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Fender's launching a signature model David Gilmour Stratocaster guitar. The guitar, called the "Black Strat", will be available from September 22 and is based on the star's iconic instrument that helped create his band Pink Floyd's revolutionary sound. David Gilmour said: "I told Fender that it was just an ordinary Strat that I bought, but I must say they’ve done a great job of recreating it." The release of the guitar will coincide with the release of Gilmour's 3CD live album "Live In Gdansk", recorded on his 2007 solo world tour.

Monday will mark the 1 year anniversary of Pilot Jim LeRoy's tragic crash that took his life way too soon. Jim was one of the best pilots I've ever seen and was a very nice guy. I had the pleasure of meeting Jim with my sons at Lycoming Day in the Fall of 2006. Jim talked to the boys and I after he performed. I can't believe its been a year already.

TV personality Art Linkletter is 96. Comedian Phyllis Diller is 91. The former president of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, is 88. Jazz singer Jimmy Scott is 83. Actor Donald Sutherland is 73. Actress-singer Diahann Carroll is 73. Rock musician Spencer Davis is 66. Rock musician Terry "Geezer" Butler (Black Sabbath) is 59. Actress Lucie Arnaz is 57. Actor David Hasselhoff is 56. Rock musician Fran Smith Jr. (The Hooters) is 56. Singer Phoebe Snow is 56. Television producer Mark Burnett ("Survivor,""The Apprentice") is 48. Actress Nancy Giles is 48. Singer Regina Belle is 45. Rock musician Lou Barlow is 42. Hip-hop singer Guru (Gang Starr) is 42. Contemporary Christian singer Susan Ashton is 41. Actor Andre Royo is 40. Actress Bitty Schram is 40. Actor Jason Clarke is 39. Singer JC (PM Dawn) is 37. Rapper Sole' is 35. Country singer Luke Bryan is 32. Actor Eric Winter is 32. And last but not least...

Brandon Schrimp is 12 :)

Happy Birthday!!!

1821
Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

1898
Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.

1917
The British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German senitment during World War I.

1938
"Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and landing in Ireland.

1945
President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.

1955
Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.

In 1968
A coup in Iraq returned the Baath Party to power, five years after it was ousted.

1975
The American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up for the first time.

1981
114 people were killed when a pair of walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a "tea dance."

1996
TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people aboard.

2007
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was indicted by a federal grand jury in Richmond, Va., on charges related to competitive dogfighting.

Wow, what a great summer it's been for movies! We haven't seen a bad one yet. Iron Man was fantastic. The Hulk was great. Wall-e was one of the best Pixar flicks. Hell Boy 2 was a great follow up to the fantastic and underrated Hell Boy and now Batman is back this weekend! I can't wait to go to the movies Saturday.

It was 63 years ago that the United States detonated the very first atomic bomb.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/07/gallery_atomic_bomb