Happy Birthday Piratecat!!
- Thread starter wsclark
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Happy B-Day wsclark and PC! 
WanderingMonster
First Post
For his birthday, I'd like to give P-Kitty some off-topic internet spam! Well, actually it's on topic...and it's not really spam. But wouldn't be funny if he had to close down his own birthday thread??
May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (131st in leap years). There are 235 days remaining.
Events:
1291 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England
1497 - Amerigo Vespucci leaves for first voyage to the New World
1503 - Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands
1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers Newfoundland
1774 - Louis XVI becomes King of France
1775 - American Revolutionary Way: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen
1810 - Revolutionary occupation of Buenos Aires town hall
1837 - The Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels
1857 - The start of the Indian Mutiny
1865 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured near Irwinville, Georgia
1869 - The first Transcontinental railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Point, Utah
1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States
1924 - J. Edgar Hoover is promoted to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1941 - World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts
1979 - The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
1994 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as President of South Africa
Births:
1727 - Anne Robert Turgot, statesman (+ 1781)
1760 - Johann Peter Hebel, poet (+ 1826)
1838 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (+ 1865)
1841 - James Gordon Bennett Jr., publisher
1878 - Gustav Stresemann, politician and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926 (+ 1929)
1888 - Max Steiner, composer (+ 1971)
1890 - Alfred Jodl, German general (+ 1946)
1899 - Fred Astaire, singer, dancer, actor (+ 1987)
1899 - Dimitri Tiomkin, composer (+ 1979)
1902 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (+ 1965)
1902 - Anatole Litvak, film director (+ 1974)
1909 - Mother Maybelle Carter, country musician
1916 - Milton Babbitt, composer
1930 - Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster
1933 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, writer
1944 - Jim Abrahams, director
1946 - Donovan Leitch, musician
1946 - Dave Mason, musician ("Traffic")
1955 - Mark David Chapman, assassin
1957 - Sid Vicious, bassist of The Sex Pistols (+ 1979)
1960 - Bono, singer of U2
1973 - Dario Franchitti, automobile racer
Deaths:
1818 - Paul Revere, engraver, patriot
1863 - Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general
1955 - Tommy Burns, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
1977 - Joan Crawford, actress
1985 - Chester Gould, cartoonist
1990 - Walker Percy, author
1994 - John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (executed)
1999 - Shel Silverstein, poet, composer
Holidays and Observances:
Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina and South Carolina
May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (131st in leap years). There are 235 days remaining.
Events:
1291 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England
1497 - Amerigo Vespucci leaves for first voyage to the New World
1503 - Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands
1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers Newfoundland
1774 - Louis XVI becomes King of France
1775 - American Revolutionary Way: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen
1810 - Revolutionary occupation of Buenos Aires town hall
1837 - The Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels
1857 - The start of the Indian Mutiny
1865 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured near Irwinville, Georgia
1869 - The first Transcontinental railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Point, Utah
1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States
1924 - J. Edgar Hoover is promoted to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1941 - World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts
1979 - The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
1994 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as President of South Africa
Births:
1727 - Anne Robert Turgot, statesman (+ 1781)
1760 - Johann Peter Hebel, poet (+ 1826)
1838 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (+ 1865)
1841 - James Gordon Bennett Jr., publisher
1878 - Gustav Stresemann, politician and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926 (+ 1929)
1888 - Max Steiner, composer (+ 1971)
1890 - Alfred Jodl, German general (+ 1946)
1899 - Fred Astaire, singer, dancer, actor (+ 1987)
1899 - Dimitri Tiomkin, composer (+ 1979)
1902 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (+ 1965)
1902 - Anatole Litvak, film director (+ 1974)
1909 - Mother Maybelle Carter, country musician
1916 - Milton Babbitt, composer
1930 - Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster
1933 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, writer
1944 - Jim Abrahams, director
1946 - Donovan Leitch, musician
1946 - Dave Mason, musician ("Traffic")
1955 - Mark David Chapman, assassin
1957 - Sid Vicious, bassist of The Sex Pistols (+ 1979)
1960 - Bono, singer of U2
1973 - Dario Franchitti, automobile racer
Deaths:
1818 - Paul Revere, engraver, patriot
1863 - Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general
1955 - Tommy Burns, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
1977 - Joan Crawford, actress
1985 - Chester Gould, cartoonist
1990 - Walker Percy, author
1994 - John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (executed)
1999 - Shel Silverstein, poet, composer
Holidays and Observances:
Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina and South Carolina
Knight Otu
First Post
Happy birthday to all who have one! 
Sir Osis of Liver
Explorer
Happy B-day, P-cat!
Knight Otu
First Post
Zhure said:
Do you think that is more important than:
?
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
WanderingMonster said:
Happy birthday, Kevin! I noticed that WanderingMonster left one event off his list:
2003: Daniel gets married.
Your birthday, my anniversary, the same date. It's like, cosmic or something.
Best wishes!
Daniel
