Happy Birthday 11/30

Today is Play Hooky Day
• 25 days to Christmas
• 54 days until the Year of the Dragon

CRISCO! (23)
Kaley Cuoco - 26 ("Big Bang Theory")
Elisha Cuthbert - 29 ("24" "The Girl Next Door")
Clemence Poesy - 29 ("Harry Potter")
Amy Ryan - 42 ("The Office")
Ben Stiller - 46
Bo Jackson - 49 (Heisman Trophy winner)
Billy Idol - 56
Ridley Scott - 74 (Director of "Alien", "Gladiator", "Blade Runner", "Black Rain", "Thelma & Louise", "Hannibal", "Black Hawk Down" and the most recent "Robin Hood".)
G. Gordon Liddy - 81
Dick Clark - 82
Winston Churchill - (1874 - 1965)
MARK TWAIN - (1835 - 1910)

1887 - In Chicago, the FIRST SOFTBALL GAME was played. It was originally called "Indoor Baseball". They used a broomstick for a bat and a boxing glove for a ball.

1940 - LUCILLE BALL and DESI ARNAZ were married. They divorced in 1960.

2004 - KEN JENNINGS ended his 74-game winning streak on "JEOPARDY!". His earnings on the show totaled an incredible $3,022,700!

RHCP tour

Here are the first dates of RHCP's 2012 tour:

Jan. 25: Charlotte, N.C. (Time Warner Cable Arena)
Jan. 27: Raleigh, N.C. (RBC Center)
Jan. 28: Columbia, S.C. (ColonialLife Arena)
Jan. 30: Duluth, Ga. (Gwinnett Arena)
Jan. 31: Greensboro, N.C. (Greensboro Coliseum)
Feb. 3: Memphis, Tenn. (FedEx Forum)
Read more HERE

Happy Birthday 11/29

Today is Throw out the leftovers day
• 26 days to Christmas
• 55 days until the Year of the Dragon

Anna Faris - 35 ("Scary Movie")
Gena Lee Nolin - 40 ("Baywatch")
Jonathan Knight - 43 (NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK)
Don Cheadle - 47 (Oceans 11, 12, 13)
Howie Mandel - 56 ("Deal or No Deal")
Jerry "The King" Lawler - 62 (WWE announcer)

1890 - The first ARMY - NAVY FOOTBALL GAME was played at West Point. Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-to-zero.

1959 - The Grammys were shown on television for the first time. BOBBY DARIN won Best New Artist AND Record of the Year for "Mack The Knife".

Happy Birthday 11/28

Today is Cyber Monday!
• 27 days to Christmas
• 56 days until the Year of the Dragon

Scarlett Pomers - 23 ("Reba")
Ryan Kwanten - 35 ("True Blood")
Matt Cameron - 49 (Drummer in Pearl Jam)
JON STEWART - 49 ("Daily Show")
Anna Nicole Smith - Would have been 44 - (1967 - 2007)

1895 - The FIRST AUTOMOBILE RACE was held. It took place over 52 miles of snowy roads from Chicago to Waukegan, Illinois. The winner was James Franklin Duryea, who won $2,000.

1948 - The very first POLAROID CAMERAS, invented by EDWIN H. LAND, went on sale.

Funny or Die

Earlier this month, some Detroit Lions fans FREAKED when NICKELBACK was selected to play the halftime show of the Thanksgiving game between the Lions and the Green Bay Packers. Someone started an online petition asking that Nickelback be replaced, and it's picked up over 55,000 supporters. But it didn't work. The band is going to perform. However, Nickelback did participate in a Funny or Die video . . . in which they joke about the "controversy" and poke fun at themselves. WARNING: It includes UNCENSORED profanity!!

Nickelback pokes fun at themselves on FunnyOrDie.com. Check it out HERE

New Records

Last Thursday was Guinness World Records Day, where people around the world are encouraged to break records. The results started coming out over the weekend . . . here are some of the highlights.

World's largest 3D painting: There's an artist named Joe Hill who does incredible street art, and he made a 12,491-square-foot painting that looks like cliffs and a waterfall . . . but it's on the ground at a park in London.

World's longest chocolate bar: A chef in Bologna, Italy made a 49.2-foot long, 6.66-foot wide chocolate bar last week to set the record.

World's largest tea bag: A company in Portsmouth, England called All About Tea set this record with a 264.5-pound tea bag that's almost eight feet tall and wide.

Most People in One Pair of Underwear: Read more HERE