Merrell In The Morning Fun You May Have Missed – April 21st, 2014
Did you hear the Celebration this morning on Merrell In the Morning? Here's what you missed: Surprise drug test day, Glen Campbell's birthday, Boston Marathon, and more!
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Today's Celebrations
Boston Marathon
Bulldogs are Beautiful Day
Dyngus Day
Kindergarten Day
National Chocolate-covered Cashews Day
National Surprise Drug Test Day (Follows National Pot Smokers Day 4/20)
Celebrity Birthdays
1838 - John Muir - conservationist: influential in the establishment of the U.S. National Parks system and U.S. forest conservation; Muir Woods National Monument in California named after him; died Dec 24, 1914
1915 - Anthony Quinn - Academy Award-winning actor: Viva Zapata! [1952], Lust for Life [1956]; The Guns of Navarone, The Inheritance, The Old Man and the Sea, Zorba the Greek; died June 3, 2001
1926 - Queen Elizabeth II (Elisabeth Mary) [88] - Queen of the United Kingdom [1952- ]; eldest daughter of George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; married Philip Mountbatten [1947]: four children: Charles [Prince of Wales], Anne, Andrew, Edward
1936 - Glen Campbell [78] - is born in Delight, Arkansas. A session guitarist in the mid-1960s, he gains his own network television show and a string of crossover hits, ultimately landing in the Country Music Hall of Fame
1951 - Tony Danza [63] - actor: Family Law, Who’s the Boss, Taxi, Angels in the Outfield, Baby Talk; TV talk show host: The Tony Danza Show [co-executive producer]
1958 - Andie (Rosalie Anderson) MacDowell [56] - actress: Multiplicity, Unstrung Heroes, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Short Cuts, Groundhog Day, Green Card, sex lies and videotape, St. Elmo’s Fire, The Player, Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Tabloid News
Teen Survives Flight To Hawaii In Wheelwell
From http://www.bbc.com/ -
"Kid's lucky to be alive,'' a FBI spokesman said. Over the weekend on a flight from California to Hawaii there was an unexpected passenger. “When the flight landed in Maui, the teenager hopped down from the wheel well and started wandering around the airport grounds. His only possession when he landed was a comb for his hair.”
A spokesman for Hawaiian Airlines said airline staff noticed the boy after the plane landed on Sunday morning.
He was questioned by the FBI and given a medical screening and was said to be in a stable condition.
The boy is reported to have run away from home and jumped over a fence at San Jose airport to get to the plane.
"Our primary concern now is for the well-being of the boy, who is exceptionally lucky to have survived,'' a spokeswoman for Hawaiian Airlines said. He survived a lack of oxygen and freezing temperatures as the plane climbed to 39,000ft. The boy had been unconscious for most of the journey.
Since records began in 1947, about 100 wheel well stowaways are thought to have attempted to board flights, of whom around three-quarters died.