Posted on 08/20/2015 7:18:20 PM PDT by jy8z
Not on the day I was born, but years later after I grew up I did. Then too, when I was born I was so speechless I didn’t talk for a year and a half ... or so.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 others arrested in Selma, Ala., during demonstrations against voter-registration rules (Feb. 1).
Malcolm X, black-nationalist leader, shot to death at Harlem rally (Feb. 21).
Blacks riot for six days in Watts section of Los Angeles: 34 dead, over 1,000 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested (Aug. 11-16).
World Series
LA Dodgers d. Minnesota (4-3)
NBA Championship
Boston d. LA Lakers (4-1)
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Chicago (4-3)
The Sound of Music premieres.
Academy Award, Best Picture: My Fair Lady
Nat King Cole dies at age 45
I Want to Be With You Always by Lefty Frizzell topped some of the popular music charts. Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats sat atop others. On still others, King Cole's Too Young was Number One.
Day 340 of WWII. My youngest grandson got a hoot out of the sites for my birthday. His first comment was “Good grief grams do you realize you have lived three-fourths of a century?” When you are 14 that seems like forever, when you are the one who is three-fourths of a century, it doesn’t seem like so long. Where has all that time gone?
In other words, Stalin Kicked the Bucket.
I won’t, Google doesn’t need to know what day i was born.”
They already know that plus what you bought at the store last time you went shopping and a whole lot more.
That was about to change.
Dang. That was going to be my answer.
December 20, 1960
Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Elvis Presley was number one on the charts.
The National Liberation Front was formed in South Vietnam. You may remember them by their other name: The Viet Cong.
The Farmer’s Almanac website will tell you what the weather was like in the city you were born in on that day. Here’s mine, for Omaha, NE:
http://farmersalmanac.com/weather-history/68142/1960/12/20/
High Temp: 34°F *
Low Temp: 10.9°F *
Average Temp: 20.6°F ( 24 )
Dewpoint: 9.2°F ( 24 )
Sea Level Pressure: 1029.5 mb ( 24 )
Station Pressure: 992 mb ( 24 )
Visibility: 12.3 miles ( 24 )
Wind Speed: 17.7 knots ( 24 )
Max Wind Speed: 22 knots
Max Wind Gust: n/a
Precipitation Amount: n/a
Snow Depth: n/a
Observations: Snow/Ice Pellets
Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq.
That day must have been around the time the Treaty of Rome was signed, with the overwhelming approval of most Europeans. Today, many Europeans probably don't think the treaty, which led to the European Union, was such a hot idea. Other things going on at about that time would have been the sensational Senate hearings into labor racketeering conducted by Sen. John McClellan (D-ark.), Joe McCarthy's successor as chairman of the Committee on Government Operations.
Norris Poulson, the Republican mayor of Los Angeles would have also been cruising to an election victory for a second term, crushing his nearest opponent, car dealer Bob Yeakel. Yeakel, who called himself "the lucky Dutchman" sponsored Sunday afternoon auto races on TV. His luck ran out when his plane crash landed on the San Bernardino Freeway in November, 1960, killing him.
On my birthday this occured:
Number 1 song: Sugar Shack by Jimmy Gilmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DW8ecqu0Iw
I probably just slept and shat a lot.
July 8th, 1966, the Beatles released the song “Nowhere Man” on EP. BTW, Nowhere Man was originally, and still is, my CB radio handle and I chose it long before I found out that song was released on the day I was born.
Yes, I was born mid-way between the Treaty of Rome and Poulson’s reelection. I’m impressed with how you figured that out!
What is this? A social engineering scam to get my DOB? Hah! I’m onto you buster and not going to play the game. What’s next? Getting us to divulge our Ashley Madison account credentials?
Cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg died on the day I was born. That’s about it. According to Google, December 7, 1970 was pretty uneventful.
I did, and apparently nothing happened that day in 1953.
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