Doorman
02-06-2006, 12:35 PM
MONDAY: 06,FEBRUARY 2006
THOSE BORN ON THIS DATE WERE BORN UNDER THE SIGN OF AQUARIUS
*THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING LIGHTS ARE SUBJECT TO LAST MINUTE CHANGE
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TODAY IS: LAME DUCK DAY
James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds
The designer of the Statue of Liberty, French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, used his wife as the model for the body and his mother as the model for the face.
The total number of African slaves sent to all parts of the world between 1500 and 1865 was estimated to be at least 12 million.
When you consider that only one in ten made the trip alive, he number of Africans who were enslaved or killed in the 350 years of the slave trade
had to be no less than 120 million people.
TONIGHT’S EMPIRE STATE BUILDING LIGHTING:
white: no special event
DUMB LAWS STILL ON THE BOOKS: AUSTRALIA:
Under Australian Communications Authority (ACA) regulations,
a modem can't pick up on the first ring. If it does the ACA permit for your modem is invalid and there's a $12,000 fine. -Telecommunications Act 1991.
BEST QUOTES OF 2005: "You don't have to change diapers, or worry about the sheriff bringing him home at 14 for underage drinking.
At 11 o'clock, you'll know where he is."
Attorney Robert Noel on why he adopted violent felon Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, an inmate serving a life sentence in California's Pelican Bay Prison.
NOTABLE QUOTE: “YOU MEAN APART FROM MY OWN.”
ZSA ZSA GABOR: (WHEN ASKED HOW MANY HUSBANDS SHE’S HAD)
CHART TOPPERS ON THIS DAY:
(1949): FAR AWAY PLACES- MARGARET WHITING
(1950): MULE TRAIN- FRANKIE LAINE
(1965): THIS DIAMOND RING- GARY LEWIS AND THE PLAYBOYS
(1969): TOUCH ME- THE DOORS
(1973): OH, BABE, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?- HURRICANE SMITH
(1978): EMOTION- SAMANTHA SANG
(1981): celebration- kool and the gang
i love a rainy night- eddie rabbitt
(1987): SOMEWHERE OUT THERE- LINDA RONSTADT AND JAMES INGRAM
(1989): straight up- paula abdul
TODAY IN HISTORY:
(1843): The first minstrel show in America the "Original Virginia Minstrels", opened at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City.
(1899): The Treaty of Paris was ratified by the US Senate by one vote ending the Spanish-American War.
(1935): “MONOPOLY” GOES ON SALE FOR THE FIRST TIME
(1943): FRANK SINATRA DEBUTS ON RADIO’S “YOUR HIT PARADE”
(1952): KING GEORGE VI PASSES AWAY AT AGE 56.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II SUCCEEDS TO THE THRONE
(1971): Astronaut Alan B. Shepard took a six-iron that he had stashed away inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
(1991): DANNY THOMAS PASSES AWAY AT AGE 77
(1993): ARTHUR ASHE PASSES AWAY AT AGE 49
(1998): CARL WILSON OF THE BEACH BOYS PASSES AWAY AT AGE 51
(1998): President Clinton signed a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS: *DENOTES NO LONGER WITH US
RICK ASTLEY (40) (SINGER: “NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP” ETC)
AXL ROSE (44)
ROBERT TOWNSEND (49)
KATHY NAJIMY (49) (actress: "sister act" etc)
NATALIE COLE (56)
*BOB MARLEY (61)
MICHAEL TUCKER (62) (actor: STUART MARKOWITZ ON “L.A.LAW”)
FABIAN (63)
GAYLE HUNNICUTT (63) (ACTRESS)
TOM BROKAW (66)
MIKE FARRELL (67)
*FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT (74) (FILM DIRECTOR)
MAMIE VAN DOREN (75)
RIP TORN (75)
PATRICK MACNEE (84) (actor: STEED ON “THE AVENGERS” etc)
ZSA ZSA GABOR (89)
*THURL RAVENSCROFT (92) (VOICE OF “TONY THE TIGER”)
*JOHN LUND (93) (ACTOR)
*EVA BRAUN (94)
*RONALD REAGAN (95)
*RAMON NOVARRO (107) (SILENT SCREEN ACTOR: “BEN HUR” ETC.)
*LOUIS “LEPKE” BUCHALTER (109) (HE WAS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT…)
*BABE RUTH (111)
*JEB STUART (173) (Confederate MAJOR GENERAL)
*AARON BURR (250)
THOSE BORN ON THIS DATE WERE BORN UNDER THE SIGN OF AQUARIUS
*THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING LIGHTS ARE SUBJECT TO LAST MINUTE CHANGE
================================================== ==================
TODAY IS: LAME DUCK DAY
James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds
The designer of the Statue of Liberty, French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, used his wife as the model for the body and his mother as the model for the face.
The total number of African slaves sent to all parts of the world between 1500 and 1865 was estimated to be at least 12 million.
When you consider that only one in ten made the trip alive, he number of Africans who were enslaved or killed in the 350 years of the slave trade
had to be no less than 120 million people.
TONIGHT’S EMPIRE STATE BUILDING LIGHTING:
white: no special event
DUMB LAWS STILL ON THE BOOKS: AUSTRALIA:
Under Australian Communications Authority (ACA) regulations,
a modem can't pick up on the first ring. If it does the ACA permit for your modem is invalid and there's a $12,000 fine. -Telecommunications Act 1991.
BEST QUOTES OF 2005: "You don't have to change diapers, or worry about the sheriff bringing him home at 14 for underage drinking.
At 11 o'clock, you'll know where he is."
Attorney Robert Noel on why he adopted violent felon Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, an inmate serving a life sentence in California's Pelican Bay Prison.
NOTABLE QUOTE: “YOU MEAN APART FROM MY OWN.”
ZSA ZSA GABOR: (WHEN ASKED HOW MANY HUSBANDS SHE’S HAD)
CHART TOPPERS ON THIS DAY:
(1949): FAR AWAY PLACES- MARGARET WHITING
(1950): MULE TRAIN- FRANKIE LAINE
(1965): THIS DIAMOND RING- GARY LEWIS AND THE PLAYBOYS
(1969): TOUCH ME- THE DOORS
(1973): OH, BABE, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?- HURRICANE SMITH
(1978): EMOTION- SAMANTHA SANG
(1981): celebration- kool and the gang
i love a rainy night- eddie rabbitt
(1987): SOMEWHERE OUT THERE- LINDA RONSTADT AND JAMES INGRAM
(1989): straight up- paula abdul
TODAY IN HISTORY:
(1843): The first minstrel show in America the "Original Virginia Minstrels", opened at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City.
(1899): The Treaty of Paris was ratified by the US Senate by one vote ending the Spanish-American War.
(1935): “MONOPOLY” GOES ON SALE FOR THE FIRST TIME
(1943): FRANK SINATRA DEBUTS ON RADIO’S “YOUR HIT PARADE”
(1952): KING GEORGE VI PASSES AWAY AT AGE 56.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II SUCCEEDS TO THE THRONE
(1971): Astronaut Alan B. Shepard took a six-iron that he had stashed away inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
(1991): DANNY THOMAS PASSES AWAY AT AGE 77
(1993): ARTHUR ASHE PASSES AWAY AT AGE 49
(1998): CARL WILSON OF THE BEACH BOYS PASSES AWAY AT AGE 51
(1998): President Clinton signed a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS: *DENOTES NO LONGER WITH US
RICK ASTLEY (40) (SINGER: “NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP” ETC)
AXL ROSE (44)
ROBERT TOWNSEND (49)
KATHY NAJIMY (49) (actress: "sister act" etc)
NATALIE COLE (56)
*BOB MARLEY (61)
MICHAEL TUCKER (62) (actor: STUART MARKOWITZ ON “L.A.LAW”)
FABIAN (63)
GAYLE HUNNICUTT (63) (ACTRESS)
TOM BROKAW (66)
MIKE FARRELL (67)
*FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT (74) (FILM DIRECTOR)
MAMIE VAN DOREN (75)
RIP TORN (75)
PATRICK MACNEE (84) (actor: STEED ON “THE AVENGERS” etc)
ZSA ZSA GABOR (89)
*THURL RAVENSCROFT (92) (VOICE OF “TONY THE TIGER”)
*JOHN LUND (93) (ACTOR)
*EVA BRAUN (94)
*RONALD REAGAN (95)
*RAMON NOVARRO (107) (SILENT SCREEN ACTOR: “BEN HUR” ETC.)
*LOUIS “LEPKE” BUCHALTER (109) (HE WAS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT…)
*BABE RUTH (111)
*JEB STUART (173) (Confederate MAJOR GENERAL)
*AARON BURR (250)