24 Dec 06 - Sunday
1809 Kit Carson
1905 Howard Hughes
1922 Ava Gardner
1940 Jorma Kaukonen - Jefferson Airplane
1945 Lemmy - Motorhead
1943 FDR appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage", the pilot for Star Trek
1970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union
1997 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
