September 9, 2011

• 55 years since Elvis Presley appeared on the Ed Sullivan show for the first time (September 9, 1956)


• 20 years since Tajikistan gained independence from the Soviet Union (1991)


• Adam Sandler turns 45 (born 1966)


• Statehood day in California

July 9, 2011 - American Actor Birthday Edition

Two of these Actors Have Won Oscars!

• American Actor Chris Cooper turns 60 (born 1951)


• American Actor Jimmy Smits turns 56 (born 1955)


• American Actor Tom Hanks turns 55 (born 1956)


• American Actress Kelly McGillis turns 53 (born 1957)


• American Child Actor Fred Savage turns 35 (born 1976)

March 10, 2011 - Birthday Edition

• Actress Olivia Wilde turns 28 (born 1984)
• Musician (and American Idol winner) Carrie Underwood turns 29 (born 1983)
• Actor Jon Hamm turns 40 (born 1971)
• Actress Sharon Stone 53 (born 1958)
• Extremist Osama bin Laden turn 54 (born 1957)
• Director/screenwriter/producer (and Oscar winner) Paul Haggis turns 59 (born 1953)
• Martial artist and actor Chuck Norris turns 72 (born 1940)

February 16, 2011

• 6 years since the NHL (National Hockey League) canceled the 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs due to a labor dispute (2005)
  
• 11 years since Hezbollah is founded (1985)
  
• Rapper and actor Ice-T turns 53 (born 1958)
  
• Actor and Reading Rainbow host LaVar Burton turns 54 (born 1957)
  
• North Korean leader Kim Jong-il turns 70 (born 1941)

February 14, 2011 - Other Than Valentine's Day...

Want to talk about something other than Valentine's Day? Here are some other "observances" associated with February 14...

• Statehood Day in Arizona and Oregon.
• Communist Martyr's Day (observed by the Iraqi Communist Party)
• Actor Freddie Highmore's birthday (he turns 19, born 1992)
• Oscar nominated actress Meg Tilly's birthday (she turns 51, born 1960)
• Magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) celebrates his birthday (he turns 63, born 1948)
• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg celebrate his birthday (he turns 69, born 1942)

February 11, 2011

• Sarah Palin turns 47 (born 1964)

February 4, 2011

• 109 years since the birth of Charles Lindbergh (he died 1974, born 1902)
• 105 years since the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (he died a maryr in 1945, born 1906)
• 98 years since the birth Rosa Parks (she died in 2005, born 1913)
• 75 years since Radium (automic number 88) is made synthetically, making it the first radioactive element to be made in this way (1936)
• Famous Zombie director George A. Romero turns 71 (born 1940)
• 70 years since the USO (United Services Organization) is created to entertain American troops (1941)
• Former Vice President Dan Quayle turns 64 (born 1947)
• Musician Alice Cooper turns 63 (born 1948)
• Musician Clint Black turns 49 (born 1962)
• Boxed Oscar De La Hoya turns 38 (born 1973)
• Musician Natalie Imbruglia turns 36 (born 1975)
• Gavin DeGraw turns 34 (born 1977)
• 7 years since Facebook launched. It's initial launched and limited to students at Harvard (2004).

January 31, 2011 - Birthday Edition

Justin Timberlake turns 30 (born 1981)
Portia de Rossi turns 38 (born 1973)
Minnie Driver turns 41 (born 1970)
Anthony La Paglia turns 52 (born 1959)
John Lyndon (lead singer for the Sex Pistols) turns 55 (born 1956)
Nolan Ryan turns 64 (born 1947)
Phillip Glass (composer) turn 74 (born 1937)
Ernie Banks turns 80 (born 1931)

Note: In addition to baseball greats Ernie Banks and Nolan Ryan sharing a birthday, Jackie Robinson's birthday was January 31st as well (born 1919). He died in 1972 at the age of 53.

January 12, 2011 - Birthday Edition

• English singer Pixie Lott turns 20 (born 1991)
• English actress Gemma Arterton turns 25 (born 1986)
• Comporary Christian music artist Jeremy Camp turns 33 (born 1978)
• Melanie Chisholm (aka "Sporty Spice" of the Spice Girls) turns 37 (born 1974)
• Heather Mills, model and former wife of Paul McCartney, turns 43 (born 1968)
• American heavy metal rock legend Rod Zombie turns 46 (born 1965)
• Jeff Bezos, founder and chairman of Amazon.com turns 47 (born 1964)
• American Actor Oliver Platt turns 51 (born 1960)
• Shock Jock Howard Stern turns 57 (born 1954)
• Conservative radio host actovist Rush Limbaugh turns 60 (born 1951)
• Former Heavy Weight Champion Joe Frazier (Smokin' Joe) turns 67 (born 1944)

January 5, 2011 - Birthday Edition

• January Jones, famous for her role in the TV series Mad Men, turns 33 (I've always wondered if she was born in January, looks like she was) (born 1978)
• Marilyn Manson, the controversial musician turns 42 (born 1969) (Manson's birth name was Brian Hugh Warner)
• George Tenet, CIA director CIA director under Bill Clinton & George W Bush (1997-2004) turns 58 (born 1953)
• Actress Diane Keaton turns 65 (born 1946)
• American talk show host and journalist Charlie Rose turns 69 (born 1942)
• American actor Robert Duvall turns 80 (born 1931)
• Walter Mondale, Vice President under Jimmy Carter turns 83 (born 1928)

January 3, 2011

• 515 years since Leonardo Da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine (1496)
• 490 years since Martin Luther was ex communicated by Pope Leo X in the Decet Romanum Pontificem
• 119 years since the birth of J.R.R. Tolkein author of the Lord of The Rings trilogy
• 100 years since the birth of film director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape)
• 86 years since Benito Mussolini announced taking power over Italy
• 55 years since the top of Eiffel Tower is damaged by Fire
• 50 years since the US ends diplomatic relationship with Cuba
• 49 years since Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro
• Eli Manning, Quarterback of the New York Giants, turns 30 (b. 1981)
• January 3 is the Christian feast of St. Genevieve, patron saint of Paris

December 28, 2010

Just a few days remaining in the year? What will you blog about. Here are some ideas.

• 65 years ago the United States congress officially recognized The Pledge of Allegiance (1945)
• 10 years ago retailer Montogomery Ward officially announced it's going out of business (2010)
• 154 years since the birth of 28th President Woodrow Wilson
• American comic book legend Stan Lee turns 88 (born 1922)
• Actress Dame Maggie Smith turns 76 (born 1934)
• Musician John Legend turns 32 (born 1978)
• American Idol runner-up David Archulete turns 20 (born 1990)
• In the tradition of celebrating the 12 days of Christmas, today is the fourth day of Christmas

December 19, 2010

• 69 years ago Adolf Hitler became Commander-in-Chief of the German Army (1941)
  
• 27 years ago the original FIFA World Cup Trophy (the Jules Rimet Trophy) is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio De Jeneiro. The trophy has never been recovered (1983)
  
• 111 years since the birth of Martin Luther King, Sr. (born 1899, he died 1984)
  
• Jake Gyllenhaal turns 30 (born 1980)
  
• Anniversary of the death of Emily Bronte (died 1848)

December 13, 2010 - Celebirty Birthdays

• Musical Starlet Taylor Swift turns 21 (born 1989)
• Tom DeLonge (guitarist of Blink-182, Angels and Airwaves) turns 35 (born 1975)
• University of Nebraska College Football coach Bo Pelini turns 43 (born 1967)
• Musician, Actor, Oscar winner Jamie Fox turns 43 (born 1967)
• One of the Coen Brother's favorite actor Steve Buscemi turns 53 (born 1957)
• Actor Christopher Plummer turns 81 (born 1929)
• Actor/Comedian Dick Van Dyke turn 85 (born 1925)

December 6, 2010

• 4 years ago since NASA revealed pictures from Mars Global Surveyor indicating that there may be water on Mars (1996)
  
• Ulf Ekberg, founding member of Swedish 90s sensation Ace of Base turns 40
  
• Christkind, a day in central Europe that is a gift giving day with the view that the baby-Jesus-like-sprite brings gift to children
  
• The main feast of St. Nicholas for whom the Santa Clause tradition is based. Saint Nicholas day is celebrate December 6 in many parts of Europe through gift-giving.
  
• The 2nd "season" of NBC's television show The Sing-Off premiers. The five episode show is a reality competition game-show that features accapella vocalist

November 30, 2010

• 70 years since Lucielle Ball married Dezi Arnez (1940)
  
• 15 years since the official end to Operation Desert Storm (1995)
  
• Billy Idol turns 55 (born 1955)
  
• 110 years since the death of Oscar Wilde (died 1900)
  
• Today is Cities for Life Day which celebrated by cities and countries that are opposed to the death penalty. The date is marked by the abolition of the death penalty by Joseph of Habsberg-Lorraine in 1786 for his grand Dutchy of Tuscany. Cities that participate mark the occassion typically by illuminating symbolic statues or building.

November 28, 2010

• College Football/BCS: Today the BCS rankings will reveal which Big 10 team is the division champion and will go to the Rose Bowl since there is a three way tie (Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan State)
  
• College Football/BCS: Similarly today's rankings will reveal which team in the Big 12 South will go on to play Nebraska in the Big 12 Championship next week for the opportunity to play in the Fiesta Bowl (3 way tie between: Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, and Texas A&M)
  
• American Actor Ed Harris turns 60 today (born November 28, 1950)
  
• 35 years ago East Timor declared it's independence from Portugal
  
• Other countries celebrating their Independence today include Albania (independence from the Ottoman Empire, 1912) and Mauritania (independence from France, 1960)

November 27, 2010

• 5 years ago the first partial human face transplant is performed in France by Dr. Bernard Devauchelle (2005). [note: earlier this year (March 20, 2010) the first full face transplant was performed by 30 spanish doctors, a second similar surgery happened later this year in July]
  
• If Bruce Lee were still alive, today he'd be 70 (born Nov 27, 2010). He died at the age of 32 (July 20, 1973)
  
• 915 years ago Pope Urban II declares the start of the First Crusade at the Counsel of Clermont (1095 AD)

November 23, 2010

• 30 years since the Italian Earthquakes that killed 5000 people (1980)
  
• Miley Cyrus turns 18 (born 1992)
  
• Previous performances continue to get new life, The Doors release a "new" CD: The Doors - Live In Vancouver 1970 (2CD)
  

November 20, 2010

• 25 years ago Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released (1985)
• Vice President Joe Biden turns 68 (born 1942)
• Today, a very unique football game at Wrigley Field where Northwest and Illinois will be playing using only one end zone for offensive plays (here's the ESPN.com link for more info) expect this to be a famous game discussed today, in the future, and in trivial pursuit games for many years to come.