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Heart attack at 51. Geez!
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Awful news, he just had a daughter in 2012 too. RIPComment
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RIP Tony Soprano."...when Hibernian won the Scottish Cup final and that celebration, Sunshine on Leith? I don’t think there’s a better football celebration ever in the game.”
Sir Alex FergusonComment
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Still can't believe this one...Comment
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"Heart attack at 51. Geez!"
-------------------A friends brother had a heart attack at 40. One never knows.GO LIONS "24" !!Comment
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Sometimes there is no warning whatsoever, I have heard of people who have had no problems whatsoever, and then next thing you know they die of massive heart attacks.AKA Dave LubinComment
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Sounds like my friends brother. He jogged and ate semi healthy I was told. Never know.GO LIONS "24" !!Comment
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Corey Monteith star of tge TV series Glee was found dead in Vancouver. Sounds like he had a drug problemAKA Dave LubinComment
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he had one for at least the last 12 years of his life. He was 31Benny Blades~"If you break down this team man for man, we have talent to compare with any team."Comment
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Finn = FinisBenny Blades~"If you break down this team man for man, we have talent to compare with any team."Comment
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That's a shame.#birdsarentrealComment
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they said he got into drugs at 13 and had an intervention when he was 17.Not only man to man.......but as fact.
(AAL) 2011 - Tony SchefflerComment
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RIP British comedian, Mel Smith of "Not the nine o'clock news" fame and "Alas Smith & Jones". 60 years old.
Genuinely unhappy about this. Very funny and brilliant man."...when Hibernian won the Scottish Cup final and that celebration, Sunshine on Leith? I don’t think there’s a better football celebration ever in the game.”
Sir Alex FergusonComment
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On this day in history...
Events
1903 ? The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
1932 ? In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans, part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, who attempt to march to the White House.
1934 ? Labor unrest in the U.S.: as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
1934 ? 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, Washington, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
1944 ? World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1960 ? The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
1968 ? The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
1969 ? Apollo program: Apollo 11 successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon almost 7 hours later. (US Time)
1976 ? The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
1977 ? Johnstown, Pennsylvania is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage.
1977 ? The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
1997 ? The fully restored USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
2012 ? During a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises, a gunman opens fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58.
Births
356 BC ? Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (d. 323 BC)
1822 ? Gregor Mendel, German scientist (d. 1884)
1919 ? Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008 )
1929 ? Mike Ilitch, American businessman, co-founded Little Caesars
1930 ? Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (d. 2009)
1938 ? Tony Oliva, Cuban baseball player
1938 ? Diana Rigg, English actress
1938 ? Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
1947 ? Carlos Santana, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Santana)
1958 ? Billy Mays, American advertising salesman (d. 2009)
1964 ? Chris Cornell, American singer-songwriter and musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave, and Temple of the Dog)
1973 ? Peter Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1978 ? Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
1980 ? Gisele B?ndchen, Brazilian model and actress
Deaths
1923 ? Pancho Villa, Mexican general (b. 1878)
1973 ? Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor, poet, instructor of Jun Fan Gung Fu, filmmaker, and martial artist, invented Jeet Kune Do (b. 1940)
2005 ? James Doohan, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
2013 ? Helen Thomas, American journalist (b. 1920)Benny Blades~"If you break down this team man for man, we have talent to compare with any team."Comment
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Good stuff Tony. Thanks.
Maybe we should have a dedicated thread?Comment
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