1. 1777 The Battle of Germantown
2. 1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, was born in Delaware, Ohio.
3. 1895 Silent film comedian Buster Keaton was born in Piqua, Kan.
4. 1927 Works Begins on Mount Rushmore
   
5. 1941 Anne Rice is born.
6. 1957 Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.
7. 1957 "Leave It to Beaver" premiered on CBS.
   
8. 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit  (1957 was a big year)
   
9. 1970 Rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead of an accidental heroin overdose.
10. 1988 Jim Bakker is indicted on federal charges
11. 1997 Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in one of the largest religious gatherings in U.S. history.
12. 2001 Barry Bonds hit his 70th home run in a game against the Houston Astros to tie Mark McGwire's single-season record. (Bonds finished the season with 73 homers.)
13. 2001 Authorities said a man in Boca Raton, Fla., had contracted the inhaled form of anthrax; he died the following day.


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Posted by pussreboots

An interesting list. Mine is 13 books I've given five stars too. There are a number of children's books on the list.

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Posted by Anonymous

How's homeschooling going? How do you like Beautiful Feet? I was so interested to know these, especially Mt. Rushmore and Leave It to Beaver. Good list!

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Posted by Anonymous

Way-hey! I didn't know Anne Rice was 66 now... unless my math is wrong.

Yuriko
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Thanks for visiting!

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Posted by 5atkins

My husband was at the Promise Keeper's meeting on the mall in DC! He said it still one of the most moving and powerful services he has attended!

Great list! I should do that for the girls birthdays!
In Him, Eva

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Posted by Anonymous

this is so totally off topic but I saw on BooMama that you were asking for the chords for Hallelujah Jesus and we found them posted by the guy who composed it at http://www.pwarchive.com/song.aspx?SongID=2304&v=1

God bless,
Sallie
http://www.angelfire.com/sc/anderklan/blahblahblog

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Posted by Anonymous

oh, and my husband says if you wan it to sound exactly like Monk and Neagle's version, capo it at 3.. whatever that means..LOL..

Sallie

P.S. the cd is playing and he's got his guitar going too... sounds great!

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Posted by Ann Aguirre

Interesting T13. Thanks for visiting my blog!

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Posted by Anonymous

It's amazing how much stuff can happen on a single day. WOW!

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Posted by Anonymous

And my mom was born :-).

Robin
http://aroundtheisland.blogspot.com/

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Posted by Anonymous

Very interesting. Why do I have to be anonymous?

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Posted by Leslie

Actually you can type your name in instead of anonymous.

~Leslie

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