Happy Birthday m&mgem!

1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen
1968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning
1968 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured
1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
1969 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)
1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
1972 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3230
1974 Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits the rock group "Yes"
1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1979 The Source, 1st computer public information service, goes online
1979 Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
1982 Los Angeles beats Phila 76ers, for the NBA championship
1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
1983 Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
1985 Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve
becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit HRs in the same game
1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
1986 Boston Celtics win NBA championship #16 over Houston Rockets
1986 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
1990 Phil Bradley hits the 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1991 Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
1991 Monica Seles beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 6-3, 6-4 for French Open
2004 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs

emeraldgem

6/8/2008 11:34:22 AM | IP

Planet Sign House Sun

::puts on party hat and begins to sing a little off-key::

......happy birth-day to youuuuuuuuuu!

If Today Is Your Birthday:

June 8, 2008 -- The moon's eclipse of Mars on your birthday will bring you into contact with people who are ambitious, assertive and even aggressive. That's good. It will toughen you up considerably, and the tougher you are the more you will accomplish over the coming 12 months.

On This Day:

On this day...
452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
570 Relgion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold (NY)
1815 39 German states unite under the Act of Confederation
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
1862 Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)
1875 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #146 Lucina
1887 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #268 Adorea
1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 6 Napoleons" (BG)
1915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State
1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
1923 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #995 Sternberga
1927 Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botonical Garden, 12' calla lily
1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1948 "The Milton Berle Show" premiers on NBC TV
1948 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
1950 Boston Red Sox beats St Louis Browns 29-4
1953 Cluster of 6 tornaodes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1953 Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio
1959 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Fla)
1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
1966 NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970

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