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Friday, September 18, 2009

On this day in...


On this day in...
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City.
1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which would become The New York Times.
1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD $1 billion to the United Nations.

Births
1933 – Robert Blake, American actor
1939 – Frankie Avalon, American musician
1952 – Rick Pitino, American basketball coach
1954 – Tommy Tuberville, American football coach
1964 – Holly Robinson Peete, American actress
1967 – Ricky Bell, American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
1968 – Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
1971 – Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
1971 – Jada Pinkett Smith, American model and actress
1974 – Xzibit, American rapper
1975 – Jason Sudeikis, American actor and comedian

Excellent b-day date. So good I can't even really single one person out and that includes Lance Armstong. He rode a bike for a living. Let's not go crazy over it. Puck did that on 'Real World 3' and all he got was booted out of the house.

So I figured the only respectable thing to do on the day Tiffany and Co. was founded is to play Deep Blue Something's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. Unfortunately they disabled the embedding option. You think that's going to stop me?


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