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TODAY IS Humanitarian Day..

BIRTHDAYS

Margaret O’Brien-73
Lisa Velez (Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam)-43
Chad Lowe -42
Martha Davis (The Motels)-59
Mario Van Peebles-53
Eddie Cahill (CSI: NY: Det. Don Flack)-32

TODAY IN HISTORY

1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1895 Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake” premieres, St Petersburg
1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records
1967 The first Super Bowl is played.
1972 “American Pie – Parts I & II” by Don McLean peaks at No. 1.
1971 George Harrison releases “My Sweet Lord”
1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
1977 The Coneheads debut on SNL.
1977 “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” by Leo Sayer peaks at No. 1.
1981 “Hill Street Blues” premieres on NBC-TV
1983 “Down Under” by Men At Work peaks at No. 1.
1992 The Isley Brothers are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again

TEXTING WORLD CUP
The team of Bae Yeong Ho and Ha Mok Min from S. Korea took on competitors from more than a dozen countries, to win the texting World Cup yesterday. The two-person championship team takes home $100,000. Americans teenagers Kate Moore, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Morgan Dynda of Pooler, Ga. take second place.

PRIEST DOG
Elijah is a Labrador and border collie mix belonging to Rev. Don Buhr. The dog showed up during the summer at the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Baden, Mo. Elijah has attended every Mass that Buhr celebrates, with the blessing of the parishioners. Elijah has a splash of white fur on his chest in the shape of a cross. Buhr says that makes Elijah “a real priest dog.”

BUY A PIECE OF GIANTS STADIUM
Giants stadium in NYC is being sold off piece by piece. For $500 you can buy a pair of seats or get some of the turf for $30. The 34 year old stadium will be torn down. Next season, the new Giants Jets Stadium opens.

REPOSSESED KID
Isabel Leuvano, was behind on her car payments. She had her 2 year old asleep in the back of her car as she waiting outside the car to pick up her daughter. That’s when she says someone jumped into the car and drove off, with her 2 year old in the car. Police say the driver was 47-year-old Alberto Luna, the owner of Alberto’s Auto Sales. He was repossessing the car and didn’t realize the toddler was in the car until later. Officers located the toddler a half-hour later _ about the same time Luna told authorities that he discovered the boy.

PLAYING IN THE SNOW
A group of police officers in Oxford, Eng. have been reprimanded after being caught on video tape playing in the snow while on duty. The officers were using a riot shield to tobaggon down a snowy hill. “The snow has a habit of bringing out the child in all of us,” Murray said. “I have spoken to the officers concerned and reminded them in no uncertain terms that tobogganing on duty, on police equipment and at taxpayers’ expense is a very bad idea should they wish to progress under my command.”

NO !
The 88 year old owner of Mae’s Cake ‘n Candy Supplies was not amused when a man clad all in black, including a black scarf on his face came in and put a note on the counter that said: “Give me the money in the register.” “No,” was all the owner told the man, police said. Officers said the man walked out of the store and fled on foot. They said a man matching the suspect’s description was seen applying for a job at a nearby business the next day.

I’M TOO OLD FOR THIS
A 4 year old boy in Taranto, Italy called the emergency line eto tell the cops he was too old for his pacifiers and he wanted them to pick them up. “I’m old enough now so you can have my dummies,” the boy told the operator. Police said two officers visited the boy’s birthday party and traded him a souvenir hat in exchange for his four old pacifiers.

$500 GETS YA $66 MILLION
Malaysian police have arrested a Lebanese man allegedly carrying fake currency with a face value of $66 million after he tipped a hotel staff with a $500 note, an official said Friday. The largest U.S. note currently in wide circulation is a $100 bill. But police found bundles of $1 million, $100,000 and $500 notes in the man’s hotel room in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday

USELESS TRIVIA

The famous opera, ‘Madame Butterfly,” by Puccini was inspired by a short story written in 1898 by Philadelphia lawyer John Luther Long.

In 1942 famous composer Igor Stravinsky wrote ballet music for elephants in the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. His “Circus Polka” was choreographed by George Balanchine.

The accordion was referred to as the “stomach Steinway” by Mark Twain.

The Calypso (Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s ship) was a minesweeper before it was converted into an oceanographic research vessel.

IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION:

Q: The average American has six of these at home that they got for free! What are they? They’re typically kept in the kitchen.

A: coffee mugs

Congratulations to Mitch Anderson on winning today’s impossible question!