Happy birthday, Daddio Popsarelli*.

Today is my father's **st birthday today. Big, big happy birthday wishes to him on his special day.

April 14th, as it turns out, is rather rich with history. It is the day Lincoln was shot, the day the Titanic struck an iceburg, the day the US bombed Lybia, and the day the USSR withdrew from Afghanistan, to name a few. Of course, I knew most of this already, but it's all listed on the History Channel's webpage.

*not that you needed further explanation of my hockey obsession, but I gave my dad this nickname, after Dino Ciccarelli, my favorite childhood hockey player, when I was about 8 or so.