Happy Birthday To Me

Well I woke up this morning to 28 emails from various forums and sites that I am a member of making sure that I didn't forget that today was my birthday.

MAY 31st

1819 - Poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hill, N.Y.

1837 - The Astor Hotel (later renamed the Waldorf-Astroria) open in NYC

1859 -The famous tower clock known as Big Ben, located at the top of the 320-foot-high St. Stephen's Tower, rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, for the first time on this day in 1859.

1868 - First Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, OH

1879 - Madison Square Garden opens

1884 - Dr. John Kellog patents "flaked ceral"

1909 - 1st NAACP convention opens

1955 - US Supreme Court orders school intergration "with all deliberate speed"

1962 - Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Holocaust.

1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"

1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was completed after three years of work.

2005 - Former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat," the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

People Who Are Luck Enough To Share My Birthday

Clint Eastwood, Joe Namath, Lea Thompson, Brooke Shields (same year as well), Walt Whitman