My birthday on Wikipedia

Captain’s Log, Stardate 09.02.2006

Blog book giveaway:
My Monday book giveaway is the Coffee Cup Bible Study books by Sandra Glahn.
My Thursday book giveaway is PINK by Marilynn Griffith.
You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on each of those blog posts. On Monday, I'll draw the winners for the Coffee Cup Bible Study books and post the title for another book I'm giving away.

ICRS, revisted: Mark Goodyear was kind enough to mention my blog when he blogged himself in response to a negative LA Times article about ICRS.

Birthday fun: I got this from Dream. You go to Wikipedia and type in your birth month and day (but not year) in the search box.

Some highlights:

Events:

303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.

1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.

1970 - The Partridge Family debuts on ABC-TV and would run for four years. (I never saw this show.)

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.

1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed in Ireland. (I know about the Magdalen Asylums thanks to Patti Lacy.)

Births:

1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)

1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)

1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962) (Is that cool or what???)

1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999) (I loved Where the Sidewalk Ends)

1931 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster

1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer

1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, American model

1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor

1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)

1961 - Heather Locklear, American actress and model

1965 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player

1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper

1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress (I think she’s one of the most beautiful women alive)

Deaths:

1849 - Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (b. 1804)

1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930) (I remember reading her books, also some of them were quite morally disturbing)