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TODAY IS National Mammography Day and Dictionary Day: Celebrate the birth of Noah Webster, the American lexicographer, by reading a few pages out of your dictionary or by buying a new dictionary to give as gift to a friend or loved one.

BIRTHDAYS

Angela Lansbury-84
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)-47
Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff -46
Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips)-40
Suzanne Somers-63
David Zucker (Producer/Director)-62
Tim Robbins-51
John Mayer-32

TODAY IN HISTORY

1758 Noah Webster, is born.
1916 Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in New York City.
1923 Disney Co founded
1942 Mighty Mouse debuts as Super Mouse in “Mouse Of Tomorrow.”
1962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22′ into a well shaft
1990 US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf
2003 Simon & Garfunkel kick off a 40-date tour, first since 1982.
2006 Bruce Willis star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

REAL POTHEAD
Cesar Lopez of Lebanon PA> didn’t hide his baggie of pot very well. He was inside a convenience store when a police officer noticed a small plastic bag appearing to contain marijuana stuck to his forehead. He apparently was trying to get it under a baseball cap, but didn’t do a very good job concealing his stash. Busted…

I WANT MY WALLET BACK
Police in Little Rock, Arkansas have arrested a 23-year-old man after he dropped his own wallet while trying to rob a man at gunpoint at the victim’s home. The guy called his victim after dropping his wallet during the robbery and told the victim to leave his wallet at a convenience store. Of course the vicitim called the cops who found the guy at the store to pick up his wallet. Busted…

WACKIEST ATTRACTION
The toilet seat museum in Alamo Heights, TX. has been named the Wackiest Attraction in America by Tripadviser.com. 900 hand-carved, painted and decorated toilet seats make up the display, in the garage of Alamo Heights artist and retired plumber Barney Smith. Mr. Smith has toilet seats decorated as tributes to celebrities, famous historical scenes and even lids with relics attached from the space shuttle Challenger explosion and Nazi concentration camps.

TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT
The entire police force of 15 in Budaors , Hungary has quit en masse. They collectively won $15 million in the lottery and immediately handed in their resignations. Police chiefs have scrambled back-up units to the region until more full-time officers can be recruited.

POWERBALL INJURY
Be careful if you win the Powerball jackpot. Just ask Doug Miron of Marinette, Wisc. He won $31.4 million and jumped for joy. When he did that he pulled a muscle. His ticket for Wednesday’s drawing was validated yesterday and Miron will get his check Monday. He’s taking the lump sum of $16.7 million.

SHE’S LOUD
Jenny Chapman, 60, , from Deeping St James,England has been dubbed Britain’s loudest snorer after her snoring was measured at 111.6 decibels, which is said to be louder than a low-flying jet. It also easily surpasses the noise of washing machines, tractors, and speeding express trains.

DON’T MOON THE TRAIN
A 22 year old German was kicked off a train for not having a ticket. He showed his contempt for the staff by mooning against the window of a low-slung double-decker train. That was a mistake. His pants got caught and the man was dragged about 200 yards fortunately not falling under the train before someone got it stopped. He was unharmed except for cuts and bruises and now faces charges of dangerous interference in rail transport. 23 trains were delayed because of his mooning.

USELESS TRIVIA

Thomas Alva Edison’s first incandescent light bulb burned for forty hours when he tested it in 1879.

Before David Dunbar Buick manufactured automobiles in 1901 he built bathtubs and other plumbing fixtures.

The oldest registered food trademark is the red devil on cans of Underwood’s deviled ham. It dates back to 1866.

Zeppo Marx obtained a patent for a wristwatch that included a heartbeat monitor.

The manufacturer of Studebaker automobiles produced a car called the Dictator from 1927 to 1936.

William Wrigley was selling baking powder when he started handing out free packages of chewing gum to his customers as a premium. He abandoned the baking power when he realized his customers were more interested in his sticks of gum.

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