deal" was aired.
1984 - New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot four black youths on a Manhattan subway. Goetz claimed they were about to rob him.
1989 - Romania's hard-line Communist ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, was overthrown in a popular uprising.
1990 - Lech Walesa was sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president.
1991 - The body of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, an American hostage murdered by his captors, was found along a highway in Lebanon.
1996 - A car bomb exploded in Belfast, injuring a known IRA supporter. Police suspected that Protestant loyalists were responsible for the attack.
1998 - A unit of RJR Nabsico pled guilty to attempting to smuggle cigarettes into Canada.
2001 - Thirty Afghans, including two women, were sworn in as part of the new interim government in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai was the head of the post-Taliban government.

THINGS IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC THAT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 22:

1808 - Beethoven's Opus 67: Symphony No. 5 in C minor first performed for Prince Lobkotwitz.
1821 - Composer Giovanni Bottesini was born.
1853 - Composer Maria Teresa Carreno was born.
1858 - Composer Giacomo Puccini was born.
1874 - Composer Franz Schmidt was born.
1885 - Composer Joseph Deems Taylor was born.
1968 - Eric Burdon left the Animals.
1975 - Ike and Tina Turner were robbed of $86,000 when a suitcase was stolen containing concert receipts.
1976 - Isaac Hayes filed for bankruptcy.
1978 - The stage version of Harry Nilsson's "The Point" opened in London with Davy Jones and Mickey Dolenz.
1981 - A rock 'n' roll auction in London brought in $2,000 for a letter of introduction from Buddy Holly to Decca Records. John and Cynthia Lennon's marriage certificate was sold for $850 and an autographed program from the world premiere of the Beatles film "Help!" brought in $2,100.
1984 - CBS Records announced the upcoming release of Mick Jagger's first solo album, set for February, 1985. The album was titled "She's the Boss."

So let the drums roll and the horns toot .. Now make a wish for a whole lot of loot. We wish you well, we wish you peace and we wish you love it's true .. But the most we wish for today is a wonderful life for you! Happy Birthday.


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Posted: 01:24AM Dec 28, 2016
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Today, December 27th, is Paladin's birthday. His byline is, "So far, so good, so what?" and he has been a Braingle member since March 13, 2009. He is a system's analyst here in the USA and his interest is 5.75% fixed. LOL I got everything all set to post to wish Pal a very happy birthday and discovered that he hasn't been logged into Braingle for 97 days. Surprised me because I didn't think it had been that long ago that I threw him under the bus in a Werewolf Game.

So Pal in fairness to others, I will shorten all of this up. Come back, we miss you. Happy Birthday .. Thinking of you on this your special day! May you be surrounded with happiness, filled with laughter, wrapped with pleasure, brightened with fun, blessed with love, remembered with joy and enriched with hopes. In the brightest day and in the darkest night, may you never change, no matter what.


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Posted: 10:19PM Jan 7, 2017
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DEC 30, WOW folks, we are almost done with another whole year of Birthday Celebrations - I hope you have enjoyed the ones that I have gotten up on time, and maybe even those that I have been late on. I still want everyone to feel free to send your own wishes to that special friend or couple if they have an anniversary that you know of. Also if I have missed you, please let me know so I can add you to my list and maybe get it right the next time. Some people have left our sides to partake in other venues, but like me many are coming back home to what feels like family. We do have a unique little group here that I truly enjoy. And guess what I did? I am embarrassed by this, but I let the last of 2016 slip right on by me without getting a birthday wish out to dolphingurl12 - our last birthday celebrant of the year, 12/30, and I let it slip by me. I do apologize, sincerely.

OK CELEBRATION TIME:

dolphingurl12, a student in the US whose interest are: reading, writing, brainteasers, Harry Potter, surfing the net, swimming.....
Her quoted bi-line is:"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau

WHO ELSE IS CELEBRATING THEIR BIRTHDAY TODAY, DECEMBER 30?

Sandy Beales, 23, musician who began playing the bass guitar for the wildly popular boy band One Direction in 2011.
Davy Jones, 1945 - Feb 29, 2012 (age 66), English actor, musician, and recording artist with The Monkees who sang "Daydream Believer." He appeared in Love, American Style and My Two Dads.
Michael Nesmith, 72, singer-guitarist of The Monkees who wrote the song "Different Drum" for Stone Poneys and was the executive producer of the film Repo Man.
Sandy Koufax, 79, legendary Dodgers left-hander who pitched a perfect game on September 9th, 1965 and became the first MLB pitcher to throw 4 career no-hitter.
Meredith Vieira, 61, co-host of The Today Show and a panel member on The View. She also hosted the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire game show.
Matt Lauer, 57, became the co-host of the Today Show in 1997 and also contributed to NBC's Dateline7.
Laila Ali, 37, daughter of Muhammad Ali who also became a prizefighter. She went 24-0 in her career, which spanned from 1999 to 2007. She defeated Joe Frazier's daughter Jackie Frazier-Lyde in a 2001 fight that was deemed Ali/Frazier IV after the legendary fight trilogy between the two fathers.
Tiger Woods, 39, championship golfer who won over 100 Tour events and became the youngest player to complete the PGA Career Grand Slam.
LeBron James, 30. superstar guard/forward who won NBA Championships with the Miami Heat in 2012 and 2013. He won gold medals playing alongside Kobe Bryant at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
Jack Lord. 1920 -Jan 21, 1998 (age 77) Played the role of police detective Steve McGarrett on the original version of TV's Hawaii Five-0. His catch phrase "Book 'em, Danno" became famous.
Rudyard Kipling, 1865 - Jan 18, 1936 (age 70) Nobel Prize-winning poet and author who is remembered for The Jungle Book and Gunga Din. His other notable works include Just So Stories and Kim.

WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND THE WORLD ON DECEMBER 30 WHEN OUR BIRTHDAY GIRL DECIDED TO MAKE HER ENTRANCE?

1831 British naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific Ocean aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the nearly five-year journey helped form the basis of his theories on evolution.
1927 The musical "Show Boat," with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City.
1932 Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.
1947 The children's TV program "Howdy Doody" debuted on NBC.
1949 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted sovereignty to Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule.
1968 Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the moon, returned to Earth.
1970 "Hello, Dolly!" closed on Broadway after a run of 2,844 performances.
1985 Naturalist Dian Fossey, who had studied gorillas in the wild, was found hacked to death at a research station in Rwanda.
2001 U.S. officials announced that Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners would be held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
On Dec. 27, 2007, Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a bomb and shooting attack as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi.

Dolphingurl12, I certainly hoped you had a fabulous birthday with family, friends and other loved ones. One touch can show you care. One voice can speak with wisdom One heart can know what's true .. One life can make a difference You see, it's up to you. ** I hope this birthday greeting brings happiness to you .. And brings to you the very best in everything you do.


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Posted: 12:10AM Jan 20, 2017
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OK, folks, here we go again, another 365 days to wish our fellow Brainglers a very Happy Birthday. Today, January 2nd, we express these wishes to a graphic designer from Connecticut, drfred. Wishing you the very best for this day and many many birthdays to follow, drfred.

I did get is rather a mixmesh of facts for both January 1st and 2nd loaded into the computer and then I realized what I had done and almost deleted it, but after reading it all I decided that it really wasn't so bad. DrFred, I know this is far from being January 2nd, but celebrating 4 family birthdays before the 15th and then taking the worst fall of my life has slowed me down considerably. If I could only figure out how to run Braingle on my kindle I would be much happier and would also be able to get my birthday wishes caught up. My apologies.

WHO SHARED YOUR BIRTHDAY ON JANUARY 2ND?

Cuba Gooding Jr., 47, Actor who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as football player Rod Tidwell in the film Jerry Maguire. His other credits include As Good as It Gets, Men of Honor, Red Tails and Norbit. His famous byline was "Show me the money!"

Kate Bosworth, 32, Blue Crush actress who debuted in The Horse Whisperer. She also starred in Young Americans and Wonderland. She wanted to be a competitive horse racer and was a champion equestrian at the age of fourteen. She has two different eye colors, a condition called heterochromia iridis. Actor Dan Aykroyd also has this rare condition.

Isaac Asimov, 1920 - Apr 6, 1992 (age 72), Prolific Russian-American author of science fiction works, including The Foundation series, The Robot series, The Bicentennial Man, and I, Robot. He is considered part of The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Will Smith starred in the film adaptation of Asimov's science fiction novel, I, Robot.

JANUARY 1ST BIRTHDAYS:

Paul Revere 1735
Betsy Ross (Elizabeth Grissam) 1752
George Washington Carver 1860J.
Edgar Hoover (U.S.) 1895
Xavier Cugat 1900
Barry Goldwater 1909
J.D. Salinger 1919

MUSICAL TRIVIA THAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 1ST
1764 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played for the Royal Family at Versailles in France.
1953 - Hank Williams died of heart failure caused by a combination of alcohol, morphine and chloral hydrate at the age of 29.
1962 - The Beatles auditioned for Decca Records in London. The company opted for Brian Polle & the Tremeloes because the group was based in the south of England.
1964 - The Beach Boys recorded "Fun Fun Fun."
1966 - The final episode of "The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" (with Rick Nelson) was filmed.
1967 - Sonny and Cher were barred from the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, CA, for their support of the Sunset Strip rioters.
1968 - The Blue Velvets changed the name of their band to Creedence Clearwater Revival.
1982 - The last ABBA concert was held in Stockholm.


NEWSY THINGS THAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 1ST:

0404 - The last gladiator competition was held in Rome.
1801 - Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi became the first person to discover an asteroid. He named it Ceres.
1892 - Ellis Island Immigrant Station formally opened in New York.
1898 - Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island were consolidated into New York City.
1902 - The first Tournament of Roses (later the Rose Bowl) collegiate football game was played in Pasadena, CA.
1926 - The Rose Bowl was carried coast to coast on network radio for the first time.
1934 - Alcatraz Island officially became a Federal Prison.
1934 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) began operation.
1937 - The First Cotton Bowl football game was played in Dallas, TX. Texas Christian University (T.C.U.) beat Marquette, 16-6.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued a declaration called the "United Nations." It was signed by 26 countries that vowed to create an international postwar World War II peacekeeping organization.
1945 - France was admitted to the United Nations.
1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba.
1998 - A new anti-smoking law went into effect in California. The law prohibiting people from lighting up in bars.
2001 - The "Texas 7," rented space in an RV park in Woodland Park, CO.
2007 - Binney & Smith Company became Crayola LLC under its parent company Hallmark."

AND THE NEWS FOR JANUARY 2ND:

1859 - Erastus Beadle published "The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette."
1872 - Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.
1879 - Thomas Edison began construction on his first generator.
1892 - Ellis Island opened as America's first federal immigration center. Annie Moore, at age 15, became the first person to pass through.
1893 - The first commemorative postage stamps were issued.
1929 - The United States and Canada reached an agreement on joint action to preserve Niagara Falls.
1935 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindberghs baby. Hauptmann was found guilt and executed.
1942 - The Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese forces during World War II.
1953 - "The Life of Riley" debuted on NBC-TV.
1960 - U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1965 - "Broadway" Joe Namath signed the richest rookie contract ($400,000) in the history of pro football.
1983 - The musical "Annie" closed on Broadway at the Uris Theatre after 2,377 performances.
1985 - The Rebels of UNLV beat Utah State in three overtime periods. The final score of 142-140 set a new NCAA record for total points in a basketball game (282). The game took over three hours to play.
1996 - AT&T announced that it would eliminate 40,000 jobs over three years.
2008 - The price of oil hit $100 per barrel for the first time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN DRFRED. And please everyone, be good to each other, and yourselves this coming year. Hugs, Grayma V


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Posted: 12:21AM Jan 20, 2017
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Mystery-King and pyro. both had a birthday on January 5th, and musicneverdies celebrated on January 7th. Because I have been having trouble4 with some health issues I have not gotten these three up on my birthday schedule. And here it is the 20th of January. I had catmandon's birthday wish done up so I did go ahead and place his wishes into the Forum. I will get wishes put together for Mystery -King and pyro and musicneverdies in the next few days - I do apologize for being so slow. Thankfully January has been a fairly quiet month on Braingle as I have had five family birthdays here in real life. Am hoping my leg heals quicker from my fall and nothing else pops up health wise. Look for the birthday wishes for these three folks in the very near future.

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Posted: 01:03AM Jan 20, 2017
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Catmandon has been a member of Braingle since October 17, 2005. He is from San Antonio, Texas. His occupation he declares as open, and he enjoys tubing on the river and cruises. His byline is: "IT'S TRUE....the early bird gets the worm,But the second rat gets the cheese. This man plays a wicked game of Werewolf and I personally enjoy playing in any of the games he is enrolled in. Today, January 19th, is catmandon's birthday.

Today is your birthday and I'd like to say .. I hope that you have a wonderful day. You deserve the very best so I wished it for you .. Have a beautiful day and all the year through.

WHO ALSO CELEBRATED THEIR BIRTHDAYS ON THIS DAY, JAN 19TH:

Robert E. Lee 1807 - Confederate General during U.S. Civil War
Edgar Allen Poe 1809 - Poet
Sir Henry Bessemer 1813
Paul Cezanne 1839 - Artist
Guy Madison 1922
Jean Stapleton 1923
Fritz Weaver 1926
Tippi (Natalie) Hedren 1931
Phil Everly (Everly Brothers) 1939
Michael Crawford 1942
Janis Joplin 1943
Laurie London 1944
Shelley Fabares 1944
Dolly Parton 1946 - Singer
Ann Compton 1947
Harvard Hinsley 1948
Robert Palmer 1949
Martha Davis 1951 - Musician (The Motels)
Dewey Bunnell (America) 1952
Desi Arnaz Jr. 1953
Katy Sagal 1956
Mickey Virtue (UB40) 1957
Paul McCrane 1961
William Ragsdale 1961
Stefan Edberg 1966
Junior Seau 1969
Trey Lorenz 1969
Shawn Wayans 1971
A.J. McLean (Backstreet Boys) 1978
Jodie Sweetin 1982

TIDBITS OF NEWS THAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 19TH:

1764 - John Wilkes was expelled from the British House of Commons for libel.
1793 - King Louis XVI was tried by the French Convention, found guilty of treason and sentenced to the guillotine.
1825 - Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City patented a canning process to preserve salmon, oysters and lobsters.
1861 - Georgia seceded from the Union.
1883 - Thomas Edison's first village electric lighting system using overhead wires began operation in Roselle, NJ.
1907 - The first film reviews appeared in "Variety" magazine.
1915 - George Claude, of Paris, France, patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising signs.
1915 - More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time. The bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn.
1937 - Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record. He flew from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
1942 - The Japanese invaded Burma (later Myanmar).
1944 - The U.S. federal government relinquished control of the nation's railroads after the settlement of a wage dispute.
1949 - The salary of the President of the United States was increased from $75,000 to $100,000 with an additional $50,000 expense allowance for each year in office.
1952 - The National Football League (NFL) bought the franchise of the New York Yankees from Ted Collins. The franchise was then awarded to a group in Dallas on January 24.
1953 - Sixty-eight percent of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS-TV, as Lucy Ricardo, of "I Love Lucy," gave birth to a baby boy.
1955 - U.S. President Eisenhower allowed a filmed news conference to be used on television (and in movie newsreels) for the first time.
1957 - Philadelphia comedian, Ernie Kovacs, did a half-hour TV show without saying a single word of dialogue.
1966 - Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.
1969 - In protest against the Russian invasion of 1968, Czech student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square.
1971 - At the Charles Manson murder trial, the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" was played.
1971 - "No, No Nanette" opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City.
1977 - U.S. President Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino (the "Tokyo Rose").
1979 - Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell was released on parole after serving 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
1981 - The U.S. and Iran signed an agreement paving the way for the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months and for arrangements to unfreeze Iranian assets and to resolve all claims against Iran.
1983 - China announced that it was bannning 1983 purchases of cotton, soybeans and chemical fibers from the United States.
1993 - IBM announced a loss of $4.97 billion for 1992. It was the largest single-year loss in U.S. corporate history.
1995 - Russian forces overwhelmed the resistance forces in Chechnya.
1996 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. The investigation was concerning the discovery of billing records related to the Whitewater real estate investment venture.
1997 - Yasser Arafat returned to Hebron for the first time in more than 30 years. He joined 60,000 Palestinians in celebration over the handover of the last West Bank city in Israeli control.
2000 - In New York's Time Square, the first WWF restaurant opened.
2001 - Texas officials demoted a warden and suspended three other prison workers in the wake of the escape of the "Texas 7."
2006 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was launched. The mission was the first to investigate Pluto.
2013 - In Scottsdale, AZ, the original Batmobile for the TV series "Batman" sold at auction for $4.6 million. It was the first of six Batmobiles produced for the show.

MUSICAL HAPPENINGS ON JANUARY 19TH:

1853 - Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premiered in Rome.
1934 - Laurens Hammond filed for a patent for the pipeless organ with the tonewheel generator. The patent was granted on April 24.
1957 - Johnny Cash made his first network TV appearance, on CBS' "Jackie Gleason Show."
1957 - Pat Boone sang at Dwight Eisenhower's presidential inauguration ball. YOURS TRULY, vlerma, marched in Eisenhower's inauguration parade with the Sidney High School band. Our band was the Nebraska representative for the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, right past the White House.
1967 - Lesley Gore appeared on ABC-TV's "Batman" as Catwoman's sidekick.
1971 - At the Charles Manson murder trial, the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" was played. At the scene of one of his gruesome murders, the words "helter skelter" were written on a mirror.
1976 - The Beatles turned down an offer of $30 million to play together again on the same stage. The offer was made by rock promoter Bill Sargent.
1977 - Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band played for Jimmy Carter's inauguration.
1977 - Aretha Franklin sang "God Bless America" at a special inaugural concert for President-elect Jimmy Carter.
1981 - Styx released the album "Paradise Theater."
1993 - Fleetwood Mac reunited to perform at Bill Clinton's inauguration.
1993 - Tom Waits was allowed to keep the $2.5 million that a judge awarded him after he sued Frito-Lay for using a sound alike in a 1988 commercial. The U.S. Supreme Court supported the amount of the damages.
1998 - Pat Boone was awarded the first annual Michael the Archangel Award by the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police.
1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court without comment refused to hear a 1998 lawsuit brought by ticket buyers against Ticketmaster. The suit charged that the firm engaged in anticompetitive behaviour and price-fixing with promoters.
1999 - Bizzy Bone (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) went on trial in Columbus, Ohio, on charges that he dragged a student barber down a flight of stairs.
1999 - Jean-Michel Jarre delivered a petition to the European Parliament signed by hundreds of leading European recording artists asking for better legal protection against music piracy on the internet.

I am still in the process of catching up on January birthdays. Have been playing in a werewolf game with catmandon and it has been fun. Since today has been his birthday I stepped his birthday up, jumping over a few earlier birthdays in January. I shall catch them up yet. Again I do apologize - my fall shook ever bone in this old person's body. I am just so thankful nothing was broke. So catmandon I hope you had a pleasant birthday with family, friends, and other loved ones and will have many, many more happy celebrations. Hugs, Grayma V


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Posted: 03:47PM Jan 21, 2017
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Mystery-King from MysteryVille, a Man of Mystery celebrated his birthday on January 5th. His byline states, "It's been a long time but I've found that I've been logging on more again now. So, here I am and I'm ready to catch up with old friends and make new ones too!" I only wish he had logged on a little more regularly as it has been 40 days since he visited Braingle. He and Pyro share January 5th as their birthdays, so the information that I've given for Pyro also applies to Mystery-King. Hoping you had a wonderful birthday and will have many more. Please come back more often and join your friends at Braingle.





Today, January 5, 2017, we celebrate the birthday of Pyro, a young man from the United States. Pyro has been my most prolific writer in the Braingle Writers Block. He has been a member of Braingle since Sept 29, 2005. December 11, 2013 Pyro started a new story, a science fiction genre, "The Daughter of Destiny" in the Braingle Writer's Block. Fishmed owns this talk box, and we both encourage pyro to continue writing his story. This is not his first, nor do I believe it to be his last. This young man just has stories to tell and they are enjoyable

THIS DATE IN HISTORY:

1914 - Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new daily minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday.
1925 - Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross was sworn in as the governor of Wyoming She was the first female governor in the U.S.
1933 - In California, construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began.
1934 - Both the National and American baseball leagues decided to use a uniform-size baseball. It was the first time in 33 years that both leagues used the same size ball. (MLB)
1948 - Warner Brothers-Pathe showed the very first color newsreel. The footage was of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl football classic.
1956 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy walked on two legs for the first time.
1961 - "Mr. Ed" debuted. The show would run for six years.
1970 - "All My Children" premiered on ABC.
1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered the development of the space shuttle.
1987 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan underwent prostate surgery.
1998 - U.S. Representative Sonny Bono died in skiing accident.

THE FOLLOWING WELL KNOW PEOPLE SHARE PYRO'S BIRTHDAY

George Reeves 1914
Jean-Pierre Aumont 1911
Sam Phillips 1920
Walter 'Fritz' Mondale 1928
Robert Duvall 1930
Diane Keaton 1946
Ted Lange 1947
George "Funky" Brown (Kool and the Gang) 1949
Chris Stein (Blondie) 1950
Pamela Sue Martin 1953
Marilyn Manson 1970 - Singer
Bradley Cooper 1975

A BIT OF TRIVIA FROM THE WORLD OF MUSIC THAT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE:

1957 - Pat Boone began filming the movie "Bernadine."
1959 - "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" backed by "Raining in My Heart" was released by Coral Records. It was the last release of Buddy Holly before his death.
1976 - Mal Evans, a Beatle's bodyguard and road manager, was killed in a confrontation with Los Angeles police.
1978 - The Sex Pistols' U.S. concert debut took place.
1978 - Prince made his solo performance debut in Minneapolis, MN.
1975 - "The Wiz" opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre. The show transferred to the Broadway Theatre on May 25, 1977.
1984 - The Police, announced a farewell concert for March 2 in Australia. The group had been together for 9 years.

My apologies for the late wishes. May your day be filled with blessings like the sun that lights the sky .. And may you always have the courage to spread your wings and fly. Happy Birthday


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Again my apologies for such a late birthday wish. On January 7th musicneverdies celebrated her birthday. She has been a member of Braingle since May 2, 2016. I first met this lady in one of Snowmonster's Werewolf Games. And let me tell you, musicneverdies plays a very good game. And I became enthralled with her name as I am of the age who remembers the song, The Day the Music Died which represented the day that Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valenez died in an airplane crash. I guess I would much rather think that musicneverdies than what actually happened to these talented musicians. You all know how much this old Grayma loves her music. Anyhow, Birthday Girl, today's your day! Time to eat, sing songs, and play! There are so many ways, to have birthday fun Here's hoping you get, to do every one! Happy Birthday!

OTHERS WHO SHARE JANUARY 7TH AS THEIR BIRTHDAY:

Millard S. Fillmore 1800 - 13th President of the United States
Lou Graham (Golfer) 1938
Paul Revere (Paul Revere and The Raiders) 1938
Jann Wenner 1946 - Magazine publisher ("Rolling Stone")
Kenny Loggins 1948 - Singer
Erin Gray 1952
Morris Titanic 1953 - Hockey player
David Caruso 1956 - Actor ("CSI: Miami")
Katie Couric 1957 - Talk show host
David Lee Murphy 1958
Kathy Valentine (The Go-Go's) 1958
Rand Paul 1963 - Politician
Nicholas Cage 1964 - Actor ("National Treasure" movies, "The Rock")
Guy Hebert 1967 - Hockey player
Jeremy Renner 1971 - Actor ("The Hurt Locker," "S.W.A.T.")
John Rich 1974 - Musician (Big and Rich)
Dustin Diamond 1977
Lauren Cohen 1982 - Actress (TV: "The Walking Dead," "Supernatural")
Rhianna (Robin Hannah Louise Kenny) 1983 - Singer

HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS FOR JANUARY 7TH:

1610 - Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons. He named them Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
1782 - The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia. It was the first commercial bank in the United States.
1785 - French aeronaut/balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard successfully made the first air-crossing of the English Channel from the English coast to France.
1789 - Americans voted for the electors that would choose George Washington to be the first U.S. president.
1887 - Thomas Stevens completed the first worldwide bicycle trip. He started his trip in April 1884. Stevens and his bike traveled 13,500 miles in almost three years time.
1894 - W.K. Dickson received a patent for motion picture film.
1904 - The distress signal "CQD" was established. Two years later "SOS" became the radio distress signal because it was quicker to send by wireless radio.
1926 - George Burns and Gracie Allen were married.
1927 - Transatlantic telephone service began between New York and London. 31 calls were made on this first day. 1927 - In Hinckley IL, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game.
1929 - The debut of "Buck Rogers 2429 A.D." occurred in newspapers around the U.S. The title of the comic strip was later changed to "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century."
1932 - Chancellor Heinrich Brüning declared that Germany cannot, and will not, resume reparations payments.
1935 - French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini signed the Italo-French agreements.
1940 - "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch" debuted on CBS Radio. The show aired for 16 years.
1941 - The NBC Blue radio network presented "The Squeaky Door" for the first time. The show was later known as "Inner Sanctum."
1942 - The World War II siege of Bataan began.
1949 - The announcement of the first photograph of genes was shown at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
1953 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1954 - The Duoscopic TV receiver was unveiled this day. The TV set allowed the watching of two different shows at the same time.
1959 - The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.
1968 - The cost of a U.S. first class stamp was raised to 6 cents.
1975 - OPEC agreed to raise crude oil prices by 10%, which began a time of world economic inflation.
1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that authorized $1.5 billion in loans for the bail out of Chrysler Corp.
1989 - Crown Prince Akihito became the emperor of Japan following the death of his father, Emperor Hirohito.
1990 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa was closed to the public. The accelerated rate of "leaning" raised fears for the safety of its visitors.
1996 - One of the biggest blizzards in U.S. history hit the eastern states. More than 100 deaths were later blamed on the severe weather.
1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an affidavit denying that she had an affair with U.S. President Clinton.
1999 - U.S. President Clinton went on trial before the Senate. It was only the second time in U.S. history that an impeached president had gone to trial. Clinton was later acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
2002 - Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates introduced a new device code named Mira. The device was tablet-like and was a cross between a handheld computer and a TV remote control.
2009 - Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the move and urged greater international involvement in the energy dispute.

HAPPENINGS IN THE MUSIC WORLD ON JANUARY 7TH:

1924 - George Gershwin completed "Rhapsody in Blue" at the age of 26.
1941 - "Good-for-Nothin'-Joe" was recorded by the sultry Lena Horne with Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra on Bluebird Records.
1955 - Marian Anderson became the first African-American to sing at New York's Metropolitan Opera.
1963 - Gary "U.S." Bonds filed a $100,000 suit against Chubby Checker. The charge was that Checker "stole" "Quarter to Three" and turned it into the song "Dancin' Party." The case was settled out of court.
1970 - Max Yasgur was sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighboring farmers. It was Yasgur's on which the August 1969 Woodstock Festival was held.
1997 - Prince appeared on the Rosie O'Donnell show.
1997 - The Spice Girls debut single "Wannabe" was released in the United States.
2013 - The single "Stay" was released by Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko in the U.K.

Musicneverdies, I sincerely, along with our other members of Braingle, hope you had a wonderful birthday, celebrated with family, friends and other loved ones. Any may you have many more years and health to celebrate.




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The sound of the wild, but if there is no one there, does anyone hear their howls?
Posted: 04:08PM Feb 26, 2017
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Grayma V
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Well February has been a relatively quiet month. Only other birthday prior to this was tyrne, a butcher from Illinois. However there wasn't a date listed for his birthday, only that it was in February. I had written him, but received no answer, so here's to a Happy February Birthday to tyrne.

And now for Papa Fish, better known as Fishmed. He is the highest overall scorer in our Braingle community. He has been a member since June 18, 2003, so he has been around here for a while. Fish has posted 27417 teaser votes as well as submitting 294 teasers of his own, and reviewed 25302 as editor. He has reviewed 3443 quizzes as quizmaster and has served as moderator in the public forums. Fishmed is owner of Braingle's Writer's Block where he encourages anyone involved in writing down their public thoughts, stories, etc. He is always more than willing to aid new or old members and we have learned that he can be quite a punster. He shares his interests in all sorts of stuff and his byline is "I hope you like my teasers. Thanks for stopping by."

I am a day late, and probably more than a dollar short, but am trying to catch up on our birthdays. My health is still somewhat iffy, so I hope you will all excuse my slowness.

Your birthday is the perfect time to wish you nothing less than favorite memories plans and dreams that bring you happiness. For birthdays are a link between the future and the past, reminding us to treasure most those special joys that last.

HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS ON FEBRUARY 25TH:

1570 - England's Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated by Pope Pius V.
1751 - Edward Willet displayed the first trained monkey act in the U.S.
1791 - First Bank of the United States (The President, Directors and Company, of the Bank of the United States) was chartered by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Washington.
1793 - The department heads of the U.S. government met with U.S. President Washington for the first Cabinet meeting on U.S. record.
1836 - Samuel Colt received U.S. Patent No. 138 (later 9430X) for a "revolving-cylinder pistol." It was his first patent.
1901 - The United States Steel Corp. was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.
1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized a graduated income tax.
1919 - The state of Oregon became the first state to place a tax on gasoline. The tax was 1 cent per gallon.
1928 - The Federal Radio Commission issued the first U.S. television license to Charles Jenkins Laboratories in Washington, DC.
1930 - The bank check photographing device was patented.
1933 - The aircraft carrier Ranger was launched. It was the first ship in the U.S. Navy to be designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier.
1837 - Thomas Davenport patented the first commercial electrical motor. There was no practical electical distribution system available and Davenport went bankrupt.
1940 - The New York Rangers and the Montreal Canadiens played in the first hockey game to be televised in the U.S. The game was aired on W2WBS in New York with one camera in a fixed position. The Rangers beat the Canadiens 6-2.
1948 - Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia.
1950 - "Your Show of Shows" debuted on NBC.
1956 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev criticized the late Josef Stalin in a speech before a Communist Party congress in Moscow.
1972 - Germany gave a $5 million ransom to Arab terrorists who had hijacked a jumbo jet.
1986 - Filippino President Ferdinand E. Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule after a tainted election.
1999 - William King was sentenced to death for the racial murder of James Byrd Jr in Jasper, TX. Two other men charged were later convicted for their involvement.
1999 - In Moscow, China's Prime Minister Zhu Rongji and Russia's President Boris Yeltsin discussed trade and other issues.
2000 - In Albany, NY, a jury acquitted four New York City police officers of second-degree murder and lesser charges in the February 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo.
2005 - Dennis Rader was arrested for the BTK serial killings in Wichita, KS. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 life prison terms.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS ALSO ON FEBRUARY 25TH:

Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841 - Impressionist artist
Enrico Caruso 1873 - Opera singer
Zeppo Marx 1901 - Comedian (Marx Brothers)
Adelle Davis 1904
Millicent Fenwick 1910 - Human rights activists
Jim Backus 1913 - Actor (voice of Mr. Magoo, "Gilligan's Island", "Rebel Without a Cause")
Ralph Baldwin 1916 - Horse trainer
Anthony Burgess 1917 - Author ("A Clockwork Orange")
Bobby Riggs 1918 - Tennis player
Monte Irvin 1919 - Baseball player
'Texas Rose' Bascom 1922 - Trick roper
(Elsie) Lisa Kirk 1925 - Singer, actress ("The Producers")
Bert Remsen 1925 - Actor ("Dick Tracy")
Ralph Stanley 1927 - Musician (Stanley Brothers)
René Thomas 1927 - Musician, jazz guitarist
Larry Gelbart 1928 - Producer, writer
Tommy Newsom 1929 - Musician, arranger, composer, back-up conductor (NBC's Tonight Show band)
Faron Young 1932 - singer, actor, founder of Music City News magazine
Linda Cristal (Marta Victoria Moya Burges) 1934 - Actress
Tony Lema 1934 - Golfer
Sally Jessy Raphael (Sally Lowenthal) 1935 - TV talk show host
Tom Courtenay 1937 - Actor ("Doctor Zhivago", "The Last Butterfly")
Bob Schieffer 1937 - Report
Diane Baker 1938
Denny Lemaster 1939 - Baseball player
Ron Santo 1940 - Baseball player
Carl Eller 1942 - Football player
George Harrison 1943 - Musician (Beatles) - In 1992, Harrison stated, "I only learned recently after all these years that the date and time of my own birth have always been off by one calendar day and about a half hour on the clock."
Previously, Harrison thought his birthday was the 25th. His birth certificate indicates February 23.
Karen Grassle 1944 - Actress ("Little House on the Prairie"
Matt Guokas 1944 - Basketball player
Lee Evans 1947 - Track and field athlete
Jack Handey 1961 - Author, TV writer ("Saturday Night Live")
Cesar Cedeno 1951 - Baseballplayer
Dennis Diken 1957 - Musician (Smithereens)
Stuart Wood 1957 - Musician (Bay City Rollers)
Mike Peters 1959 - Musician (Alarm)
Veronica Webb 1965 - Actress
Téa Leoni 1966 - Actress ("Jurassic Park III", "Deep Impact")
Carrot Top 1967 - Comedian
Sean Astin 1971 - Actor ("The Goonies", "The War of the Roses", "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring")
Julio Iglesias Jr. 1973 - Singer
Chelsea Handler 1975 - Comedian
Rashida Jones 1976 - Actress ("The Office", "Parks and Recreation")






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The sound of the wild, but if there is no one there, does anyone hear their howls?
Posted: 04:09PM Feb 26, 2017
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cccgirl, a marketing professional, originally from New Orleans, who now suffers along with the rest of us the winter cold, is our next birthday celebrant. She has three degrees, having just finished her Masters in 2011. She discovered Braingle soon after on September 29, 2011. Today, February 26th is her birthday. So here is wishing you smiles, laughter, joy and cheer, new happiness that stays throughout the year. Hope your birthday brings all these and more, filling life with surprises and joys galore.




HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS ON FEBRUARY 26TH:

1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the National Currency Act.
1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-powered subway line was opened to the public. (Beach Pneumatic Transit)
1881 - S.S. Ceylon began his world-wide cruise, beginning in Liverpool, England.
1907 - The U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500.
1916 - Mutual signed Charlie Chaplin to a film contract.
1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
1929 - U.S. President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Grand Teton National Park.
1930 - New York City installed traffic lights.
1933 - A ground-breaking ceremony was held at Crissy Field for the Golden Gate Bridge.
1945 - In the U.S., a nationwide midnight curfew went into effect.
1952 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb.
1957 - The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was established by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
1979 - "Flatbush" debuted on CBS-TV.
1986 - Corazon Aquino was inaugurated president of the Philippines. Long time President Ferdinand Marcos went into exile.
1987 - The Tower Commission rebuked U.S. President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair.
1987 - The U.S.S.R. conducted its first nuclear weapons test after a 19-month moratorium period.
1991 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that Iraqi troops were being withdrawn from Kuwait.
1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.
1995 - Barings PLC collapsed after a securities dealer lost more than $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices. The company was Britain's oldest investment banking firm.
1998 - A Texas jury rejected an $11 million lawsuit by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey for price drop after on-air comment about mad-cow disease.
1998 - In Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.
2001 - A U.N. tribunal convicted Bosnian Croat political leader Dario Kordic and military commander Mario Cerkez of war crimes. They had ordered the systematic murder and persecution of Muslim civilians during the Bosnian war.
2002 - In Rome, Italy, a bomb exploded near the Interior Ministry. No injuries were reported.
2009 - Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic was acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia regarding war crimes during the Kosovo War.
2009 - The Pentagon reversed its 18-year policy of not allowing media to cover returning war dead. The reversal allowed some media coverage with family approval.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS - FEBRUARY 26TH:

Levi Strauss 1829 - Businessman, founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans.
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody 1846 - Frontiersman, showman
John Harvey Kellogg 1852
Herbert Henry Dow 1866
William Frawley 1887
Jean Marcel Bruller 1902 - French writer and illustrator, also known as Jean Vercors
Madeleine Carroll 1906
Jackie Gleason 1916
Mason Adams 1919
Tony Randall 1920
Betty Hutton 1921
Margaret Leighton 1922
Fats Domino 1928 - Musician
Johnny Cash 1932 - Musician
Bob "The Bear" Hite 1943 - Musician (Canned Heat)
Bill Duke 1943 - Actor
Paul Cotton 1943 - Musician, singer (Poco)
Mitch Ryder 1945 - Singer
Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich) 1947 - Singer
Priscilla Lopez 1948 - Singer, actress
Jonathan Cain1950 - Musician (Babys, Journey)
Michael Bolton 1953 - Singer
Greg Germann 1958 - Actor ("Ally McBeal")
John McDaniel 1961 - Composer, conductor, pianist
John Jon 1961 - Musician (Bronski Beat)
Jennifer Grant 1966 - Actress
Erykah Badu 1971 - Singer
Rico Wade (Society of Soul) 1972
Marshall Faulk 1972 - Football player
Mark DeRosa 1975 - Baseball player

So cccgirl, we here at Braingle wish you the happiest of birthdays and hope you are celebrating with family, friends and other loved ones.


The sound of the wild, but if there is no one there, does anyone hear their howls?
Posted: 12:41PM Feb 27, 2017
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Happy Belated Birthday Papa Fish.

To all the survivors out there, perseverance does pays off, little by little. JHS
Posted: 03:06AM Mar 1, 2017
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WELCOME TO MARCH!!! And starting off the 1st of March is our birthday lady, debc1. This lady is a game player, 73 games of Who's the Boss and 261 games of The Werewolf Game. Good Grief Deb, what do you do in your spare time?

Deb states that you will never guess her occupation, and that she lives in Texas. OK, I will take a chance that I can crack this case - - being from Texas to me means BIG and by seeing the number of games - - I'm going to say that debc1 is A BIG GAME PLAYER. Am I right Deb? I know Deb has a lot of friends here on Braingle - I am one of them. She knows a lot of people by their first names or else develops nicknames for them.



FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO SHARE MARCH 1ST FOR THEIR BIRTHDATES:

Glenn Miller 1904 - Bandleader
David Niven 1910 - Actor ("The Guns of Navarone")
Ralph Waldo Ellison 1914 - Author, essayist
Harry Caray 1914 - Baseball broadcaster
Robert Lowell 1917 - Poet
William Gaines 1922 - Publisher ("MAD Magazine")
Michael Flanders 1922 - Songwriter, comedian (Flanders and Swann)
Deke (Donald) Slayton 1924 - Astronaut
Robert Clary 1926 - Actor ("Hogan's Heroes")
Pete Rozelle 1926 - Football player
Harry Belafonte 1927 - Singer, actor
Benny Powell 1930 - Musician
Joan Hackett 1934 - Actress
Robert Conrad 1935 - Actor
Jerry Fisher 1942 - Musician (Blood Sweat & Tears)
Roger Daltrey 1944 - Musician (The Who)
Mike D'Abo 1944 - Musician (Manfred Mann)
Dirk Benedict 1945 - Actor ("The A-Team", "Battlestar Galactica")
Tony Ashton 1946 - Musician (Ashton Gardner & Dyke)
Alan Thicke 1947 - Actor ("Growing Pains"), songwriter (theme songs for TV's "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life")
Brian Winters 1952 - Basketball player
Ron Howard 1954 - Producer, actor ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Happy Days")
Catherine Bach 1954 - Actress (TV's "The Dukes of Hazzard")
Janis Gill 1954 - Musician (Sweethearts of the Rodeo)
Jimmy Fortune 1955 - Musician (Statler Brothers)
Timothy Daly 1956 - Actor ("Diner", "Wings", "The Fugitive")
Nik Kershaw 1958 - Musician
Bill Leen 1962 - Musician (Gin Blossoms)
Ron Francis 1963 - Hockey player
Thomas Anders 1963 - Musician (Modern Talking)
John David "JD" Collum 1966 - Actor
George Eads 1967 - Actor ("CSI")
Javier Bardem 1969 - Actor ("No Country for Old Men")
Ryan Anthony Peake 1973 - Guitarist (Nickelback)
Chris Webber 1973 - Basketball player
Mark-Paul Gosselaar 1974
Jensen Ackles 1978 - Actor ("Supernatural")
Kesha (Kesha Sebert) 1987 - Singer
Justin Bieber 1994 - Singer

MARCH 1ST HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS:

1781 - In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
1784 - In Great Britain, E. Kidner opened the first cooking school.
1790 - The U.S. Congress authorized the first U.S. census.
1803 - Ohio became the 17th U.S. state.
1815 - Napoleon returned to France from the island of Elba. He had been forced to abdicate in April of 1814.
1845 - U.S. President Tyler signed the congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.
1867 - Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state.
1869 - Postage stamps with scenes were issued for the first time.
1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park.
1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter.
1890 - "Literary Digest" was available for the first time.
1907 - In Spain, a royal decree abolished civil marriages.
1907 - In New York, the Salvation Army opened an anti-suicide bureau.
1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1924 - Disney released the first Alice Comedy entitled "Alice's Day at Sea."
1927 - The Bank of Italy became a National Bank.
1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.
1937 - U.S. Steel raised workers' wages to $5 a day.
1937 - In Connecticut, the first permanent automobile license plates were issued.
1941 - FM Radio began in Nashville, TN, when station W47NV began operations.
1941 - "Duffy's Tavern" debuted on CBS Radio.
1949 - Joe Louis announced that he was retiring from boxing as world heavyweight boxing champion.
1950 - Klaus Fuchs was convicted of giving U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
1954 - The United States announced that it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
1961 - The Peace Corps was established by U.S. President Kennedy.
1966 - The Soviet probe, Venera 3 crashed on the planet Venus. It was the first unmanned spacecraft to land on the surface of another planet.
1966 - Ghana ordered all Soviet, East German and Chinese technicians to leave the country.
1969 - Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from major league baseball.
1971 - A bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol. There were no injuries. A U.S. group protesting the Vietnam War claimed responsibility.
1974 - Seven people were indicted in connection with the Watergate break-in. The charge was conspiring to obstruct justice.
1984 - The U.S.S.R. performed a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalatinsk, U.S.S.R.
1987 - The Boston Celtics defeated Detroit 112-102 to post their 2,235th NBA win.
1987 - S&H Green Stamps became S&H Green Seals. The stamps were introduced 90 years earlier.
1988 - Soviet troops were sent into Azerbaijan after ethnic riots between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
1989 - In Washington, DC, Mayor Barry and the City council imposed a curfew on minors.
1990 - In Cairo, 16 people were killed in a fire at the Sheraton Hotel.
1992 - Bosnian Serb snipers fired upon civilians after a majority of the Moslem and Croatian communities voted in favor of Bosnia's independence.
1992 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia announced major political reforms that ceded some powers after 10 years of disciplined rule.
1992 - Bosnian Muslims and Croats voted to secede from Yugoslavia.
1993 - The U.S. government announced that the number of food stamp recipients had reached a record number of 26.6 million.
1994 - Israel released about 500 Arab prisoners in an effort to placate Palestinians over the Hebron massacre.
1995 - The European Parliament rejected legislation that would have allowed biotechnology companies to patent new life forms.
1995 - Yahoo! was incorporated.
1996 - In Kuala, Lumpur, construction was completed for the Petronas Towers.
1999 - The Angolan Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia, exploded. Four other bombs went off in the capital.
1999 - In Uganda, eight tourists were brutally murdered by Hutu rebels.
1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones began their attempt to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon non-stop. They succeeded on March 20, 1999.
2002 - Operation Anaconda began in eastern Afghanistan. Allied forces were fighting against Taliban and Al Quaida fighters.
2003 - In New York, a $250,000 Salvador Dali sketch was stolen from a display case in the lobby at Rikers Island jail. On June 17, 2003, it was announced that four corrections officers had surrendered and pled innocent in connection to the theft. The mixed-media composition was a sketch of the crucifixion.
2003 - In the U.S., approximately 180,000 personnel from 22 different organizations around the government became part of the Department of Homeland Security. This completed the largest government reorganization since the beginning of the Cold War.
2003 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad. He was the suspected mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.


When you look back on the past, let your memories be warm and special ones. When you celebrate your Birthday today, let your heart be filled with joy and love, and when you look to the future, I wish that your wildest dreams and deepest hopes come true! Happy Birthday, Deb.



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The sound of the wild, but if there is no one there, does anyone hear their howls?
Posted: 04:17AM Mar 6, 2017
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Grayma V
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Today, March 6, we at Braingle want to wish HABS2933 a very Happy Birthday. She is from London. That is London, Ontario, Canada. And she has been a member of Braingle since October 27, 2010. She has been a child care provider, now semi-retired. She enjoys old movies, pre 1950s, computers and classical literature. She is also very good at some of our Braingle games playing 102 Who's the Boss and at least 125 Werewolf Games. She does NOT enjoy watching television, sports or hockey.



HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS FOR MARCH 6TH:

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam.
1808 - At Harvard University, the first college orchestra was founded.
1820 - The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
1834 - The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
1836 - The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.
1854 - At the Washington Monument, several men stole the Pope's Stone from the lapidarium.
1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.
1886 - "The Nightingale" was first published. It was the first magazine for nurses.
1899 - Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.
1900 - In West Virginia, an explosion trapped 50 coal miners underground.
1901 - An assassin tried to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen.
1907 - British creditors of the Dominican Republic claimed that the U.S. had failed to collect debts.
1928 - A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fled to Swatow.
1939 - In Spain, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek "peace with honor."
1941 - Les Hite and his orchestra recorded "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise".
1944 - During World War II, U.S. heavy bombers began the first American raid on Berlin. Allied planes dropped 2000 tons of bombs.
1946 - Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1947 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of John L. Lewis.
1947 - Winston Churchill announced that he opposed British troop withdrawals from India.
1947 - The first air-conditioned naval ship, "The Newport News," was launched from Newport News, VA.
1957 - The British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
1960 - Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.
1960 - The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.
1964 - Tom O'Hara set a new world indoor record when he ran the mile in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.
1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
1970 - Charles Manson released his album "Lies" to finance his defense against murder charges.
1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.
1975 - Iran and Iraq announced that they had settled their border dispute.
1980 - Islamic militants in Tehran said that they would turn over American hostages to the Revolutionary Council.
1981 - Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite." He had been on the job 19 years.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
1982 - National Basketball Association history was made when San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in three overtime periods to set the record for most points by two teams in a game. The record was beaten on December 13, 1983 by the Pistons and the Nuggets when they played to a final score of 186-184
1983 - The United States Football League began its first season of pro football competition.
1985 - Yul Brynner played his his 4,500th performance in the musical "The King and I."
1987 - The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in the Channel off the coast of Belgium. 189 people died.
1990 - In Afghanistan, an attempted coup to remove President Najibullah from office failed.
1990 - The Russian Parliament passed a law that sanctioned the ownership of private property.
1991 - In Paris, five men were jailed for plotting to smuggle Libyan arms to the Irish Republican Army.
1992 - The last episode of "The Cosby Show" aired. The show had been on since September of 1984.
1992 - The computer virus "Michelangelo" went into effect.
1997 - A gunman stole "Tete de Femme," a million-dollar Picasso portrait, from a London gallery. The painting was recovered a week later.
1997 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.

FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO SHARE YOUR BIRTHDATE:

Cyrano De Bergerac 1619
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806
Furry Lewis 1893
Bob Wills 1905
Lou Costello 1906
Ed McMahon 1923
Alan Greenspan 1926 - Federal Reserve chairman
Wes Montgomery 1927
Leroy Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper 1927
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez 1928 - Author ("Love in the Time of Cholera")
Lorin Maazel 1930
Marion Barry 1936
Sylvia Robinson 1936
Doug Dillard 1937
Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva 1937
Joanna Miles 1940
Willie Stargell 1941
Ben Murphy 1942
Mary Wilson 1944 - Singer (Supremes)
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 1944
Rob Reiner 1945
Hugh Grundy 1945 - Musician (The Zombies)
Kiki Dee 1947
Dick Fosbury 1947
David Gilmour 1947 - Musician (Pink Floyd) - Pink Floyd Merchandise
Tom Arnold 1959 - Actor
Skip Ewing 1964
D.L. Hughley 1964 - Actor ("The Hughleys")
Connie Britton 1968 - Actress
Moira Kelly 1968 - Actress ("Caroline in the City")
Amy Pietz 1969
Shaquille O'Neal 1972 - Basketball player
Chris Tomson 1984 - Musician (Vampire Weekend)

Wishing you love sunshine and laughter, not just for today but all the days after. Hope you have a fun filled day and all your wishes come your way. Happy Birthday.


The sound of the wild, but if there is no one there, does anyone hear their howls?
Posted: 03:06AM Mar 7, 2017
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Our birthday celebrant today, March 7th, is from Bucharest, Romania. His name is vergillu and has been a Braingle member since February 21, 2011. Even though Vergillu surely knows a lot about his own country many of us on Braingle probably do not know very much, so to celebrate his birthday I have chosen to let our other Braingle members learn a few facts about his homeland. My usual information I post regarding Historical Happenings and Other Famous Birthdays, that information I gather is basically for names and events in the United States and may not pertain to our birthday guest. So here is wishing Vergillu a very Happy Birthday with family, friends and other loved ones.

The largest of the Balkan countries, Romania has dramatic mountain scenery and a coastline on the Black Sea. It has seen numerous empires come and go from the Roman and Ottoman to the Austro-Hungarian. After World War II the country fell under Communist rule, although the leadership pursued a foreign policy independent of that of the Soviet Union. The legacy of Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu lingered long after the uprising which brought about his downfall on Christmas Day 1989.

A slower developer than other former communist countries of eastern Europe, Romania took a major step away from its past when it was one of seven countries to join Nato in late March 2004. In April 2005 Bucharest signed an EU accession treaty, paving the way for Romania eventually to join the union in January 2007.

Romania FACTS:
Capital: Bucharest
Population 21.4 million
Area 238,391 sq km (148,129 sq miles)
Major languages Romanian
Major religion Christianity
Currency new leu

Romania has one of the most dynamic media markets in southeastern Europe. A handful of conglomerates dominates the industry. TV is the medium of choice, with commercial stations Pro TV and Antena 1 being the leading outlets. TVR is the public broadcaster. There is a competitive pay TV sector, via cable and satellite. Romania is yet to complete the switch to digital terrestrial TV (DTT). There are more than 100 private radios. Public Radio Romania operates national, regional and local stations.

Some key dates in Romania's history:

1859 - Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza is proclaimed prince of Moldavia and Wallachia.
1862 - The union of the two Danubian principalities is consolidated into a new state - Romania. Prince Cuza launches an ambitious policy of reform.
1877-1878 - Romania wins full independence from the Ottoman Empire by siding with Russia in the Russo-Turkish War. It also acquires a coastline on the Danube delta.
1914 - King Carol's death ends Romania's alliance with the Central Powers - Germany and Austria. His nephew Ferdinand takes Romania into World War I on the Allied side in 1916.
1918 - As part of the peace settlement at the end of the war, Romania acquires several territories with resident Romanian populations - virtually doubling in size and population.
1941-1944 - Romania fights on German side against Soviet Union; switches sides as Soviet forces close in.
1945 - Soviet-backed government installed.
1965 - Nicolae Ceausescu becomes Communist Party leader. He pursues foreign policy that often runs counter to Moscow's lead, while increasing repressive rule and personality cult at home.
1989 - Bloody national uprising, Ceausescu and his wife Elena try to flee but are caught and executed. National Salvation Front established, headed by former Ceasescu ally Ion Iliescu.
2004 - Romania admitted to Nato.
2007 - Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union, raising the EU membership to 27.

Vergillu, because today's so special it really wouldn't do, to send one simple birthday wish to last the whole year through. So this wishes happy moments a day when dreams come true, and a year that's filled with all the things that mean the most to you.



---This message was edited on 03:09AM Mar 7, 2017---

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