The Messenger #143 (1410)

Monday, July 30, 2007, #143 (1410)

Today in history

1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people
1733 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States
1932 - Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres
1954 - Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer
1956 - A Joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto
1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid
1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court
1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again
2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line
2006 - World's longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years

Birthdays

1818 - Emily Bronte, English novelist (d. 1848)
1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1904 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (d. 1918)
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and Governor of California
1948 - Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
1958 - Kate Bush, British musician
1961 - Laurence Fishburne, American actor
1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress
1971 - Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
1974 - Hilary Swank, American actress

Georgian words of the day

hotel - sastumro
room - otakhi
night - ghame
rate - taripi

What hotel can you suggest in Tbilisi?