Archive for March, 2011

ANITA BRYANT BECAME 71 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Anita Jane Bryant is a singer, gay rights opponent, and a former beauty queen. She became Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and was a second runner-up in the 1959 Miss America Beauty Pageant at age 19, right after graduating from High School. During her music career, Anita scored four Top 40 hits  in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including
"Paper Roses", which reached #5. Today, Anita Bryant does charity work for various
youth organizations while heading Anita Bryant Ministries International.

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Anita Bryant as Miss Oklahoma

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SARAH JESSICA PARKER TURNED 46 TODAY

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Sarah Jessica Parker, film, television, and theater actress and producer is 
best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television
series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won four Golden Globe 
Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. Parker
has also appeared in many films, including Footloose (1984), L.A.Story
(1991), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), and Mars Attacks (1996).

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Sarah Jessica Parker in Footloose

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Parker in L.A. Story, her breakthrough film

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RACE CAR DRIVER DANICA PATRICK IS 29 TODAY

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Danica Sue Patrick is a race car driver, currently competing in the Indy Car series and
the NASCAR Nationwide series, as well as a model and advertising spokeswoman. She was named the Rookie of the Year for both the 2005 Indianapolis and the 2005 Indy Car season. With her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300, Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy Car race. Patrick currently drives the #7 GoDaddy.com Honda/Dallara for the Andretti Auto Sport team. In 2010, Patrick began racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, driving the #7( below) GoDaddy.com for JR Motorsports part-time.

Danica placed 3rd in the 2009 Indianapolis 500, which was both a personal best for
her at the track and the highest finish by a woman in the event’s history. In 2011 in
the NASCAR Nationwide Series Patrick became the first woman to lead a lap at
Daytona International Speedway. She had her best career finish of 4th in the
NASCAR Nationwide Series on March 5th, 2011 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway,
by doing this, she set a record for the best finish by a woman in a NASCAR top
circuit race

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DAYTONA BEACH, FL - FEBRUARY 10:  Danica Patrick, driver of the #7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet poses during NASCAR Nationwide Series portraits at Daytona International Speedway on February 10, 2010 in Daytona Beach, Florida.  (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images for NASCAR)

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Donica with her trophy for the 2008 Indy Japan win

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ARETHA FRANKLIN IS 69 TODAY ~ GIVE HER A LITTLE RESPECT!

The Queen of Soul became the first female artist to be inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

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ASTRONAUT JIM LOVELL IS 83 TODAY

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James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr., is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain
in the U.S. Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which
suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to
Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control. Lovell was also the command
module pilot of Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to enter lunar orbit. Lovell is a
recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal
of Freedom. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, the first of
only three people to fly to the Moon twice, and the only one to do so without
making a landing. Lovell was also the first American to fly in space four times. 

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The Apollo 13 crew back home

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