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We've featured the Darwin Awards

Today is the "Parent of the Year" award

 

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Todays Birthdays

1970 - Matt Damon
1949 - Sigourney Weaver
1943 - Chevy Chase
1936 - David Carradine
1930 - Paul Hogan

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 Blast from the past

Today in History

 

Lead Story

    Great Chicago Fire begins, 1871

American Revolution

    Continentals raid Unadilla, 1778

Automotive

    Frank Duryea, winner of the first American "horseless carriage" race, is born, 1869

Civil War

    Union troops stop Rebels at the Battle of Perryville, 1862

Cold War

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature, 1970

Crime

    Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians, 1990

Disaster

    Fire rips through Chicago, 1871

General Interest

    First transcontinental air race, 1919

    Che Guevara defeated, 1967

    Massive earthquake hits Kashmir region, 2005

Hollywood

    Matt Damon born, 1970

Literary

    Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, 1937

Music

    Jerry Lee Lewis records "Great Balls Of Fire" in Memphis, Tennessee, 1957

Old West

    The Great Fire destroys much of Chicago, 1871

Presidential

    U.S. House of Representatives initiates Clinton impeachment inquiry, 1998

Sports

    Don Larsen is perfect in World Series, 1956

Vietnam War

    U.S. and South Vietnamese navies commence Operation Sealords, 1968

    Communists reject Nixon's peace proposal, 1970

    Possible breakthrough at Paris peace talks, 1972

World War I

    U.S. soldier Alvin York displays heroics at Argonne, 1918

World War II

    Germans overrun Mariupol, in southern Russia, 1941

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Todays Quote

(and Birthday boy)

 
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Chevy Chase

 Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
Chevy Chase

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.
Chevy Chase

I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.
Chevy Chase

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
Chevy Chase

 We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.
Chevy Chase

 

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