Today's Famous Birthdays

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George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)

was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president
of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of
the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War
and served as president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which created and ratified the
Constitution of the United States and the American federal government. Washington has been called
the "Father of his Country" for his manifold leadership in the nation's founding.










Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 

1st Baron Baden-Powell, 

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(22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941)

was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement,
and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement. Baden-Powell
authored the first editions of the seminal work Scouting for Boys, which was an inspiration for the
Scout Movement.












Al Gross (February 22, 1918 - December 21, 2000)

was way ahead of his time. Gross introduced the wireless telephone, pager, and similar gadgets in the
1940s and 1950s, long before wireless became a worldwide buzzword. “I was born too soon,” Gross
once told a reporter, according to an article by David Hawley in the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minnesota.
“If I still had the patents on my inventions, Bill Gates would have to stand aside for me.”












Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)

was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts
for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the
prominent political Kennedy family, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he
died. He is ranked fifth in United States history for length of continuous service as a senator.
Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S. attorney general and
U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy. He was the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.











Pebbles Flintstone
(also known as Pebbles Flintstone-Rubble as an adult)

is a fictional character in the Flintstones franchise. The red-haired daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone,
Pebbles is born near the end of the third season. She is most famous in her infant form on The Flintstones,
but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spin-off The Pebbles
and Bamm-Bamm Show and as an adult in three television films. She spent most of her time with Bamm-Bamm
Rubble, her childhood best friend whom she eventually marries.