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02-13-2006, 03:31 PM
TODAY IS: ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY
Lincoln was the first president to have a beard while in office.
Lincoln was the first president to be born outside of the original thirteen colonies.
He was born in Kentucky.
Abe Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died when
the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and she drank the milk.
A plot was developed to steal Lincoln's body, so a secret society to guard his tomb was formed.
During the Civil War, telegraph wires were strung to follow the action on the battlefield.
But there was no telegraph office in the White House, so Lincoln went across the street to the War Department to get the news.
Lincoln once had a dream right before the fall of Richmond that he would die.
He dreamt that he was in the White House, he heard crying and when he found the room it was coming from he asked who had died.
The man said the President. He looked in the coffin and saw his own face.
A week later Lincoln died.
Robert Todd Lincoln arrived too late to stop three seperate presidential assassinations.
He met his father, President Abraham Lincoln, at the theatre after John Wilkes Booth had fired the shot. He went to a Washington train station to meet President Garfeild, arriving only minutes after he was shot. And, he traveled to Buffalo, New York to meet President Mckinly, but got there after the fatal shot had already been fired.
He was the first president to be photographed at his inauguration.
John Wilkes Booth (his assassin) can be seen standing close to Lincoln in the picture.
Lincoln was the only president to receive a patent, it was for a device for lifting boats over shoals.
Lincoln's brother, half-brothers, and brothers-in-law fought in the Confederate Army.
Lincoln's favorite sport was wrestling.
Lincoln had a substitute fight for him during the Civil War.
Not a paid substitute as some might think. When J. Summerfield Staples,
the son of an army chaplain, heard that Lincoln felt that the president
should be fighting in the war (but couldn't because of all his duties),
Staples volunteered to fight as a substitute. Both he and his father survived
through the war, and returned home to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The contents of his pockets on the night of his assassination weren't revealed until February 12, 1976. They contained two pairs of spectacles, a chamois lens cleaner, an ivory and silver pocketknife, a large white Irish linen handkerchief, slightly used, with "A. Lincoln" embroidered in red, a gold quartz watch fob without a watch, a new silk-lined, leather wallet containing a pencil, a Confederate five-dollar bill, and news clippings of unrest in the Confederate army, emancipation in Missouri, the Union party platform of 1864, and an article on the presidency by John Bright.
TONIGHT’S EMPIRE STATE BUILDING LIGHTING:
RED/WHITE/BLUE: LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY
DUMB LAWS STILL ON THE BOOKS: cleveland Ohio:
WOMEN ARE FORBIDDEN TO WEAR PATENT LEATHER SHOES,
AS MEN CAN SEE THE REFLECTION OF THEIR UNDERGARMENTS.
BEST QUOTES OF 2005: Ellen DeGeneres on being host to the 53rd Emmy Awards:
What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?"
NOTABLE QUOTE: ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
“HEY, MARY KEPT NAGGING ME,kvetching all the time
“ABE,YOU NEVER TAKE ME ANYWHERE, ABE,YOU NEVER TAKE ME OUT TO DINNER
ABE,WHY CAN’T WE AT LEAST GO TO THE THEATER like other couples..
I HOPE SHE’S HAPPY NOW……..”
CHART TOPPERS ON THIS DAY:
(1954): SECRET LOVE- DORIS DAY
(1963): THE NIGHT HAS 1000 EYES- BOBBY VEE
UP ON THE ROOF- THE DRIFTERS
(1972): PRECIOUS AND FEW- CLIMAX
(1979): DO YA THINK I’M SEXY? - ROD STEWART
(1987): Open Your Heart - Madonna
Livin’ on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
TODAY iN HISTORY:
(1554): Lady Jane Grey, who had claimed the throne of England for nine days, was beheaded after being charged with treason.
(1733): GEORGIA FOUNDED BY JAMES OGLETHORPE AT SITE OF SAVANNAH
(1908): The Around the World Automobile Race, (the great race)
from Times Square, New York City to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) began. George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel.
(1909): THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (N.A.A.C.P.) IS FOUNDED
(1924): AT CARNEGIE HALL; PAUL WHITEMAN’S ORCHESTRA PREMIERS “RHAPSODY IN BLUE”
(1942): Grant Wood painter of “american gothic” passes away a day before HIS 51st birthday
(1973): FIRST RELEASE OF AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR FROM VIETNAM
(1976): SAL MINEO IS MURDERED AT AGE 37
(1999): PRESIDENT CLINTOn IS ACQUTTED IN HIS IMPEACHEMENT TRIAL
(2000): CHARLES SCHULTZ PASSES AWAY AT AGE 77
(2000): former dallas cowboy coach tom landry passes away at age 75
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS: *DENOTES NO LONGER WITH US
CHRISTINA RICCI (26)
CHYNNA PHILLIPS (38) (SINGER WILSON PHILLIPS)
JOSH BROLIN (38)
ARSENIO HALL (51)
MICHAEL MCDONALD (54)
MAUD ADAMS (61) (ACTRESS: “OCTO*****” ETC)
MOE BANDY (62) (COUNTRY STAR)
JOE DON BAKER (70)
GENE MCDANIELS (71) (SINGER: “100 POUNDS OF CLAY”/”TOWER OF STRENGTH”)
BILL RUSSELL (72)
JOE GARAGIOLA (80)
CHARLES VAN DOREN (80) (COLUMBIA UNIV.PROFESSOR/
EXPOSED IN GAME SHOW SCANDAL FOR CHEATING ON “21”)
FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI (83) (DIRECTOR: “ROMEO AND JULIET” ETC.)
*FORREST TUCKER (87) (SGT MORGAN O’ROURKE ON “F-TROOP”)
*LORNE GREENE (91)
*”TEX” BENEKE (92) (VOCALIST/saxophone: glenn miller ORCHESTRA)
*JOSEPH KEARNS (99) (ACTOR: PLAYED MR WILSON ON “DENNIS THE MENACE”)
*TED MACK (102)
*GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY (113)
*ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH (122) (DAUGHTER OF TEDDY)
*JOHN L.LEWIS (126) (UNITED MINE WORKERS PRESIDENT FROM 1920-1960)
*CHARLES DARWIN (197)
*ABE LINCOLN (197)
Lincoln was the first president to have a beard while in office.
Lincoln was the first president to be born outside of the original thirteen colonies.
He was born in Kentucky.
Abe Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died when
the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and she drank the milk.
A plot was developed to steal Lincoln's body, so a secret society to guard his tomb was formed.
During the Civil War, telegraph wires were strung to follow the action on the battlefield.
But there was no telegraph office in the White House, so Lincoln went across the street to the War Department to get the news.
Lincoln once had a dream right before the fall of Richmond that he would die.
He dreamt that he was in the White House, he heard crying and when he found the room it was coming from he asked who had died.
The man said the President. He looked in the coffin and saw his own face.
A week later Lincoln died.
Robert Todd Lincoln arrived too late to stop three seperate presidential assassinations.
He met his father, President Abraham Lincoln, at the theatre after John Wilkes Booth had fired the shot. He went to a Washington train station to meet President Garfeild, arriving only minutes after he was shot. And, he traveled to Buffalo, New York to meet President Mckinly, but got there after the fatal shot had already been fired.
He was the first president to be photographed at his inauguration.
John Wilkes Booth (his assassin) can be seen standing close to Lincoln in the picture.
Lincoln was the only president to receive a patent, it was for a device for lifting boats over shoals.
Lincoln's brother, half-brothers, and brothers-in-law fought in the Confederate Army.
Lincoln's favorite sport was wrestling.
Lincoln had a substitute fight for him during the Civil War.
Not a paid substitute as some might think. When J. Summerfield Staples,
the son of an army chaplain, heard that Lincoln felt that the president
should be fighting in the war (but couldn't because of all his duties),
Staples volunteered to fight as a substitute. Both he and his father survived
through the war, and returned home to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The contents of his pockets on the night of his assassination weren't revealed until February 12, 1976. They contained two pairs of spectacles, a chamois lens cleaner, an ivory and silver pocketknife, a large white Irish linen handkerchief, slightly used, with "A. Lincoln" embroidered in red, a gold quartz watch fob without a watch, a new silk-lined, leather wallet containing a pencil, a Confederate five-dollar bill, and news clippings of unrest in the Confederate army, emancipation in Missouri, the Union party platform of 1864, and an article on the presidency by John Bright.
TONIGHT’S EMPIRE STATE BUILDING LIGHTING:
RED/WHITE/BLUE: LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY
DUMB LAWS STILL ON THE BOOKS: cleveland Ohio:
WOMEN ARE FORBIDDEN TO WEAR PATENT LEATHER SHOES,
AS MEN CAN SEE THE REFLECTION OF THEIR UNDERGARMENTS.
BEST QUOTES OF 2005: Ellen DeGeneres on being host to the 53rd Emmy Awards:
What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?"
NOTABLE QUOTE: ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
“HEY, MARY KEPT NAGGING ME,kvetching all the time
“ABE,YOU NEVER TAKE ME ANYWHERE, ABE,YOU NEVER TAKE ME OUT TO DINNER
ABE,WHY CAN’T WE AT LEAST GO TO THE THEATER like other couples..
I HOPE SHE’S HAPPY NOW……..”
CHART TOPPERS ON THIS DAY:
(1954): SECRET LOVE- DORIS DAY
(1963): THE NIGHT HAS 1000 EYES- BOBBY VEE
UP ON THE ROOF- THE DRIFTERS
(1972): PRECIOUS AND FEW- CLIMAX
(1979): DO YA THINK I’M SEXY? - ROD STEWART
(1987): Open Your Heart - Madonna
Livin’ on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
TODAY iN HISTORY:
(1554): Lady Jane Grey, who had claimed the throne of England for nine days, was beheaded after being charged with treason.
(1733): GEORGIA FOUNDED BY JAMES OGLETHORPE AT SITE OF SAVANNAH
(1908): The Around the World Automobile Race, (the great race)
from Times Square, New York City to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) began. George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel.
(1909): THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (N.A.A.C.P.) IS FOUNDED
(1924): AT CARNEGIE HALL; PAUL WHITEMAN’S ORCHESTRA PREMIERS “RHAPSODY IN BLUE”
(1942): Grant Wood painter of “american gothic” passes away a day before HIS 51st birthday
(1973): FIRST RELEASE OF AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR FROM VIETNAM
(1976): SAL MINEO IS MURDERED AT AGE 37
(1999): PRESIDENT CLINTOn IS ACQUTTED IN HIS IMPEACHEMENT TRIAL
(2000): CHARLES SCHULTZ PASSES AWAY AT AGE 77
(2000): former dallas cowboy coach tom landry passes away at age 75
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS: *DENOTES NO LONGER WITH US
CHRISTINA RICCI (26)
CHYNNA PHILLIPS (38) (SINGER WILSON PHILLIPS)
JOSH BROLIN (38)
ARSENIO HALL (51)
MICHAEL MCDONALD (54)
MAUD ADAMS (61) (ACTRESS: “OCTO*****” ETC)
MOE BANDY (62) (COUNTRY STAR)
JOE DON BAKER (70)
GENE MCDANIELS (71) (SINGER: “100 POUNDS OF CLAY”/”TOWER OF STRENGTH”)
BILL RUSSELL (72)
JOE GARAGIOLA (80)
CHARLES VAN DOREN (80) (COLUMBIA UNIV.PROFESSOR/
EXPOSED IN GAME SHOW SCANDAL FOR CHEATING ON “21”)
FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI (83) (DIRECTOR: “ROMEO AND JULIET” ETC.)
*FORREST TUCKER (87) (SGT MORGAN O’ROURKE ON “F-TROOP”)
*LORNE GREENE (91)
*”TEX” BENEKE (92) (VOCALIST/saxophone: glenn miller ORCHESTRA)
*JOSEPH KEARNS (99) (ACTOR: PLAYED MR WILSON ON “DENNIS THE MENACE”)
*TED MACK (102)
*GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY (113)
*ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH (122) (DAUGHTER OF TEDDY)
*JOHN L.LEWIS (126) (UNITED MINE WORKERS PRESIDENT FROM 1920-1960)
*CHARLES DARWIN (197)
*ABE LINCOLN (197)