Two baby girls have defied the odds with a very unusual birth date. At 10:11 a.m. on Saturday, Hazel Grace was born at a hospital in Cleveland and Quincy Kessler was born at a hospital in Billings, Montana, making their birth date and time 10:11 12/13/14.
The Hippocratic Oath calls for doctors to teach the offspring of their teachers the art of medicine, free of charge.
On January 3, 2005 FOX made a reality show named “Who’s Your Daddy?”. It starts with an orphan that is introduced to eight men and tries to figure out which one really is her father. If she’s right, she wins the cash prize. If she’s wrong, the “dad” who’s conned her takes the money.
Michael Jackson wanted to do a Harry Potter musical but J.K. Rowling said “no”.
A valley settlement in Norway that lives in shadow for nearly half of every year has installed giant mirrors on an adjacent mountain to redirect sunlight into the town’s square, all based on a plan that was thought up 100 years ago.
During a 2006 presidential speech, a CNN reporter’s mic was left on while she was in the bathroom. Portions of her conversation, which included calling her sister-in-law a “control freak” were broadcasted on live television.
1667 - Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
1914 - British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
1938 - Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
1941 - USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1945 - John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
1953 - WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1574 - Samuel Besler, composer
1879 - Hugo W C Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer
1904 - William Hitzig, Austria, Maxwell physician
1932 - Elaine Barkin, composer
1954 - Alex Cox, director (Repo Man)
1958 - Eddy Annys, Belgian high jumper
1673 - Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623)
1947 - Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
1968 - Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
1975 - Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63
2007 - Julia Carson, U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana (b. 1938)
2010 - Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922)
