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October 22nd Really Should Be a Holiday
Curly Howard (Jerome Lester Horwitz) was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, on this date in 1903. The most popular of the Three Stooges, Curly had no formal training and was often improvising. According...
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October 26th
Pat Conroy is 70 today. Pat Sajak’s wheel of fortune has spun for 69 years. Hillary Rodham Clinton is 68 today. Westley is 53. That’s actor Cary Elwes. And it’s the birthday of Mahalia Jackson, born in...
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Bill Gates, the former resident of Albuquerque, is 60 today. Julia Roberts is 48 today. The developer of the first polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk was born on this date in 1914. He created the vaccine at...
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Why is today not a national holiday? Grace Slick is 76. Otis Williams of The Temptations is 74. Henry “The Fonz” Winkler is 70. And, bless me, Rudolfo Anaya is 78.
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… is Daniel Boone’s birthday. He was born in 1734 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and died in 1820 in Missouri. Presidents James Knox Polk (1795 North Carolina) and Warren G. Harding (1865 Ohio) were...
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“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.” Will Rogers, born 136 years ago today (1879) in Oologah, Oklahoma. [Foremost factoid about...
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Best Line by Someone Born This Date
“Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm…” Opening line of Gone with the Wind, written by Margaret Mitchell, who was born 115 years ago today (1900). Miss...
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Eleven Eleven Fifteen
Today really ought to be a national holiday. Oh, wait, it is a holiday. Leonardo DiCaprio is 41 today. Calista Flockhart, Mrs. Harrison Ford, is 51. (He’s 73. [(73/2) + 7] = 44. They’re good.) The late...
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Wallace Shawn (72). Al Michaels (71). Booker T. Jones (71). Anne Hathaway (33). Grace Kelly (1929). And the 200th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (d. 1902). November 12th has...
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November 14th
Today is the birthday of Astrid Lindgren, born Astrid Ericsson in Sweden in 1907. She’s the creator of Pippi Longstocking, a nine-year-old girl with no parents who lives in a red house at the edge of a...
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November 15th Should Be a Holiday
Georgia O’Keefe was born November 15, 1887. In 1929 O’Keeffe took a vacation with her friend Beck Strand to Taos, New Mexico. The trip would forever alter the course of her life. In love with the open...
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Ed Asner is 86 today. Sam Waterston is 75. Petula Clark is 83. “Downtown” was 51 years ago! When you’re alone And life is making you lonely You can always go Downtown
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Hey, We Can All Sing ‘Happy Birthday’ for Free Now
Larry King, 82. Dick Cavett. He’s 79. Ted Turner, 77. Ann Curry. She’s 59. Jodie Foster, 53. Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella was born on November 19, 1921. A star with both the bat and glove, Roy...
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Today is the birthday … of Don DeLillo. The winner of the National Book Award for fiction is 79 today. He won for White Noise and was also nominated for Underworld. … of comedian Dick Smothers. The...
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November 25th
Andrew Carnegie was born on this date in 1835. He died in 1919. Until he was a septuagenarian, Andrew Carnegie believed that he was born in 1837. Then on a return visit to his native town in Scotland...
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December 3rd Should Be a National Holiday
Gilbert Stuart was born on this date in 1755. Because he portrayed virtually all the notable men and women of the Federal period in the United States, Gilbert Stuart was declared the “Father of...
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Today is the birthday of The Dude and Mona Lisa Vito. Jeff Bridges. The six-time Oscar nominee — three for supporting, three for leading, winning for Crazy Heart — is 66. He received his first Oscar...
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Day of Infamy True, but December 7th Should Be a National Holiday
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Eli Wallach. This from his Times obituary in 2014: A self-styled journeyman actor, the versatile Mr. Wallach appeared in scores of roles, often with his...
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December 9th Ought to Be a National Holiday
Kirk Douglas is 99 today. The three-time Oscar nominee was born Issur Danielovitch Demsky in Amsterdam, New York. The 10 Best Kirk Douglas Movies NewMexiKen’s favorite Douglas performance is in Lonely...
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December 10th Really Ought to Be a National Holiday
Melvil Dewey was born on December 10th in 1851. You know — Dewey, as in Dewey decimal system. Dr. Dewey had a passion for efficiency, for time and labor saving methods. He was born at Adams Centre,...
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