Today is the 332nd day of 2008. There are only 34 days left in the year! It’s Thanksgiving Day. Today would have been Jimi Hendrix’ birthday, Hendrix died at 27. Today in history: In 1701, astronomer Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, was born in Uppsala, Sweden.
Today in history highlights:In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
In 1983, 181 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid’s Barajas airport.
In 1989, a bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727 killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.
Celebrity birthdays:Anders Celsius – Swedish astronomer (1701- 1944) died at 42
Bruce Lee -martial-artist, actor (1940 – 1973) died at 32
Jimi Hendrix -rock musician (1942 – 1970) died at 27
Robin Givens – actress, 44
Fisher Stevens – actor, 45
Caroline Kennedy – daughter of President J.F. Kennedy, 51
William Fichtner – actor, 52
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