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TODAY IS: Tick Tock Day: As the year counts down have you accomplished all you hoped for this year? Well there’s still some time left to get it done before the year is gone.

BIRTHDAYS

Yvonne Elliman-58
Mary Tyler Moore-73
Paula Poundstone-50
Jon Voight-71
Ray Thomas (Moody Blues)-68
Jason Gould-43
Ted Danson-62
Kevin Weisman (Alias: Marshall)-39
Jude Law-37
Mekhi Phifer-35

TODAY IN HISTORY

1848 Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk’s administration)
1851 1st Young Men’s Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)
1852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1862 Bowling ball invented
1952 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
1955 Barbra Streisand’s 1st recording, “You’ll Never Know” at age 13
1957 Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé wed in Las Vegas
1965 Supremes release “My World is Empty Without You”
1965 “Thunderball” premieres in US
1967 Star Trek’s “The Trouble With Tribbles” 1st airs
1972 Life magazine ceases publication
1973 “Time in a Bottle” by Jim Croce peaks at No. 1.
1982 Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
1982 Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins)
1989 Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC’s “Today” show

CHRISTMAS EVE ESCAPE
2 donkeys made a run for it from a Vail, LIVE nativity scene. The nativity scene is an annual tradition for Eagle River Presbyterian Church in the Vail Valley. Pastor Rob Wilson says two borrowed donkeys were being held in a fenced-in pen for the event Wednesday night, but the animals pushed their way through it.

STARTING EARLY
A 5th grader at Selma Elementary School in IND. was handing out cash on the school bus home to his friends. Problem was the money wasn’t his, it was his grandfathers and police found an additional $10,000 on the kid he had taken from a safe. Police weren’t certain what he intended to do with the money or how he got it from the safe.

YAHOO TOP SEARCHES for 2009

1. “Michael Jackson”
2. “Twilight”
3. “WWE” (World Wrestling Entertainment)
4. “Megan Fox”
5. “Britney Spears”
6. “Naruto”
7. “American Idol”
8. “Kim Kardashian”
9. “NASCAR”
10. “RunScape” (video game)

NEW YEARS RIDE
For the 22nd year MillerCoors is providing free bus rides to New Years revelers in Milwaukee.

COME GET ME
Lars Pfleger is one conflicted robber. Lars told a restaurant cashier he had a gun and demanded cash. While the clerk went to another cash register and had the manager call 911, police say Pfleger also called 911. He decided to turn himself in.

USELESS TRIVIA

Amsterdam’s main airport sits 13 feet below sea level on land reclaimed from the sea. It is named Schiphol, which means “ship’s graveyard” in Dutch.

The term “midlife crisis” was coined in 1965 in a paper published by a relatively obscure 48-year-old Canadian psychiatrist and organizational consultant named Elliott Jacques.

The original characters on Sesame Street when it debuted in 1969 were Big Bird, Kermit the Frog, Cookie Monster, Grover, Bert and Ernie, and Oscar the Grouch. Snuffleupagus came along in 1971, followed by The Count (1972), Elmo (1980), Zoe (1993) and Abby Cadabby (2006).

The largest non-nuclear bomb in America ’s arsenal is a 30,000 pound model designed to destroy underground bunkers protected by as much as 10,000 pounds of concrete.

Cracker Jacks were invented in the late 1800s by brothers F. W. and Louis Rueckheim when they mixed molasses with peanuts and popcorn. A salesman who tasted the concoction exclaimed, “That’s cracker jack!” Thus, the name.