Happy Birthday Rhonda, Mother to Gabe, Abby, Tessa, Kyle, Celeste and Claude...

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Rhonda, today is your Birthday and on this date in history...

Hurricane Agnes became America's costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage in 1972

On this day the 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space was sent on 1974

National Assembly rejects the demands for the Third Estate by French King Louis XVI during the opening stages of the French Revolution in 1789

Director/choreographer, Bob Fosse, (Cabaret, Damn Yankees), was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1927

Author Washington Irving releases first editions of "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." featuring story "Rip Van Winkle" in 1819

Happy Birthday to Frances McDormand, American actress (Fargo), born in NYC, New York in 1957; Maestro James Levine (Musician - James Levine Returns to the Met), American conductor (Metropolitan Opera, 1976-2017), was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1943; Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (3 Olympic gold 100/200/4x100m 1960), born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee in 1940; Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer (Senior PGA C'ship 2014-15, US Senior Open 2014), born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1963 (Colin Montgomerie)

American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes patents the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful of its kind and famous for the "QWERTY" keyboard in 1868 ...

Popular band "Supertramp" has the No. 1 album in the US "Breakfast in America" featuring "Take the Long Way Home" in 1979

Pow! Bam! Zap! The movie "Batman" premieres directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 1989

Your most popular Irish actress (Tarzan, Pride & Prejudice, Hannah and Her Sisters) "Maureen O'Sullivan" at age 87 died in 1998

Brexit referendum: United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union on this date in 2016

In 1963 NY Mets Jimmy Piersall hits his 100th HR and he circles the bases backwards. His bipolar disorder became the subject of a book and a film, Fear Strikes Out.

Randy Jackson, American bassist, singer (Perpetrators), and record producer (American Idol judge), was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1956

The British computer scientist and cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who developed the Turing machine, was born on this date in 1912

Hit single by The Knack My Sharona is released on this date in 1979

Duffy's (Aimee Anne Duffy) debut album, Rockferry, was the best-selling album in the United Kingdom with 1.68 million copies. She was born on this date in 1984

Aberdeenshire, Scotland is the location of the wedding of actors Kit Harington (31) and Rose Leslie (31) of "Game of Thrones" fame on this date in 2018

You are the unique Rhonda Kay that conquered insurmountable odds, champions the "Christian Life", loves Gabe, Abby, Tessa, Kyle, Celeste & Claude and inhabits the "Virginia Is for Lover's" state with the "Sweet Virginia Breese" (State Song)...