Daily Chat 30/07/09

A couple of firsts and a couple of lasts today. The First Defenestration of Prague took place on this date in 1419. Uruguay defeated Argentina by a score of 4-2 in the first FIFA World Cup in 1930. The last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolled off an assembly line in Mexico in 2003 and the last weekly broadcast of Top of the Pops was aired in 2006. Today's celebrity birthdays would make for quite a party: Buddy Guy, Paul Anka, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rat Scabies, Kate Bush, Daley Thompson, Laurence Fishburn, Lisa Kudrow, Jürgen Klinsmann, Simon Baker, Hilary Swank, and Justin Rose. It is Tisha B'Av in the Jewish calendar and Independence Day in Vanuatu. Here's a completely randomly chosen classic Top of the Pops performance. Not sure what ever happened to these guys:

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