Happy birthday and many happy returns Particle Dots. Born on the same day, across the years, as 1209 – Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, German king (d. 1272) 1762 – Constanze Mozart, German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842) 1855 – King C. Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (d. 1932) 1895 – Jeannette Piccard, American priest, and scientist (d. 1981) 1914 – George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959) 1929 – Russ Manning, American comic book and comic strip artist, created Magnus, Robot Fighter (d. 1981) 1932 – Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher and author 1932 – Raisa Gorbachova, Russian wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, First Lady of the Soviet Union (d. 1999) 1933 – Leonard Marsh, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (d. 2013) 1940 – Athol Guy, Australian bassist (The Seekers) 1961 – Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 2000 – Patricia Gayod, Filipino actress January 5 Mikheil Saakashvili 1757 – Louis XV of France survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person to be executed in the country by drawing and quartering. 1919 – The German Workers Party, the forerunner to the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler. 1968 – Alexander Dubček came to power in Czechoslovakia, beginning a period of political liberalization known as the Prague Spring that ended with a military intervention by the Warsaw Pact nations to halt reform. 1996 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash was assassinated by a bomb-laden cell phone, planted by Israels Shin Bet. 2008 – Mikheil Saakashvili (pictured) was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia in the first genuinely competitive presidential election in the history of the country. You survived the attempt by what is now crispy skinned chicken. The workers have a party. Alex has the controls. Shin Bet is ding their job well. The elections will count. Lets party.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:00:58 +0000
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