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A very Happy 25th Birthday to Miss Katie Holmes!! Your fans here at Katie Holmes Pictures hope you have a wonderful day :) If you'd like to post your own birthday greeting to Katie on the message board (hey..she might read), click here Thanks to Liana, Tiffany, and Sara for the banners :) Other celebs who share Katie's Birthday: Actor Ossie Davis is 86. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is 76. Actor Roger Smith is 71. Blues musician Lonnie Brooks is 70. Rock singer-musician Keith Richards is 60. Writer-director Alan Rudolph is 60. Movie producer-director Steven Spielberg is 57. Blues artist Ron Piazza is 56. Movie director Gillian Armstrong is 53. Movie reviewer Leonard Maltin is 53. Actor Ray Liotta is 48. Actor Brad Pitt is 40. Country singer Tracy Byrd is 37. Rapper DMX is 33. Tennis player Arantxa Sanchez Vicario is 32. DJ Lethal (Limp Bizkit) is 31. Singer Christina Aguilera is 23. ---------------- CELEBRITY PROFILES from Joyce Jillson Katie Holmes (Dec. 18, 1978) is an imaginative Sagittarius with Neptune and Mercury also housed in the sign of the Archer. But with show-stopping Leo aspects and Mars in business-minded Capricorn, this actress will soon be a force to be reckoned with. She could choose a Hollywood role model this year such as Drew Barrymore (who not only stars in but produces blockbusters such as "Charlie's Angels") and hire a top corporate mind to help her draw up a business plan. ---------------------- Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 18, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect. On this date: In 1787, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1892, Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" publicly premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1915, President Wilson, widowed the year before, married Edith Bolling Galt at her Washington home. In 1940, Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. (Operation Barbarossa was launched in June 1941.) In 1944, in a pair of rulings, the Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans, but also said undeniably loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry could not be detained. In 1956, Japan was admitted to the United Nations. In 1969, Britain's Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder. In 1971, the Reverend Jesse Jackson announced in Chicago the founding of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity). In 1972, the United States began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam at that time during the Vietnam War. (The bombardment ended 12 days later.) In 1980, former Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin died at age 76. Ten years ago: The United States and Germany pledged close cooperation to help Boris Yeltsin through Russia's political and economic crises in a two-hour meeting in Oggersheim between Vice President Al Gore and Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Five years ago: The House debated articles of impeachment against President Clinton. U.S. and British forces blasted Iraq with a third day of airstrikes. South Carolina carried out the nation's 500th execution since capital punishment resumed in 1977. One year ago: Embattled Senate Republican leader Trent Lott sustained a double-barreled setback as Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee broke ranks to call for a change in party leadership and Secretary of State Colin Powell forcefully criticized Lott's controversial remarks on race. Robert Johnson, the billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television, was chosen as owner of the NBA's new Charlotte expansion franchise. |
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