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BIRTHDAYS

Jack Nicklaus-70
Robby Benson-54
Placido Domingo-69
Geena Davis-54
Mac Davis-68
Jill Eikenberry -63
Billy Ocean-60

TODAY IN HISTORY

1935 The Wilderness Society is founded
1967 The first widely-commercial microwave oven is marketed.
1971 “Alias Smith & Jones” premieres on ABC TV
1976 The supersonic Concorde jet is put into service.
1978 Bee Gees’ “Saturday Night Fever” album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1979 The Pittsburgh Steelers become the first team to win three Super Bowls as they defeat the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in Super Bowl XIII.
1989 “Two Hearts” by Phil Collins peaks at No. 1.
1990 John McEnroe becomes the 1st ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official
2004 The recording industry sues 532 computer users it alleged were illegally distributing songs over the Internet.
2005 Journey receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2006 At 21, LeBron James becomes the youngest player in NBA history to score 5,000 career points.

RED BULL THEFT
The U.S. Navy is missing $200,000 worth of Red Bull. William Henry Bartlett and Bobby O’Neal Armstead were busted after police found 100 cases of the Navy’s Red Bull in their truck.

YOU TUBE RENTALS
YouTube is getting into the online movie rental business. The first batch of YouTube’s rentals will cost $3.99 for a 48-hour viewing period. Movie studios will be able to set their own prices, with rental viewing windows ranging from one to 90 days. The puts the Google owned company in competition with more established vendors such as Apple’s iTunes store, Amazon, Netflix and Blockbuster.

THE DANGERS OF HOT SAUCE
Apparently on a dare 10 boys, aged 13 and 14, drank hot sauce at their German school. VERY hot sauce. The Red Cross said that on the Scoville scale, which measures the hotness of sauce, the sauce measured 535,000 _ compared to 2,500 for normal Tabasco sauce. All of the boys were taken to the hospital and held overnight for observation.

BEER PIPELINE
Students from Sweden’s Chalmers University marched on a Falkenberg brewery to protest the decades-long lack of progress on a beer pipeline to the student union. The 62 mile pipeline of beer was started in 1968 but construction was halted after only 6 1/2 feet of beer pipeline was laid. Carlsberg spokesman Goran Orre said: “We’ve listened and accepted their demand. We’ll soon start construction on one meter (3.2 feet) of pipeline,” he said. It could take a while to resolve this.

NINJA ROBBERY
A 68-year-old Deli Cioso employee in Longmont, CO. was robbed by 2 ninjas. He says he was confronted by the robbers Sunday night, and they grabbed the cash. He told investigators the perpetrators were on the shorter side and dressed “like ninja” in all black. No swords were displayed.

NOT WITH MY DAUGHTER
Police say Scott David Sullivan, 43, of West Bloomfield, arrived at a beach near Pleasant Lake at about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday and found his 14-year-old daughter and her 16-year-old boyfriend in the back seat of the boy’s parked 2010 Dodge Charger. He was not happy and police say he then pulled his daughter from the car. He then jumped into the driver’s seat and drove the car onto an icey lake with the 16-year-old still in the back. The 16-year-old said he tried to drive his car off the ice after Sullivan left and drove off with his daughter, but one of the wheels had sunk into the ice. He was still in the car when police arrived. Mr. Sullivan was charged with malicious destruction of property and reckless driving.

SEXPRESSO CRACKDOWN
Yakima is now treating risque “sexpresso” stands as adult entertainment and writing up new rules to regulate the coffee shops with scantily clad barristas. Police have reported pole dancing and $5 booty shakes at some of those coffee bars.

USELESS TRIVIA

The actual title of Leonard da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is La Gioconda.

The first writer to incorporate himself was Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, who became a corporation in 1923.

Victor was Dr. Frankenstein’s first name in the famous novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

French impressionist artist Paul Cezanne taught his pet parrot the phrase “Cezanne is a great painter” which the parrot would repeat over and over again.

In 1904 the first U. S. city to host the Olympics was St. Louis, Missouri.