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