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Friday, March 12, 2010

On this day in...


On this day in...
1664 – New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
1894 – In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint-Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.
1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "fireside chats".
1993 – North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
2003 – Missing teen Elizabeth Smart is found in Sandy, Utah.

Births
1922 – Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
1936 – Eddie Sutton, College basketball coach
1945 – Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, American gangster
1946 – Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
1953 – Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor
1958 – Matt Millen, American football player
1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor

Pretty decent list of birthdays today with a famous author, a drunk coach, a mob snitch, a bad singer, a famous porn actor and the worst general manager of all-time. But I'm highlighting Mr. Two Face, Aaron Eckhart. Here's the trailer for his movie 'Thank You For Smoking.'

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