Birthday Alarm: Greeting Cards and Reminders

~ Celebrity Birthdays ~

• Sam Donaldson
   (TV journalist)
• Lawrence Welk
   (bandleader)
• Ralph D. Abernathy
   (NAACP head)
• Rupert Murdoch
   (Chairman and CEO, News Corporation)
• Charles W. Swan
   (actor)
• Marius Petipa
   (ballet choreographer)

~ Today in History ~

• Today in 1918 revolutionary Russia proclaims its new capital to be Moscow.
• Today in 1935 for the first time the Bank of Canada is officially opened.
• Today in 1974 the volcano known as Mount Etna erupts in Sicily.