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TODAY IS: National Men Make Dinner Day: Give your wife a break today and whip up something to eat for dinner without any help from your family members. That includes cleaning up, guys!

BIRTHDAYS

Elke Sommer -69
Tatum O’Neal -46
Art Garfunkel-68
Sam Shepard-66
David Moyse (Air Supply)-52
Ryan Adams-35
Bryan Adams-50
Kevin Jonas (The Jonas Brothers)-22

TODAY IN HISTORY

1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
1872 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
1875 Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote
1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
1935 Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1968 Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency
1988 “Kokomo” by The Beach Boys #1.
1994 Ronald Reagan announces he has Alzheimer’s disease.

MISS ME ?
A Brazilian man surprised his friends and family – by turning up at his own funeral. Ademir Jorge Goncalves showed up at his own funeral after he heard of it. His relatives had mistakenly identified the victim of a car crash as him. Instead the 59 year old had spen a night out drinking a rum-like liquor called ‘pinga’ with his friends.

SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH THIS CAKE
Tony and Aimee West spent about $500 for athree tier sponge decorated with white and dark chocolate icing and flowers. When it came time for the wedding, Creative Cakes had forgotten to prepare their cake, but promised one for the big day. Aimee said: “They admitted their mistake and said: ‘Don’t worry, we’ll get you a cake’. They turned up that evening and the cake was put on a table for all to see.” The only problem they showed up with a cake made made of polystyrene. Quite the shock when the couple went to cut up the cake and smash it into each others face.

PRESIDENTIAL CHEESEHEAD
Liberian immigrant Mansfield Neblett just wanted to wear his cheesehead hat to President Barack Obama’s speech at a Wisconsin middle school. Well the secret service stepped in and said he couldn’t because the hat was a “security risk.” Eventually the agents relented and he wore his hat. Someone representing the prez approached Neblett and offered to get the hat signed by the president. Neblett gladly turned it over, not wearing it during the speech.“I’m going to sell it on eBay!” he said. The cheesehead in chief?

YOU LOOK GUILTY
20-year-old James P. Miller’s Halloween costume just screamed guilty. He was pulled for a suspected DUI. Sure enough they found and intoxicated James with beer in the car. What also makes this interesting is that the Oxford, OH. guy was dressed in costume as a Breathalyzer test.

UNIQUE PENALTY
A judge in Winnipeg has gotten a 12 year old boy’s attention who’s been in and out of trouble for various acts of vandalism etc. Instead of a detention and fines he’s ordered the kid to give up his Ninetendo WII as security. And if he doesn’t comply, he loses it.” By “comply,” the judge means “keeping the peace, appearing for court dates, living with his grandmother and participating in a bail management program.” Failure to uphold any of those duties will result in forfeiture of the gaming system.

USELESS TRIVIA

The Ford Motor Company manufactured one million cars for the first time in 1922. In 1923 they hit the two-million mark.

The longest flight ever made by aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright was 77 miles. He made the flight in 1908 from Camp d’Auvours, France , setting a world record and winning the Michelin Prize of 20,000 francs.

The Barbie Doll got its name from Barbara Handler, the daughter of its designer, Ruth Handler.