Happy Birthday Evy, Wife to Pete & Mother to Bella...

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

Valiantly, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain in 1776

Young Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, “discovered” the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it in 1770

English actor, Hugh Laurie (Strapless, Dr Gregory House-House) was born in Oxford, England in 1959

Richard Strauss, German composer was born in Munich, Germany in 1864

Born today was Peter Dinklage, American actor (Game of Thrones), in Morristown, New Jersey in 1969

Happy Birthday to Jacques Cousteau, French oceanic explorer (Calypso), born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France in 1910 (d. 1997), Graham Russell, Australian rock vocalist (Air Supply) (Musician - "All Out of Love"), 23rd Preakness (1898): Willie Simms riding Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75, "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3 in 1966 (Song - "I Am A Rock")

America and Spain go to war on this date "Spanish-American War" in 1898 ...

Pompous King Henry VIII, age 17, of England marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, age 23, widow of his brother Arthur in 1509

President JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act" in 1963

Young Frankenstein (1974) actor "Gene Wilder" was born in 1933

Battle for Troy in which Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes, in The Trojan War on this date in 1184

In 1927 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th homers of MLB season record 60 HRs in New York's 6-4 win over Cleveland Indians at Yankees Stadium.

Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs in 1961

The Wedding of Musician Paul McCartney (59) to former model and anti-landmines campaigner Heather Mills (34) at Castle Leslie in County Monaghan, Ireland on this date in 2002

Hector Santizo directs the video "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones which peaks at #1 in the US on this date in 1966

Diplomatic dispute at Tang Chinese capital Chang'an when Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks both arrive to offer tribute. Settlement reached when both enter at same time through two different gates. see Sino-Arab relations on this date in 758

American stuntman George Willig (The Human Fly, Spiderman) who climbed the World Trade Center in 1977, was born in Queens, New York City on this date in 1949

You are the unique Evy that conquered New York, champions Social Services, loves Pete & Bella and inhabits the Green Mountain State ...