flimshaw

from thewho shares your birthday thread:

Benjamin Orr (The Cars) 1955
Melanie Griffith 1957
Kurtis Blow 1959
Aimme Mann 1960
Whitney Houston 1963
Deion Sanders 1967
Gillian Anderson 1968
Mack 10 1971
Liz Vassey 1972

1678 - American Indians sold the Bronx to Jonas Bronck for 400 beads.
1854 - "Walden" was published by Henry David Thoreau.
1930 - Betty Boop had her beginning in "Dizzy Dishes" created by Max Fleischer.
1942 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested Britain.
1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14.
1969 - Sharon Tate and four other people were found murdered at Tate's residence in Los Angeles, CA. Charles Manson and several members of his cult were later convicted of the crime.
1973 - The U.S. Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair filed suit against President Richard Nixon.
1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S.
2001 - U.S. President Bush announced he would support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells.

1991 - Rick James pled innocent to charges that he imprisoned, tortured and sexually assaulted a woman in his California home.

some of this stuff i knew, but they left out that jerry garcia died on my birf day.
but i didn't know that
I'M RICK JAMES BITCH!