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TODAY IS: UN International Day for Tolerance

BIRTHDAYS

Lisa Bonet -42
Chi Coltrane-61
Martha Plimpton-39
Maggie Gyllenhaal-32
Marg Helgenberger -51
Oksana Baiul (Figure Skater)-32
Diana Krall-45

TODAY IN HISTORY

1920 Postage meter 1st used in US in lieu of postage stamps
1945 “Casper the Friendly Ghost” opens in theaters.
1963 The touch-tone phone is introduced.
1973 John Lennon releases “Mind Games” album
1974 John Lennon’s #1 solo “Whatever Gets You Through the Night”
1979 Paul McCartney releases “Wonderful Christmas.”
1981 Luke & Laura’s wedding on “General Hospital” airs. 16 million viewers.
1985 “We Built This City” by Starship #1.
1987 Lisa Bonet marries Lenny Kravitz
1990 “Home Alone” opens in theaters.
1999 Johnny Depp receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2001 “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” opens in theaters.

DRILLING FOR WHISKEY
Workers from New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition. Restoration workers found the crates of whiskey under the hut’s floorboards in 2006. At the time, the crates and bottles were too deeply embedded in ice to be dislodged. So they’ll give it another “historical” try.

OVERDUE
Georgette Bordine is the librarian at Camelback High School in Phoenix. She just had a student, or former student return 2 overdue books. Overdue by 51 years. The former student also paid the fines and sent a $1000 money order. 2 cents a day for each day they were overdue.

OLD GRAFFITI
74-year-old John Scott is the oldest graffiti vandal ever arrested in LA. The senior graffitist was nabbed after posting black-and-orange bumper stickers which read: “Who is John Scott?” Mr. Scott now faces at least one felony vandalism charge.

HANDWRITTEN BIBLE
A handwritten bible is up for auction on E-BAY. The bible was transcribed one verse at a time by people all over the country during a nationawide tour. 31,000 people contributed to the 2200 page volume, one of 2 in existence. A published version is available Dec. 1 st.

USELESS TRIVIA

The first elevator was demonstrated at the 1854 New York World’s Fair by inventor Elisha Otis. His steam-powered version, first installed at 488 Broadway in 1857, is still in working condition today.

There are almost 55,000 elevators in the city of New York , and they make a total of approximately 30 million trips every day.

West Virginia is the state where drivers are most likely to hit a deer. With a population of 1.8 million people and 1 million deer, one out of every 39 West Virginia drivers had a collision with a deer in 2008.

The fictitious Betty Crocker (symbol created in 1921 for General Mills baking products), came in second to Eleanor Roosevelt in a 1945 ‘Fortune’ magazine poll taken to determine the most famous woman in America.