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02-20-2006, 09:46 AM
MONDAY: 20,FEBRUARY 2006
THOSE BORN ON THIS DATE WERE BORN UNDER THE SIGN OF PISCES
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TODAY IS: PRESIDENTS DAY
Only 16% of able-bodied males in the American colonies
participated in the Revolutionary War.

King Henry III of France, Louis XIV of France, and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia - the fear of cats.

The oldest recorded document on paper made from fibrous material was a deed of King Roger of Sicily, in the year 1102.


ONIGHT’S EMPIRE STATE BUILDING LIGHTING:

RED/WHITE/BLUE: PRESIDENT’S DAY

DUMB LAWS STILL ON THE BOOKS: CANADA:

Citizens may not remove bandages in public

BEST QUOTES OF 2005: leona Helmsley:

(on learning that boyfriend Patrick Ward is gay)

"I'm starting to mistrust my judgment."

CHART TOPPERS ON THIS DAY:

(1955): TWEEDLE DEE- MISS GEORGIA GIBBS

(1957): MARIEANN- THE HILLTOPPERS/TERRY GILYKSON & THE EASY RIDERS

ROCK-A-BYE YOUR BABY WITH A DIXIE MELODY- JERRY LEWIS

MOONLIGHT GAMBLER- FRANKIE LAINE

(1963): WALK LIKE A MAN- THE FOUR SEASONS

RUBY BABY- DION

(1971): IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND- GORDON LIGHTFOOT

(1979): Y.M.C.A. – VILLAGE PEOPLE

(1984): tHRILLER- MICHAEL JACKSON

(1987): LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER – BON JOVI



TODAY IN HISTORY:

(1792): President Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office.

(1839): CONGRESS PROHIBITS DUELING IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

(1872): LUTHER CROMWELL PATENTS A MACHINE THAT MANUFACTURES PAPER BAGS

(1895): frederick Douglass, escaped slave,anti-slavery leader,

passes away at age 77 in Washington D.C.

(1947): LORD MOUNTBATTEN APPOINTED AS LAST VICEROY OF INDIA

(1952): “THE AFRICAN QUEEN” STARRING

HUMPHRY BOGART & KATHERINE HEPBURN IS RELEASED

(1962): JOHN GLENN IS THE FIRST AMERICAN TO ORBIT THE EARTH

(2005): HUNTER THOMPSON COMMITS SUICIDE AT AGE 67

(2005): SANDRA DEE PASSES AWAY AT AGE 62

(2005): JOHN RAITT PASSES AWAY AT AGE 88


CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS: *DENOTES NO LONGER WITH US

LAUREN AMBROSE (28) (ACTRESS: “SIX FEET UNDER”)

*KURT COBAIN (39)

ANDREW SHUE (39) (ACTOR: “MELROSE PLACE”/brother of elizabeth)

CINDY CRAWFORD (40)

FRENCH STEWART (42) (actor: “THIRD ROCK”)

CHARLES BARKLEY (43)

PATRICIA HEARST (52)

IVANA TRUMP (57)

JENNIFER O’NEILL (58)

PETER STRAUSS (59)

SANDY DUNCAN (60)

BRENDA BLETHYN (60)

BUFFY SAINTE- MARIE (65)

RICHARD BEYMER (68) (actor:“WEST SIDE STORY”)

NANCY WILSON (69)

*LARRY HOVIS (70) (SGT.ANDREW CARTER ON “HOGAN’S HEROES)

*AMANDA BLAKE (77) (miss kitty on "gunsmoke")

*ROY COHN (79)

SIDNEY POITIER (79)

ROBERT ALTMAN (81)

*WHITNEY BLAKE (81) (DOROTHY BAXTER ON “HAZEL”)

GLORIA VANDERBILT (82)

*PAUL TRIPP (90) (“MR. I. IMAGINATION”)

*JOHN CHARLES DALY (92) (HOST: “WHAT’S MY LINE”)

*ALEKSEI KOSYGIN (102) (FORMER SOVIET PREMIER)

*ANSEL ADAMS (104)