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25 year veteran of commercial and equipment leasing seeking a senior management position with leasing or asset based financing company in the southeast (Florida preferred)

email: kellogg_md@yahoo.com

Senior Management: Chicago, IL 15 yrs. of exp., w/global-vendor-programs; sales, marketing, business-development, P&L responsibilities. Seeking senior leadership-role w/captive lessor or global-leasing company. Will relocate for right opportunity. email:InternationallyAdept@hotmail.com

Senior Management: Long Island, NY

Degree Banking/Finance. 13 years leasing exp. Now prez young leasing company where promises were not met. Interested in joining established firm with future. Email:bob33483@yahoo.com

Senior Management: San Francisco, CA., 25 years experience w/global leasing company, sales,marketing,business dev., P&L responsibility, asset mgmt, brokering and remarketing. Interested in joining an est. firm with a future. email:rcsteyer@yahoo.com

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Johnnie Johnson,CLP---- Up-Date from Saudi Arabia

http://two.leasingnews.org/imanges_uael_wael/johnson,johnnie.jpg

Leasing News asked Johnnie Johnson, CLP, how things were going where

her worked right after the terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia. Here is

is his response:

Sorry for the delay in answering....but have been in the US on vacation!

Actually, had the pleasure of attending my daughter's wedding. But, I am

back in Kuwait now, and find all well here.

Please give my thanks to all who have expressed concern.

The situation here in Kuwait is substantially different than in Saudi

Arabia. First, let me say that the Kuwaiti people are very supportive of

the US role in the Middle East (except for the US policy with the

Palestinian/Israeli conflict), and have been actively supporting the

activities of the Coalition in Iraq.

In Saudi Arabia, most of the foreign workers live in "compounds"--special

areas set aside for housing such workers. This means that there is a

concentration of people that are readily identified as being "western", and

thus more vulnerable for the sort of terrorist activity that happened in

Saudi Arabia. In Kuwait, foreign workers live in and among the general

population, so it is much more difficult to find a "target".

To answer your question about the accuracy of the information, the US

Embassy, in their latest bulletin for Saudi Arabia, has indicated the

evacuated all non-essential Embassy personnel (which means mostly family

members) and has advised US citizens to "strongly consider" leaving the

country. This is one step down from the most serious warning, which is to

actually advise people to leave. There is a real threat of terrorist

activity here, and that can't be ignored--but in our current world

situation the same kind of threat exists everywhere to some degree.

Unfortunately, there happens to be a few more of the "crazies" actually

physically located in this area.

On the positive side, the Kuwaiti police and military have been doing a

great job of sorting out the "bad guys" and in protecting areas where there

is a higher percentage of westerners. They typically provide such areas

with a 24 hour patrol of either police or military. Common sense and the

instructions from the US Embassy help to minimize the risk as well. There

were a number of foreign workers who left Kuwait just before the beginning

of Operation Iraqi Freedom, but most are now coming back into the country.

From a personal standpoint, while living here is not without some risk, I

feel very comfortable with my situation, and have no plans to leave.

I can't make the above comments without making sure that another point is

clarified. The current world terrorism is unfortunately often tied to the

teachings of Islam. I have meet and worked with many fine Muslim people

during my stay in the Middle East. They are generally a devout, family

centered people, trying to live and do what is right.

After many discussions and substantial personal study, I can say unequivocally that the actions of the "Islamic terrorists" of the world do not represent the

beliefs and teachings of Islam. What they do represent are the actions of

men who perversely use religion as a tool to reach their own selfish

ambitions and/or political agendas. Bad people are just bad people, no

matter what banner they fly...

Once again, thanks for the concern....

W. R. Johnnie Johnson, CLP

Exec. Vice President/Chief Operating Officer

The International Leasing & Investment Co.

P. O. Box 3716, Safat

13038, Kuwait

Phone: 965-244-0368

FAX: 965-246-3190

E-Mail: johnson@ilic.net

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First One—Today at 12pm PST--3pm EST

May 28 & 29, June 4 & 5 - D&B and Fair Isaac Host a Free Online Webcast to Help You More Effectively Manage Your Small Business Lease Portfolio.

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Kiss Small Ticket Leasing Goodbye

http://two.leasingnews.org/temporary/small-ticket.htm

“I could not disagree more with Jeff Taylor on the demise of small ticket

leasing. Small ticket has never been about the tax benefits of leasing,

with rare exceptions.

“Jeff says, ‘That only works if they have the cash (which they don't) or

can access the credit markets (which they can't).’ He has provided his

own answer as to why he is wrong about small ticket. The real small ticket

market (under 50K on the average deal) in which most brokers and

independents play is filled with lessees who are short of cash and who can't or won't borrow from their banks. (Can't because they are not bank qualified,

won't because they don't want to jump through a banks hoops to get financing

that a leasing company can provide in a day or less with less paperwork).

“There are reasons why the small ticket market exists and thrives. A few

bank qualified lessees who consult with their accountants beforehand (a

rarity as well), may come to the conclusion that they want and can use

the bonus depreciation.. We will lose them, but that is less than 5%

of my business, and good service will retain most of those.

“Jeff is correct that the President and Congress are dreaming if they think

this will provide meaningful stimulus. With the economy still hurting,

profits are weak to nonexistent and many small businessmen do a great

job of disguising their profitability anyway. The last time I checked,

you needed profits to be able to use depreciation.

“Thanks for the newsletter, you provide a great forum.”

C. Randy Schiell

Park Western Leasing, Inc.

(303) 231-0077

rschiell@pwli.com

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Conseco Voting Extension Approved

Conseco, Inc. reported that it received U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval to

extend the voting deadline on its Second Amended Joint Plan of

Reorganization from May 21, 2003, to June 6, 2003, and to reschedule the

commencement of its confirmation hearing from May 28, 2003, to June 13,

2003. The Company sought the extensions based on its belief that by

consensually resolving a number of non-economic issues with several

objecting parties, it will ultimately reduce the amount of time necessary

for the Court to conduct the confirmation hearing. The Company has consulted

with its principal domestic insurance regulators concerning these

extensions.

On-Line Bill Paying Continues Up Trend

U-S Banker Weekly Bulletin

On-line Bill Payment May Exceed $200 Billion in 2003 On-line billing increased sharply during the first three months of 2003, according to NACHA, an electronic payments association.

At the current growth rate, NACHA estimates that the dollar amount of bills paid on-line may exceed $200 billion in 2003.

During the first quarter of 2003, NACHA estimates that more than $48 billion in on-line bill payments were made using the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network, accounting for half of all business in 2002 ($96 billion).

By comparison, a recent survey estimated on-line sales figures of $76 billion for

2002 and $96 billion for 2003. The most popular use of on-line bill payment is viewing and paying credit card bills, according to Gartner.

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CLP School July 10-13, Irvine, California

The Institute for Leasing Professionals is pleased to announce our next Institute. It will be hosted by Balboa Capital in Irvine, CA, July 10-13,2003. The Institute is a three day specialized instructional session which will prepare you to take the CLP Exam, on July 13th.

If you would like further information regarding the Institute, please contact John Rosenlund, CLP at 253-568-6296 (direct line) or johnr@finpac.com. Please contact Cindy Spurdle at 610-687-0213 for information on CLP requirements. The information is also located on the these websites:

www.uael.org

Click on the Institute Tab, then Schedule & Location

www.clpfoundation.org

Click on the link to Future Exam Dates

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Where is the John Kruse, formerly of Capital Stream/System 1?

Reports have it that he has a new venture, MainStreet Financial, along

with Cliff Monlux and Jim Brady.

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LeaseComplete---Up-Date

http://www.leasingnews.org/elease/software.htm

“Somehow, I never got your emails nor phone call requesting updates for our recently added information to your great listing. The information that was recently there was deleted, save that our foot note E is still there. Here is the information for the boxes which we respectfully request you reload, when you get a minute or two.

“For your information, we just completed showing our product at the NVLA in San Diego. The software was liked enough to have booked 18 demos in the next weeks and months. We are delighted with the software's reception and look forward for the opportunity to do something similar at ELA's next meeting. Our both is pictured on our website at www.ndsisoftware.com.”

Best regards,

John Strain

Company Name

Year Founded

Website

Nnovative Data Systems, Inc. (e)

804 Omni Blvd., Suite 101

Newport News, VA 23603

Founded 1995

www.ndsisoftware.com

Employees

CEO

David C. Hernly, Sr., President & C.E.O.

Major Clients

3 Way Leasing, CA

Affinity FCU, NJ

Frost Leasing, Inc., part of the Frost National Bank group, TX

FirstMerit Bank, Ohio

Other institutions for other products

http://www.leasingnews.org/elease/software.htm

(Hopefully, others will see the list and realize their information is

not listed. editor)

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Woody Prothero Joins Madison Capital

Madison Capital, LLC headquartered in Baltimore, MD announces that Woody Prothero has joined the company as Senior Director, Business Development. Woody has over 20 years of experience in the leasing industry, most recently with CIT, Small Business Lending Corporation (formally AT&T Capital Corporation). Previously he was with FINOVA Capital Corporation, Commercial Equipment Finance Group (formally Bell Atlantic Tricon).

His experience includes marketing equipment leases and real estate loans through vendor programs, as well as directly to franchise businesses and commercial end users. Woody will be covering the D.C. and Northern Virginia markets out of Madison Capital’s Gaithersburg, MD office.

He can be reached at (301) 330-1113.

Heather Hamlin

hhamlin@thetimegroup.com

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News Briefs---

Consumers confident economy recovery on the horizon

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20030527-1439-economy.html

Housing Market fueled by low rates

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2003-05-27-home-sales_x.htm

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Highlights This Day in American History

1732-protecting the environment, and particularly the fishing industry is not new. New York City enacted a law for “preserving fish in fresh water ponds...Fishing by hoop-net, draw-net, purse-net, catching-net, cod-net, bley-net or with any other engine machine, arts, or ways and means whatsoever, other by an by angling with angle-rod, hoot, and line, was subject to a fine of 20 shillings.”

1754-the first bloodshed in the French and Indian War occurred on an isolated mountainside a few miles east of Uniontown, PA. Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, at the head of several companies of Virginia militia, reached the Monogahela River and overtook a French reconnoitering party from Fort Duquesne ( the future site of Pittsburgh). Jumonville, the French commander was slain and his force captured.

1807-birthday of Louis Agassiz, professor of zoology and geology at Harvard, born at Motier, Switzerland. He was a major influence in spawning American interest in natural history and helped to establish the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. “ The eye of the trilobite,” Aggassiz wrote in 1870, “ tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.” Died at Cambridge, MA, Dec. 17,1873. http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/ARLab/HypogeanFishes/bio_agassiz.htm

1814-birthday of Daniel Reaves Goodloe, emancipatist; A Crusading Abolitionist in Reconstruction North Carolina

http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/goodloe/title.html

http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/goodloe/menu.html http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Goodloe,Daniel_R.html

1831-birthday of Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railroad conductor, “known as the Julie Ward Howe of the Negro race.” http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs-b/wwm97253/@Generic__BookTextView/2438

1851-The Ohio Woman's Rights Convention met in Akron, an historic

meeting of women calling for equal rights.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may28.html

1855- Abby Leach birthday; U.S. teacher whose profound knowledge of Greek impressed Harvard professors enough to open their doors a crack in 1879 for women through what they called the Harvard Annex. It would become Radcliffe College.

http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/macurdyperformance.html

http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/life.html

http://www.radcliffe.edu/quarterly/199902/rad_har-5.html

1858- Lizzie Black Kander birthday - U.S. philanthropist. Thousands of immigrants and poor in the Milwaukee area received a help because of this remarkable woman. Starting with organizations that distributed food and clothing to needy immigrants, she helped form and headed the city's first settlement house (1900-1918). As a 1901 fund-raiser, she supervised the printing of a cookbook. She expanded it and used the profits for charity. Still in print many years after Lizzie's death in 1940, The Settlement Cook Book, Treasured Recipes of Seven Decades, sold more than a million copies in 23 editions.

http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Kander_Lizzie_Black.html

http://www.jsonline.com/Entree/cooking/apr01/settle18041601.asp

http://www.uwm.edu/Library/arch/jews/image7.htm

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/oss/lessons/lafollette/pdfs/lizziespeech.pdf

1863-The 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the most famous African- American regiment of the war, leaves Boston for combat in the South. For the first two years of the war, President Abraham Lincoln resisted the use of black troops despite the pleas of men such as Frederick Douglass, who argued that no one had more to fight for than African Americans. Lincoln finally endorsed, albeit timidly, the introduction of blacks for service in the military in the Emancipation Proclamation. On May 22, 1863, the War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops to recruit and assemble black regiments. Many blacks, often freed or escaped slaves, joined the military and found themselves usually under white leadership. Ninety percent of all officers in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) were white.Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the idealistic scion of an abolitionist family, headed the 54th. Shaw was a veteran of the 2nd Massachusetts infantry and saw action in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley and Antietam campaigns. After being selected by Massachusetts Governor John Andrew to organize and lead the 54th, Shaw carefully selected the most physically fit soldiers and white officers with established antislavery views. The regiment included two of Frederick Douglass's sons and the grandson of Sojourner Truth.

On May 28, 1863, the new regiment marched onto a steamer and set sail for Port Royal, South Carolina. The unit saw action right away, taking part in a raid into Georgia and withstanding a Confederate attack near Charleston. On July 16, 1863, Shaw led a bold but doomed attack against Fort Wagner in which he and 20 of his men were killed. The story of Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts was immortalized in the critically acclaimed 1990 movie Glory, starring Mathew Broderick, Denzell Washington, and Morgan Freeman.

http://extlab1.entnem.ufl.edu/olustee/54th_MS_inf.html

http://www.54thmass.org/

http://www.fatherryan.org/blackmilitary/54th.htm

1879-Illionis prohibited employment of women in coalmines in their state.

The first law enacted in the United States to protect women in employment.

1892---the Sierra Club was founded by famed naturalist John Muir. The Sierra Club promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy. It has been especially important in the founding of and protection of our national parks. www.sierraclub.org

1888-birthday of James Francis “Jim” Thorpe, Olympic gold medal track athlete, baseball player and football player born at Prague, OK. Thorpe, a Native American, won the4 pentathlon and the decathlon of the 1912 Olympic games, but later lost his medals when Olympic officials declared a stint as a minor league baseball player besmirched his amateur standing. He later played professional baseball and football and was acclaimed the greatest male athlete of the first half of the 20^th century. Died at Lomita, CA, Mar 28, 1953( Thorpe’s medals were returned to his family many years after his death when the earlier decision was reversed.) http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/history/ThorpeAthleteOfTheCentury.htm

http://www.alphacdc.com/necona/athlete_of_the_century.html

(lower half of: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may28.html )

1898-birthday of great bandleader Andy Kirk, Newport, KY.

http://www.redhotjazz.com/cloudsofjoy.html

http://mesl.itd.umich.edu/a/afroammuakirk/

1900- Trumpet player Tommy Ladnier Birthday http://www.redhotjazz.com/Ladnier.html

http://atj.8k.com/noartist/atjladnier.html

1910—birthday of singer/pianist/song writer Aaron Thibodaux “ T-Bone “Walker, Linden, TX. Died March 15,1975

http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=206 http://www.tpoint.net/~tbone1/blues/bios/tbone.html

http://bluesnet.hub.org/artists/tbone.html

1912—birthday of guitarist David Barbour, Flushing, NY http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/late0202.htm

1917-General John Joseph Pershing lead members of the American Expeditionary Force to fight in Europe, America’s first entrant into this war. The group included 40 regular army officers, 17 reserve officers, 2 Marine Corps officers, 67 enlisted men, 36 field clerks, 20 civilians, 3 interpreters, and 3 news correspondents. They left New York City on the “Baltic” and arrived in Liverpool England, on June 8, and reached Paris on June 13. The United States had been in a state of war with Germany since April 6, 1917, when it became the 13^th national to declare war against the Central Powers.1922 - Otto Krueger conducted the Detroit News Orchestra, the first known radio orchestra, which was heard on WWJ Radio in Detroit, MI. The "Detroit News" owned the radio station at the time.

1928 - Walter P. Chrysler merged his Chrysler Corporation with Dodge Brothers, Inc. The Dodge Motor Car Company had been purchased several years earlier, from the widows of the two founders, by Clarence Dillon's banking firm for $148 million. The merger of Chrysler and Dodge, the largest automobile industry merger in history at the time, placed the newly consolidated firm third in production and sales, just behind General Motors and Ford Motor Company. Their vehicles have always been popular with law enforcement, the Blues Brothers, and my son drives a Dodge truck, which he swears is the best made in the industry.

1929 - Warner Brothers debuted the first all-color talking picture. The film debuted at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City. Ethel Waters, Joe E. Brown, Betty Compson and Arthur Lake starred in "On With the Show," based on a story by Humphrey Pearson. 1931-birthday of guitarist Sonny Burgess, Newport, AR http://www.deltaboogie.com/deltamusicians/burgess.htm

1931 - WOR radio in New York City premiered "The Witch’s Tale". The program was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which WOR was the flagship station) where it aired until 1938. My late father Lawrence Menkin started out as a radio writer, and wrote many of these and soap operas. In the late 1940’s, he became general manager of WOR-TV, producing the first early television drama’s, such as “Harlem Detective,” “Hands of Murder,” and the first “Captain Video,” all shows he created, wrote, produced and directed.

1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario to Oliva and Elzire Dionne. They were the first quintuplets to survive infancy. This increase in Canada’s population became known as Marie, Cecile, Yvonne, Emilie and Annette. All five survived into adulthood, Cecile, Annette, Yvonne, Emilie and Marie. Their father, Elzire, signed to have them exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair only hours after they were born without permission from their mother. The Ontario provincial government intervened on behest of the doctor who delivered them. The government took custody of the children in what has been described more as a political move than a humanitarian one, and yet, at the time, it was a popular decision because of the family's poverty and the father's willingness to exploit the children in unsafe ways. The doctor became a wealthy man acting as their caretaker as he, as the government's representative, housed them in a modern home (across the road from the Dionne home) and showed them to the public from the porch. He and the government used their names and celebrity status in various ways to make millions. Hardly anyone around these children acted in their interest.

It took until 1997 for the surviving sisters to win monetary awards from the Canadian government for its exploitation of them. Their mother was not allowed any more intimacy with them than a tourist and she had no legal rights to claim them under the church dominated laws of the time in that area.

http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/bios/Dionne.html

http://www.city.north-bay.on.ca/quints/digitize/dionne.htm

http://community9.webshots.com/photo/33346894/33347128rFHWvk

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/971201/box2.html

1935-John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat is published. The novel's endearing comic tone captured the public's imagination, and the novel became a financial success.

Steinbeck's next works, In Dubious Battle and Of Mice and Men, were both successful, and in 1938 his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath was published. The novel, about the struggles of an Oklahoma family who lose their farm and become fruit pickers in California, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Steinbeck's work after World War II, including Cannery Row and The Pearl, became more sentimental. He also wrote several successful films, including Forgotten Village (1941) and Viva Zapata! (1952). He became interested in marine biology and published a nonfiction book, The Sea of Cortez, in 1941. His travel memoir, Travels with Charlie, describes his trek across the U.S. in a camper. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 and died in New York in 1968.

1938-Benny Goodman records “Big John Special.” Two points if you know who “Big John” was (If you were a jazz fan, you would know. If not,

go here: http://jewishpeople.net/bennygoodman.html).

Other sites about the “King of Swing,” who also was a fine symphonic clarinetist. http://www.davidmulliss.com.au/BennyGoodman/intro.htm

http://www.davidmulliss.com.au/BennyGoodman/benny.htm

http://www.nw-cybermall.com/JazzWorld/goodman.htm

http://www.koger.sc.edu/goodman.html

1938-birthday of former coach and basketball Hall of Fame guard Jerry Alan West, Cheylan, WV.

1939- Helen Hadassah Levinthal birthday, becomes the first Jewish woman to receive a degree from a Jewish college of theology. She received a Master of Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Institute of Religion.

1941 - Frank Sinatra joined Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra in recording "This Love of Mine" for Victor Records.

1944-birthday of Rudolph Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, born Brooklyn, NY. http://bulletin.credit-suisse.ch/themen/1017081670.html

1944-Gladys Knight, singer, born Atlanta, GA. The first hit was in 1961 with "Every Beat of My Heart." Her group continued to record hits throughout the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Among their best-known songs are "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1967), "Midnight Train to Georgia" (1973), and "Love Overboard" (1987).

http://www.ldsmusician.com/artists/gladys_knight.html

1945-birthday of guitarist/song writer John Fogerty, Berkeley, CA http://www.johnfogerty.com/main.php

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/6508/fogerty.htm

1948---Top Hits

Nature Boy - Nat King Cole

Now is the Hour - Bing Crosby

Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra

Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold

1951-After failing to get a hit in his first three major league games, Willie Mays of the New York Giants broke his 0-for-12 skein by hitting a home run off Warren Spahn of the Boston Braves.

1953 - The first 3-D (three-dimensional) cartoon world premier at the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood, California and downtown Paramount Theatre, LA. The production, a Walt Disney creation/RKO picture, was titled, "Melody".

1955-birthday of Ronald Lawrence (Ron” Wilson, hockey coach, born, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

1956---Top Hits

Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One - Elvis Presley

The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant

The Happy Whistler - Don Robertson

Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

1957 - National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to sunny Southern California and said that the New York Giants baseball team could move with the Horace Stoneham family to Northern California. The teams went on to establish themselves in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

1957 - The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) was established. This is the organization that brings us the Grammy Awards for all forms of musical entertainment each year.

1958 - The American League voted to divide itself into two divisions and reduce its schedule to 156 games.

1959 - Abel and Baker were two one pound monkeys, one a rhesus, the other a spider monkey, survived a 15-minute flight trip into space in separate containers in the nose cone of Jupiter rocked launched at Cape Canaveral, FL. The cone was hot 300 miles into space and was recovered about 90 minutes later off the island of Antiqua, about 1,500 miles away, by Navy frogmen from the tug Kiowa. A previous attempt made on December 13,1958, has been unsuccessful.

1959-birthday of former football coach and player, David Donald Shula, Lexington,KY. http://www.donshula.com/davecareer.htm

1964---Top Hits

My Guy - Mary Wells

Love Me Do - The Beatles

Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups

My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens

1966 - Percy Sledge hit number one with his first -- and what turned out to be his biggest -- hit. "When a Man Loves a Woman" would stay at the top of the pop music charts for two weeks. It was the singer’s only hit to make the top ten and was a million seller.

1968-The American League announced that it would split into two divisions for the 1969 season. Teams in the AL East included the Baltimore Orioles, the Boston Red Sox, the Cleveland Indians, the Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. The AL West was comprised of the California Angeles, the Chicago White Sox, the Kansas City Royals, the Minnesota Twins, the Oakland Athletics and the Seattle Pilots.

1972---Top Hits

Oh Girl - Chi-Lites

I’ll Take You There - The Staple Singers

Look What You Done for Me - Al Green

(Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date - Conway Twitty

1975 - The Doobie Brothers went gold with the album, "Stampede". The group, formed right here in San Jose, CA, recorded 16 charted hits. Two made it to number one, becoming million-selling, gold record winners: "Black Water" [March, 1975] and "What a Fool Believes" [April, 1979].

1978-the first Casino outside the state of Nevada opened in Atlantic City, NY, after the state’s voters approved legalized casino gambling in 1977. Resorts International opened the casino in a hotel on the Atlantic City boardwalk. The first week’s take was $2.6 million.

1980---Top Hits

Call Me - Blondie

Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.

Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes

Starting Over Again - Dolly Parton

1982 - The legendary train, "Orient Express", made popular through Agatha Christie’s thrilling mystery novel, "Murder on the Orient Express", was reborn. The 26-hour train trip resumed across the European continent after a long respite. While I have never had the pleasure, I am told by people who rode it, it was a great trip I know several chefs on the West Coast who said they learned to cook on this train, where food and wine was “the best,” they told me.

1985 - Gay Mullins, a retiree from Seattle, WA, founded Old Cola Drinkers of America. This was an effort to bring back the original Coca-Cola, instead of the New Coke that the Atlanta-based company had foisted on the American cola-drinking market. By July of 1985, with arms firmly twisted behind their backs, Coca-Cola Company executives relented , kept the new formula on the market, but returned with: Classic Coke.

1985 - "Vanity Fair" magazine, with a picture of President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy kissing on the cover, went on sale. Whether you area Republican or Democrat, their “love affairs” was genuine, as expressed

in this book, “ I Love You, Ronnie.” http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0375505547/reviews/ref=pm_dp_ln_b_6/103-4369609-9927846

1988---Top Hits

One More Try - George Michael

Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz

Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) - Samantha Fox

Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses - Kathy Mattea

1998-- First Hawaiian Inc. and BancWest Corp. joined forces to create a $14 billion banking major banking entity based in the western United States. The merger, which cost around $1 billion, gave First Hawaiian's stockholders a small majority stake in the new institution

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