Dear Rhonda

On this special day we want to wish you a Happy Birthday.
We hope that all your dreams and wishes may come through

Huggers, The Luc-women

February 5

Birthdays 

John Jeffries 1744 
Robert Peel 1788 
Felix Mendelssohn 1809 
John Boyd Dunlop 1840 
Belle Starr 1848 
Andre-Gustave Citroen 1878 
Adlai Stevenson 1900 
John Carradine 1906 
William Burroughs 1914 
Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt) 1919 
Andrew Greeley 1928 
Don Goldie 1930 
Claude King 1933 
Henry "Hank" Aaron 1934 
Stuart Damon 1937 
Jane Bryant Quint 1937 
H.R. Giger 1940 
Stephen Cannell 1940 
David Selby 1941 
Barrett Strong 1941 
Roger Staubach 1942 
Cory Wells (Three Dog Night) 1942 
Al Kooper 1944 
J.R. Cobb 1944 
Charles Winfield (Blood, Sweat & Tears) 1944 
Charlotte Rampling 1946 
David Ladd 1947 
Barbara Hershey 1948 
Christopher Guest 1948 
Nigel Olsson (Elton John) 1949 
Jennifer Jason Leigh 1962 
Duff McKagan (Guns 'N Roses) 1964 
Chris Baron (Spin Doctors) 1968 
Bobby Brown 1969 
Sara Evans 1971 
Bjorn Bores 1974 

Music History 

1887 - Verdi's opera "Otello" premiered at La Scala. 
1940 - Glenn Miller and his band recorded "Tuxedo Junction." 
1957 - Bill Haley arrived for his first British tour. 
1958 - The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) formed a New York chapter. NARAS is better known as the Grammy Awards organization. 
1967 - Due to a Musicians' Union ban, the Rolling Stones were not allowed to play their hit "Let's Spend the Night Together" when they appeared on an ITV show. 
1986 - Prince released the song "Kiss." 
1989 - Metallica's concert at Reunion Arena in Dallas, TX, was broadcast nationally via the Z-Rock radio network. 
1998 - Tim Kelly (Slaughter) died after a being injured in an auto accident in Arizona at the age of 34. 
1998 - Elton John and Stevie Wonder played at the White House. 

Misc. History 

1782 - The Spanish captured Minorca from the British. 
1783 - Sweden recognized the independence of the United States. 
1846 - "The Oregon Spectator", based in Oregon City, became the first newspaper published on the Pacific coast. 
1861 - Samuel Goodale patented the moving picture peep show machine. 
1885 - Congo State was established under Leopold II of Belgium, as a personal possession. 
1881 - Phoenix, AZ, was incorporated. 
1900 - The U.S. and Britain sign the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, which gave the U.S. the right to build a canal in Nicaragua but not the right fortify it. 
1917 - Mexico's constitution was adopted. 
1924 - The BBC time signals, or "pips", from Greenwich Observatory were heard for the first time. They are broadcast every hour. 
1931 - Maxine Dunlap became the first woman licensed as a glider pilot. 
1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt proposed enlarging the U.S. Supreme Court. The plan failed. 
1940 - "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill" debuted on radio. 
1953 - The Walt Disney’s film "Peter Pan" opened at the Roxy Theatre in New York City. 
1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser was formally nominated to become the first president of the United Arab Republic. 
1961 - The first issue of the "Sunday Telegraph" was published. 
1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algeria's independence. 
1972 - Bob Douglas became the first black man elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA. 
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 2,200-point for the first time. The market closed at 2201.49. 
1988 - A pair of indictments were unsealed in Florida, accusing Panama's military leader, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, of bribery and drug trafficking. 
1994 - White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. 
1997 - Switzerland's "Big Three" banks announced they would create a $71 million fund for Holocaust victims and their families. 
1997 - Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter. 
1999 - Mike Tyson was sentenced to a year in jail for assaulting two people after a car accident on August 31, 1998. Tyson was also fined $5,000, had to serve 2 years of probation, and had to perform 200 hours of community service upon release. 
2001 - It was announced the Kelly Ripa would be Regis Philbin's co-host. The show was renamed to "Live! With Regis and Kelly." 
2001 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced their separation. 

I would like this message
to be a lasting reminder
of how special you are to me...

A birthday is a day of happiness,
a day for sharing feelings,
and a time for celebrating
a very important person.

And YOUR birthday is
an especially important day...
because it's a time to wish you
a wonderful year ahead.
And it's a time to wish you a treasure
of happiness from the year gone by.
And it's a time to give you
a lasting reminder that you are
very special to me...

and you always will be.

- by Chris Gallatin

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