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On This Day in History and Celebrity Birthdays: February 1 2014: Lisa Marie Presley - Bill Mummy - Garrett Morris

 85  Stuart Whitman Actor  

Don Everly - 76  (The Everly Brothers.  Biggest 1950s hits:  "Bye Bye Love", "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Wake Up, Little Susie".)

Garrett Morris 77 Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live") (First Nubian cast-member on "SNL".  Also Uncle Junior on the "Jamie Foxx Show", and Stan on "Martin".)

Joy Philbin 73, TV personality and gets to touch regis's peen anytime shewants.

 Bill Mumy 60  (Smooth, young Will Robinson on "Lost in Space"!!!)  (He also

wished people into the cornfield in the CLASSIC "Twilight Zone" episode, "It's a Good Life"!!!)
 
49     Linus Roache Actor ("Law and Order") 

Princess Stephanie of Monaco (48)

 

48     Sherilyn Fenn Actress

46     Lisa Marie Presley Rock singer, daughter of Elvis Presley, ex wife of Dead michael Jackson

Pauly Shore 46 ( soooo.. over..Bloated and now runs the COMEDY STORE)

43     Michael C. Hall Actor

Lauren Conrad (27) reality Has been

Sherman Hemsley Actor (February 1, 1938 – July 24, 2012) would have been 75 (George Jefferson on "The Jeffersons" . . . honky!!!)

Boris Yeltsin - Would have been 83 - (1931 - 2007)  (May be permanently preserved in WODKA.)

RICK JAMES - Would have been 65 - (1948 - 2004)  ("Superfreak" [slash] super crack-head.)

Brandon Lee - (1965 - 1993)  (Bruce Lee's son, who died from a gunshot wound by a faulty prop gun while making "The Crow".)

Clark Gable - (1901 - 1960)  (Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind".  They say undershirt sales dropped 75% after he went topless in the 1934 flick, "It Happened One Night".

 

 1861 Texas voted to secede from the Union.

1976 - "Sonny and Cher" resumed on TV despite a real life divorce.

1979 - Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a seven-year sentence for bank robbery. Her sentence had been commuted by U.S. President Carter.

1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was welcomed in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.

1982 "Late Night with David Letterman" premiered on NBC.

1987 - Terry Williams won the largest slot machine payoff, at the time, when won $4.9 million after getting four lucky 7s on a machine in Reno, NV.

1991 - A USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane at Los Angeles International Airport. 35 people were killed.

1994 - Jeff Gillooly plead guilty in Portland, OR, for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, struck a plea bargain under which he confessed to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony implicating Harding.

1996 - Visa and Mastercard announced security measures that would make it safe to shop on the Internet.

1998 - Stuart Whitman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1999 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against U.S. President Clinton.

2001 - Three Scottish judges found Abdel Basset al-Mergrahi guilty of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. The court said that Megrahi was a member of the Libyan intelligence service. Al-Amin Khalifa, who had been co-accused, was acquitted and freed.

2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.

2004 Singer Janet Jackson's breast was briefly exposed during a duet with Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl halftime show. Timberlake later referred to the incident as a "wardrobe malfunction.

On This Day in History and Celebrity Birthdays: January 31 2014: Justin Timberlake- Carol Channing - Mimmie Driver

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Justin Timberlake turns 33 years old today. (GETS TO NAIL JESSICA BIEL ANYTIME HE WANTS TO

Joel Courtney - 18  (The star of "Super 8".  He'll be one of the leads in "The Healer" later this year, and in 2013 he's playing Tom Sawyer in "Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn".)

Bobby Moynihan, Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live"), turns 37

Portia de Rossi, 41 Actress (Ellen's real-life gorgeous lesbian wife"Arrested Development," "Ally McBeal"),muff dives ..a lot!!

Minnie Driver, Actress, turns 44 Matt Damon & John Cusack used to schtupp her. 

Anthony LaPaglia, Actor ("Without a Trace"), turns 55 he's the guy HBO originally wanted for Tony Soprano.sucks

Johnny Rotten, Rock singer (The Sex Pistols), turns 58

HARRY CASEY - KC, Singer, musician (KC and the Sunshine Band), turns 63

93 Carol Channing Show biz legend  Her current career goal?  Outlive Betty White.)

 

77 Philip Glass Composer

76  Bobby Moynihan
 
 74 Stuart Margolin Actor

73 Richard Gephardt Former House minority leader

73 Jessica Walter Actress

69 Charlie Musselwhite Blues singer, musician
 
Suzanne Pleshette - Would have been 77 - (1937 - 2008) ("The Bob Newhart Show".  In 2001, she married Tom Poston who WAS Cliff Murdock on "The Bob Newhart Show" with her.  He passed away in April of 2007.)

Norman Mailer - Would have been 91 (1923 - 2007)  (Great American novelist.)  

Jackie Robinson - (1919 - 1972)  (Hero.)

 

in 1747 - The FIRST VENEREAL DISEASE CLINIC opened at London Lock Hospital.

1865 - Congress passed the13th Amendment, ABOLISHING SLAVERY in America.  It was finally ratified in December of 1865

 1940 - The first SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK was issued to one IDA MAY FULLER in Vermont.  The check was for $22.54. REpublicans are still pissed about it

1949   The first TV daytime soap opera, "These Are My Children," was broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.

1950    President Harry S. Truman announced that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.

1958   The United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite into orbit, Explorer I.

1971   Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on the third successful manned mission to the moon.

1989 - LA TOYA JACKSON posed nude for the March issue of "PLAYBOY". Many young horny boys in the midwest went blind.

1990  McDonald's Corp. opened its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow.

2000    An Alaska Airlines jet plunged into the ocean off Southern California on a flight from Mexico to San Francisco, killing all 88 people on board.

2006 The Senate approved Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve

2001    A Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted one Libyan and acquitted a second in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

2006   Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died at age 78.

2006   Samuel Alito was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.

 

 

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BRUCE THE OLYMPIC FLAME: WORLD LARGEST ENEMA STATUE Zheleznovodsk, Russia

on his way to Socchi ..BRUCE THE  OLYMPIC FLAME shows us the Worlds LARGEST ENEMA STATUE in Zheleznovodsk, Russia

 

FARTING Cows Cause Barn Explosion

A herd of cows is being blamed for an explosion at a barn in Germany. Police say the roof of the barn was nearly blown off when a static electric charge came into contact with methane gas from cow farts. 

Cows are very large animals and they are vegetarians, so they release a lot of gas. Police say no one was hurt in the explosion, although one of the bovine butt-blasters suffered light burns. (Huffington Post)

On This Day in History and Celebrity Birthdays: January 30 2014:Christian Bale - GENE HACKMAN - WILMER VALDERRAMA

WILMER VALDERRAMA- 34  (Fez on "That '70s Show".  He used to nail Mandy Moore AND Lindsay Lohan ANYTIME HE WANTED TO!!!)

Josh Kelley - 34  (His singing career has already been completely overshadowed by his younger brother Charles Kelley, who sings for Lady Antebellum. 

Andy Milonakis - 38  (That's right.  He's 35.  He looks 14.) 

Christian Bale - 40  (BATMAN!!!  And John Connor in "Terminator Salvation".  

King Abdullah II, King of Jordan, turns 52

Brett Butler - 56  (Biggest hits:  "Grace Under Fire"

Phil Collins - 63

Charles S. Dutton - 63  (An ex-convict who served seven-and-a-half years in prison for fatally stabbing a man in a street fight.  As a prisoner, he developed a passion for theater.He used to be "Roc".) 

Marty Balin - 73  (Jefferson Airplane)

 Dick Cheney - 73  (Heart attack machine.) You should have seen him waterboard the candles on his cake.
 

Vanessa Redgrave - 77

Tammy Grimes, Actress, turns 80

 GENE HACKMAN - 84  (Did you know that he and Dustin Hoffman used to be ROOMMATES when they were starving actors back in the '60s?  But they never even did a movie together until 2003's "Runaway Jury".)  (True!)

Harold Prince, Producer, director, turns 86

Dorothy Malone, Actress, turns 89

Dick Martin - (1922 - 2008)  ("Rowan & Martin's Laugh In")

Franklin Delano Roosevelt - (1882 - 1945) (Elected President FOUR times!!!  

Payne Stewart - (1957 - 1999)  (nice Sharp-dressed golfer who died in a bizarre plane accident.

 

1649 England's King Charles I was beheaded.

1933 - THE LONE RANGER was heard on the radio for the first time.  It ran for 2,956 episodes . . . and ended in 1955.

On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist

1956 - Elvis Presley recorded "Blue Suede Shoes."

1968 - Bobby Goldsboro recorded "Honey."

1969 - The Beatles made their last-ever public appearance as a group. The performance of "Get Back" was filmed for the movie "Let It Be."The show was stopped when police arrived after neighbors complained about the noise.

1971 - The JANIS JOPLIN classic "Me and Bobby McGee" was released.

1973 - KISS played their first show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY.

1974 - Bob Dylan made his first New York concert performance in eight years at Madison Square Garden. 

1977 - "The Hardy Boys Mysteries", starring hairless PARKER STEVENSON and hairless SHAUN CASSIDY as Franklin W. Dixon's classic teen detectives, debuted on ABC.

1991 - The first major ground battle of the GULF WAR was fought at the frontier port of Khafji in Saudi Arabia.  Eleven U.S. Marines were killed . . . seven of them by "friendly fire".

1990 - Bob Dylan was named commander in France's Order of Arts and Letters by the country's Culture Ministry. 

1994 - Natalie Cole sang the U.S. national anthem at Super Bowl XXVIII.

1994 - The DALLAS COWBOYS beat the BUFFALO BILLS, 30-to-13, to win SUPER BOWL 28.  Dallas running back EMMITT SMITH was MVP, and the Bills lost their fourth straight Super Bowl.

1998 - Elton John recieved a knighthood in British Prime Minister Tony Blair's first New Year's Eve Honours List.

1998 - Magistrates in Derby, England, issued a warrant for the arrest of Mark Morrison for his failure to appear in court on charges of affray and obstructing a police officer.

2000 - The ST. LOUIS RAMS beat the TENNESSEE TITANS, 23-to-16, to win SUPER BOWL 34.  St. Louis quarterback KURT WARNER passed for a record 414 yards and was named the MVP.

2002 - The musical "Taboo" opened at London's Leicester Square. The musical follows the life of Boy George. and closed like REAL QUICK

2003  Richard Reid, a British citizen and al-Qaida follower, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes.

2007 - Brandy (Brandy Norwood) was sued for wrongful-death by the parents of a woman that was killed in a car crash involving Brandy on Decenber 30, 2006

2007  Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system went on sale.