Happy Birthday to ME…
It always feels a little awkward to write a post for my own birthday. Because, really, what do you write to yourself on your special day?
My first thought was to write out my goals for the coming year, but we all know how that will turn out.
How many times have I blogged about goals only to fail and fall off the goal accomplishing wagon a few months later? Yeah, too many to count, so I’m totally skipping that.
So, on my 31st birthday I give you 31 RANDOM facts about November 13th.
- 1843 – Mount Rainier in Washington State erupts
- 1875 – Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
- 1900 – Baltimore Orioles (now New York Yankees) enter baseball’s American League
- 1913 – 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob
- 1920 – Hudson River frozen at Albany
- 1927 – NY-New Jersey Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
- 1933 – 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn
- 1937 – NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
- 1940 – Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” released
- 1942 – Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
- 1942 – Chaotic “sea battle of Friday the 13th” at Guadalcanal
- 1946 – 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mount Greylock, MA
- 1950 – U.S. win 1st world championship bridge contest
- 1952 – KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1952 – False fingernails 1st sold
- 1954 – Chris Noth (Sex in the City) was born.
- 1955 – Whoopi Goldberg (real name: Caryn Johnson) was born.
- 1955 – 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
- 1960 – Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt
- 1961 – WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1964 – Bob Petit (St. Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points
- 1968 – Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP
- 1971 – Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet, Mars
- 1977 – Final Al Capp comic strip of “Li’l Abner” (1934-77)
- 1978 – Greis is born!!!!!
- 1979 – Ronald Reagan in New York announces his candidacy for president
- 1980 – Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend
- 1980 – U.S. spacecraft Voyager I sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn
- 1985 – Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
- 1987 – 1st condom commercial on BBC TV
- 1997 – “Lion King,” opens at New Amersterdam Theater New York City
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Headless Mom November 13th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Of all of them, #25 is the best. Happy, happy day to you! (And I just realized that you are 10 years younger than me. Ugh.)
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