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Tweety Bird Day

Tweety debuted in

"A Tale of Two Kitties" in 1942

and first said his famous line,

"I tawt I taw a puddy tat."

He was in two more cartoons

before he was teamed with

Sylvester in "Tweetie Pie" (1947). That cartoon won an Oscar

for Warner Bros., and a winning combination of characters was born. In 1952,
the pair got their own comic book and in 1998 they were

on a U.S. postage stamp.







On this date in . . .
1789

Alexander Hamilton Appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury.
1850

"Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind Gives 1st US Concert.
1875

1st Newspaper Cartoon Strip.
1883

James Cutler Patents Postal Mail Chute.

1921

Fatty Arbuckle, one of the top comedians of silent movies,

was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of a starlet

in an alleged sexual assault during a wild drinking party.

Arbuckle eventually was cleared but his career had been ruined.
1950

"Beetle Bailey" Comic Strip Debuts.

1954

California's 19 Year Old Lee Ann Meriwether was Crowned Miss America

in the first televised pageant. John Daly hosted the show on ABC.

Lee Ann became a regular on "The Clear Horizon," "The Time Tunnel,"

"The New Andy Griffith Show," "Barnaby Jones," "The New Masquerade Party,"
"The New Munsters," and "All My Children."

1971

The animated TV series The Jackson Five, featuring the voices of the

five Jackson brothers, debuted on ABC.

1981

First Lady Nancy Reagan spent $200 thousand on new china for the White
House. She said they really needed it.

1974

"Little House on the Prairie" premiered on NBC TV, starring Michael Landon,

Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson and twins

Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush.

1984

Singer Barbara Mandrell was seriously injured in a head on traffic crash

in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

1985

Cincinnati Red Pete Rose's 4,192nd hit broke Ty Cobb's career record.

President Ronald Reagan congratulated Rose by phone.

1987

When a tennis tournament ran overtime, anchor Dan Rather walked off the set

of "CBS Evening News" and didn't return. When the tennis coverage ended,

CBS went black for six minutes.

1992

An electrician at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville

suffered serious burns while performing routine maintenance on the electric
chair.

1994

Actress Jessica Tandy died of cancer at age 86.

She starred on Broadway in "A Streetcar Named Desire."

She won Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy."

1996

David Bowie's "Telling Lies" was released on his Web site,

the first single by a major recording artist released exclusively on the
Internet.

1997

Mother Teresa received the first state funeral accorded a private citizen

of India since the death of Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1948.

It was attended by foreign heads of state and other dignitaries,

including U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

2003

Actor John Ritter died in Los Angeles at age 54.

2003

Two men handed the clerk in a Mishawaka, Indiana, 7 11 store a note that
said,

"Put it in the bag." The clerk said she didn't understand the note.

The two began to argue over how the note was worded,

then left the store empty handed.









TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
1862 - O Henry, AKA, William Sydney Porter, (Short Story Writer)
1885 - David Herbert "DH" Lawrence (Writer of Lady Chatterly's Lover)

1928 - Earl Holliman (Actor)
1932 - Valentino (Fashion Designer for Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis)
1939 - Lola Falana (Singer, Liberation of LB Jones)
1940 - Brian DePalma (Film Director of Body Double, Dressed to Kill)
1962 - Kristy McNichol (Actress, Buddy in Family, Barbara in Empty Nest)

1963 - Virginia Madsen (Actress)

1964 - Ellis Burks (Baseball Player)

1967 - Harry Connick, Jr. (Singer)

1970 - Laura Wright (Actress)

1977 - Ludacris (Rapper)

1978 - Ryan Slattery (Actor)

1979 - Ariana Richards (Actress)


















Thought for the day...

"I have learned two lessons in my life:

first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological

or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones.

Second, just as despair can come to one another only from

other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only

by other human beings."

Elie Wiesel



Today's Joke

A panhandler asks Jim Tallas on the street for $5.

"Will you buy booze?" Jim asks.

"No," says the panhandler, "I don't drink."

"Will you gamble it away?"

"No, I don't go in for gambling."

"Will you make bets at the golf course?"

"No, I don't play golf."

Then Jim asks, "Will you come home with me?

I'd like my wife Susan to see what happens

to a man who doesn't drink, gamble or play golf."










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$200,000 in china!?

in one day!?

Well, they really NEEDED it...