Today's Celebrations

Married To A Scorpio Support Day
Mickey Mouse Day
Push-button Phone Day
Steamboat Willie Day - On this day in 1928, Walt Disney debuted his talking, animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie, at the Colony Theatre in New York. The short film featured a character who had been named Mortimer. Walt changed the name to Mickey Mouse.

 Celebrity Birthdays

1909 - Johnny (John Herndon) Mercer - Academy Award-winning composer, lyricist: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [1946], In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening [w/Hoagy Carmichael] [1951], Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962]; Autumn Leaves, One for My Baby, Charade, Satin Doll, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Come Rain or Come Shine, Hooray for Hollywood, Jeepers Creepers, I’m An Old Cowhand, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive; wrote or co-wrote over a thousand songs; died June 25, 1976

1923 - Alan Shepard Jr. - astronaut: first American in space; died July 21, 1998

1942 - Linda Evans (71) (Evanstad) - actress: Dynasty, The Big Valley, Standing Tall, Hunter, North and South, Book II

1953 - Kevin Nealon (60) - actor: Saturday Night Live, All I Want for Christmas, Roxanne, Champs

1956 - Warren Moon (57) - football: QB: Univ. of Washington [1978 Rose Bowl MVP]; Houston Oilers, Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, KC Chiefs

1960 - Elizabeth Perkins (53) - actress: Moonlight and Valentino, Miracle on 34th Street, The Flintstones, Indian Summer, He Said, She Said, Avalon, Big, About Last Night...

Tabloid News

Poachers Busted By Bionic Deer

Is that a deer on the side of the road?

No, actually; it's a robot planted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, This clever tool in the fight against poaching was just too tempting on Saturday morning when a Florida man pulled over, got out of his car, and shot, prompting police officers to emerge from a nearby hiding spot and charge him with shooting deer during closed season, discharging a firearm from a roadway, and taking deer from a right-of-way.

"He crossed a ditch and walked up toward the fence carrying a rifle," the report stated. "He placed the rifle on the fence to steady himself and shot at the replica," hitting it in the neck.

The man, saying he knew that hunting season was closed and that shooting deer from a roadway is illegal, and was released Sunday after posting $1,120 in bonds. He will appear in court December 12, facing a year in jail and $2,500 in fines if convicted.

The FWC often installs fake deer where illegal deer-harvesting is suspected. The most severe charge a hunter can incur by shooting one is a third-degree felony for firing across a fence line, called trespassing by projectile and offering a maximum sentence of five years in prison plus $5,000 in fines.


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