I can't believe I'm adding to the list of Tom Cruise baby posts, BUT.

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I hope Tom Cruise pays his press agent a hell of a lot of money. How else do you explain THIS getting on AP news feeds?

'TomKat' Hoopla Recalls Lucy's 1953 Birth

The hoopla over the baby girl born Tuesday to Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes recalls another highly anticipated birth 53 years ago — arguably, one of the most-covered births of the 20th century.

Actually it was two births — one in a hospital and one on a TV sitcom.

On Jan. 19, 1953, Lucille Ball gave birth to a boy named Desiderio Arnaz IV at Cedars of Lebanon hospital in Los Angeles.

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The Cruise-Holmes pregnancy and birth has attracted media attention around the globe — from online blogs to cable news shows. Those elements didn't exist in 1953, but the Arnaz baby was a big story in newspapers worldwide, and on radio, too.

And just as they did outside the Cruise estate in Beverly Hills, media types also gathered at Cedars of Lebanon waiting for word of the Arnaz birth.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060419/ap_en_ce/cruise_holmes_baby_lucy_s_baby