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2009: Day 180

Alas and alack, the Globe Theatre burned to the ground on this date in 1613.

Little Eva - who went from babysitter to pop star when Carole King and Gerry Goffin wrote "The Loco-Motion" for her and Don Kirshner liked the recording enough to release it - would have turned 66 today.

Speaking of loco-motion, here comes the crazy train! Gary Busey turns 65 today.

One of the many largely forgettable talents who ascended to fame in the 1980s -- Richard Lewis, turns 62 today.

Illustrator and storyteller Don Rosa celebrates his 58th birthday today. I wonder if Scrooge McDuck's gotten him anything?

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter turns 52 today... as does actress Maria Conchita Alonso.

Someone I'd forgotten about -- Samantha Smith, a young political activist who at the age of 10 wrote to newly risen Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, found herself invited to visit the Soviet Union, and became an internationally-known goodwill ambassador. I'd also forgotten that she'd died in a plane crash in 1985.

On this day in 1995 the space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir.

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