--- Happy Birthday Silkenray!Sound the trumpets! ------- Bring on the and .From Bosco the dragon and all of us at DreamLyrics, we hope you have a great birthday!
Silkenray currently is on hiatus from her games but is still a regular participant and well-loved member of DreamLyrics and we hope she'll be back into gaming soon!
On this day in history...0483 - St. Felix III began his reign as Pope.
1519 - Cortez landed in Mexico.
1868 - The U.S. Senate began the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.
1901 - Andrew Carnegie announced that he was retiring from business and that he would spend the rest of his days giving away his fortune. His net worth was estimated at $300 million.
1930 - It was announced that the planet Pluto had been discovered by scientist Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.
1935 - Three-thousand-year-old archives were found in Jerusalem confirming some biblical history.
1963 - China invited Soviet President Khrushchev to visit Peking.
1969 - The Apollo 9 astronauts returned to Earth after the conclusion of a mission that included the successful testing of the Lunar Module.
1974 - An embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries was lifted.
1990 - The U.S. lifted economic sanctions against Nicaragua.
1991 - Exxon paid $1 billion in fines and for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill.
1992 - An earthquake in eastern Turkey killed more than 1,000.
Sharing her March 13th birthdate are:1615
Pope Innocent XII 1733
Joseph Priestley , scientist and minister
1741
Joseph II , Holy Roman Emperor
1763
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune , French soldier
1764
Charles Grey , 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1855
Percival Lowell , astronomer
1911
L. Ron Hubbard , author
1913
William Casey , director of the CIA
1914
Edward O'Hare , WWIIfighter ace
1934
Barry Hughart , author
1950
William H. Macy , actor
1954
Baroness Valerie Amos , British politician, first black woman in the UK Cabinet
So grab you a slice of this giant birthday cake and join Bosco the Dragon and me as we wish Silkenray a wonderful birthday and hopes and wishes for many, many more down the road.
---- Happy Birthday, Silkenray!!!