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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

On this day in...


On this day in...
1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
1942 – Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
2003 – Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.

Births
1820 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910)
1918 – Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953)
1925 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player
1935 – Felipe Alou, Dominican baseball player and manager
1936 – Tom Snyder, American television personality (d. 2007)
1948 – Steve Winwood, British musician (Traffic)
1950 – Billy Squier, American singer
1951 – George Karl, American basketball player and head coach
1959 – Ving Rhames, American actor
1962 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
1966 – Stephen Baldwin, American actor
1968 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
1969 – Kim Fields, American actress
1970 – Jim Furyk, American golfer
1975 – Lawrence Phillips, American football player
1978 – Jason Biggs, American actor
1979 – Andre Carter, American football player
1979 – Steve Smith, American football player
1990 – Jacory Harris, American football player

Huge list of birthdays today with a famous nurse and a Russian spy. Plus the worlds of music, acting and sports are well represented. There were a lot of ways I could have gone with the feature - the best quotes of Yogi Berra, the saga of Lawrence Phillips, Jim screwing the pie or Emilio Estevez in 'The Breakfast Club.' But I'm going with a nod to Steve Winwood from the gang at 'It's Aways Sunny in Philadelphia.'



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