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2009-04-30
Posted by:Fred

#4  Hi, good post. I have been thinking about this topic,so thanks for posting. I will definitely be subscribing to your posts.
Posted by: Healthy Diet Lets Woman Lose Thirty Pounds in Thirty Days   2009-04-30 14:22  

#3  GBUSMC you have hit on an all-time family tradition there! White Christmas gets drug out every year as it has been since I was first falling for Vera Ellen 50 yrs ago. We'll have to see if my boys carry on the tradition when they have a choice of their own (after I'm dead).

Gams, indeed. 8^)
Posted by: AlanC   2009-04-30 10:00  

#2  It's Gams Gone Wild staring Vera Ellen Westmeier Rohe. Fashion, we don't need no stinking fashion.



Sometimes it is polite to point.

Look out sailor, you're about to receive a broadside.

Daily Gam Shot

New definition of a split skirt.

Nice dogs.

Elves have been known to block your chimney.

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2009-04-30 01:15  

#1  Happy Birthday: April 30th

Eve Arden - died 1990 (82)"Our Miss Brooks"

Corinne Calvet - died 2001 (76) "What Price Glory - The Far Country - So this is Paris"

Cloris Leachman - 83 "The Last Picture Show" (Now)

Willie Nelson - 76 "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (Now)

Bobby Vee - 66 "Devil or Angel" (Now)

Jill Clayburgh - 65 "An Unmarried Woman - Starting Over" (Now)

Kirsten Dunst - 27 "Spider-Man trilogy" (Now)

On this day in history: April 30th.
1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
1803 – The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1939 – World's Fair: NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's opening day ceremonial address.
1975 – Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.
1993 – The World Wide Web is born at CERN.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2009-04-30 00:20  

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