Happy Birthday to ME!!!! (interesting April 13 factoids for your reading pleasure)

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Lifer
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1668 - John Dryden was appointed the first Poet Laureate.

1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president, was born

1870 - Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York

1882 - The Anti-Semitic League was founded in Prussia.

1939 - Paul Sorvino was born

1964 - Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Oscar for best actor, in The Lilies Of The Field.

1970 - Ricky Schroder was born

1970 - Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)

1978 - I was born!!

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: GoldenGuppy
Niceee

Any plans on this otherwise mundane Tuesday? :D

><GG)

going to be at school all day until 9pm :(

ah well :D