People Who Share My Birthday!

People Who Share My Birthday!

1 MARY HIGGINS CLARK 84 Her first suspense novel was "Where Are the Children?" 2 RYAN SEACREST 37 Host of TV's "American Idol" and his "On-Air" talk show 3 ANIL KAPOOR 52 Indian-born actor and producer, played TV show host Prem Kumar in "Slumdog Millionaire." 4 MATT PASSMORE 39 Jim Longworth in the drama series "The Glades" 5 RICKY MARTIN 40 Spanish/English pop singer of "Livin' La Vida Loca" 6 JESUS SILVA  (1971-1993) Better known as "Oro," the influential wrestler who died from a stunt gone wrong inside the ring 7 AMAURY NOLASCO 41 Played good-hearted criminal Fernando Sucre in TV show "Prison Break" and the swindler Segarra in "Rum Diary." 8 JAY BILAS 48 Former college athlete turned analyst for ESPN and CBS sports 9 GRAND L. BUSH 56 Actor in "Lethal Weapon" and "Die Hard" plus many TV series 10 AVA GARDNER  (1922-1990) Actress in Hemingway's "The Killers" married Frank Sinatra 11 BILL DUDLEY  (1921-2010) Hall of fame defensive back and kicker for the Pittsburgh Steelers 12 HOWARD HUGHES  (1905-1976) Aviation millionaire became a movie producer and recluse 13 EDWARD HARRIMAN  (1895-1978) Financier and founder of the Harriman Brothers & Company, now part of the $1.3 billion Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. finance firm 14 GEORGES GUYNEMER  (1894-) French ace WW I pilot and national hero 15 JOHNNY GRUELLE  (1880-1938) Illustrator/storyteller originated Raggedy Ann and Andy 16 MATTHEW ARNOLD  (1822-1888) English poet wrote the melancholy masterpiece, "Dover Beach". 17 KIT CARSON  (1809-1868) Western trapper, scout, soldier against Mexico and Navajo 18 STEPHENIE MEYER 38 Writer of vampire series "Twilight", considered to be one of the most influential people by Times magazine and Forbes.

Article Source: http://www.famousbirthdays.com/december24.html

Blessings & Joy,

Dean

"Birthday" by The Beatles FUNNY

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On This Date in History!

On This Date in History!

This Day in History for 24th December

Historical Events

563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.
640 - John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1046 - Pope Clement II, [Suitger] elected
1294 - Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani chosen as Pope Boniface VIII
1476 - 400 Burgundian soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy
1515 - Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor
1565 - Compromise of the Nobles closes against inquisition
1568 - Uprising of Morisco's in Granada
1593 - Storm hits Texel: 40 ships hit, 500 killed
1651 - John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope
1715 - Swedish troops occupy Norway
1724 - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
1777 - Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook
1798 - Russia & England sign Second anti-French Coalition
1799 - Jakobijns plot against Napoleon uncovered
1814 - Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed
1818 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
1818 - Franz Xaver Gruber composes "Silent Night"
1832 - 1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Ga
United States founding father Benjamin Franklin1832 - HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver
1851 - Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
1851 - US Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn
1860 - Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in NYC
1864 - Battle of Gordonsville, VA
1865 - Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
1871 - Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
1874 - Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875
1884 - Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 - Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
1893 - Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
1894 - Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm
1894 - Soccer team Achilles '94 forms in Axes
1898 - Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam
1900 - Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford1904 - German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children
1906 - Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
1910 - Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
1912 - Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
1914 - German plane drops bombs on Dover England
1920 - Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (NYC)
1922 - BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"
1922 - London Coloseum opens
1924 - 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
1924 - Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
1924 - Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th NYC
1924 - School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die
1927 - Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 & took 5-36 v S Af
1928 - George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St NYC
1930 - Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
1930 - F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa," premieres in Madrid
1932 - Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile
1933 - Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)
1934 - Grimmett takes 9-180 for SA as Queensland make 430
1935 - Bradman scores 233 in 191 mins, SA v Queensland, 28 fours 1 six
1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms
1936 - 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
1937 - Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia
1939 - World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
1941 - 1st ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan
1942 - 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany
1942 - Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk
1943 - FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
1943 - Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines," premieres in London
1946 - 4th French republic established
1946 - US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazi's" amnesty
1946 - France's Fourth Republic is founded.
1948 - 1st US house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover Mass)
1948 - Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship
1950 - Cleveland Browns win NFL championship, beat LA 30-28
1951 - 1st televised opera (Amahl & Night Visitor)
1951 - United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN
1953 - 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
1953 - KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - René Coty elected pres of France
1953 - Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
1954 - Council for the Children Protection forms in Neth
1954 - Laos gains its independence
1956 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
1956 - Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt
1960 - Dutch bishops question papacy values
1961 - Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Greek & Turks riot in Cyprus
1964 - Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
1966 - "Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1966 - Luna 13 lands on Moon
1966 - USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
1967 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1967 - Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
1968 - Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
1968 - WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
1970 - Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
1971 - Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
1973 - Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
1973 - District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
1974 - Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year
1979 - 1st Ariane-rocket launched
1980 - Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1981 - Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa & Lisa Evers marry
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
1984 - Palace coup in Mauritania
1986 - French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
1986 - Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab
1989 - Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
1989 - Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy
1990 - Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon & Barry Jones
1990 - Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
1992 - Pres Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger of Iran-contra affair
1994 - 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers
1997 - 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City
1997 - The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
1997 - The Dominican Republic becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2000 - The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery.
2003 - The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.

Article Source: http://www.historyorb.com/day/december/24

But not only all that, 

but on this date in history, 

my favorite me was born!

Blessings & Joy,

Dean

Best of all is The One Whose Birth
we celebrate the next day ...

Nativity Story: The Birth of Christ 

- The Visit of the Shepherds and the Magi

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