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Today's Celebrations

Origami Day
Veterans Day
Armistice Day - It was on this day at 11 a.m. in 1918 that World War I ended.

Celebrity Birthdays

1744 - Abigail Smith Adams - First Lady: wife of 2nd U.S. President of the United States John Adams; died Oct 28, 1818

1885 - George S. (Smith) Patton Jr. - ‘Old Blood and Guts’: U.S. Army General: commander of Third Army during drive across France in WWII: “Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”; subject of film: Patton; died Dec 21, 1945

1925 - Jonathan (Harshman) Winters III - Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian: Davis Rules [1990-91]; The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters, NBC Comedy Hour, The Jonathan Winters Show, Mork & Mindy, Hee Haw, And Here’s the Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Shadow, The Flintstones; character: Maude Frickert; TV panelist: Masquerade Party; commercials: Hefty trash bags; died Apr 11, 2013

1947 - Pat Daugherty (66) - musician: bass: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Jim Dandy to the Rescue, Memories at the Window

1950 - Jim Peterik (63) - musician: keyboard: group: Survivor: Eye of the Tiger, Burning Heart; singer: group: Ides of March: Vehicle

1951 - Paul Cowsill (62) - singer: group: The Cowsills: Hair, Indian Lake

1951 - Fuzzy (Frank) Zoeller (62) - golf champion: Masters [1979], U.S. Open [1984]

1962 - Demi Moore (Demetria Guynes) (51) - actress: Indecent Proposal, Ghost, The Seventh Sign, A Few Good Men, Color of Night, St. Elmo’s Fire, Choices, General Hospital, Striptease, G.I. Jane

1964 - Calista Flockhart (49) - actress: Ally McBeal, The Guiding Light, Pictures of Baby Jane Doe, Telling Lies in America

1974 - Leonardo (Wilhelm) DiCaprio (39) - actor: Titanic, Parenthood, Growing Pains, Critters 3, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Aviator

Tabloid News

Dude, Where's My Car?

From TheLocal.de -

The 40-year-old, named as Andreas O., left his silver VW Golf in a side-street, near a tram stop, before hurrying to get a tram to the Theresienwiese where the Oktoberfest is held.
But after a day of beer, roast ox and folk music, the factory worker realized he had forgotten the names of both the street and the tram stop – and had no idea where his vehicle could be.
With eight different entrances to the Oktoberfest grounds and numerous train stations around the town centre where he might have parked, he could not remember how he had entered the site.
A police spokesman said "We get this sort of thing all the time,".
After making three trips back to Munich over almost five weeks, searching in vain for the lost car, the driver finally got good news from the local newspaper’s appeal on his behalf.
One of the paper's readers spotted his car and the Italian was finally able to collect it on Friday.
"I was absolutely thrilled. "With nothing but "somewhere in East Munich" to go on, police could only promise to keep an eye out while on the beat.