These People Were Born (a gr8 day to be borne)
1867 - pilot, bike phanatic, pimp daddy, Wilbur "Orville" Wright
1889 - mustached film star, Charlie "C Diddy" Chaplin
1921 - recently deceased, Peter "Beef" Ustinov
1947 - Airplane! co-pilot, Kareem "Paula" Abdul-Jabbar
1962 - righteous Fugazi rocker and emo creator, Ian Mac"Daddy"Kaye
1965 - traffic stopping, gun totting, Black Knight, Martin "Sarah" Lawrence
1970 - Garyland grad and CBS Sports hotness, "My" Bonnie "Lies Over the Ocean" Bernstein
1971 - Peter "Ralphie" Billingsley
1976 - Andre 3000's pal and Natalie Portman's ex-flame? Lukas "Haagen" Haas
Oooh fuuudge!
And This Shit Happened
1917 - Vladmir Lenin returns from exile... on Main Street.
1926 -
Lolly Willows by Sylvia Townsend Warner is sent out to readers as the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection ever. In the late 90s, Oprah formed her own book club and has basically told women what they should read ever since.
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychic effects of LSD. The next day he builds a time machine and goes into the future so he can see Kubey Kubrick's
2001: A Space Odyssey in theaters.
1947 - On this very day, Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War", then takes a cold shower, assassinates reknown scientist
Dr. Pepper and thus begins the "
Cola Wars."
This could be the greatest website
ever devoted to fake Dr. Pepper