Interrogatories
Since today is International No Diet Day, if you could eat whatever you wanted all day long without any consequences (digestion, cholesterol, blood pressure, weight gain, etc.) what would you eat?
How good is your vision? If you wear glasses, do you like plastic or wire frames?
Have you ever broken any bones?
In college, were you a serious student who studied all the time, a party animal, or a reasonable combination of the the two?
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On This Day
In 1861, Arkansas seceded from the Union.
In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which suspended Chinese immigration to the United States for a period of 10 years.
In 1889, the Paris Exposition opened, which featured a newly completed structure called the Eiffel Tower.
In 1915, Babe Ruth hit his first (of 714) major league home run.
In 1937, the hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36.
In 2001, Pope John Paul II, during a trip to Syria, became the first pope to enter a mosque.
In 1994, former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against President Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991. This may mark the only time that Republicans ever gave a damn about sexual harassment.
Born on This Day
1501 – Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
1574 – Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)
1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician, reign of terror architect (d. 1794)
1823 - Johann Duntze, German landscape painter (d. 1895)
![Your pretty Lake Lucerne pic of the day photo JohannDuntze.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/JohannDuntze.jpg)
1849 - Wyatt Eaton, American painter (d. 1896)
![Mary used to go to school with Niall Ferguson, and says even then he was an insufferable prat. photo WyattEaton.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/WyattEaton.jpg)
1849 - John Melhuish Strudwick, English painter (d. 1937)
![Anastasia wishes that just this once she could get a little frickin' privacy around here! photo JohnMelhuishStrudwick.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/JohnMelhuishStrudwick.jpg)
1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
1856 – Robert Peary, American explorer (d. 1920)
1857 - Frank Bramley, English painter (d. 1915)
![Frank had arranged this beautiful still life, then his stupid little sister had to come along and destroy it. photo FrankBramley.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/FrankBramley.jpg)
1861 – Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1880 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
![Lola wants to know, what part of 'Not tonight, I've got a headache' don't you understand? photo ErnstLudwigKirchner.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/ErnstLudwigKirchner.jpg)
1890 - Claire Whitney, American actress (d. 1969)
![Claire is careful never to feed either pet after midnight. photo ClaireWhitney.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/ClaireWhitney.jpg)
1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (d. 1926)
1915 – Orson Welles, American director and actor (d. 1985)
1931 – Willie Mays, American baseball player
1945 – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Flatlanders)
1945 – Bob Seger, American singer-songwriter and musician
1950 – Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (Average White Band and The Senate) (d. 1974) He died on their first US Tour when he OD'd on heroin that he had thought was cocaine.
1953 – Tony Blair, English politician, George W. Bush's poodle
1960 – John Flansburgh, American musician and songwriter (They Might Be Giants and Mono Puff)
1961 – George Clooney, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Chris Shiflett, American guitarist (Foo Fighters, etc.)
Died on This Day
1452 - Bicci di Lorenzo, Italian painter (b. 1373)
![Really, Joseph, you are reading way too much into me yelling out 'Oh God!' last night. photo BiccidiLorenzo.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/BiccidiLorenzo.jpg)
1475 – Dieric Bouts, Flemish painter (b. c. 1415)
![See? They're eating a baby dinosaur! Proof that they co-existed with man! photo DiericBouts.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/DiericBouts.jpg)
1581 - Frans Francken II, Flemish painter (b. 1642, same day)
1629 - Otto van Veen, Flemish painter (b. 1556)
![You modern day people have NO idea how hard it was to do a family portrait back in the day. photo OttovanVeen.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/OttovanVeen.jpg)
1679 - Nicolas Pierre Loir, French painter (b. 1624)
![It depresses Jesus to find that his most popular miracle is turning water into wine. photo NicolasPierreLoir.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/NicolasPierreLoir.jpg)
1684 - Heiman Dullaert, Dutch painter (b. 1636)
![The punishment for sporting a comb-over back then was having every offending hair pulled out, one by one. photo HeimanDullaert.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/HeimanDullaert.jpg)
1849 - Jacques Nicolas Paillot de Montabert, French painter (b. 1771)
1919 – L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
1903 - José Jiménez y Aranda, Spanish painter (b. 1837)
![While his customers wait, the pharmacist tries vainly to decipher a doctor's handwriting. photo JoseacuteJimeacutenezyAranda.jpg](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i311/paulath/Anchor%20Pics%206/JoseacuteJimeacutenezyAranda.jpg)
1904 - Franz von Lenbach, German realist painter (b. 1836)
1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
1963 – Monty Woolley, American actor (b. 1888)
1991 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (b. 1903)
1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
1993 – Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909) (See Tipple Jar)
2002 – Otis Blackwell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1932)
2004 – Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (The Wrecking Crew) (b. 1923)
2006 – Grant McLennan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens) (b. 1958)
Today is
International No Diet Day
National Crepes Suzette Day
Beverage Day
National Nurses Day
No Homework Day
National Tourist Appreciation Day