Today's Birthdays:

George Clooney

1961

He won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Syriana in 2006, the same year he was also nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night and Good Luck. He was nominated for Best Actor for Michael Clayton in 2008. His other roles include Oceans 11 and ...12, The Perfect Storm, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Three Kings, Out of Sight, Batman & Robin, One Fine Day and T-V's E-R. (Age: 47)

Roma Downey

1960

Actress (T-V's Touched by an Angel) (Age: 48)

Tony Blair

1953

The former British Prime Minister (Age: 55)

Jimmie Dale Gilmore

1945

The rootsy Texas singer-songwriter has worked solo, recorded with Seattle grunge titans Mudhoney and serves as a member of The Flatlanders, with Joe Ely. (Age: 63)

Willie Mays

1931

Baseball Hall of Famer (Age: 77)

Orson Welles

1915 -
1985

He shared a Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1942 for his masterpiece Citizen Kane, but failed to win his other three nominations for the film, for Best Actor, Director and Picture. He also got a Best Picture nomination the next year for The Magnificent Ambersons and received an Honorary Award from the Academy in 1971. He died October 10th, 1985 at 70.

Dr. Sigmund Freud

1856 -
1939

The father of psychiatry

This Day In History:

2006

Carrie Underwood graduates from Oklahoma's Northeastern State University.

2006

Tracy Lawrence hosts his 10th annual Homecoming Concert in Texarkana, Arkansas. The event raises money for the Tracy Lawrence Foundation, which funds local scholarships and community projects, and also creates awareness for Cystic Fibrosis and Alzheimer's

2005

Angelina Jolie meets with Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad to discuss Afghan refugees.

2005

Jo Dee Messina's "My Give a Damn's Busted" climbs to the top of Radio & Records' country chart. It will top Billboard's chart the next day.

2005

Mindy McCready is pulled over for driving 58 miles-per-hour in a 45 miles-per-hour zone. She is also cited for D-U-I, violating her probation and driving with a suspended license -- and is subsequently arrested.

2004

47-year-old Oscar-winner Geena Davis gives birth to twin boys.

2004

N-B-C airs the final episode of Friends.

1999

Sting is announced as a performer at the Party of the Century millennium New Year's Eve concert at New York's Javits Convention Center. The next day, a bill of The Eagles, with guests Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt, is unveiled for L-A's new Staples Center.

1999

A parole board in New York releases Amy Fisher. She had been in jail for seven years for shooting (but not killing) her lover's wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco.

1999

Tammy Wynette's widower, George Richey, is dropped from a 50-million-dollar lawsuit filed months earlier by her four daughters. The decision came almost a month after Richey gave his consent to have Tammy's body exhumed and autopsied.

1997

Crosby, Stills & Nash, Buffalo Springfield, The (Young) Rascals, Parliament-Funkadelic, Joni Mitchell, Jackson 5, Bee Gees, Mahalia Jackson, Bill Monroe and Syd Nathan are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the first such ceremony to be held in Cleveland, where the Hall is. Neil Young boycotts the event after complaining about the event's seating and TV taping policy.

1994

Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files suit against President Clinton, alleging that he sexually harrased her in 1991.

1994

The Chunnel, a train tunnel underneath the English Channel which connects France to Britain, opens.

1989

Naomi Judd marries Larry Strickland. Daughters Wynonna and Ashley are bridesmaids.

1989

The Judds hit number-one on Billboard's country chart with "Young Love."

1982

Diana Ross gets the one-thousand-759th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard.

1957

Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage.

1954

Runner Roger Bannister of Britain becomes the first man to break the four-minute mile.

1937

The Hindenburg blimp disaster takes place in New Jersey.

1915

Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox makes his pitching debut against the New York Yankees.

A substitute teacher in Pasco County, Florida is in danger of losing his job because a handful of parents have charged him with practicing wizardry. While he's no "Harry Potter," Jim Piculas did show students a 30-second magic trick in which he makes a toothpick disappear, then reappear. The suspended educator told a Tampa newspaper, "I get a call the middle of the day from head of supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, 'Jim, we have a huge issue, you can't take any more assignments you need to come in right away. You've been accused of wizardry.'" -- originally reported by the Tampa Tribune.

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks -- but you can teach a goldfish plenty! A Los Angeles man has trained his two-year-old pet fish to limbo under a stick in his tank, and how to play soccer -- no mean feat for a critter with no feet. Dean Pomerleu, who trains sea creatures for a living, says, "There is mounting evidence that fish are more intelligent than people give them credit for. With the correct tools and the basic promise of a food reward, fish can very quickly learn complex tricks [so] people in the market for a dog might want to consider a fish instead."-- originally reported by the Los Angeles Times.

A pregnant California teen was getting ready for school when she gave birth to a baby boy -- and then walked to the hospital with the baby still attached to its umbilical cord. Xochitl [pr: so-CHEEL] Parra, 17, was taking a shower in her Long Beach home when she felt contractions and delivered 8-pound, 3-ounce Alejandro. She then walked to the hospital a few blocks away. E-R physician Jose Perez says, "She still had the placenta, and the baby was still attached, so, of course, everyone said, 'Don't move!'" - originally reported by the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

A Romanian man is suing a brewery after one bottle of its beer got him stinking drunk! Iancu Boroi said he had bought the beer at a local supermarket but was so drunk after drinking just one can that he nearly passed out. He told local authorities, "I am more than capable of holding my drink, and it is ridiculous to think one can of beer can get me so drunk. There must have been something wrong with it, and I am demanding compensation."