Happy Birthday, Laura Bush!

Wishing you every joy and happiness... today and always!



It's my birthday, today, too!

Sending shared birthday greetings along to:
Famous Birthdays for November 4
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Legendary newscaster Walter Cronkite, born 1916.
Academy Award and Emmy-winning actor Art Carney, born 1918.
Brewery executive Alfred Heineken, born 1923.
Emmy Award-winning actress Doris Roberts, born 1929.
Emmy Award-winning actress Loretta Swit, born 1937.
Actress Markie Post, born 1950.
New age musician Yanni, born 1954.
Jazz musician Najee, born 1957.
Actor Ralph Macchio, born 1961.
TV personality Jeff Probst, born 1962.
Actress Kathy Griffin, born 1964.
Actor Matthew McConaughey, born 1969.
Rap mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, born 1969.
Industrialist Benjamin F. Goodrich, born 1841.
Actor, humorist Will Rogers, born 1879.
39th Vice President, Spiro Theodore Agnew, born 1918.
Actor Cameron Mitchell, born 1918.
Photographer Robert Maplethorpe, born 1946.

And from The History Channel:
General Interest
1842 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd
1922 Entrance to King Tut's tomb discovered
1979 Iranians Storm US Embassy in Tehran
1995 Yitzhak Rabin assassinated

Automotive
1939 The First Air-Conditioned Car
1965 Mrs. Breedlove Breaks 300MPH Barrier

Civil War
1862 : Democrats gain seats in elections
1864 : Battle of Johnsonville, Tennessee

Cold War
1956 Soviets crush Hungarian revolt

Crime
1928 One of New York's most notorious gamblers, Arnold Rothstein, is shot to death

Entertainment
1879 Will Rogers born
1960 Filming complete on The Misfits

Literary
1948 T.S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize in literature

Old West
1879 Will Rogers is born in Oklahoma

VietNam War
1969 South Vietnamese battle communists along the Cambodian border
1970 U.S. hands over air base to the Vietnamese Air Force

Wall Street
1880 James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, invented the very first cash register.
1939 President Franklin Roosevelt implements the Neutrality Act of 1939.
1953 Hollywood releases the immortal Marilyn Monroe comedy How to Marry a Millionaire

World War II
1944 Gen. Sir John Dill dies

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This was fun taking a look back.