HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY RIHANNA!!
It’s Rihanna’s 20th birthday today, and she kicked things off early last night with a celebration at Les Deux in Los Angeles. The Grammy winner was caught off guard by the surprise party where her rumored beau, Chris Brown, was seen reveling.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On February 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, flying aboard Friendship VII.
On this date:
- In 1790, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II died.
- In 1792, President George Washington signed an act creating the US Post Office.
- In 1809, the Supreme Court, in United States v. Peters, ruled the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state.
- In 1839, Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
- In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded ”idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons” from being admitted to the United States.
- In 1944, during World War II, US bombers began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers in a series of attacks that became known as ”Big Week.” In 1965, the Ranger VIII spacecraft crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of the lunar surface.
- In 1987, a bomb blamed on the Unabomber exploded behind a computer store in Salt Lake City, seriously injuring store owner Gary Wright.
- In 1987, Soviet authorities released Jewish activist Josef Begun.
- In 2003, fire broke out during a rock concert at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, RI, killing 100 people and injuring about 200 others.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIHANNA!!!
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1 opinion for HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY RIHANNA!!
ajla
Apr 3, 2008 at 12:13 pm
rihanna is the best
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