Monday, August 1, 2011

Happy Birthday 8/1

Today is International Friendship Day!
There are is 146 shopping days left until Xmas.
There are 53 days until Autumn begins.

Jason Momoa NEW Conan The Barbarian - 32
Tempestt Bledsoe Vanessa Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" - 38
Adam Duritz Lead singer of Counting Crows - 47
Coolio - 48
Joe Elliott Def Leppard's singer - 52
Jerry Garcia would have been 69 - (1942 - 1995)
"Ziggy" cartoonist Tom Wilson - 80
"Moby Dick" author Herman Melville - (1819 - 1891)
Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" - (1779 - 1843)

1936 - The OLYMPIC TORCH appeared for the first time, at the opening ceremonies in Berlin.

1971 - "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" debuted on CBS. Then Sonny skied into a tree and died in January of 1998

1973 - "American Graffiti" (--directed by GEORGE LUCAS) opened in theaters . . . starring Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, Wolfman Jack AND MACKENZIE PHILLIPS.

1981 - MTV was launched in an estimated 2 million homes at 12:01 A.M. It started off with the words, "Ladies and gentleman, rock and roll." The first video shown was "Video Killed The Radio Star", by THE BUGGLES

1996 - MTV launched MTV2, which was weak-sauce in its early years, but is now far superior to the original MTV . . . because it actually, sometimes, plays videos.

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