Thursday, August 4, 2011

Happy Birthday 8/4


Today is Kentucky Fried Chicken Day (Opened in 1952)!
There are 88 days to Halloween.
There are 143 shopping days left until Xmas.

Cole & Dylan Sprouse - 19
NASCAR's Jeff Gordon - 40
Daniel Dae Kim - 43
Roger Clemens - 49
Barack Obama - 50
Billy Bob Thornton - 56
Louis Armstrong - (1901 - 1971)

1790 - The present day COAST GUARD began as the Revenue Cutter Service.

1892 - Sunday school teacher LIZZIE BORDEN was arrested in Fall River, Massachusetts, and charged with the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother. She was later acquitted.

1922 - AT&T and the Bell Systems shut down ALL their switchboards in memory of ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, who had died two days earlier. All 13 million telephones in the U.S. and Canada went absolutely dead for one minute in his honor.

1944 - The Gestapo raided the secret annex of a house in Amsterdam where the Frank family had been hiding for two years to avoid extermination by the Nazis during World War Two. They arrested eight people, including 14-year-old ANNE FRANK.

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