Happy Birthday to *Evangelist Billy Graham is 95 *Musician Joni Mitchell is 70 (sung River-one of my favorites) *Actor Christopher Knight is 56 (Brady Bunch) *Documentary maker Morgan Spurlock is 43 (Supersize Me) This day in history In 1874 the Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harpers Weekly. In 1929 the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened to the public. In 1944 President Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas Dewey. In 1996 the U.S. liquor industry voted to drop its decades-old voluntary ban on broadcast advertising. In 1998 John Glenn, the 77-year-old senator and former astronaut, returned to Earth with his crew aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Straight from the #OrlandoSentinel
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 01:18:29 +0000
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