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Happy Birthday, sir.

Happy B-day!!!

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Events of your B-day

February 8

1802 - Simon Willard patented the banjo clock. He couldn’t play it a lick, but it did keep good time...
1887 - The Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, MN became the first ski club in the United States.

1896 - The Western (football) Conference was formed by representatives of Midwestern universities. Later, the group changed its name to the Big 10 Conference.

1918 - The Stars and Stripes, the weekly newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces, was published for the first time.

1924 - John Joseph Carty of the Bell Telephone System spoke in Chicago, IL. His speech was carried across the nation on the first coast-to-coast radio hookup. An estimated 50-million people heard the speech.

1927 - The original version of the motion picture, Getting Gertie’s Garter, opened at the Hippodrome Theatre in New York City. The movie centered on a young lawyer who, believe it or not, didn’t know the difference between a bracelet and a garter.

1936 - The first National Football League draft was held. Jay Berwanger was the first to be selected. He went to the Philadelphia Eagles.

1960 - U.S. Congressional investigators began exploring the influence of payola in the radio and record industries. Alan Freed and American Bandstand host, Dick Clark, among others, were called to testify.

1963 - Lamar Hunt, owner of the American Football League franchise in Dallas, TX, moved the operation to Kansas City. He named the new team the Chiefs. Dallas got possession of an NFL franchise known as the Cowboys.

1969 - The last issue of the Saturday Evening Post was published, ending a magazine tradition that began in 1821.

1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scored 27 points while leading his team to a 111-109 victory over the Boston Celtics. Abdul-Jabbar passed Wilt Chamberlain’s NBA career record of 12,682 field goals on this night.

1984 - The Winter Olympics opened in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina). Some 1,579 athletes from 50 nations participated. The Olympic facilities have since been all but destroyed by the war in Bosnia.

1985 - The Dukes of Hazzard ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television. The series was credited with using more stunt men than any other TV series in history. The show had used as many as eight cars per episode when the crash sequences got complicated. Waylon Jennings did the theme song, The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol’ Boys).

1986 - Billy Olson, who actually claimed that he was afraid of heights, broke an indoor pole vault record for the seventh time in four months. He vaulted 19 feet, 5-1/2 inches.

1987 - The West beat the East in the NBA All-Star Game. A record was set for total points scored. The West won 154-149 in overtime.

1990 - Singer Del Shannon (Charles Westover) shot himself in the head with a .22 caliber rifle at his home in Santa Clarita, California. He was 50. Shannon’s first and biggest hit was Runaway, which hit number one in the U.S. April 24, 1961. His other top-20 singles included Hats Off to Larry, Little Town Flirt and Keep Searchin’ (We’ll Follow the Sun).

1992 - The XVIth Winter Olympic Games opened in Albertville, France. The games ran through Feb 23 and included 64 countries with 1801 athletes, 488 of whom were women.

1992 - The single by R*S*F (Right Said Fred), I’m Too Sexy, was #1 in the U.S. It was a smash, staying at number one for three weeks, then dropping to number two for three more. “I’m too sexy for my car; too sexy for my car; Too sexy by far; And I’m too sexy for my hat; Too sexy for my hat; what do you think about that...”

1996 - An agreement was reached between the city of Cleveland, the NFL and Art Modell, permitting Modell to move his football franchise, the Cleveland Browns, to Baltimore. As part of the agreement, the name Browns, its team colors, and storied history would remain in the proud city of Cleveland.

Birthdays

February 8

1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman
army officer: Civil War hero: famous for his march through Georgia: “War is hell.”; died Feb 14, 1891

1828 - Jules Verne
‘the father of science fiction’: writer: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days; died Mar 24, 1905

1888 - Dame Edith Evans
actress: Scrooge, Look Back in Anger, David Copperfield, The Madwoman of Chaillot; died Oct 14, 1976

1919 - Buddy Morrow (Moe Zudekoff)
bandleader: Night Train, Hey Mrs. Jones, theme from Man with the Golden Arm

1921 - Lana (Julia Jean) Turner
actress: Ziegfeld Girl, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Madame X, Love Finds Andy Hardy; died June 29, 1995

1925 - Jack Lemmon (John Uhler Lemmon III)
Academy Award-winning actor: Mr. Roberts [1955], Save the Tiger [1973]; The Apartment, The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men series, Some Like It Hot, The China Syndrome, Airport ’77, The Fortune Cookie, Irma La Douce, Days of Wine and Roses, Bell, Book and Candle, My Fellow Americans, Out to Sea; died June 27, 2001

1926 - Audrey Meadows
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Jackie Gleason Show [1955]; The Honeymooners, That Touch of Mink; sister of actress, Jayne Meadows; died Feb 3, 1996

1930 - Jim Dooley
football: Chicago Bears; head coach: Chicago Bears [1968-1971: 20-36-0]

1930 - Alejandro Rey
actor: The Grace Kelly Story, Fun in Acapulcodied May 21, 1987

1931 - James Dean
actor: Giant, East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause; killed in car crash Sep 30, 1955

1932 - John Williams
Academy Award-winning composer: film scores: Schindler’s List [1993], E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial [1982], Star Wars [1977], Fiddler on the Roof [1971]; Jurassic Park, Home Alone series, JFK, Indiana Jones series, Born on the Fourth of July, The Accidental Tourist, Superman series, Jaws series, The Deer Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Black Sunday, Midway, The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Paper Chase, The Poseidon Adventure; conductor: Boston Pops

1936 - Larry Verne
singer: Please Mr. Custer

1937 - Billy Cannon
football: Heisman Trophy winner: LSU [1959]; Oakland Raiders tight end: Super Bowl II

1938 - Ray Sharpe
singer: Linda Lu

1940 - Ted Koppel
journalist; anchor: Nightline

1941 - Nick Nolte
actor: Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Deep, Blue Chips, 48 Hours, The Prince of Tides, Extreme Prejudice

1942 - Robert Klein
comedian: TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes

1943 - Creed Bratton
musician: guitar, banjo, sitar: group: The Grass Roots: Sooner or Later, Let’s Live for Today

1943 - Bob (Robert Lee) Oliver
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, KC Royals, California Angels, Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees

1944 - Bunky Henry
golf: PGA Tour, SPGA Tour; football: 21st Gator Bowl [1965], Georgia Tech Hall of Fame

1947 - Larry Walton
football: Detroit Lions

1949 - Brooke Adams
actress: Days of Heaven, Gas Food Lodging, O.K. Crackerby

1953 - Mary Steenburgen
actress: Nixon, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Back to the Future, Part 3, Parenthood, Melvin and Howard

1955 - John Grisham
author: A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Rainmaker; attorney; legislator

1961 - Vince Neil (Wharton)
singer: group: Motley Crue: LP: Theatre of Pain

1968 - Gary Coleman
actor: Diff’rent Strokes, Webster, The Kid from Left Field, The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins

1970 - Alonzo Mourning
basketball: Georgetown Univ; NBA: Charlotte Hornets, Miami Heat; earnings: $110 million over 7 years



Chart Toppers

February 8

1951My Heart Cries for You - Guy Mitchell
Tennessee Waltz - Patti Page
If - Perry Como
There’s Been a Change in Me - Eddy Arnold
1959Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters
The All American Boy - Bill Parsons
Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price
Billy Bayou - Jim Reeves

1967I’m a Believer - The Monkees
Georgy Girl - The Seekers
Kind of a Drag - The Buckinghams
There Goes My Everything - Jack Greene

1975Fire - Ohio Players
You’re No Good
Boogie on Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder
Then Who Am I - Charley Pride

1983Africa - Toto
Baby, Come to Me - Patti Austin with James Ingram
Shame on the Moon - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Inside - Ronnie Milsap

1991The First Time - Surface
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C & C Music Factory
featuring Freedom Williams
Play that Funky Music - Vanilla Ice
Daddy’s Come Around - Paul Overstreet

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Hope it's a GREAT one!!!

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Thanks for the events Vulgar. I had a good day, I went too the Delta at the ass crack of dawn and fished all day. Caught my first Sturgeon, had a good day. Thanks peeps...

Happy Bday, sorry i am late.