Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The Greatest Day Ever !!!





Today is Helena's Birthday! Everybody sing her the birthday song !!

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Hche, Happy Birthday to you !!!

On This Day...

Events:


1863 - American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

1959 - The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

1967- The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

1971- American Helena Jo Kokaliares is born in Barstow, California.

1977- Egyptian President Anwar Sadt becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

1985 - Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

1997 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2008.


Births:

1905 - Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1956)

1917- Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)

1933 - Larry King, American TV personality

1936 - Dick Cavett, American talk show host

1938 - Ted Turner, American businessman

1941 - Dan Haggerty, American actor

1942 - Calvin Klein, American clothing designer

1959 - Allison Janney, American actress

1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress

1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress

1966 - Jason Scott Lee, American actor

1971- Helena Kokaliares, 1st perfect woman

1973 - Billy Currington, American singer and songwriter

1977 - Kerri Strug, American gymnast


Holidays and Observances

Mali - Liberation Day
Puerto Rico - Discovery of Puerto Rico (1493)
United States - Equal Opportunity Day
Brazil - Flag Day
Norway - The Liberation of the Sai People of the coast
United Arab Emirates- Pilgrimage
Trinidad and Tobago - International Men's Day
Feast of the Prophet Obadiah (Greek Orthodox Church)
World - World Toilet Day
India - International Men's Day




HAPPY DAY !!!!




3 comments:

Bill said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE !!!!!!!

H said...

Really?! You went a little overboard there didn't you? Thanks anyway and this is the best song that you have sung to me yet :) aah, sweet computer with no sound!

Larry King?! Really. At least Meg and Jodie have my back.

H said...

Oh, and I"m impressed that you could spell my maiden name.