Feb 07, 2006 21:34
Chris Rock
James Spader
Sir Thomas More
Eddie Izzard
Others who share my day:
Garth Brooks
Charles Dickens
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ashton Kutcher
John Deere
Sinclair Lewis
Buster Crabbe
Gay Talese
Chris Gardocki
People who died on my day:
Nick Adams
Josef Mengele
Cool (and not-so-cool) shit that happened on my day:
1940 Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio", premieres.
1958 Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
1962 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
1964 Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
1964 Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
1969 "This Is Tom Jones" debuts on ABC TV
1969 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
1974 Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters
1987 Madonna's "Open Your Heart" single goes #1
1988 Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens
1994 Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant