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2009-04-07
Posted by:Fred

#4  After looking at CT alert I realized that CT has nothing to do with computerized tomography.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-04-07 16:28  

#3  Ah, Billie Holiday. Fantastic voice, tragic life.
Posted by: Pappy   2009-04-07 13:31  

#2  Page after Page of Gam after Gam



CT Alert

Carted off

Daily Gam shot

No, I'm not on a Water Polo team.

Two piece suit - Suit + Belt

Trial Ballons

The lace curtains are missing

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2009-04-07 01:26  

#1  Happy Birthday: April 7th

Walter Camp - died 1925 (65) "Father of American Football"

Allen Welsh Dulles - died 1969 (75) "Director of Central Intelligence"

Billie Holiday - died 1959 (44) "Eleanora Fagan - 'Lady Sings the Blues'"

James Garner - 81 "James Scott Bumgarner - Bret Maverick" (Now)

Wayne Rogers - 76 "M*A*S*H - Economist" (Now)

Francis Ford Coppola - 70 "Director, vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier." (Now)

Tony Dorsett - 55 "#33 Dallas Cowboys" (Now)

On this day in history: April 7th
1795 – France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
1805 – First public performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony (Eroica).
1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match. He had invented it the previous year.
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1927 – First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1945 – The Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction was reversed on appeal).
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2009-04-07 00:35  

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