0192 - Lucius Aurelius Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31 (see the movie Gladiator)

1600 - Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a formal charter to the British East India Company

1775 - During the American Revolution, Patriot forces under generals Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery are defeated by the British defenders of the city of Quebec in Canada

1808 - French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac formulates a law of gases known as Gay-Lussac's Law

1855 - Ottawa's streets were lit by gas lamps for the first time

1877 - Hamilton & Northwestern Railway line opened from Hamilton to Barrie, Ontario

1879 - In the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison lights up a street in Menlo Park, New Jersey

1890 �?Election of the first board of school trustees of Orton

1935 - Charles Darrow patents Monopoly

1947 - America's favourite Western couple gets married. Roy Rogers, star of numerous westerns and television and radio shows, wed his co-star Dale Evans

1954 - Radio mystery program The Shadow airs its last episode. The show, which debuted in 1930, drew a listening audience of some 15 million a week during its peak

1961 - First performance by the Beach Boys

1963 - Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir played music together for the first time �?Grateful Dead

1966 - PM Lester Pearson lit the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill to launch Canada's centennial year

1967 - First NBA game at Great Western Forum, Los Angeles Lakers beat Houston 147-118

1968 - The Soviet Union's TU-144 supersonic airliner makes its first flight, several months ahead of the Anglo-French Concorde

1974 - Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac

1976 - The Cars play their first gig

1980 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69

1983 - Brunei gains complete independence from Britain

1984 - Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeding his mother, Indira

1995 - Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip

 

Birthdays

1884 - Elizabeth Arden [Florence Nightingale Graham],Toronto - founder of the cosmetics company
1869 - Henri Matisse, Le Cateau France - impressionist painter: Odalisque, Green Stripe (Madame Matisse)
1892 - Jason Robards Sr, Hillsdale Michigan - actor: Acapulco
1908 - Simon Wiesenthal, Buczacz Austri - Nazi hunter: Wiesenthal Center
1921 - Rocky Graziano, NY City - boxer: Middleweight champion
1922 - Rex Allen, Wilcox Arizona - cowboy singer: Dr Baxter -Frontier Doctor
1930 - Odetta [Holmes] Birmingham Alabama - folk singer/actress: Sanctuary
1931 - Bob Shaw, UK - sci-fi author: Orbitsville, Ragged Astronauts, Vertigo
1937 - [Philip] Anthony Hopkins, Port Talbot West Glamorgan Wales - actor: Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Silence of the Lambs
1941 - Sarah Miles, Essex England - actress: Ryan's Hope, Big Sleep, Venom
1942 - Andy Summers, Blackpool England - guitarist: Police -Roxanne
1943 - Ben Kingsley, Scarborough England - actor: Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice
1943 - John Denver [Henry John Deutschendorf Jr] Roswell New Mexico - singer: Rocky Mountain High, Thank God I'm a Country Boy
1947 - Burton Cummings - singer: Guess Who -These Eyes
1947 - Tim Matheson, California - actor: Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek
1948 - Donna Summer, Boston Massachusetts - singer: Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio
1953 - Jane Badler, Brooklyn NY - actress: Fine Gold, Easy Kill, V
1958 - Bebe Neuwirth, Princeton NJ - actress: Lilith -Cheers, Damn Yankees
1959 - Val [Edward] Kilmer - actor: The Saint, Top Gun, The Doors
1961 - Rick Aguilera, San Gabriel California - baseball pitcher: Minnesota Twins
1973 - Curtis Myden, Calgary Alberta - Olympic 200 meter/400 meter swimmer

 

 

Don't look at the answer first!

 

WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL??? 
 

Try it without looking at the answers...... 
 
GET A CALCULATOR (YOUR COMPUTER HAS ONE ON IT)
 
1)  Pick your favorite number between 1-9 
 
2)  Multiply by 3 then 
 
3)  Add 3, then again Multiply by 3 (I'll wait while you get the calculator....) 
 
4)  You'll get a 2 or 3 digit number.... 
 
5)  Add the digits together 
 
Now Scroll down .............. 



  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
Now with that number see who your ROLE MODEL is from the list below:
 
1. Einstein
 

2. Nelson Mandela
 

3. Abraham Lincoln
 

4. Helen Keller
 

5. Bill Gates
 

6. Gandhi
 

7. George Clooney
 

8. Thomas Edison
 

9.   John Brennan
 
10. Winston Churchill

 

I know....I just have that effect on people....one day maybe you too can be like me.... :-) Believe it! 

 

P.S.: Stop picking different numbers. I am still your idol, just deal with it!!!! NOW