Every day our local paper runs a list of famous people whose birthday it is and not infrequently I find myself saying saying to Richie, "OMG it's (insert famous person's name) birthday and I thought they were dead!" Just as frequently he just looks at me. Married people know this look well.
Today In History is the column that runs next to the birthdays.
Today's Birthdays
When I remembered that today's b-days were born on the 4th of July, an auspicious date if there ever was one, I instantly thought of "Born on the 4th of July" sung by Bruce Springsteen
Eva Marie Saint - 97
Gina Lollobrigida - 94
Eva Marie looks good - great bones hold up saggy muscle and skin. Lived with less aggro - she married a Jeffrey Hadyn in 1951 and that marriage flourished until he died on Christmas Eve, in 2016.
Gina was said to be the wealthiest actress in Italy. She, too, married once as well, Mr. Milko Skofic in 1949 until 1971.
Today in History
July 4th, 1826 the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted both John Adams (90) and Thomas Jefferson (82) died - five hours apart. It is claimed that Adam said, (croaked from his deathbed?) "Jefferson lives." But he didn't having died five hours earlier.
Daniel Webster chimed in writing "Our patriots have fallen but at such an age with such coincidence that we cannot lament the end has come which we knew would not be long."
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