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"At first it just looked like a picture of a bunch of lily pads, but then I started scraping at it with my pocket knife and the whole painting just sort of spoke to me," Schmidt said. "For the first time, I finally understand what Monet was trying to get across in her work."
Anyways, congratulations on living this long Garr.
This has gotten old fast with so many birthdays close together but oh well. On your birthday:
1862 - Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as desperate Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
1863 - American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
1915 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia.
1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1953 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1959 - Quake Lake: Quake Lake was formed by a 7.5 rated earthquake in Montana.
1962 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming the first victim of the wall.
1963 - A ferry linking remote islands off the coast of Okinawa sinks, killing 112.
1969 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
1980 - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
1988 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1991 - Wade Frankum starts his killing spree in Strathfield, Australia, an event that was later dubbed the Strathfield Massacre.
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
Births: Davy Crockett(1786), Marcus Garvey(1887), Mae West(1893), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.(1914), Robert De Niro(1943), Sean Penn(1960)
Deaths: Ira Gershwin(1983), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.(1988)
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