I know it is gtho4's birthday but I cananot believe that Google will commemorate that. Check out Google to look how they have decorated themselves today - then tell me waht it is all about, please.

the Winter Olypmics, if you're getting the same pics I am, they've been doing something different every day.

Birthdays

Henry Adams 1838
Robert Flaherty 1884
Van Wyck Brooks 1886
Katharine Cornell 1898
Chester Morris 1901
Wayne King (The Waltz King) 1901
Edgar Bergen 1903
Hugh Beaumont 1909
Jimmy Wakely 1914
Bill Doggett 1916
Patty Marie Andrews (The Andrews Sisters) 1918
Jean Behra 1921
Vera-Ellen Westmeyer Rohe 1921
Otis Blackwell 1932
Gretchen Wyler 1932
Sonny Bono 1935
Barry Primus 1938
Herbie & Harold Kalin (The Kalin Twins) 1939
Jeremy Bulloch 1946
Pete Postlethwaite 1946
William Katt 1951
James Ingram 1956
LeVar Burton 1957
Ice-T 1958
Lisa Loring 1958
John McEnroe 1959
Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) 1961
Jerome Bettis (NFL) 1972
Sam Salter 1978



Misc. History


1741 - Benjamin Franklin published America’s second magazine, "The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle".

1804 - A raid was led by Lt. Stephen Decatur to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia. The ship had been taken by pirates.

1857 - The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College.

1862 - During the U.S. Civil War, about 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson, TN.

1868 - The Jolly Corks organization, in New York City, changed it name to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE).

1883 - "Ladies Home Journal" began publication.

1914 - The first airplane flight between Los Angeles and San Francisco took place.

1918 - Lithuania proclaimed its independence.

1923 - Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen. The next day he entered the chamber with several invited guests. He had originally found the tomb on November 4, 1922.

1932 - The first fruit tree patent was issued to James E. Markham for a peach tree which ripens later than other varieties.

1937 - Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon. Carothers was a research chemist for Du Pont.

1938 - The U.S. Federal Crop Insurance program was authorized.

1945 - During World War II, U.S. troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines.

1946 - The first commercially designed helicopter was tested in Connecticut.

1948 - NBC-TV began airing its first nightly newscast, "The Camel Newsreel Theatre, which consisted of Fox Movietone newsreels.

1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista.

1960 - The U.S.S. Triton began the first circumnavigation of the globe under water. The trip ended on May 10.

1962 - Jimmy Bostwick defeated his brother, Pete, to win the U.S. Open Court-Tennis championships for the third time.

1963 - Paul Anka married Marie-Ann DeZogheb in Paris.

1968 - In the U.S., the first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL.

1970 - Joe Frazier began his reign as the undefeated heavyweight world champion when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis in five rounds. He lost the title on January 22, 1973, when he lost for the first time in his professional career to George Foreman.

1972 - Wilt Chamberlain (Los Angeles Lakers) reached the 30,000-point mark in his NBA career during a game against the Phoenix Suns.

1977 - The Anglican archbishop of Uganda, Janani Luwum, was killed in automobile accident. Two other men were also killed.

1985 - "Kojak" returned to network television after an absence of seven years with the CBS-TV special, "Kojak: The Belarus File."

1987 - John Demjanjuk went on trial in Jerusalem. He was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible", a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp. He was convicted, but the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ruling.

1989 - Investigators in Lockerbie, Scotland, announced that a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player was the reason that Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down the previous December. All 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground were killed.

1999 - A bomb exploded at the government headquarters in Uzbekistan. Gunfire followed the incident. The event apparently was an attempt on the life of President Islam Karimov.

1999 - Kurds seized embassies and held hostages across Europe following Turkey's arrest of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.

1999 - Testimony began in the Jasper, TX, trial of John William King. He was charged with murder in the gruesome dragging death of James Byrd Jr. King was later convicted and sentenced to death.

2002 - The operator of a crematory in Noble, GA, was arrested after dozens of corpses were found stacked in storage sheds and scattered around in the surrounding woods.

2003 - In Chicago, IL, 21 people were killed in a night club after a disturbance on the second floor. The panic that evolved resulted in the trampeling.

2005 - The Kyoto global warming pact went into effect in 140 nations.

2005 - The NHL announced the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to a labor dispute. It was the first time a major sports league in North America lost an entire season to a labor dispute.

Thank you, it has been driving me nuts! Yes, the Olympic flame and presumably that is a ski jumper.

Yes, I can see the skis now! Not sure whether it is a jumper or what, but a skier nevertheless. Phew, one mystery solved.

For the first few days, if you clicked on it, it brought up websites related to the subject (as it usually does if Google has special art). Now, though, if you click on it, you can see the artwork from the past several days, starting with the not-quite-lit torch from Friday the 10th. There's torch-lighting, snowboarding, figure skating, luge (or however that's spelled) and I think today's is actually speed skating.

So you can. How clever is that? Thank you.

I have never thought to click on the Google name! In future when they so something special I will know how to check it out.