Monday, June 05, 2006

Today in History

1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. (He dies on June 6).
1981 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (these were the first recognized cases of AIDS).
2006 - Doug turns 41.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday, Doug!

We were thinking of you Monday!

Today, not so much.

xoxo, Rod, Kate, Savannah and Maddie

7:21 AM  

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