Posted May 10, 2008 
Comments(5) Nuala Ó Faoláin (1942-2008)
Journalist and author Nuala O’Faolain died last night at the Blackrock Hospice in Dublin.
She was 66 years old.
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Posted May 8, 2008 Comments(2) 
Coca Cola first saw the light of day on the 8th of May 1886.
It was invented by a chemist called John Stith (Styth) Pemberton.
Posted April 23, 2008 Comments(2) Today is Shirley Temple’s birthday. Enjoy the video!
Happy birthday Shirley! 
Posted April 22, 2008 Comments(2) 
Happy birthday Arfur (George Cole)!
Posted April 19, 2008 Comments(1) 
Today (the 19th of April) is the third anniversary of Joseph Ratzinger becoming Pope Benedict XVI.
He is fulfilling his duty as caretaker Pope well!
Good man Herr Ratzinger.
Posted April 18, 2008 Comments(0) 
The Irish Free State became a fully independent republic on the 18th of April 1949.
Happy birthday Hibernia.
Posted April 17, 2008 Comments(0) 
The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model on this day in 1964.
Happy Birthday horsey ……….. yeeeeeeeeeeeeee haw!
Posted April 13, 2008 Comments(0) Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Samuel Beckett - author, critic and playwright. He won the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature.
He was born in Dublin on the 13th of April 1906.
Happy birthday and Rest In Peace Samuel.
Posted April 8, 2008 Comments(0) Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)
Rock singer/musician Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was found dead in Seattle of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the 8th of April 1994. He was 27 years old.
His suicide note was said to have contained a quote from Neil Young’s song “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)”:
“It’s better to burn out than to fade away.”
Rest In Peace Kurt.
Posted April 7, 2008 Comments(2) Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Henry Ford died on this day in 1947.
Rest In Peace Henry.
