What's the most interesting thing that happened on YOUR birthdate???

[Robinrs]

Dan Murphy linked us to an AWESOME site to find out what was happening the day you were born! Thanks, Dan, it's very eye-opening. It's http://dmarie.com/timecap/

I checked it and LOVED the statistics named for my birthdate.

For instance,

The average price of a house :$17,800

Average earnings: $5341

Price of a dozen eggs: $.81!! (that's MORE than I paid last week!)

Any interesting points on your birthdate??

Great site, Dan!

 

[honeywolf7]

Friday, April 30, 1976
Top News Headlines This Week:
Apr 30 - Wings release "Silly Love Songs"
Top Songs for 1976
December, 1963 (Oh What a Night) by Four Seasons Silly Love Songs by Wings
Play The Funky Music by Wild Cherry Kiss and Say Goodbye by Manhattans
Don't Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John & Kiki Dee If You Leave Me Now by Chicago
Tonight's the Night by Rod Stewart Disco Lady by Johnnie Taylor
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon Love Hangover by Diana Ross

1976 Prices US President
Bread: $0.30/loaf Gerald R. Ford
Milk: $1.42/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $1.28/doz Nelson A. Rockefeller
Car: $5,418 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.60/gal Best Picture: Rocky
Directed By John G. Avildsen
Best Actor: Peter Finch
in Network
Best Actress: Faye Dunaway
in Network

House: $48,000
Stamp: $0.13/ea
Avg Income: $16,870/yr
Min Wage: $2.30/hr
DOW Avg: 1,005
People born on April 30
1933 - Willie Nelson country singer (On the Road Again)
1870 - Franz Lehar operetta composer (Naughty Marietta)
1909 - Juliana, Queen of Netherlands (1948-80)
1912 - Eve Arden Mill Valley Calif, actress (Connie-Our Miss Brooks)
1925 - Cloris Leachman Des Moines Iowa, actress (Phyllis) (or 4/4/26)
1945 - Annie Dillard American writer (An American Childhood)
1945 - Michael J Smith Beaufort NC, Cmdr USN, astr (51L-Challenger disaster)
1982 - Kirsten Dunst, actress (Interview with the Vampire)
1961 - Isiah Thomas NBA forward (Detroit Piston) (1990 NBA playoff MVP)
1966 - David Meggett NFL running back (NY Giants)

On TV in 1976
The Waltons Happy Days Mork & Mindy
Little House on the Prairie M*A*S*H

Hot New Toys in 1976
Monchhichi Hello Kitty Atari
Barbie glamour head

Top Books in 1976
The Grey King by Susan Cooper Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard The Face of Battle by John Keegan

 

[wvjules]

Newspaper Headline

United Airlines airplane crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45

Friday, December 08, 1972

Top Songs for 1972

A Horse with No Name by America
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack
The Candy Man by Sammy Davis, Jr.
Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan
American Pie by Don McLean
Without You by Nilsson
Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me by Mac Davis
I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash
Lean On Me by Bill Withers
Me and Mrs. Jones by BillyPaul

US President Richard M. Nixon
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

1972 Prices

Bread: $0.25/loaf
Milk: $1.33/gal
Eggs: $1.20/doz
Car: $3,879
Gas: $0.36/gal
House: $30,500
Stamp: $0.08/ea
Avg Income: $12,625/yr
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 1,020

Academy Award Winners

Best Picture: The Godfather
Best Actor: Marlon Brando in The Godfather
Best Actress: Liza Minelli in Cabaret

 

[Jeafl]

The big highlight for my birthday was Barbra Streisand opening in "An Evening with Harry Stones"

Minimum wage was $1.15 when I was born, and the average income was $6,750/year. I'm really starting to feel old.

I do remember being in labor with my youngest daughter while the Million Man march was going on. There was nothing else on TV that day!

 

[wvjules]

Prices on DD'son DD's Birthday

1995 Prices
Bread: $0.79/loaf
Milk: $2.51/gal
Eggs: $1.46/doz
Car: $18,360
Gas: $1.21/gal
House: $158,700
Stamp: $0.32/ea
Avg Income: $51,353/yr
Min Wage: $4.25/hr
DOW Avg: 5,117

 

[Wish Upon A Star]

Monday, September 25, 1967

Top Songs for 1967
Groovin' by Young Rascals Daydream Believer by Monkees
Somethin' Stupid by Nancy & Frank Sinatra Light My Fire by Doors
Windy by Association To Sir with Love by Lulu
Happy Together by Turtles Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
The Letter by Box Tops Hello Goodbye by Beatles

1967 Prices US President
Bread: $0.22/loaf Lyndon B. Johnson
Milk: $1.15/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $1.10/doz Hubert H. Humphrey
Car: $2,425 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.33/gal Best Picture: In The Heat Of The Night
Produced By Walter Mirisch
Best Actor: Rod Steiger
in In The Heat Of The Night
Best Actress: Katherine Hepburn
in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

House: $24,600
Stamp: $0.05/ea
Avg Income: $8,801/yr
Min Wage: $1.40/hr
DOW Avg: 905
People born on September 25
1931 - Barbara Walters Boston Mass, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV)
1944 - Michael Douglas NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)
1951 - Mark Hamill Oakland Calif, actor (Star Wars)
1961 - Heather Locklear LA Calif, actress (Stacy-T.J. Hooker)

On TV in 1967
The Monkees Batman Mission: Impossible
Dragnet Hogan's Heroes Star Trek
The Avengers The Carol Burnett Show I Dream of Jeannie
Get Smart

Hot New Toys in 1967
Dr. Doolittle's Pushmi-Pullyu Spudsie The Hot Potato Twiggy Fashion Tote Bag
The Monkees Game Frosty Sno-Cone Ants in the Pants
Girl From U.N.C.L.E. Trick Gadgets Set Don't Break the Ice Uncle Fester's Mystery Light Bulb

Top Books in 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

 

[honeywolf7]

Talk about making me feel like a baby next to DBF...Here are some things for 5/12/1964:

Top Songs for 1964
The House of the Rising Sun by Animals
Can't Buy Me Love by Beatles
Oh, Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison
I Feel Fine by Beatles
There! I've Said It Again by Bobby Vinton
I Want to Hold Your Hand by Beatles
She Loves You by Beatles
Baby Love by Supremes
Chapel of Love by Dixie Cups
I Get Around by Beach Boys

Academy Award Winners
Best Picture: My Fair Lady
Directed By George Cukor
Best Actor: Rex Harrison
in My Fair Lady
Best Actress: Julie Andrews
in Mary Poppins

 

[aahmom1]

My birthday, January 26th 1968



Jan 26 - Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
Bread: $0.22/loaf
Milk: $1.21/gal
Eggs: $1.12/doz
Car: $2,450
Gas: $0.34/gal
House: $26,600
Stamp: $0.06/ea
Avg Income: $9,670/yr
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 944

US President....Lyndon B. Johnson
US Vice President.....Hubert H. Humphrey


Very cool site Dan

 

[browneyes]

Top Songs for 1969
Everyday People by Sly & the Family Stone
Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In by Fifth Dimension
I Can't Get Next to You by Temptations
In the Year 2525 by Zager & Evans
Get Back by Beatles (with Billy Preston)
Sugar, Sugar by Archies
Dizzy by Tommy Roe
Honky Tonk Women by Rolling Stones
Crimson & Clover by Tommy James & the Shondells
Wedding Bell Blues by Fifth Dimension

1969 Prices
Bread: $0.23/loaf
Milk: $1.26/gal
Eggs: $1.14/doz
Car: $3,400
Gas: $0.35/gal
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 800

US President: Richard M. Nixon
US Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew

Academy Award Winners:
Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy Directed By John Schlesinger
Best Actor: John Wayne in True Grit
Best Actress: Maggie Smith in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
House: $27,900
Stamp: $0.06/ea
Avg Income: $10,577/yr

Popular tv shows:
1966-1969 Star Trek
1964-1972 Bewitched
1967-1979 The Carol Burnett Show
1966-1973 Mission: Impossible
1969-1974 The Brady Bunch
1966-1969 The Avengers
1965-1970 Get Smart
1948-1971 The Ed Sullivan Show
1959-1973 Bonanza
1965-1971 Hogan's Heroes
1965-1970 I Dream of Jeannie
1962-1971 The Beverly Hillbillies
1955-1975 Gunsmoke
1968-1980 Hawaii Five-0
1965-1971 Green Acres
1968-1975 Adam-12
1968-1973 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1967-1970 Dragnet

 

[CamColt]

Top News Headlines This Week:
Dec 28 - Hasj falls from now on under(neath) the Opiumwet Dec 30 - Long Island NHL franchise purchased (New York Islanders) Dec 30 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR Dec 31 - KAID TV channel 4 in Boise ID (PBS) begins broadcasting Dec 31 - Lt Gen Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA Jan 1 - International Book Year begins
Top Songs for 1971
Knock Three Times by Dawn Maggie May by Rod Stewart
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart by Bee Gees Go Away Little Girl by Donny Osmond
Joy to the World by Three Dog Night Family Affair by Sly & the Family Stone
It's Too Late by Carole King One Bad Apple by Osmonds
Brand New Key by Melanie Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves by Cher

1971 Prices US President
Bread: $0.25/loaf Richard M. Nixon
Milk: $1.32/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $1.18/doz Spiro T. Agnew
Car: $3,742 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.36/gal Best Picture: The French Connection
Directed By William Friedkin
Best Actor: Gene Hackman
in The French Connection
Best Actress: Jane Fonda
in Klute

House: $28,300
Stamp: $0.08/ea
Avg Income: $11,583/yr
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 890

 

[sydally9367]

EEP, well my birthday is September 11, 1975

Sep 13 - -27] Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean & US Sep 14 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open Sep 14 - Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st US saint Sep 14 - Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam Sep 14 - Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen Sep 14 - Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint

Top Songs for 1975

Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell
Fly, Robin, Fly by Silver Convention
Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka
That's the Way (I Like It) by KC & the Sunshine Band
Island Girl by Elton John
Love Will Keep Us Together by Captain & Tennille
Jive Talkin' by Bee Gees
He Don't Love You by Tony Orlando & Dawn
Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John
Fame by David Bowie

1975 Prices US President
Bread: $0.28/loaf Gerald R. Ford
Milk: $1.40/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $1.26/doz Nelson A. Rockefeller
Car: $4,950
Gas: $0.57/gal
House: $42,600
Stamp: $0.10/ea
Avg Income: $15,546/yr
Min Wage: $2.10/hr
DOW Avg: 852


Academy Award Winners
Best Picture: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Directed By Milos Forman
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson
in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress: Louise Fletcher
in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

 

[spb999]

Saturday, January 06, 1962
Top News Headlines This Week:
Jan 7 - AFL Pro Bowl West beats East 47-27 Jan 7 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails Jan 7 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock Jan 8 - Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 91 die (Netherlands) Jan 8 - Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th Jan 9 - NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
Top Songs for 1962
Telstar by Tornadoes Big Girls Don't Cry by Four Seasons
Peppermint Twist by Joey Dee & the Starliters Hey! Baby by Bruce Channel
Sherry by Four Seasons I Can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles
Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler Roses Are Red by Bobby Vinton
Soldier Boy by Shirelles The Twist by Chubby Checker

1962 Prices US President
Bread: $0.21/loaf John F. Kennedy
Milk: $1.04/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $0.94/doz Lyndon B. Johnson
Car: $2,275 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.31/gal Best Picture: Lawrence Of Arabia
Directed By David Lean
Best Actor: Gregory Peck
in To Kill A Mockingbird
Best Actress: Anne Bancroft
in The Miracle Worker

House: $19,000
Stamp: $0.04/ea
Avg Income: $6,670/yr
Min Wage: $1.15/hr
DOW Avg: 652
People born on January 6
1914 - Danny Thomas Deerfield MI, comedian (Danny Thomas Show)
1925 - John Z DeLorean former automaker (DeLorean)
1930 - Vic Tayback Brooklyn NY, actor (Mel-Alice, Khan, Portrait of a Stripper)
1944 - Bonnie Franklin Santa Monica CA, TV actress (Ann-1 Day at a Time)

On TV in 1962
Perry Mason Bonanza The Flinstones
The Dick Van **** Show Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Andy Griffith Show
The Twilight Zone The Beverly Hillbillies Gunsmoke
Leave it to Beaver

 

[newmousecateer]

OK you young 'uns....
Just a smattering:

Top Songs sung by Perry Como, Frankie Lane and Vic Damone


Best actor, Broderick Crawford. Best actress, Olivia De Havilland

Bread, 14 cents, milk .84 gal.



(Remember, I am NOT old, I am just AGED like a fine wine, so no snide remarks)

 

[Blondie]

On November 20, 1960;

Minimum wage ws $1.00 per hour

Eggs were .90 cents a dozen

A stamp was .04 cents!

Academy Award Winners :
Best Picture: The Apartment
Directed By Billy Wilder
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster
in Elmer Gantry
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor
in Butterfield 8

 

[figmentvi]

YooHoo Towncrier (John)......you don't have to do one. Not much changed on June 04. Hee Hee.

sydally9367......can you tell you were born in the middle of the "Disco Era". Geesh. Good thing your Dad and I didn't like Disco.

OK...Here's mine: Pretty quiet week. I guess my Mom was bored and decided to go to the hospital for excitement. What I didn't know was that I was born on a Friday. So that's where TGIF came from!!!!! Hee Hee

Friday, June 03, 1955
Top News Headlines This Week:
Jun 3 - KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
Jun 3 - Stan Musial hits his 300th HR
Jun 4 - Mickey Rooney Show," TV comedy last airs on NBC
Jun 5 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open J
Jun 5 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
Jun 6 - Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
Top Songs for 1955
Learnin' the Blues by Frank Sinatra
Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Autumn Leaves by Roger Williams
Moments to Remember by Four Lads
Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets
I Hear You Knocking by Gale Storm
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing by Four Aces
The Yellow Rose of Texas by Mitch Miller
Ain't That a Shame by Fats Domino
A Blossom Fell by Nat King Cole

1955 Prices US President
Bread: $0.18/loaf Dwight D. Eisenhower
Milk: $0.92/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $0.79/doz Richard M. Nixon
Car: $1,950 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.29/gal Best Picture: Marty
Directed By Delbert Mann
Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine
in Marty
Best Actress: Anna Magnani
in The Rose Tattoo

House: $17,600
Stamp: $0.03/ea
Avg Income: $4,962/yr
Min Wage: $0.75/hr
DOW Avg: 488
People born on June 3
1925 - Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz], actor (Some Like It Hot, Trapeze)
1926 - Allen Ginsberg beat poet (Howl)
1808 - Jefferson F Davis, Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5)

On TV in 1955
Jackie Gleason Show U.S. Steel Hour Lassie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Gunsmoke This Is Your Life
Omnibus The Honeymooners Dragnet
Make Room for Daddy

Hot New Toys in 1955
Play-doh Frisbee

Top Books in 1955
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

 

[Cindy B]

Wednesday, November 25, 1970
Top News Headlines This Week:
Nov 25 - Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year
Nov 27 - George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
Nov 27 - Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year
Nov 27 - Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh v England, Brisbane
Nov 27 - by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
Nov 28 - 58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10


Top Songs for 1970
I Think I Love You by Partridge Family
I'll Be There by Jackson Five
My Sweet Lord by George Harrison
American Woman by Guess Who
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
War by Edwin Starr
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head by B.J. Thomas
Close to You by Carpenters
Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Diana Ross Let It Be by Beatles

1970 Prices US President
Bread: $0.24/loaf
Milk: $1.32/gal
Eggs: $1.16/doz
Spiro T. Agnew
Car: $3,542
Gas: $0.36/gal


House: $26,600
Stamp: $0.06/ea
Avg Income: $11,106/yr
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 839

People born on November 25
1933 - Kathryn Grant Crosby Houston Texas, actress (Mr Cory, Big Circus)
1947 - John Larroquette New Orleans LA, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court)

On TV in 1970
The Carol Burnett Show
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Hawaii Five-0
The Odd Couple
The Brady Bunch
Adam-12
Mission: Impossible
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Get Smart
Dragnet

Hot New Toys in 1970
Alien Zeroid Mandy ("My Friends Doll") Dawn Doll
Masterpiece

Top Books in 1970
Sounder by William Armstrong

 

[Marla Hellwig]

Bread: $0.19/loaf
Milk: $1.00/gal
Eggs: $0.83/doz
Car: $2,100
Gas: $0.31/gal
House: $18,000
Stamp: $0.03/ea
Avg Income: $5,443/yr
Min Wage: $1.00/hr
DOW Avg: 436

President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
Academy Award Winners
Best Picture: The Bridge On The River Kwai
Best Actor: Alec Guinness - River Kwai
Best Actress: Joanne Woodward
in The Three Faces Of Eve

guess I am old

 

[scarlett873]

this is very cool!!! i now know why i had a talent for playing the viola though...one of the greatest violinists, Itzhak Perlman, and i share a birthday! and man...stamps and gas were CHEAP!!!!!


Friday, August 31, 1973
Top News Headlines This Week:
Aug 31 - 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman) Aug 31 - T Smirnova discovers asteroids #2072 Kosmodemyanskaya, #2172 Plavsk, Aug 31 - #2447 Kronstadt, #3418, #3460 & #4049 Noragal' Aug 31 - PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony Sep 1 - 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark) Sep 1 - George Foreman KOs Jose Roman in the 1st to retain heavyweight title

Top Songs for 1973
Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree by Dawn
Crocodile Rock by Elton John
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce
My Love by Paul McCartney & Wings
Killing Me Softly with His Song by Roberta Flack
Top of the World by Carpenters
You're So Vain by Carly Simon
Keep On Truckin' by Eddie Kendricks
Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight & the Pips

1973 Prices US President
Bread: $0.27/loaf Richard M. Nixon
Milk: $1.36/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $1.22/doz Gerald R. Ford
Car: $4,052 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.39/gal Best Picture: The Sting Directed By George Roy Hill
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon in Save The Tiger
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson in A Touch Of Class
House: $35,500
Stamp: $0.08/ea
Avg Income: $13,622/yr
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 851
People born on August 31
1924 - Buddy [Leonard] Hackett, Bkln, comedian (God's Little Acre, Music Man)
1903 - Arthur Godfrey radio, TV host (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout)
1945 - Itzhak Perlman Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/polio victim
1949 - Richard Gere Phila Pa, actor (Breathless, Cotton Club)

On TV in 1973
The Mary Tyler Moore Show Columbo Emergency
The Bob Newhart Show The Brady Bunch The Waltons
All in the Family M*A*S*H Hawaii Five-0
The Odd Couple

Hot New Toys in 1973
Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle
The Lone Ranger Action Figure
Boggle
Perfection
Dungeons & Dragons
Fisher-Price Movie Viewer
Shrinky Dinks

Top Books in 1973
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

 

[JAP]

Well I know nothing comes to mind about my birthday but that is a neat site.

My dear dad's birthday is another story.

My Dad was born December 7, 1941 in Manhatten, NY. My grandfather was in the Army stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The hospital did not tell the 7 women that were in labor at the time of the attack as all of them had husbands in the US forces. My grandmother was one of 3 women whose husbands were at Pearl Harbor that fateful day.

Unfortunately someone left a radio on at the nurse's station and my grandmother heard the news. Well she got dressed and was on her way out of there (without dear dad). The nurses asked her were she was going and she replied "to get my husband"! She was a little loopy to say the least.

My grandfather made it through Pearl Harbor and WWII. He did not get to meet my father until dad was 5 years old.

Dad went to Hawaii last year for his 60th birthday. Dad and I are members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.

 

[fklhou]

I already knew that I shared a birthday (Dec. 5) with Walt Disney and Strom Thurmond. The site failed to mentioned that H.P. Lovecraft and J.Edgar Hoover was also borned on my birthday.