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2009-05-28 
Good morning!
Posted by Steve White 2009-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 Happy Birthday: May 28th

Jim Thorpe - died 1953 (64) "Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon"

Ian Fleming - died 1964 (56) "Created 'James Bond' wrote twelve Bond books"

Carroll Baker - 78 "Baby Doll - The Carpetbaggers" (Now w/John Saxon)

Rudy Giuliani - 65 "America's Mayor" (Now)

Gladys Knight - 65 "Gladys Knight & the Pips" (Now)

Sondra Locke - 62 "Dirty Harry's main squeeze for 15 years" (Now)

On this day in history: May 28th.
1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen.
1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened.
1937 – Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
1940 – Belgium surrenders to Germany.
1940 – Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. This is the first allied infantry victory of World War II.
1961 – Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1982 – British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-28 00:16||   2009-05-28 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 A lot of guys have dreamed of Barbara Jean Morehead



Even at an early age with dark hair you realized she had assets

It's her captivating big brown eyes

Daily Gam Shot

Barbara A-Go-Go

Babs, we got you back

One hot Grandmother

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-28 01:26||   2009-05-28 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Babs was married to Cochise making him one lucky Apache warlord.
Posted by MarkZ 2009-05-28 09:12||   2009-05-28 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Gladys' new venture in the ATL. Chicken and waffles
Posted by Beavis 2009-05-28 10:24||   2009-05-28 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Jeanie!
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-05-28 10:39||   2009-05-28 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Gladys' new venture in the ATL. Chicken and waffles I hope that turns out better than the jointly owned chicken restaurant Ella Fitzgerald & Sammy Davis Jr started. They called it "Sam 'N Ella"
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-05-28 14:03||   2009-05-28 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Go to your room.
Posted by Pappy 2009-05-28 14:33||   2009-05-28 14:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Morehead?

I'll be in my bunk!
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839  2009-05-28 18:19||   2009-05-28 18:19|| Front Page Top

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