Elephant born at Animal Kingdom
A female baby elephant is born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom park. This is the fifth elephant born at Animal Kingdom and the second baby born to elephant mother Donna. The calf’s name is Luna, and she weighs 288 pounds at birth. Including Luna, thirteen elephants in total live at Animal Kingdom.
Elephant births are among the most amazing and complicated processes in the animal kingdom. Our animal care team has worked with Donna attentively throughout the course of her pregnancy. At this point, we’re optimistic for the calf’s likelihood of survival and are thrilled that both Donna and her calf are doing well.
Hanks, Bryant marry
Hanks marries Bryant at the London West Hollywood hotel in Los Angeles. The wedding is kept fairly small at around 150 guests. Some of the guests include Alyssa Milano, Reese Witherspoon and her boyfriend Jim Toth. Hanks:
We had the same group of friends and knew of each other, but never paid attention to it.
Baby goats born at Disneyland
Five baby goats are born within days of each other at Circle D Corral at Disneyland park in Anaheim, California. Three of the kids—named Squishy, Dory and Pearl—are born to mother Gadget, and the other two kids—named Stitch and Lilo—are born to mother Mulan.
You can see several animals, including two more expectant goats in Big Thunder Ranch at Disneyland park, and you’ll be able to see the baby goats at Big Thunder Ranch in a couple of weeks.
Strug, Fischer marry
Strug and Fischer marry at sunset at Shrug’s hometown in Tucson, Arizona. The reception, held at the Skyline Country Club, featured hundreds of orchids, a fireworks display, and a unique favor for the couple’s 200 guests: tea and fresh scones for breakfast. The bride wore a Pronovias gown, customized with over 5,000 Swarovski crystals and a sweetheart neckline. They had a Jewish ceremony with Christian tradition incorporated.
Robert always wants to make me happy. He’s a little old-fashioned. He really courted me and for a while. To this day, he still gives me flowers on a regular basis.
Lynch, Embry engaged
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Thicke and Patton welcome their first son, Julian, in Los Angeles.
Mother, father and son are all doing well.
Gross, Pigford end engagement
Gross and Pigford make a joint statement announcing they are going their separate ways after five years together.
We were definitely in love, but I don’t think either of us were really ready to get married.
Fisher, Baron Cohen marry
Fisher and Cohen get married in a Jewish ceremony after being engaged for six years. The couple marry in Paris in front of six guest. On wanting a private ceremony:
It’s very important to me to have a beautiful ritual celebrated with my family and friends. And when you are in the public eye, to keep that private and to make it happen without it being really visible is really difficult.
The Pacific
Hanks executive produces a war miniseries for HBO and DreamWorks, the Pacific. The series is a companion piece to Band of Brothers that follows the actions of the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific War.
Gorilla born at Animal Kingdom
An endangered gorilla is born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park. This is the third gorilla born at the park, the first in 1997 and the second in 1999. Guests can see the baby gorilla as they walk the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail attraction.
Thomas Smith, Disney Parks social media director:
The newborn gorilla is doing well and has already become an integral part of the gorilla family group that includes first-time mother, Kashata, father Gino and two other females.
The baby girl gorilla is named Lilly.
Richie, Madden engaged
Richie and Madden get engaged after three years of dating. Richie makes the announcement on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Yep. I’m engaged. Very happy. Yeah we’ve been engaged for a while so your all kind of late on that. But Thanks for the hooplah all the same.
Leaves wife for Hirsi Ali
Ferguson splits up with Douglas, his wife of 16 years, after a string of adulterous affairs, for his mistress, Hirsi Ali. Ferguson confessed his affair to Douglas last summer. His wife tries to save the marriage, flying to Manhattan to be with Ferguson in November. Douglas has met Hirsi Ali on a number of occasions. Ferguson has consulted lawyers in the U.S., while Douglas plans to file for divorce and has consulted a London-based law firm. According to a source in the Daily Mail, Ferguson has been unfaithful eight times over the past five years.
Lucia Rose Mariano born
Mariano and Brkich welcome daughter Lucia Mariano into the world.
When she was born, I got a little teary-eyed. Then he looked at me and said, I think her name is Lucia. And I started crying too.
Baby white-cheeked gibbon born
A baby white-cheeked gibbon is born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The baby’s mother, Melaka, has two other children, named Suki and Tuyen. The gibbon family lives in a habitat near the Kali River Rapids attraction. The birth coincides with a gibbon Species Survival Program run by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
White-cheeked gibbons, an endangered species, spend their lives in the tops of trees. They produce offspring about once every 2-3 years after 7 to 8 months of gestation. Infants have the ability to cling to their mothers immediately after birth, which allows females complete range of motion while moving about the forest with their offspring.
Moves to Belize, sets up biotech company
McAfee moves to Belize to work at his company QuorumEx, working towards producing commercial all natural antibiotics based on anti-quorum sensing technology.
If bacteria were triggered when there was only a few hundred cells, the immune system would wipe them out, but when they have grown to a few trillion cells, the immune system cannot do that. So they have this huge intelligence and I was startled and amazed and intrigued by that. When I first read that quorum sensing was a technique used by these bacteria, I go, ‘Whoa!’…The advantage was, that part of world has an astonishingly high number of plants that use quorum sensing, that could be used to find QuorumX.
Bell, Shepard engaged
Bell and Shepard get engaged. Shepard proposes, giving Bell what she calls a “real cool piece of jewelry.” The Neil Lane ring features a three-carat emerald cut diamond.
Morgan M. Morgansen’s Date with Destiny
Gordon-Levitt directs and stars in this six-minute romantic silent film as the lead role of Morgan M. Morgansen. He goes on a date with his vegetarian love interest, Destiny, who is played by Lexy Hulme. Destiny is offended when he orders rabbit for dinner:
It was written by a young lady named metaphorest, and I loved her words so much that I recorded some voice-over for it, which inspired drawings, which inspired animations. There will always be a very special place in the heart of our HitRECord community for our man, Morgan M. Morgansen.
Axel Ferrell born
Will Ferrell and Viveca Paulin’s third son, Axel Ferrell, is born after Will performs Free Bird on Conan. At age 2, Axel is known for insulting strangers:
He thinks it’s hilarious – and so do his brothers – to walk up to anyone, male or female, and say, ‘You have a little penis’. He’ll get on a roll and say it over and over again.
Axel appears in the Sea World scene in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
Jean Simmons dies age 80
Simmons dies of lung cancer age 80 at her home in Santa Monica, California.
‘Hope for Haiti’ telethon
Disney VoluntEARS, including Walt Disney World cast members, receive calls and donations during the “Hope for Haiti” telethon, operating out of the Disney Reservations Center in Orlando. The telethon lasts for two hours and allows viewers to donate online and on the phone to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
Thousands of Disney Cast Members have personal ties to Haiti and some are still trying to locate friends or family members in the region.