Happy Birthday

Today is my birthday.  In honor of this momentous event I created my first Digital Scrapbook Page.  Click the thumbnail to get the full effect.  The elements all came from the free Diva collection at www.digitalscrapbookplace.com.  All I can say is what an ugly baby, and look they used cloth diapers in the hospital when I was born.  (My apologies to those of you that think newborns are adorable, I think they have to be your own before they look good.)

 I don’t have a problem with admitting my age, but I thought it would be more fun to list some of the things that happened during the year I was born.  The event that took place 10 days before my birth should be a dead give away for rock and roll fans.

The year of my birth  was a leap year starting on Wednesday

• January 3 – Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President.
• January 8 – In his first State-of-the-Union address, President Lyndon Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.
• January 11 – United States Surgeon GeneralLuther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one’s health. First such statement from the U.S. government.
• January 13 – I Want to Hold Your Hand by The Beatles released in the United States. It will become their first North American hit and the beginning of Beatlemania.
• January 27 – Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me.), 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican nomination for President.
• January 30 – Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon.
• February 6 – Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay in reprisal for U.S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4 Cuban fishing boats off the coast of Florida.
• February 7 -The Beatles land in New York City.
• February 9 – The Beatles make their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
• February 27 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
• February 29 – President Johnson announces that the United States had developed a jet airplane (the A-11), capable of sustained flight at more than 2,000 MPH and of altitudes of more than 70,000 feet.
• March 4 – Jimmy Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury in 1962.
• March 9 – The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
• March 14 – A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
• March 27 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2, strikes South Central Alaska killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
•  April 7 – IBM announces the System/360.
• April 16 – Geraldine Mock is the first woman to fly solo around the world.
• April 19 – In the United States, the Ford Mustang is officially unveiled to the public.
• April 20 – President Lyndon Johnson in New York and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow announce simultaneously plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.
• April 20 – Nelson Mandela makes his “I Am Prepared to Die” speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial, a classic of the anti-apartheid movement.
• May 2 – Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75% of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.
• May 19 – The United States State Department says that more than 40 hidden microphones have been found embedded in the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
• June 2 – Senator Barry Goldwater wins the California Republican Presidential primary, making him the overwhelming favorite for the nomination.
• June 9 – In Federal Court in Kansas City, Kansas, army deserter George John Gessner, 28, is convicted of passing United States secrets to the Soviet Union.
• June 12 – Nelson Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa and sent to the Robben Island prison.
• July 3 – President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 19** into law.
• July 27 – Vietnam War: 5,000 more U.S. military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
• July 31 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).
• August 7 – Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
• Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
• September 24 – The Warren Commission Report, the first official investigation of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, is published.
• October 5 – Twenty-three men and 31 women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
• October 12 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbitas the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits.
• October 14 – American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States.
• October 14 – 15 – Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power.
• November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 19**: Incumbent U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, Sr with over 60 percent of the popular vote.
• December 3 – Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and massive sit-in at the administration building protesting the UC Regents’ decision to forbid Vietnam War protests on U.C. property.

In Entertainment

• 19** in film
  • My Fair Lady
  • Mary Poppins
  • Dr. Strangelove
  • A Hard Day’s Night, starring The Beatles
  • A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone
• 19** in television
  • April 30 – Television sets manufactured as of this date are required to receive UHF channels in the United States.
  • The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan show, breaking television ratings records.
  • Nearly all of NBC’s programs are now broadcast in color.
  • Peyton Place debuts on ABC, bringing sex and infidelity to American television screens for the first time.

Famous People also born this year (these are just the ones I recognized).

• January 27 – Bridget Fonda, actress
• February 15 – Chris Farley, actor, comedian (d. 1997)
• February 18 – Matt Dillon, actor
• March 17 – Rob Lowe, actor
• April 7 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand-born actor
• April 24 – Cedric the Entertainer, comic, actor
• May 8 – Melissa Gilbert, actress, president of the Screen Actors Guild
• May 30 – Wynonna Judd, singer
• June 15 – Courteney Cox, actress
• September 2 – Keanu Reeves, actor
• September 22 – Bonnie Hunt, actress
• November 11 – Calista Flockhart, actress
• December 8 – Teri Hatcher, actress