A famous Australian criminal was born on my birthday.
No. I was too little.
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?
That was about to change.
Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq.
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.
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.
Wilt Chamberlain set an NBA record that still stands, for "Most points, rookie, game", with 58 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the Detroit Pistons, in Bethlehem, PA. The record was tied, by Chamberlain, on February 21 of his rookie year.
[Corneliu Tiberiu Constantin was born. Father Ion, Mother Aurelia. place of birth Vulcan, Hunedoara, Romania]
January 25, 1960 (Monday)
Holidays and observances
Burns Night (Scotland and Scottish community)
Christian feast day: Dydd Santes Dwynwen, Welsh Valentine's Day (Wales)
Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, which concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity)
Gregory the Theologian (Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church) The last day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Christian ecumenism)
January 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Criminon Day (Scientology)
Earliest day on which the first day of Carnival of Cádiz can fall, while February 28 is the latest; celebrated two Sundays before Ash Wednesday until Ash Wednesday (Cádiz)
National Voters' Day (India)
Opposite Day
Tatiana Day (Russia)
The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
I share the same birthdate as Pamela Geller.
And on the day I was born; Nelson Mandela married Winifred Nomzamo Zanyiwe Madikizela.
Donald Trump celebrated his 12th birthday.
August 13, 1946
- Britain diverts illegal emmigrants bound for Palestine to Cyprus.
- H. G. Wells, English writer, dies at 79.
Various luminaries with birthday of Aug 13:
1895 – Bert Lahr, American actor (Cowardly lion in Wizard of Oz).
1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer.
1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba.
1959 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor and wrestler....