Nov 3

1913 - The USA introduces an income tax :td:
1952 - US Government introduces NASA ^
1954 - The first in the Godzilla series of films is released in Japan :eek:

Births:

1953 - Dennis Miller, American comedian :eek:
1952 - Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian :eek:
1954 - Adam Ant, English singer :eek:

September 13
 

WOW!!! I think I must have one of the best birthdays around, if you look at it in historical context - what a day!!!

509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
122 - The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
1224 - Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata.
1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his David.
1609 - Henry Hudson reaches the river that will later be named after him - the Hudson River.
1743 - Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).
1788 - The United States Constitutional Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..
1814 - The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
1814 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
1847 - Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
1862 - American Civil War: Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1899 - Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1906 - First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.
1940 - World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
1940 - World War II: Italy invades Egypt.
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1965 - Baseball: Willie Mays becomes the fifth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1969 - The Premiere Episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
1971 - State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
1985 - Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros.
1988 - Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).
1989 - Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1993 - Premiere of Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC
1996 - Rapper Tupac Shakur dies in the hospital from gunshot wounds sustained September 7.
2001 - Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Births (rather disappointing collection actually):
1916 - Roald Dahl, British writer (d. 1990)
1925 - Mel Tormé, American singer (d. 1999)
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
1971 - Stella McCartney, English activist
1977 - Fiona Apple, American singer

Mel Torme...didn't he do guest spots on Night Court as the judge's favorite singer?

Congrats, Elke! I don't suppose Old English 800 ages well. We'll have to pick a suitable substitute for when the time is right.

Ahhhhhh, the W Chicago City Center. Had a conference there one week and the breaks coincided with the housekeeping cart being parked in front of my room. Everyday. Aveda products. That's all I'm sayin'.

Thanks!! Now I just have to tell my mother... :D

Hmmmmm...perhaps the Old English 800 might come in handy for her at that moment.:cool:

1960--Bob Stoops. :td::td::td::td::td::td::td::td::td::td:

I hate my life....

Ouch, that's just harsh.

And Rockne died in a plane crash.

February 29
 

I have a strange birthday and as such, not a lot happens on it nor are there a lot of people born on the same day.

Notable Events
1940: For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
1960: Thousands dead in Moroccan earthquake
1984: Trudeau resigns as Canada's PM
1996: Siege of Sarajevo is lifted
1996: A Peruvian Boeing 737 crashes in the Andes, killing 123 people.

Birthdays
1468 - Pope Paul III
1692 - John Byrom
1956 - Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer
1960 - Richard Ramirez, American serial killer
1960 - Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker
1972 - Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American AIDS activist
1976 - Ja Rule, American rapper and actor

Deaths
1744 - John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher
1820 - Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic
1928 - Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California

I actually have a birthday that never occurred on the Gregorian calendar in 1900.

I had a ton of fun with the TABC here before my 21st birthday and only wish I would have recorded it.

Not a lot, and yet two serial killers. Very impressive!

Am I the only one bother by amateurs in the airport? Is it wrong for me to have little patience with the person who dumps their cell phone but not their PDA into the x-ray basket, or the person covered in piercings that says to the TSA guy “I emptied my pockets.”?

Being a huge libertarian I would love to tell TSA where to go, but I would sign over any information that would allow me to bypass the man who has to go through metal detector 3+ times to get it right.

Yes, there are people who belong in the penalty box.

Also note. This week I discovered that there is atleast one TSA guy in ATL who appears to select people for secondary screening based age/gender/attractiveness.

/end rant

While we're ranting about security, I thought I'd add a couple of experiences I had this week clearing security in Australia and New Zealand. Thursday morning I checked in at AKL for a quick hop on Qantas down to WLG for the day. After getting my boarding pass I headed up to security. After years of hearing the TSA rudely bark orders at people, removing my shoes, taking half the stuff in my bag out, I was pleasantly surprised to find that for a domestic New Zealand flight I didn't have to show a boarding pass or ID to clear security, I could keep my shoes on, and nothing had to come out of my carry-on bag (had my laptop been with me and not in the hotel room's safe it would have had to come out). And on top of that, the security workers were actually very friendly and smiled. Imagine that! Same thing happened later that evening at WLG when I cleared security for the return flight to AKL.

As for Australia, it was pretty similar. Both times I cleared security at SYD for an international connection I did have to take out my laptop and baggie of liquids, and show a boarding pass and passport, but the shoes stayed on, and the security workers were friendly and helpful. Nobody was yelling "YOU MUST TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES! LAPTOPS AND CAMCORDERS HAVE TO GO IN THEIR OWN BIN! DO YOU HAVE ANY LIQUIDS OR GELS?" It was very civilized, and the line moved very fast. I understand the reasons why we have the type of security screening we have here now, but the TSA certainly could make the experience work a lot more smoothly by training the screeners in some basic common courtesy, and getting them to stop treating each passenger that walks up as a common criminal.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :cool: :p

The same things happen here in the US. TSA in the third and fourth tier airports (LBB, GEG, BMI, etc) are as friendly as their neighborly, middle American hometowns are. Its in the larger and Mega-Airports (IAH, EWR, ORD) that the crush of people and just living in a city in general tend to toughen them up.