Your Birthday Facts:
Your star sign is virgo and your star symbol is the virgin.
You were born on Monday 19th September 1983.
Your birthstone is sapphire which symbolizes clear thinking.

Personality Characteristics: Hard working, perfectionist, logical, well organised, modest, caring, critical, trustworthy, accomplished, cool headed.
Element Influences: Earth people are often practical and orderly. They are usually in touch with their feelings and live in harmony with the world around them.
Quality Influences: People with mutable qualities tend to change their mind frequently. They often like an unpredictable lifestyle and are very adaptable to new situations.
Polarity Influences: Your negative Yin/Yang exerts a receptive, aquiescent and self conscious side to your nature.

Female best matched with: Taurus (Mom), Leo, Gemini, Capricorn.
Male best matched with: Capricorn, Gemini (Brother), Libra (Dad), Scorpio.
Source http://www.hemelweb.freeserve.co.uk/zodiac/

Chinese Horoscopes ~ Your Animal Sign is the Pig
Personality Characteristics: Honest, well liked, naïve, excitable, tolerant, sincere, placid, creative, stubborn, easily flattered, chatty
Animal Type: Water Pig (kuei-tzu). Water characteristics: travel, tact, sweet tooth, gullible

Love Characteristics: Passionate, intense, possessive
Best Lovers: Pig, Dog
Suitable Careers: Music industry, gardener, scientist, theatre/TV, charity work, troubleshooting
Lucky Numbers: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 16, 18, 34, 41, 48
Famous Pigs: Maria Callas, Henry Ford, Humphrey Bogart, Ronald Reagan, Elton John, Jerry Lee Lewis
Source http://www.hemelweb.freeserve.co.uk/chinese/index.htm

 




September 19 is ... National Butterscotch Pudding Day

On this day in 1783, the Montgolfier brothers demonstrated their hot air balloon by sending a duck, a sheep, and a rooster into the air and landing them. Humans went up for the first time two months later.


On this day...
1356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga
1796 George Washington's farewell address as president
1846 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes
1848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn
1849 1st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California
1862 Battle of Luka, Miss
1863 Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat
1864 3rd Battle of Winchester, Virginia
1873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2¬" at age 17 years & 198 days
1881 President James Garfield died of a gunshot wound inflicted by a disappointed office seeker the previous July 2
1888 The world's first beauty pageant took place in Spa, Belguim
1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
1914 Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2
1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
1934 Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping the Linbergh baby
1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes
1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
1956 1st intl conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
1957 1st underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas Nevada)
1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland
1966 Mike Burke named Yankees pres
1968 Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!)
1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers
1973 NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC
1973 Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) goes on the air
1980 Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)
1981 Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket
1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert
1982 New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chic Bears 10-0
1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
1983 St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
1985 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9)
1986 "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson permieres
1986 Chic White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits Calif Angels, 7-1
1986 Fed health officals announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
1988 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
1989 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)

Music History on this Day
Today the song "The Twist" by Chubby Checker topped the charts and stayed there for a week. (1960)

Today the song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Diana Ross topped the charts and stayed there for 3 weeks. (1970)

Today the song "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" by Michael Jackson & Siedah Garrett topped the charts and stayed there for a week. (1987)


You are about:
66 years 10 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 86
63 years 4 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 83
59 years 3 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 79
52 years 0 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 71
49 years 10 months younger than Larry King, age 69
43 years 7 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 63
40 years 2 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 60
37 years 2 months younger than George W. Bush, age 57
32 years 2 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 52
27 years 11 months younger than Bill Gates, age 47
23 years 1 month younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 43
17 years 3 months younger than Mike Tyson, age 37
13 years 2 months younger than Jennifer Lopez, age 33
7 years 9 months younger than Tiger Woods, age 27
1 year 3 months younger than Prince William, age 21
and that you were:
17 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
16 years old on the first day of Y2K
13 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
11 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
10 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
9 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
7 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
6 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
2 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
not yet 1 year old when Apple introduced the Macintosh

and that you were:
3 years old when L.A. Law was first aired on TV
3 years old at the time the series Married with Children began
6 years old when Seinfeld was first televised
7 years old in the month Home Improvement began
11 years old at the time the TV series Friends began
12 years old when Everybody Loves Raymond first aired
15 years old when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire began in the US
and when these songs were topping the charts
and these events occurred your age was:
The recording of We Are The World: 1
Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles: 3
Didn't We Almost have it all, Whitney Houston: 4
Back In The U.S.S.R. is released exclusively in Russia: 5
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor: 6
Emotions, Mariah Carey: 8
Fleetwood Mac perform at Bill Clinton's inauguration: 9
The Sign, Ace Of Base: 10
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens: 11
source http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html