January 26
Village Voice Lover Jules Feiffer is 85
American Pastime Lover Bob Uecker is 79
Mechanical Bull & Clarice Starling Lover Scott Glenn is 75
Karl Marx Lover Angela Davis is 70
Jump & Exotic Riff Lover Eddie Van Halen is 59
Other Chicks Lover Ellen DeGeneres is 56
Puck Lover Wayne Gretzky is 53
230 years ago, Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to his daughter, expressed displeasure with the choice of the Bald Eagle as the symbol of America prefering the Turkey, calling it "a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true Native of America."
226 years ago, the first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in present-day Sydney.
80 years ago, the 125th Street Apollo Theater opened in NYC's Harlem district.
Today, SP woke up with a craving for Tid-Bits