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--- Happy Birthday Miales!

Sound the trumpets! -------

Bring on the and .

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

Miales plays in and moderates most of the games in Fun & Games, namely ACR:ACRO, AGN: Again, MCE: Mission Control Exploration, NMC: Neverending Movie Chain, RBW: Rainbow and YTZ: Yahtzee.

In addition Miales has characters currently in DUC: Durham University Campus, P93/4: Platform 9 3/4, TCS: The Crystal Shard, JTM: Join The Musketeers. SKT: Storm King's Thunder

On this day in history...
1498 - Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, arrived at the island of Trinidad.

1790 - The first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for his process for making potash and pearl ashes. The substance was used in fertilizer.

1792 - The cornerstone of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, PA, was laid. It was the first building to be used only as a U.S. government building.

1919 - Germany's Weimar Constitution was adopted.

1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas."

1932 - Enzo Ferrari retired from racing. In 1950 he launched a series of cars under his name.

1945 - Pierre Laval of France surrendered to Americans in Austria.

1948 - U.S. President Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field.

1955 - Marilyn Bell of Toronto, Canada, at age 17, became the youngest person to swim the English Channel.

1959 - The Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) was founded. The group is known for being an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization.



Sharing his July 31st birthdate are
• 1826 William S. Clark, American botanist, president of Massachusetts Agricultural College, helped establish Hokkaido University, born in Ashfield, Massachusetts (d. 1886)
• 1835 Paul du Chaillu, French-American explorer who the 1st modern explorer to confirm existence of gorillas and pygmies [birth year disputed], born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1903)
• 1886 Fred Quimby, American film producer (Tom and Jerry)
• 1916 Bill Todman, American TV game show producer known for his collaborations with Mark Goodson (The Price is Right, Family Feud), born in New York City
• 1916 Billy Hitchcock, American baseball infielder, manager, official (Detroit Tigers; president Double-A Southern League 1971–80), born in Inverness, Alabama (d. 2006)
• 1923 Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach (father of Chris Evert), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2015)
• 1932 Sam Coppola, American actor (Saturday Night Fever), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 2012)
• 1940 Stanley Jaffe, American film producer (Fatal Attraction, Kramer vs. Kramer), born in the Bronx, New York (d. 2025)
• 1944 Geraldine Chaplin, American-born actress (Doctor Zhivago, 3 Musketeers) daughter of Charlie Chaplin, born in Santa Monica, California
• 1945 Edward T. Blake, American forensic scientist and the first to use polymerase chain reaction testing on crime-scene DNA, born in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 2025)
• 1951 Barry Van Dyke, American actor (Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder), born in Atlanta, Georgia
• 1952 Alan Autry, American football quarterback (Green Bay Packers), actor (In the Heat of the Night) and politician (23rd Mayor of Fresno), born in Shreveport, Louisiana
• 1964 Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs - "What Can I Do"), born in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland
• 1965 J K Rowling, author, Harry Potter and others




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

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Cheers! Hope life treated you well in celebration!!!