Nov 9, 2004
Birthday horoscope.
Happy Birthday: Fence-sitting will lead nowhere this year and will probably set you back. Make your move in a powerful and positive manner. You can instill confidence in those willing to support your actions. — Birthday Baby: You are charming and graceful and can win anyone’s acceptance with your sophisticated and well-spoken rhetoric. You are a born leader and you will always use a unique and creative demeanor when dealing with others.
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This is going to be a very action-packed year for you, with lots of new projects to tackle. If you get started right now, you’ll receive accolades and honors in February and March. Challenges in late spring will yield a fun and exciting summer and fall. For the most part, you’re in for a passionate and very enjoyable love life this year. Your lucky numbers are: 1, 15, 34, 49 and 33.
I share my birthday with a variety of people: Mary of Peter Paul and Mary, a dude off of the british Who’s Line Is It Anyways?, The Hulk, a dude from 98, a steroid freak, kick ass astronomers, the old man down the road, a vice president, “the most beautiful woman in films (also the inventor of spread spectrum), Pepa, a hot Austrian, a king, members of REO Speedwagon, Iron Maiden, Blue Oyster Cult and L7 and this fucker.
Other events:
1620: “Mayflower” sights land, at Cape Cod, Mass.
1799: Napoleon Bonaparte participates in a coup and declares himself dictator of France.
1872: Fire destroyed nearly a thousand buildings in Boston.
1888: Jack the Ripper’s fifth and last known victim, Mary Jane Kelly, was found in her room in London’s Whitechapel.
1938: Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as “Kristallnacht.”
1965: The great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 and a-half hours.
1967: The first issue of “Rolling Stone” was published. The magazine said it was not simply a music magazine but was also about “…the things and attitudes that music embraces.” John Lennon was on the cover of this first issue.
1970: Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
1976: The U.N. General Assembly approved ten resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as “illegitimate.”
1985: Gary Kasparov, 22, became the youngest world chess champion, ending the 10-year reign of Anatoly Karpov in Moscow.
1985: MIAMI VICE THEME by Jan Hammer peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart.
1989: East Germans on foot and in cars began arriving in West Germany and West Berlin only hours after the East German government threw open its border to the West.
2004: Nearly half of Calgary burns to the ground as Mason’s birthday celebrations get out of hand. The ensuing riots spread to most of Western Canada and parts of Brazil.