Today's Buzz: Wednesday, Jan. 23

Posted January 23, 2008, 5:43 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Wednesday, January 23, 2008. There are 343 days left in the year and there are 285 days until Election Day.
GBNEWS
A Block:
Autopsy Planned as Actor Heath Ledger is Mourned (CNN)
Feds Emergency Rate Slash Creates Opportunity for Cherry Pickers (Wall Street Journal)
Fred Thompson Drops Presidential Bid (ABC News)
The Clintons Double-Team Obama (Time)
Age Before Beauty? Hal Holbrook and Ruby Dee Get Oscar Nod (Orlando Sentinel)

B Block:
Whole Foods to End Use of Plastic Bags by Earth Day (Green Daily)
Awesome Mashup: Celebrity Heads on Money (Freaking News)
Grandma Arrested at McDonald's Drive-Thru For Not Pulling Car Forward (Local6)
Life on Mars? Check Out This NASA Photo (Daily Mail)
Fab at 45: Demi Moore Poses in Skimpy Bikini (Daily Mail)

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
American football player Jerry Kramer is 72. Singer Millie Jackson is 65. U.S. Senator Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, is 61. Pointer Sisters singer Anita Pointer is 60. Actor Richard Dean Anderson ("MacGyver") and musician Danny Federici (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) both are 58.

Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB member Nate Jr. Click on his name to send your birthday greetings!

On This Day:
In 1845: The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November is dubbed "national election day" by the U.S. Congress. This year's election falls on Nov. 4.

In 1849: The Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y. awards the first medical degree to a woman in America to Elizabeth Blackwell.

In 1973: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam, ending what was one of the most controversial wars in American history.

In 1985: O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame.

In 1986: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley become the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In 1989: Surrealist artist Salvador Dali dies in Spain at the age of 84.

In 1991: Jerry Seinfeld's show "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV

In 2003: Actress Nell Carter, best known for her role as Nell Harper on the hit 1980s show "Gimme a Break," dies in Beverly Hills at the age of 54 of a heart attack brought on by complications from diabetes.

In 2005: Former "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson dies in Malibu, Calif., at the age of 79.

Today's Thought:
"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."

-- Elizabeth Blackwell


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