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October 4 OT - "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? HELL NO!"


Time to move on. The division flag will fly in the Bay area, at least for one season. Here are your dates of interest....

1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, was born in Delaware, Ohio.
1895 The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held, at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.
1923 Actor Charlton Heston was born John Charles Carter in Evanston, Ill.
1931 The comic strip "Dick Tracy" by Chester Gould made its debut.
1957 Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.
1957 "Leave It to Beaver" premiered on CBS.
1970 Rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead of an accidental heroin overdose.
1990 German lawmakers held the first meeting of the reunified country's parliament in the Reichstag in Berlin.
1993 Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.
2001 Authorities said a man in Boca Raton, Fla., had contracted the inhaled form of anthrax; he died the following day.
2002 John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va.
2002 Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.
2010 The Supreme Court began a new era with three women serving together for the first time as Elena Kagan took her place at the end of the bench.

Birthdays - Susan Sarandon and Russell Simmons

1934 Sam Huff, Football Hall of Famer, turns 78
1935 Eddie Applegate, Actor ("The Patty Duke Show"), turns 77
1937 Jackie Collins, Author, turns 75
1941 Roy Blount Jr., Author, turns 71
1941 Anne Rice, Author, turns 71
1945 Clifton Davis, Actor, turns 67
1946 Chuck Hagel, Former U.S. senator, R-Neb., turns 66
1946 Mike Mullen, Former joint chiefs of staff chairman, turns 66
1949 Lee Blessing, Playwright, turns 63
1949 Armand Assante, Actor, turns 63
1956 Christoph Waltz, Actor, turns 56
1961 David W. Harper, Actor ("The Waltons"), turns 51
1961 Jon Secada, Singer, turns 51
1967 Liev Schreiber, Actor, turns 45
1976 Alicia Silverstone, Actress ("Clueless"), turns 36
1979 Rachael Leigh Cook, Actress, turns 33
1982 Jered Weaver, Baseball player, turns 30