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50 things we’d like you to know about Annie Pooh . . .

 

Ann Hedstrom is:

 

Trustworthy with a capital “T” – Ann’s word is her bond. You can count on it!

Loyal – When Ann is on your side, may God help your enemies!

Helpful – Anytime, anywhere, Ann is there with a helping hand to anyone!

Friendly – She has that infectious smile that just oozes friendliness wherever she goes

Courteous – Ann is always polite, respectful and considerate of everyone’s opinions – even when she disagrees with your stance.  You’ll still get to speak your own views without fear of being belittled or denigrated as so many others tend to do these days

Kind – Ann has a kind and compassionate heart for others – and it shows in everything she does.  The needs of others always comes before her own.  People she knows. Strangers. Animals too.   It does not matter.

Obedient – Ann is a law-abiding and respectful citizen with regards to our government leaders, even when in strong opposition to their political views.  She will never break the law to get her own way.  Instead, she’ll do it through the voting booth!  Or better yet, she’ll run for office herself!   Go Annie Pooh!

Cheerful – Ann has a happy sunny disposition all the time.  It’s hard to get Ann in a foul-mood!

Thrifty – Ann knows the value of a dollar and the means by which to put each dollar to its best use

Brave – Yes, Ann is “brave” – she would sacrifice her own wellbeing and safety in order to save others in need.  She’d do it in a heartbeat, without hesitation

Clean – Any by this, we’re talking morally clean.

Reverent – Ann and God.  Friends forever.  End of story

 

(BTW, with just these first twelve attributes and characteristics of Annie Pooh, she is now officially a charter member of the Boy Scouts of America!  Yes, Ann.  You’ve passed the test.  A boy scout is Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.  Who knew?  Welcome to the club!)

Boy Scout

 

 

There are so many other GREAT THINGS to know about Annie Pooh. Here are just a few that we came up.  We could go on and on and on, but we didn’t want to embarrass you too much with all these accolades, but they’re all true!

 

Ann is Authentic and genuine to the core

Ann is Committed and steadfast to her beliefs and causes

Ann is Compassionate towards others

Ann is a highly Creative person

Ann is Considerate of others

Ann is Highly Dependable

Ann is Steadfastly Determined person

Ann is Very Enthusiastic in all she does!

Ann is Faithful to God, Family, and Country

Ann is forgiving towards others

Ann is a Gentle person

Ann is a God-Fearing person

Ann is a hospitable person, welcoming all

Ann is Truly Joyful

Ann is a born Leader

Ann is Listens to others

Ann is a Loving person

Ann is Meek in spirit – but in the right way!

Ann is a motivated person

Ann is Nurturing

Ann is an eternal Optimist

Ann is an extraordinarily Patient Person

Ann is Poised and Full of Grace

Ann is a Peaceful Person

Ann is a Prayerful person

Ann is Purposeful and Relevant

Ann is Reasonable in all her ways

Ann is Respectful of others

Ann is Highly Resourceful

Ann has a Wonderful Sense of Humor

Ann is a Servant to others’ needs before her own

Ann is the most sincere person you’ll ever meet

Ann is Strong in moral values and character

Ann is Supportive of everyone

Ann is a truly and genuinely a Thankful person

Ann is Tolerate of others – in spite of it all in today’s crazy world!

Ann is a Visionary person

Ann is Wise well-beyond her 50 years!!!

 

Can’t wait to see what the next 50 brings . . . 

 

 

On This Day In History – April 29th 

1091 – Battle at Monte Levunium: Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes
1429 – Joan of Arc arrives at the seige of Orleans
1522 – Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands
1540 – Emperor Charles declares all privileges of Gent ended
1550 – Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority
1553 – Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
1623 – 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru
1628 – Sweden & Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein
1636 – Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans
1644 – Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking
1661 – Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
1670 – Pope Clemens X elected
1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1701 – Drenthe, Netherlands, adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701
1706 – Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne and Bavaria
1707 – English and Scottish parliaments accept Act of Union; form Great Britain
1715 – John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time
1781 – French fleet occupies Tobago during American War of Independence
1781 – French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
The Sun King of France Louis XIV1784 – Premiere of Mozart’s Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)
1793 – Cornerstone laid for Groningen’s new townhall
1813 – Ist US Rubber patent granted to Jacob F Hummel
1834 – Charles Darwin’s expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia
1845 – Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice
1852 – 1st edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus published
1853 – Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 AUs of Earth
1856 – Peace between Britain & Russia
1857 – US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently forms at Presidio (SF)
1861 – Maryland’s House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
1862 – 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss
1862 – New Orleans fell to Union forces during US Civil War
1863 – Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 – -30] Skirmish at Jenkins’ Ferry, Arkansas
1864 – The Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
Naturalist Charles Darwin1882 – The “Elektromote” – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
1886 – 1st public Dutch electricity opens
1888 – Old Kavallison, Congo: Stanley meet Emin Pasha
1892 – Charlie Reilly is baseball’s 1st pinch hitter
1894 – Commonwealth of Christ (Coxey’s Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
1901 – 27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75
1901 – Anti semitic riot in Budapest
1903 – Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)
1905 – 2″ rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, TX
1905 – Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon
1910 – Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
1912 – 108°F (42°C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)
1912 – Frank Wedekind’s “Tod und Teufel” premieres in Berlin
1916 – Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
1918 – Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt1922 – 1st official Intl Weightlifting Federation Champ (Tallinn, Estonia)
1925 – Netherlands returns to gold standard
1926 – France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I
1927 – Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed
1930 – 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
1930 – North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
1930 – Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1931 – Cleve Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0
1934 – Pitts is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday
1936 – 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5
1939 – Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens
1940 – 1st radio broadcast of “Young Dr Malone” on CBS
1940 – Norwegian King Haakon & government flees to England
1940 – Robert Sherwood’s “There Shall be No Night” premieres in NYC
1942 – Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road
1942 – Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France
1943 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrested by nazis
1943 – Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter” premieres in London
1943 – US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia
1944 – Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague
1945 – 1st food drop by RAF above Nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)
1945 – Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
1945 – Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
1945 – US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
1945 – Venice & Mestre were captured by the Allies
1946 – 28 former Jap leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1948 – Bradman scores 107 Aust v Worcs, 152 mins, 15 fours
1953 – Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds’ center field bleachers
1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1955 – Giovanni Gronchi elected third president of Italy
1956 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1956 – WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 – WSPA TV channel 7 in G’ville-Spartanburg, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 – WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 – 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
1961 – ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” debuts
1962 – 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons & How to Succeed win
1962 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1963 – KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT
1964 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1964 Ann Hedstrom, aka “Annie-Pooh” is born!

1965 – Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam
1965 – Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
1965 – Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe
1967 – Aretha Franklin releases “Respect”
1968 – “Hair” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
1969 – “Trumpets of the Lord” opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 7 perfs
1970 – 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1971 – Bill Graham closes down Fillmore & Fillmore East
1971 – Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
1971 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 – Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic

 Famous Birthdays

534 – Taliesin, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion

1584 – Melchior Teschner, composer
1636 – Esaias Reusner, composer
1660 – Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer
1665 – James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
1667 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope)
1686 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742)
1727 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d’action)
1745 – Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)
1758 – Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (d. 1820).
1762 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
1771 – Matthaus Stegmayer, composer
1780 – Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
1783 – David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)
1784 – Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
1806 – Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher
1808 – Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer [or 1883]
1815 – Abram Duryee, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1818 – Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
1830 – Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels
1837 – Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
1842 – Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
1854 – Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
1855 – Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS]
1855 – Edmund van der Straeten, composer
1857 – Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel’ Tes’e)
1857 – Frantisek Ondricek, composer
1860 – Lorado Taft, US, sculptor (Black Hawk)
1862 – Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer
Newspaper Publisher William Randolph Hearst (1863)1863 – William Randolph Hearst, San Francisco California, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I)
1863 – Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
1863 – Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (d. 1922)
1871 – Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children)
1872 – Eyvind Alnaes, composer
1872 – Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)
1873 – Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage)
1875 – Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)
1876 – Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
1879 – Thomas Beecham, England, composer (found London Philharmonic)
1882 – Hendrik N Werkman, painter/printer/resistance fighter (Hot printing)
1885 – Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter)
1885 – Wallingford Riegger, Albany Georgia, composer (Bacchangle)
1893 – Elisaveta Bagrjana, [Beltsheva], Bulgaria, poet
1893 – Harold C Urey, Ind, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934)
1895 – Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
1896 – Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer
1896 – Walter Mehring, writer
Jazz-orchestra leader, Composer, Pianist Duke Ellington (1899)1899 – Duke Ellington, Washington, District of Columbia, American bandleader, composer and pianist (Take the A Train)
1899 – Karl Yngve Skold, composer
1899 – Natalie Talmadge, actress (Our Hospitality)
1901 – George Osborne Sayles, historian
1901 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89)
1902 – Theodore Chanler, composer
1903 – Frank Parker, NYC, singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party)
1904 – Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate
1904 – Russ Morgan, Scranton Pa, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard)
1907 – Fred Zinneman, Austria, director (From Here to Eternity, Julia)
1907 – Tino Rossi, Ajaccio France, singer (Deux Amours, Marlene)
1908 – Jack [Stewart] Williamson, US, sci-fi author (Cometeers)
1908 – Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter
1909 – Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader
1909 – Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], Ky, actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch)
1910 – John Beavan, newspaper editor
1912 – Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor
1912 – Richard Carlson, MN, actor (All I Desire, Flat Top, Valley of Gwangi)
1912 – Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic
1913 – Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist
1913 – Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster
1914 – Ewan Roberts, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pvt Benjamin)
1915 – Donald Mills, singer (Mills Brothers)
1917 – Celeste Holm, American actress
1917 – Maya Deren (born Eleanora Derenkowskaia), Kiev Ukraine, American filmmaker
1918 – Mervyn Roye Harvey, cricketer (brother of Neil, Test for Australia)
1919 – Celeste Holm, NYC, actress (Gentleman’s Agreement, All About Eve), (d. 2012)
1920 – Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster
1920 – Harold Samuel Shapero, Lynn Mass, composer (9 Minute Opera)
1921 – Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer (Sun)
1922 – George Allen, football coach (LA Rams, Washington Redskins)
1922 – Parren J Mitchell, (Rep-D-MD, 1971- )
1922 – Tommy Noonan, WA, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises)
1922 – Toots [Jean] Thielemans, Belgian/US jazz musician/composer
1922 – Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcyclist (d. 2001)
1923 – Irvin Kershner, Phila, director (Never Say Never Again)
1923 – Maxine Audley, London, actress (Peeping Tom, Ricochet, House of Cards)
1924 – Al Balding, Toronto Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Quebec Open-1952)
1924 – Renée Jeanmaire, Paris France, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson)
1925 – Ab Abspoel, Dutch actor/director (Surprise Attack, Elevator)
1925 – Danny Davis, rocker (Nashville Brass
1925 – Ned Austin, American character actor (d. 2007)
1926 – Carie Meek, (Rep-D-Florida)
1927 – Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist/auto company exec
1927 – Dorothy Manley, England, 100m sprint (Olympic-silver-1948)
1928 – Big Jay McNeely, rocker
1928 – Carl Gardner, Tyler Tx, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin)
1929 – Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer
1929 – Vaclav Kucera, composer
1929 – W Kempowski, writer
1929 – [John] Jeremy Thorpe, British MP (Liberal)
1929 – Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1930 – Alf Valentine, Jamaican cricketer (great West Indian lefty spinner)

1964Ann Hedstrom turns 50!  The world stops and takes notice of this momentous occasion

Famous Weddings

1885 – Novelist Edith Wharton (23) weds Edward Robbins Wharton (35)
1945 – Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
1964 – Princess Irene marries Spanish prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma
1988 – “60 Minutes” newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols
1988 – Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry
1989 – Rock band Bon Jovi lead singer Jon Bon Jovi (27) weds Dorothea Hurley (26) at Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas
2004 – “Gentlemen’s Agreement” Oscar Best Supporting Actress Celeste Holm (85) weds opera singer Frank Basile (41) in Manhattan
2006 – “The O.C.” actress Amanda Righetti (23) weds film director and writer Jordan Alan in Oahu, Hawaii
2006 – Ranchera singer Lupillo Rivera weds Mayeli in Garden Grove, California
2011 – Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.

Famous Deaths

852 – Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76
926 – Burchard II, Duke of Swabia
1380 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
1499 – John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies
1535 – John Houghton, English, executed
1594 – Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer
1630 – Agrippa d’Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)
1658 – John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
1676 – Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69
1698 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
1699 – Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50
1707 – George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
1712 – Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67
1743 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
1768 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
1776 – Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
1793 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
1793 – John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
1798 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
1813 – Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55
1841 – A Bertrand, writer, dies
1854 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)
1864 – Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon’s theorem), dies at 80
1871 – John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75
1903 – Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
1905 – Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57
1916 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
1918 – Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22
1920 – William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1921 – Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies
1928 – Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61
1933 – Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
1935 – Leroy Carr, rocker, dies=
1936 – Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76
1937 – William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
1943 – Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56
1943 – Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68
1943 – Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
1944 – Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
1945 – Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1947 – Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80
1951 – Jules Verstraete, [Julien G de Graef], actor (Boefje), dies at 67
1951 – Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62
1953 – Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62
1954 – Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82
1956 – Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75
1957 – Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82
1961 – Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
1964 – Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77
1966 – Eugene O’Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
1967 – Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60
1967 – J. B. Lenoir, African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the 1950s, dies at 38
1972 – Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup
1973 – Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82
1975 – Charles McMahon Jr, US USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam
1975 – Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1975 – Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam
1975 – William Craig Nystul, USMC capt, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1976 – Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73
1979 – Julia Perry, American composer (Soul Symphony), dies at 55
1979 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
Director Alfred Hitchcock(1980)1980 – Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
1986 – Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25
1988 – Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies
1988 – Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74
1991 – Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
1992 – Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84
1993 – Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77
1993 – Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83
1993 – Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
1994 – Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
1994 – Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53
1994 – Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74
1995 – Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57
1996 – David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 – Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71
1996 – Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of Pres Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72
1996 – Tony Hymphris, political activist, dies at 45
1997 – Keith Ferguson, blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50
1997 – Mike Royko, columnist, dies of stroke at 64
1997 – Peter Tali Coleman, gov of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies
1998 – Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2002 – Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
2002 – Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
2004 – Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2005 – William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)
2005 – Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966)
Economist and Author John Kenneth Galbraith (2006)2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
2007 – Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
2007 – Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
2007 – Ivica Račan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
2007 – Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden
2007 – Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
2007 – Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
2008 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
2012 – Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister, dies at 69
2012 – Amarillo Slim, American professional poker player, dies at 83
2013 – John La Montaine, American composer, dies at 93

 

 Family Ties

Sometimes its also fun to go back in time and review some of those old Family Ties Newsletters that mom used to do.  Enjoy!

Family Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 1 – June 30, 1989

Family Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 2 – September 30, 1989

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 3 – January 31, 1990

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 4 – March 31, 1990

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 5 – June 30, 1990

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 6 – September 30, 1990

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 8 – March 31,1991  *

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 9 – June 30,1991

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 10 – September 30,1991

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 11 – December 31,1991

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 12 – March 31,1992

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 13 – June 30,1992

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 14 – September 30,1992

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 15 – December 31,1992

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 16- June 30, 1993

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 17 – January 1, 1994

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 18 – June 30, 1994

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 19 – April 1, 1995

Family Ties Vol 1 Issue 20 – December 22, 1995

* BTW . . . Where is the “mysterious missing volume # 7?”  We think its a government conspiracy.  Let’s blame Obama!