Today in History

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1900 – International forces, including U.S. Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.

1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, creating unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.

1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.

1947 – Pakistan became independent of British rule.

1951 – Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died at age 88.

1956 – German dramatist Bertolt Brecht died at age 58.

1969 – British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

1973 – U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.

1980 – Workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland - a job action that resulted in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement.

1997 – An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

2003 – A blackout hit the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power.

Birthdays:

Fred Davis, English world champ snooker player (1948-49, 51)
Nehemiah Persoff, Jerusalem Palestine, actor (Al Capone, Yentl)
Alice Ghostley, actress (Bewitched, Designing Women)
Lina Wertmueller, Rome, actress (7 Beauties)
Earl Weaver, St Louis Mo, baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles 1968-82, 85-86)
David Crosby, LA Calif, rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash, lesbian sperm donor)
Barrie Leadbeater, cricket umpire
Wim Wenders, West German director
Steve Martin, comedian
Antonio Fargas, Bronx NY, actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch)
Marga van Praag, Dutch radio hostess
Susan Saint James, LA CA, actress (Kate & Allie, McMillian & Wife)
Daniele Steel, NYC, author
Gary Larson, cartoonist (Far Side)
Mark C Lee, Viroqua WI, astronaut
Jackee Harry, Winston-Salem NC, actress (Sandra-227)
"Beautiful" Bobby Eaton, wrestler (SMW/ECW/NJPW/WCW, Midnight Express)
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Mich, NBA Forward, AIDS faker
Sarah Brightman, actress/singer (Phantom of the Opera)
Susan Olson, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Cindy-Brady Bunch)
Emmanuelle B‚art, St Tropez France, actress (Manon of the Spring)
David Hallyday, Boulougne France, actor (He's My Girl)
Carl Lumbly, actor (Cagney & Lacey)
Christopher Gorham, actor (Ugly Betty)
Marcia Gay Harden, actress (Pollock, Mystic River)
Pramodaya Wickremasinhghe, cricketer (Sri Lankan fast-medium bowler)
Halle Berry, Cleve Ohio, Miss World USA (1986)/actress
Mila Kunis, actress (That 70's Show), better Meg Griffin than Lacy Chabert
 

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILA KUNIS AND TO A MUCH LESSER EXTENT HALLE BERRY
 

Eggs Mayonnaise

All In With The Nuts
I lost power during that 2003 blackout, but only for about 4 hours. Some people lost it for a week or more.
 

curiousa2z

Be patient till the last.
I thought I'd blown a fuse in the house - I was hosting a birthday party that very day and had every appliance in the kitchen going as well as all the fans in the house...MEA CULPA!!



.... the power was out long enough for things in the freezer to thaw out but at least we weren't stuck up in some horrid high rise in the boiling city with no elevator service, water, (the pumps run on electricity) or AC! Many elderly people died during that IIRC.
 

Eggs Mayonnaise

All In With The Nuts
I INCLUDED CRICKETERS AND SNOOKERERERS FOR CORN SAKE, THROW ME A BONE HERE
 
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