Picture of the Day and B'days for Feb. 16

Posted February 15, 2009, 8:39 pm


Today is Monday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2009. There are 318 days left in the year. This is Presidents' Day.

On February 16th, 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter.

On February 16th, 1959,  Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batist

On February 16th,  1968, John Lennon, George Harrison and their wives traveled to India to study transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Later, they were joined by Ringo Starr and his wife and Paul McCartney and his fiancee.a.

Today's Birthdays: Singer Patty Andrews is 91. Kim Jong Il, the president of North Korea, is 67. Actor William Katt is 58. Actor LeVar Burton is 52. Actor-rapper Ice-T is 51. Actress Lisa Loring (Wednesday Addams is 51. Tennis Hall of Fame player John McEnroe is fit at 50.

Picture of the Day: 67-year-old Lee Redmond from Utah lost her fingernails last week in a car crash. Redmond, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's longest fingernails, hadn't cut her nails since 1979. The Salt Lake county sheriff's department said Redmond was thrown from an SUV in the crash and was taken to the hospital in serious condition.





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