Sara Rue - 35 (was on the ABC sitcom "Less Than Perfect" .
Kirk Franklin - 43 (Gospel music superstar, and ADMITTED PORNO ADDICT. Remember his crossover hit, "Stomp" with God's Property AND Salt of Salt 'N Pepa?)
ANDREW RIDGELEY! - 50 (THE TALENTED HALF OF WHAM!) (--Out of Wham's three main albums, their biggest was 1984's "Make it Big", which is certified Six-Times Platinum, and features the juggernaut "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" . "Careless Whisper", "Everything
She Wants" AND "Freedom".)
Wayne Gretzky - 52 (The Great hockey player.)
Anita Baker - 55 (grammy winning singer.)
Ellen DeGeneres - 55 (Gets to enjoy have mad lesbian love with 36-year-old Portia de Rossi ANYTIME SHE WANTS TO!!! She also doesn't like it when dogs are taken away from people.)
EDDIE VAN HALEN - 58 (The dysfunctional centerpiece of the most dysfunctional rock outfit of all time, Van Halen. reunion. And
Lucinda Williams - 60 (Critically acclaimed country-type rocker. )
Scott Glenn, Actor, turns 74
Bob Uecker - 78 (Star of "Major League" AND "Mr. Belvedere"!)
Paul Newman - Would have been 89 - (1925 - 2008) ("The Sting", "Cool Hand Luke", "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid", "The Color of Money", "The Towering Inferno" AND Newman's Own Salad Dressing!!!)
Gene Siskel - (1946 - 1999) (Cause of Death: Complication from brain surgery.)
General Douglas MacArthur - (1880 - 1964) (Smoked a pipe like Popeye's.)
1784 - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN wrote a letter to his daughter . . . supporting the TURKEY as America's national symbol. He complained that the eagle was a bird of bad moral character and the turkey was MORE RESPECTABLE.
1962 - Bishop Burke of the Buffalo, New York, Catholic Diocese BANNED "THE TWIST". The evil "Twist" could not be danced, sung about or listened to in any Catholic school, parish or youth event(Later that year, "The Twist" was banned from community center dances in Tampa, Florida, as well.)
1963 - THE FOUR SEASONS' mighty hit "WALK LIKE A MAN" was released.
1977 - FLEETWOOD MAC'S original lead guitarist, PETER GREEN, was committed to a mental hospital in England . . . after he fired a gun at a delivery boy who was bringing a royalty check for the group's record sales.
1979 - "THE DUKES OF HAZZARD", starring JOHN SCHNEIDER and TOM WOPAT, premiered on CBS.
1984 - MICHAEL JACKSON suffered burns about the scalp and neck when his HAIR CAUGHT FIRE in an explosion on the set of a Pepsi commercial!!! The commercial debuted on MTV on February 27th, 1984, with Michael's flaming head edited out.
1988 - ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S "PHANTOM OF THE OPERA"opened on Broadway. It's now the longest-running show in Broadway history.
1992 - Following the Super Bowl, BILL CLINTON appeared with his wife HILLARY on "60 Minutes", denying an affair with GENNIFER FLOWERS as reported in a tabloid. --Hillary said, quote, "I'm not some little woman, standing by my man like Tammy Wynette." Clinton later admitted that he had indeed enjoyed a sexual affair with Flowers. And Hillary purchased a copy of "Tammy Wynette's Greatest Hits".
1997 - METALLICA drummer LARS ULRICH married Dr. Skylar Satenstein. They got divorced in 2004. (--Before she married Lars, Skylar used to open herself up to Matt Damon. Matt based the Minnie Driver character in "Good Will Hunting" after her.)
1997 - The GREEN BAY PACKERS beat the NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS 35-to-21 to win their first SUPER BOWL in 29 years.
2005 - IRV GOTTI and his brother CHRIS surrendered to the Police on charges of laundering money for a drug lord through Murder Inc.
2005 - CONDOLEEZZA RICE was sworn in as the U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE . . . becoming the first African American woman to ever hold that position.
