Good Morning Friends and Family :) Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a GREAT weekend! I sure did :) It was quiet, peaeful and simply a GREAT WEEKEND for me. I have to go to my Surgeons office tomorrow and I hope that he takes out my Hickman Line! I will let you all know after I get back tomorrow. Wish me luck. I hope everyone has a GREAT DAY! ... Todays Famous Birthdays Anne Mansfield Sullivan 1866 - The Miracle Worker, famous for teaching Helen Keller to read, write and speak. ... John Gielgud 1904 - Actor (Movies: Arthur) ... Loretta Lynn 1935 - Country singer, first woman to earn the CMAs Entertainer of the Year award ... Julie Christie 1941 - Actress (Dr. Zhivago, Shampoo) ... Pete Rose (Peter Edward Rose) 1941 - Baseball player ... Ritchie Blackmore 1945 - Musician (Deep Purple) ... Brad Garrett 1960 - Actor (Everybody Loves Raymond) ... Greg Maddux 1966 - Baseball player ... Anthony Michael Hall 1968 - Actor (Movies:Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, TV:The Dead Zone) ... DaBrat 1974 - Rapper ... Adrien Brody 1973 - Actor ... Sarah Michelle Gellar 1977 - Actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) ... Today in History 1775 - The first abolitionist society in U.S. was organized in Philadelphia with Ben Franklin as president. ... 1828 - The first edition of Noah Websters dictionary was published under the name American Dictionary of the English Language. ... 1860 - The first Pony Express rider arrived in San Francisco with mail originating in St. Joseph, MO. ... 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Fords Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning. ... 1902 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store in Kemmerer, WY. It was called the Golden Rule Store. ... 1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived. ... 1925 - WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2. ... 1939 - The John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath was first published. ... 1956 - Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA, demonstrated the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture. ... 1981 - Americas first space shuttle, Columbia, returned to Earth after a three-day test flight. The shuttle orbited the Earth 36 times during the mission. ... 1990 - Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles began a streak of 95 errorless games and 431 total chances by a shortstop. ... 1994 - Two American F-15 warplanes inadvertently shot down two U.S. helicopters over northern Iraq. 26 people were killed including 15 Americans. ... 2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush sent a letter of congratulations to JCPennys associates for being in business for 100 years. James Cash (J.C.) Penney had opened his first retail store on April 14, 1902. ... Today in Music History Music History for April 14 ... 1922 - Jeanette Vreeland sang the first radio concert from an airplane as she flew over New York City. ... 1955 - Fats Dominos Aint That A Shame was released. ... 1963 - The Beatles met the Rolling Stones after a Stones concert in Richmond, England. ... 1967 - The Bee Gees released their first English single. It was New York Mining Disaster 1941. ... 1976 - Motown Records and Stevie Wonder held a news conference to announce he had signed a $13 million-plus contract with the label. ... 1976 - Bay City Roller singer Eric Faulkner almost died after swallowing Seconal and Valium tablets. ... 1980 - A New Jersey state assemblyman introduced a resolution to make Bruce Springsteens Born to Run the official state song. ... 1980 - Iron Maidens self-titled debut album was released. ... 1980 - Gary Numan released The Touring Principle, a 45-minute concert video. It was the first commercially available home rock videocassette. ... 1983 - Pete Farndon (Pretenders) died of a drug overdose at the age of 29. He had been fired from the band the year before due to his drug problem. ... 1989 - Tom Petty released his first solo album Full Moon Fever. ... 1999 - It was reported that Prince intended to re-record the entire catalog of his music and re-release it. ... Today is Monday, April 14, 2014 Today in Disaster History ... 1994 - In northern Iraq, two American F-15C fighter jets mistook two U.S. Army blackhawk helicopters for Russian-made Iraqi MI-24 helicopters and shot them down. All 26 soldiers aboard were killed. ... Quote of the Day The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires. - Dorothy Parker ... Today is Monday, April 14, 2014 Today in Dick Clarks American Bandstand History ... 1984 - The video for Billy Idols Rebel Yell was aired on American Bandstand. ... Apr 14, 1865: Lincoln is shot On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Fords Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. Booth, a Maryland native born in 1838, who remained in the North during the war despite his Confederate sympathies, initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, the president failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait. Two weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces. In April, with Confederate armies near collapse across the South, Booth hatched a desperate plan to save the Confederacy. Learning that Lincoln was to attend a performance of Our American Cousin at Fords Theater on April 14, Booth masterminded the simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. By murdering the president and two of his possible successors, Booth and his conspirators hoped to throw the U.S. government into disarray. On the evening of April 14, conspirator Lewis T. Powell burst into Secretary of State Sewards home, seriously wounding him and three others, while George A. Atzerodt, assigned to Vice President Johnson, lost his nerve and fled. Meanwhile, just after 10 p.m., Booth entered Lincolns private theater box unnoticed and shot the president with a single bullet in the back of his head. Slashing an army officer who rushed at him, Booth leapt to the stage and shouted Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants]–the South is avenged! Although Booth broke his leg jumping from Lincolns box, he managed to escape Washington on horseback. The president, mortally wounded, was carried to a lodging house opposite Fords Theater. About 7:22 a.m. the next morning, Lincoln, age 56, died–the first U.S. president to be assassinated. Booth, pursued by the army and other secret forces, was finally cornered in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia, and died from a possibly self-inflicted bullet wound as the barn was burned to the ground. Of the eight other people eventually charged with the conspiracy, four were hanged and four were jailed. Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, was buried on May 4, 1865, in Springfield, Illinois. ... This Week in History, Apr 14 - Apr 20 Apr 14, 1865 Lincoln is shot Apr 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier Apr 16, 1943 Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered Apr 17, 1970 Apollo 13 returns to Earth Apr 18, 1906 The Great San Francisco Earthquake Apr 19, 1897 First Boston Marathon held ...
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