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--- Happy Birthday J-J Vomact!

Sound the trumpets! -------

Bring on the and .

From Bosco the dragon and all of us at DreamLyrics, we hope you have a great birthday!

J-J has been an inestimably valued DreamLyrics sysop and manipulator of unbelievably complex monthly site stats in the past but one who is currently taking a brief hiatus from gameplaying here due to some RL issues. Hopefully, he'll be back and active in the games soon, though he does keep in contact and joins in on Never Ending Movie Chain.

On this day in history...
1587 - Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
1788 - 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1793 - France declares war on Great Britain and Netherlands
1809 - Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
1861 - Texas secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1864 - 2nd German-Danish war begins
1864 - Austrian and Prussian troops occupy Schleswig-Holstein
1884 - 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
1896 - Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
1910 - 1st British labour exchange opens
1917 - German Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1918 - Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14)
1920 - Soccer team Quick Boys forms
1920 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
1924 - Ramsay MacDonald's incoming Labour government formally recognizes the Soviet Union
1924 - Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
1926 - Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
1942 - 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
1943 - German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
1944 - US 7th Infantry/4th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 - US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1949 - 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948]
1949 - RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1958 - 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
1958 - Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
1959 - Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1961 - British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
1964 - Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks
1970 - Northern Ireland PM Chichester-Clark meets British Home Secretary James Callaghan to discuss the economy of Northern Ireland
1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1972 - Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
1972 - British Prime Minister Edward Heath announces the appointment of Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery to undertake an inquiry into the 13 deaths on 'Bloody Sunday' (30 January 1972)
1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.


Sharing his February 1st birthdate are
1757 - John P Kemble, England, actor/director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden)
1827 - Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker
1859 - Victor Herbert, Dublin, Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland, Kiss in Dark)
1873 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1901)
1887 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
1894 - John Ford, American Film Director (d. 1973)
1901 - Clark Gable, Cadiz Ohio, American actor (Gone With the Wind)
1904 - S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
1908 - George Pal, Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons)
1922 - Clifford McWatt, cricketer (WI wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1954-55)
1932 - John Nott, British MP
1937 - Don Everly, Brownie Ky, vocalist (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
1937 - Garrett Morris, actor (SNL, Martin, Carwash), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1941 - Robert Walmsley, British Vice-Admiral
1942 - Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
1954 - Billy Mumy, California, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
1964 - Linus Roache, English actor
1966 - Rob Lee, English footballer
1994 - Harry Styles, Holmes Chapel Cheshire, British pop singer (One Direction




So grab you a slice of this giant birthday cake and join Bosco the Dragon and me as we wish J-J Vomact a wonderful birthday and hopes and wishes for many, many more down the road.

---- Happy Birthday, J-J Vomact!!!

Thanks, Gypsy!

Happy birthday J-J!!! WOOO!

Double cheers!