Boomer's Buzz: Friday, March 7, 2008

Posted March 7, 2008, 3:54 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Friday, March 7, 2008. There are 299 days left in the year and 241 days left until Election Day.
B-Block:
Letters Claim Responsibility for Times Square Blast (ABC News)
New Colon Cancer Screening Recommendations: What You Need to Know (U.S. News)
New Report: Men Who Do More Housework May Get More Sex (AP)
Grand Canyon 10 Million Years Older Than Thought (Washington Post)

By The Numbers:
The 8 Most Ridiculous Dance Crazes -- With Video! (OMGLists)

Pic of the Day:
Beautiful Ice Crater on Mars

Video of The Day: Firemen Make Car 'Fly'



Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy Birthday to GB members Mickey, John, Bill, Bob Mallison and Mulligan Man! Click their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Photographer and ex-husband of Princess Margaret Lord Snowdon is 78. TV personality Willard Scott ("Today") is 74. Auto racer Janet Guthrie is 70. Actor Daniel J. Travanti ("Hill Street Blues") is 68. Former Walt Disney World Co. CEO Michael Eisner is 66. Football Hall of Famer Franco Harris is 58. R&B singer Ernie Isley ("The Isley Brothers") is 56. Actor Bryan Cranston ("Malcolm in the Middle") is 52. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 44.

On This Date:
In 1876: Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone.

In 1926: The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation takes place between New York City and London.

In 1964: Capitol Records is swamped with requests for heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay's album, "I Am the Greatest," after Clay defeated Sonny Liston on Feb. 25.

In 1965: A march by civil rights demonstrators is broken up in Selma, Ala. by state troopers.

In 1976: Elton John becomes the first rock star since the Beatles to be immortalized at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London.

In 2003: A four-day walkout by Broadway musicians begins, forcing nearly every Broadway musical to cancel performances. In 2007, another strike occurs, which is the longest stoppage since 1975.

In 2006: Apple Inc. is granted the patent to the iPod.

Today's Thought:
"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."
-- Henry Ward Beecher



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