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hakira turns 35 years old today. (4-foot-11 Grammy award-winning Latina PIECE OF CARNE ASS-ADA!!! Her name means "woman full of grace".)
Marissa Jaret Winokur Actress 40 HAIRSPRAY
Robert DeLeo - 47 (Stone Temple Pilots)
Christie Brinkley Model 59 married, then divorced, the piano man Billy Joel. Her last husband got tired of schtupping her and decided to grab himself a piece of his 19-year-old assistant Brent Spiner Actor 64 Lieutenant Commander Data on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
Barry Diller, TV-film executive, turns 71.. pretends to like women..is super rich..and helped create expedia and a bunch of other businesses.
Bo Hopkins Actor 71
Graham Nash - 71 (Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young.
Elaine Stritch Actress 87 Salty old Broadway broad
Liz Smith - 90 ( gossip columnist.)
Farrah Fawcett - Would have been 66 - (1947 - 2009)
1536 The Argentine city of Buenos Aires was founded.
1863 - In Carson City, Nevada, a journalist by the name of SAMUEL CLEMENS sent a report to the "Virginia City Enterprise", and for the first time he used the name that we would eventually know him by . . . MARK TWAIN.
1887 Punxsutawney, Pa., held its first Groundhog Day festival.
1957 - Fats Domino sang "Blueberry Hill" and "Blue Monday" on the "Perry Como Show" on television.
1959 - Frankie Avalon's "Venus" was released.
1959 - The Coasters song, "Charlie Brown," was released.
1963 - The Beatles began their first British tour supporting Helen Spapiro.
1969 - Horror legend BORIS KARLOFF died at 81. He's most famous for playing the Frankenstein monster, which was deathly afraid of fire. Karloff died of emphysema, which is often caused by smoking. Coincidence? I think not.
1973 - NBC-TV debuted "Midnight Special."
1973 - Keith Emerson injures his hands when a rigged piano prematurely explodes during a concert in San Francisco.
1978 - Van Halen signed with Warner Brothers Records.
1979 - At the age of 21, ex-Sex Pistol bass player Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in the New York City apartment of his present girlfriend, Michelle Robinson.
1985 - O.J. SIMPSON married NICOLE BROWN. She divorced O.J. in 1992 on grounds of adultery and abuse . . . so he killed her AND young RON GOLDMAN two years later.
1993 - Willie Nelson and the IRS settle their longstanding tax feud. The U.S. government kept $3.6 million in assets it had already seized and Nelson would have to pay $5.4 million of the $13.1 million balance.
1996 - "Singing in the Rain" superstar GENE KELLY died at 83.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton introduced the first balanced budget in 30 years.
1999 - Prince released "1999 New Master." It was a re-release and re-done version of the 1982 version of the song "1999."
2002 - Britney Spears was the host and musical guest on NBC's "Saturday Night Live."
2004 - It was reported that a white powder had been found in an office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) later confirmed that the powder was the poison ricin.
2007 The world's leading climate scientists said global warming has begun, is "very likely" caused by humans and will be unstoppable for centuries.
