Merrell In The Morning Fun You May Have Missed

Today's Celebrations

Caesarean Section Day
Dress Up Your Pet Day
National Poetry at Work Day
Organize Your Home Day
Ratification Day
Today Day - On this cold East Coast morning at 7 a.m., in 1952, NBC-TV opened a broadcast with a shot of Dave Garroway looking outside through the ‘Window on the World’ in New York City.

Celebrity Birthdays

1915 - Mark Goodson - TV game show producer: Pop the Question; Goodson-Todman Productions: What’s My Line, I’ve Got a Secret, Family Feud, The Price is Right; died Dec 18, 1992

1941 - (Dorothy) Faye Dunaway [73] - Academy Award-winning actress: Network [1976]; Don Juan DeMarco, Casanova, Beverly Hills Madam, Christopher Columbus, Mommie Dearest, Voyage of the Damned, Three Days of the Condor, The Towering Inferno, Chinatown, The Deadly Trap, Little Big Man, The Arrangement, Bonnie & Clyde

1948 - Carl Weathers [66] - actor: Happy Gilmore, Dangerous Passion, Hurricane Smith, Rocky series, Force 10 from Navarone, Semi-Tough

1948 - T Bone Burnett [66] is born in St. Louis, Missouri. An artist in his own right, he produces Robert Plant & Alison Krauss' "Raising Sand" album, the soundtracks to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "Crazy Heart," and the music of ABC-TV's "Nashville"

1968 - LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) [46] - rap singer

1969 - Jason Bateman [45] - actor: Little House on the Prairie, Breaking the Rules, Necessary Roughness, A Taste for Killing

Tabloid News

The 12th Man Shakes the Ground

From espn.go.com -

Seismologists say Seahawks fans shook the ground under Seattle's CenturyLink Field during Saturday's defeat of the New Orleans Saints, causing another fan-generated earthquake.
The scientists believe the small earthquake during a Marshawn Lynch touchdown was likely greater than Lynch's famous "beast quake" touchdown run three years ago, which also came against New Orleans during a playoff game.
John Vidale of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) at the University of Washington told The Seattle Times they will know for sure in a few days.
PNSN posted graphs during the game through its Twitter and Facebook accounts. Fans jumped and stomped their way to magnitude 1 or 2 earthquake in 2011 during Lynch's rambling, tackle-breaking "beast quake" run.