Swap Ideas Day
(Great day to find some new ways to help you sail through life are from Life Hackers websites!
International Make-Up Day
TV Dinner Day
(...Think I'll gobble up one of my Swansons tonight! )
(World) Suicide Prevention Day
Birthdays
1801 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner
1898 - Waldo Semon, chemist, invented vinyl
1907 - Fay Wray, actress
1934 - Charles Kuralt, TV journalist, newscaster
1929 - Arnold Palmer, golfer
1934 - Roger Maris, baseball player, homerun slugger
1935 – Mary Oliver, American poet and author
1943 – Neale Donald Walsch, American author
1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer (Met him once. He told me who he was, I thought he was joshing me, and I replied "OK, well I'm Bruce Springsteen!" Then I saw him on TV that night and thought "Woops!"
1953 - Amy Irving, actress
1975 - Ryan Phillippe, actor
Today In History
1846 - The Sewing Machine is patented.
1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.
1955 – The television series Gunsmoke premieres on CBS . It was the second western television series written for adults. The first was the Lone Ranger.
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