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Ernest Hemingway's birthday too!
1956 Year of the Monkey
If you are born in the Year of the Monkey, you are very intelligent, well-liked by everyone, and will have success in any field you choose. Lucky old you!
Famous people born in the Year Of The Monkey:
Sacha Distel, Elisabeth Taylor, Omar Sherif, Jimmy Page, Roger Daltrey, George Lucas
Friday, July 21, 2000
*Happy Birthday*
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- Violinist Isaac Stern is 80.
- Jazz musician-critic Billy Taylor is 79.
- Singer Kay Starr is 78.
- Actor-comedian Don Knotts is 76.
- Movie director Norman Jewison is 74.
- Actor Paul Burke is 74.
- Attorney General Janet Reno is 62.
- Actress Patricia Elliott is 58.
- Actor David Downing is 57.
- Actor Edward Herrmann is 57.
- Actor Leigh Lawson is 55.
- Actor Wendell Burton is 53.
- Yusuf Islam (formerly singer Cat Stevens) is 52.
- Actor Art Hindle is 52.
- Comedian-actor Robin Williams is 48.
- Comedian Jon Lovitz is 43.
- Actor Lance Guest is 40.
- Actor Matt Mulhern is 40.
- Rock singer Emerson Hart (Tonic) is 31.
- Country singer Paul Brandt is 28.
- Actor Josh Hartnett is 22.
More comprehensive list including Robin Williams, Don Knotts, Garry Trudeau,
Janet Reno, Rudolph A. Marcus [Nobel in Chemistry 1923], Isaac Stern, Paul
Julius Freiherr von Reuter, Thomas Pelham-Holles [1st Duke of Newcastle,
PM], St. Philip Neri, Sixtus IV at Britannica Online:
eb.com
Today is July 21.
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The Civil War had been "on" for about three months, but it wasn't until
this date in 1861 that the first major military engagement took place. Union
troops, led by Gen. McDowell, and Confederate forces, led by Gen,
Beauregard, met at Bull Run Creek, Va., about 35 miles southwest of
Washington, D.C. The Battle of Bull Run Creek lasted about 10 hours, during
which socialites -- dressed in their finest -- came to picnic and watch the
fighting. The Confederates won.
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Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin climbed back
into their lunar module and lifted off from the surface of the moon on this
date in 1969, after spending about 21 1/2 hours on the lunar surface.
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Jesse James conducted his first train robbery on this date in 1873. The
soon-to-be-infamous outlaw held up the Rock Island Express near Adair, Iowa,
and escaped with $3,000 -- although gang insiders said it was more like
$65,000. The train company didn't want people to know they carried that much
money.
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And it was on this date in 1992 that a judge in Pontiac, Mich., dismissed
murder charges against euthanasia advocate Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian, who'd
been accused of helping four chronically ill women end their lives. The
retired pathologist began his quest to legalize what he called "medicide" in
1990 when he helped an Oregon woman with Lou Gehrig's disease kill herself.
It took a videotape of Kevorkian presiding over the death of a Michigan man
to land him in prison. The tape had aired on CBS's "60 Minutes."
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