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--- Happy Birthday Mats!

Sound the trumpets! -------

Bring on the and .

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

Mats is not in any games at the moment.

On this day in history...
1347 - Cola di Rienzo took the title of tribune in Rome.
1570 - Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
1674 - John Sobieski became Poland’s first King.
1882 - The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
1927 - By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1939 - The first telecast over telephone wires was sent from Madison Square Garden to the NBC-TV studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. The event was a bicycle race.
1971 - Peter Cetera (Chicago) was beaten up by four men at a Chicago Cubs-Dodgers baseball game. The men objected to the length of Cetera's hair. Cetera underwent four hours of emergency surgery.
1978 - Mavis Hutchinson, at age 53, became the first woman to run across America. It took Hutchinson 69 days to run the 3,000 miles.
1983 - First publications of the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.
1990 - The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.

Sharing his May 20th birthdate are
Seth Pomeroy 1706
Frédéric Passy 1822
King Faisal I of Iraq 1883
Gardner Fox 1911
Edward B. Lewis 1918
Bud Grant 1927
Bronson Pinchot 1959
Zebekia 1966
Tony Stewart 1971
Busta Rhymes 1972




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

Thanks very much Gypsy! Was on holiday and mostly offline.