Friday, March 02, 2007

Happy Birthday to ME!!!!

Its my birthday!!

So not too much planned (Go visit a friend of mine and her cutie little boy, then go to lunch tomorrow with my folks). But, I wanted to share something a bit silly I did..... I bought some things from Old Navy for myself but not only did I buy these for myself for my birthday, I had them gift wrapped and wrote myself a card! Yep, that is what type of girl I am! It seems silly maybe but ya know, it makes it all really exciting.

So in honor of my Bday, I wanted to share a few things about this day!

This day in history:

1836 - Texas declared its independence from Mexico and an ad interim government was formed.

1861 - The U.S. Congress created the Territory of Nevada.

1866 - Excelsior Needle Company began making sewing machine needles.

1901 - The first telegraph company in Hawaii opened.

1908 - In Paris, Gabriel Lippmann introduced three-dimensional color photography at the Academy of Sciences.

1933 - The motion picture King Kong had its world premiere in New York.

1969 - In Toulouse, France, the supersonic transport Concorde made its first test flight. 1974 - Postage stamps jumped from 8 to 10 cents for first-class mail. 1984 - The first McDonald's franchise was closed. A new location was opened across the street from the old location in Des Plaines, IL.

1998 - Images from the American spacecraft Galileo indicated that the Jupiter moon Europa has a liquid ocean and a source of interior heat.

2004 - NASA announced that the Mars rover Opportunity had discovered evidence that water had existed on Mars in the past.

Birthdays
Sam Houston 1793 (which as a Texan, I find freakin' cool!)
Dr. Suess 1904
Desi Arnaz 1917
Jennifer Jones 1919
Doc Watson 1923
John Cullum 1930
Tom Wolfe 1931
Mikhail Gorbachev 1931
Al Waxman 1934
Doug Watkins 1934
Paul Dino 1939
Barbara Luna 1939
Jon Finch 1941
John Irving 1942
Lou Reed (Velvet Underground) 1942
Eddie Money 1949
Karen Carpenter (The Carpenters) 1950
Cassie Yates 1951
Laraine Newman 1952
Jay Osmond (The Osmond Brothers) 1955
Mark Evans (AC/DC) 1956
John Cowsill (The Cowsills) 1956
Kevin Curren 1958
Larry Stewart (Restless Heart) 1959
Jon Bon Jovi 1962
Casey (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) 1976
Heather McComb 1977
Chris Martin (Coldplay) 1977
Robert Iler 1985

5 comments:

Jenny, the Bloggess said...

Crap! I missed your birthday AND Sam Houston's.

That guy holds a grudge.

Happy (late) birthday, chaquita!

TxGambit said...

Whooops. Not late. Its today!!!

I wrote it last night. I guess I need to go edit the date and time.

Thanks Jenny! Sam Houston thanks you too. :)

g-man said...

Happy Birthday!!! You're so lucky to have yourself to give yourself a nice present to. Did you open it yet? Don't tell yourself what you got. :)

TxGambit said...

Thanks G-man! Open it? Hell yeah and one step further.... I'm wearing it!

yerdoingitwrong said...

Happy Birthday. This is my first time visiting your blog and I'm having a great time! Loved what you did for yourself for you bday!! Hope you have the best year ever.