1.24.2007
On this day in history
I was eight hours old when Johnny Rotten took the stage
- 41
- Roman Emperor Caligula is assassinated by the Praetorian Guards
- 76
- Hadrian, Roman Emperor, is born
- 1679
- King Charles II of England disbands Parliament
- 1848
- James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill, California Gold Rush begins
- 1857
- The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia
- 1862
- Edith Wharton, American writer, is born
- 1908
- Robert Baden-Powell founds the boy scouts
- 1916
- In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
- 1918
- Oral Roberts, American evangelist, is born
- 1924
- St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad.
- 1925
- Maria Tallchief, American ballerina, is born
- 1927
- Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England
- 1941
- Neil Diamond, American singer, is born
- 1944
- Klaus Nomi, German synth-pop messiah, is born
- 1965
- Winston Churchill dies
- 1966
- An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117
- 1977
- Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy
- 1978
- A blogger is born
- Another blogger is born on this day, but I'll spare her the indignity of mentioning the year!
- 1984
- The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
- 1986
- L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology founder and general crackpot, dies
- Wapping dispute. Newspaper workers in London launch ultimately unsuccessful strike against Rupert Murdoch's News International
- 1989
- Ted Bundy, American serial killer, is executed
- 1993
- Thurgood Marshall, first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, dies
- 2003
- The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation
- 2006
- Disney agrees to purchase Pixar in an all-cash deal, making Steve Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney
- 2007
- Annamaria takes a silly idea way too far
Labels: Shameless Self Promotion
annamaria at 6:41 AM
4 Comments
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at Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:32:00 PM
said... Neil Diamond and Klaus Nomi... so much cooler than anyone I share my birthday with! :)
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at Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:14:00 PM
Kurt said... ummmmmmmm.
I was going to take the other side of that equation involving Neil Diamond and link him with L Ron Hubbard and Oral Roberts as people who, while not directly impacting my life, have had a negative effect on it...
good and bad in all things I guess.
Happy Birthday Bloggers!-
at Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:53:00 PM
annamaria said...
Kurt! How can you hate on Neil Diamond like that? Sweet Caroline? Kentucky Woman? How is it even possible that these songs don't fill your heart with joy and happiness? Clearly you are not human.
Besides, Rich shares his birthday with George Hamilton and Miss Cleo. My birthday is indisputably cooler.-
at Monday, January 29, 2007 9:34:00 AM
Kurt said...
sorry annamaria. i wasn't trying to deny the coolness of your day. neil just struck me wrong somehow and he slid right into the same category with Barry Manilow, Liza Minelli and Babs Streisand - there is no denying the talent these folks have and they are supreme entertainers but for a young little hippie wannabe back in the 70s, their cool didn't mesh with mine.
I know the words to both the Diamond songs you mentioned, plus probably several more from having heard them so many times. But I saw his performances on so many variety shows of the time - Dinah Shore, Mike Douglas, Flip Wilson Show, et al. He struck me as an old Donnie Osmond. Gimme Johnnie Cash instead...
