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Birthdays Archive
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An Excuse To Drink – Happy Birthday Gregory Pincus, Co-inventor of the Birth Control Pill
Posted on April 9, 2013 | No CommentsToday, we’re celebrating what would have been the 110th birthday of biologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus, whose research led to the first birth control pills. His work in in vitro fertilization and a... -
An Excuse to Drink – February 16, 1958: Happy Birthday Ice-T
Posted on February 16, 2013 | No CommentsToday we’re sending out birthday wishes to rapper and actor (among other pursuits) Tracey Marrow, better known as Ice-T! Born today in 1958 in Newark New Jersey, Marrow moved to... -
An Excuse to Drink – February 12, 1809: Happy Birthday Charles Darwin
Posted on February 12, 2013 | No CommentsOn this day in 1809, English naturalist Charles Darwin was born at his family’s home in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin is most well known for his theories of evolution and... -
Happy National Brandy Alexander Day!
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsYes, January 31st is National Brandy Alexander Day! Though rumored to have been created for the wedding of The Princess Mary, Princess Royal (eldest daughter of England’s King George V... -
An Excuse to Drink – Robert Burns Night
Posted on January 25, 2013 | No CommentsHappy Birthday to Scottish National poet Robert Burns, born this day in 1759. The celebrations of “Burn’s Night” have a 200 year history in Scotland and were started by friends... -
An Excuse To Drink Mega-Post – January 8, 2013
Posted on January 8, 2013 | No CommentsThere just seemed to be too many good excuse to drink today, so feeling a bit lazy, we’re just going to pile them all up here and let everyone decide... -
An Excuse To Drink – Happy Birthday Ada Lovelace!
Posted on December 10, 2012 | No CommentsToday we mark the 197th birthday of Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, writer, mathematician, icon of the nerd, steampunk and computing world. Ada, the only legitimate daughter of the infamous... -
An Excuse To Drink – September 12, 1972: The Death Of William “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd
Posted on September 12, 2012 | No CommentsForty years ago today, screen actor William Boyd, best known for his portrayal of cowboy screen idol Hopalong Cassidy, passed away due to complications from Parkinson’s disease and heart failure in... -
An Excuse to Drink: Happy 215th Birthday Mary Shelley!
Posted on August 30, 2012 | No CommentsToday in 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of the immortal tale of science gone awry, “Frankenstein”, was born. Mary was the daughter of William Godwin and feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft... -
An Excuse To Drink – August 8, 1930: Terry Nation, Creator of the Daleks!
Posted on August 8, 2012 | No CommentsToday we mark the birthday of screenwriter and novelist Terence Joseph Nation on what would have been his 82nd birthday. Nation worked on such series as The Avengers, The Saint and more...
