Interrogatories
Who was your favorite Peanuts character, and why?
Do you usually name your cars? If so, what were their names?
Are you a jeans and t-shirt person, or something else? Do you tuck in your tees?
Are you now, or have you ever been a flirt, or just good at flirting?
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On This Day
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke that incapacitated him almost completely. His wife and others concealed the full extent of his disability, and he only partially recovered.
In 1937, Dominican President Rafael Trujillo ordered the slaughter of Haitians living along the border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. At least 20,000 were murdered. Most were ethnic Haitians who were Dominican citizens, born and raised.
In 1950, Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic was first published.
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black Supreme Court Justice.
In 1980, corrupt Republican (I know, that's redundant) Congressman Michael Myers (not to be confused with the almost-as-creepy movie character) was expelled from congress, the first to be kicked out since the days of the Civil War.
In 1996, President Clinton signed the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments into law.
In 2002, the Beltway Sniper attacks started in Maryland, and terrorized residents and people passing through for three weeks.
In 2006, gunman Charles Carl Roberts attacked a Pennsylvanian Amish school, killing five little girls before turning the gun on himself.
Born on This Day
1452 – Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1737 – Francis Hopkinson, American author and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
1756 - Jacob van Stry, Dutch painter (d. 1815)
1778 - Joseph-Denis Odevaere, Flemish painter (d. 1830)
1800 – Nat Turner, American slave who was executed (hanged) for leading a slave rebellion (d. 1831)
1839 - Hans Thoma, German painter (d. 1924)
1852 – William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
1866 - Charles Ricketts, English painter and illustrator (d. 1931)
1869 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian activist and philosopher (d. 1948)
1871 – Cordell Hull, American politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1874 - Oscar Edmund Berninghaus, U.S. painter (d. 1952)
1879 – Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955)
1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1892 - Violet Mersereau, silent film actess (d. 1975)
1895 – Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)
1897 - Fremont Ellis, U.S. landscape painter (d. 1985)
1904 – Graham Greene, English author, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)
1911 – Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
1928 – George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
1937 – Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (d. 2005)
1938 – Rex Reed, American actor and critic
1944 – Vernor Vinge, American science fiction author
1945 – Don McLean, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Jo-El Sonnier, American singer-songwriter and accordionist
1948 – Avery Brooks, American actor
1949 – Richard Hell, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Television, the Voidoids)
1949 – Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
1950 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (d. 1998)
1950 – Mike Rutherford, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Genesis and Mike + The Mechanics)
1951 – Sting, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (The Police)
1955 – Philip Oakey, English singer-songwriter and producer (The Human League)
1956 – Freddie Jackson, American singer
1957 – Dave Faulkner, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Victims, The Manikins, and Hoodoo Gurus)
1957 – Kate St John, English singer-songwriter and producer (The Dream Academy)
1967 – Gillian Welch, American singer-songwriter
Died on This Day
1616 - Frans Francken I, Flemish painter (b. 1542)
1685 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638)
1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
1803 – Samuel Adams, American politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)
1850 – Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
1892 - Otto Didrik Ottesen, Danish flower painter (b. 1816)
1909 - Theodoros Rallis (or Théodore Ralli), Greek painter (b. 1852)
1953 - John Marin, U.S. modernist painter (b. 1870)
1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925) See Tipple Jar
1987 – Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
1988 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
2005 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (b. 1918)
2005 – August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
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