January 29, 1954
Oprah Gail Winfrey, the most influential woman in the world, already got a President of the United States for her birthday, must be experiencing a small let down looking at all of her other gifts.
January 29 1595 -
"When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine,
That all the world will be in lobe with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun."
William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed (unless it wasn't). I don't know, I wasn't there, were you?
It's Thomas Paine's birthday today. He was born in 1737.
You could commemorate the occasion by reading (or rereading) Common Sense. You could also commemorate the occasion by piercing an eyebrow or waxing your car or bikini area. I don't care, it was just a suggestion.
January 29, 1964 -
Introducing us to "precious bodily fluids," and the rule about no fighting in the War room, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
Nuclear annihilation will never be the same.
January 29, 1979
"I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." -- Brenda Spencer fires repeatedly at the school across from her residence in San Diego, killing 2 and wounding 8 children, using the rifle her father had given her as a gift. The reason she gave inspired the Boomtown Rats song.
Remember guns don't kill people, it's the damn gifts our father's give us.
And so it goes.
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