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So today being March 9th, at least for now, is my birthday. My 38th birthday to be precise. It's not just mine, it's Adrian's and Skippy's too, (Both of whom are precisely a year older than I am, BWAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAA)
ANYway, I thought I'd dig up some of the random stuff and people that happened on this day, 'cause it's kind of neat sometimes.
Stuff that happened the day I was born
On 9 Mar 67, Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West, and L Chernykh discovered asteroid #1790 Volkov
Stuff that happened LONG before I was born
First battle between metal/ironclad ships happened when the Monitor defeated the Virginia on 9 Mar 1862
Top songs of 9 Mar 67:
Groovin' by the Young Rascals
Daydream Believer by The Monkees
Somethin' Stupid by Nancy & Frank Sinatra
Light My Fire by the Doors
Windy by The Association
Happy Together by The Turtles
To Sir with Love by Lulu
Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
The Letter by The Box Tops
Hello Goodbye by The Beatles
Lyndon Johnson was U.S. President, Hubert H. Humphrey was U.S. Vice President
A gallon of gas was $.33US
A car averaged $2,425US
The average house cost $24,600US
The average US income was $8,801/yr
The U.S. Minimum wage was $1.40US
The DOW Avg was 905
Oscar Winners for 1967
Best Picture: In The Heat Of The Night, Produced By Walter Mirisch
Best Actor: Rod Steiger, In The Heat Of The Night
Best Actress: Katherine Hepburn, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Other people born on 9 Mar
1918 - Mickey Spillane, [Frank], Brooklyn NY, mystery writer (I the Jury)
1959 - Barbie doll (Mattel)
1965 - Brian Bosworth NFL quarterback (Seattle)
1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America)
1943 - Trish Van Devere [Patricia Dressel] Englewood Cliffs NJ, actress (Changeling, Movie Movie, Hearse)
1971 - Emmanuel Lewis Brooklyn NY, actor (Webster)
1791 - George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1948 - Jeffrey Osborne Providence RI, funk vocalist (Earth, Wind, & Fire and Solo)
1912 - Alan David Melville polymath
1917 - Dante B Fascell (Representative-Democrat-FL (Miami))
1934 - Yuri Gagarin Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1)
1936 - Glenda Jackson Birkenhead Cheshire England, actress (Hopscotch, Touch of Class)
1943 - Bobby Fischer US, world chess champion (1972-75)
1936 - Mickey Gilley Ferriday LA, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
1942 - John Cale Welsh/US bassist/violinist/singer (Velvet Underground)
1950 - Danny Sullivan Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
TV Shows on in March of '67
Hogan's Heroes The Carol Burnett Show Green Acres
The Ed Sullivan Show Dragnet Petticoat Junction
The Virginian Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater The Beverly Hillbillies
The F.B.I. The Jackie Gleason Show I Spy
Rat Patrol Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Get Smart
The Red Skelton Show Bonanza Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Bewitched The Dean Martin Show It Takes a Thief
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour I Dream of Jeannie Tarzan
Books of 1967
Children of Crisis by Robert Coles
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
The Art of the Soluble by Peter B. Medawar
That's not everything, but a bit of a snapshot, and kind of neat to see what was happening almost 40 years ago.
Not 40, but almost. Two years for 40. That's important. 38, NOT 39, or 40.
50 is RIGHT out.
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