birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!

And to my fellow October 17 babies: Arthur Miller, Pope John Paul I, Rita Hayworth, Eminem, Robert Atkins (the Atkins diet guy!), Evel Knievel, Michael Hossack (Doobie Brothers), Margot Kidder (Superman!), Rob Marshall, Mike Judge (Beavis & Butthead, King of the Hill among others -- MTV legend and yes, I like his cartoons), Norm MacDonald, Ziggy Marley, Chris Kirkpatrick ('NSYNC) and Wyclef Jean.


October 17 was a great day to be born, and here I am, 25 years later, celebrating that eventful moment! (Thanks mom!)

I just want to share some interesting things that happened on my birthday, courtesy of wikipedia.org:

* 593 BC: "King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.

* 1604 AD: "1604 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation. Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way."

* 1888: "Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)."

* 1937: "Huey, Dewey and Louie, Donald Duck's three almost identical nephews, first appear in a newspaper comic strip."

*1967: "The musical Hair opens at the Anspacher Theater on Broadway."

*1979: "Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."