What Happened The Day YOU Were Born?

[TATTRAT]

click HERE to find out


as for me...

Number-one song in the charts today

In the USA:
"Night Fever" by Bee Gees

In the UK:
"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush

TIME Magazine cover this week​

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TIME Magazine: Coal Crisis

Famous people born on the 26th of March:​

1868 - King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
1925 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
1963 - Roch Voisine, Canadian singer andsongwriter
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Peter D. Mitchell
1920-1992​

for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory​

United Kingdom
Glynn Research Laboratories - Bodmin, United Kingdom​

Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs (USA)

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$0.82​

 

[phinz]

The HL Hunley became the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel in combat.

FWIW, I share a birthday with Larry the Cable Guy and Paris Hilton.

 

[VeraBlue]

Duke of Earl was the number one song. John Stinebeck won the Pulitzer Prize, Lawarence of Arabia won the Oscar.....and eggs were 54 cents a dozen.

 

[RMS]

Cool link Tattratt,
Eggs were 57 cents and Willard Frank Libby won the nobel prize in chemistry.
The Apartment won the Oscar for best picture. (I've never seen it but am now curious.) Everybodys Somebodys Fool by Connie Francis was the number one song in the USA.

 

[YT2095]

What Happened The Day YOU Were Born?

the Doctor spanked my rear end and said to my Mom, "Look, Twins"

 

[BigDog]

Well, according to a topic here, 17 years prior to the day prior to my birthday music died when Buddy Holly died. As for the link . . . . .

#1 song

In the USA:
"Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players

In the UK:
"Mamma Mia" by Abba


Time mag:

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TIME Magazine: Dorothy Hamill
(TIME Cover: February the 2nd, 1976)

Oscar of the best picture in 1976

Rocky
directed by John G. Avildsen
with Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa), Burgess Meredith (Mickey) and Talia Shire (Adrian)​

Birthdays:

1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
1909 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
1947 - Paul Auster, American novelist
1959 - Laurence Tolhurst, British musician (The Cure)
1959 - Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician, composer and DJ (Pizzicato Five)
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Birthdays of people I actual know (not in person)

Vlade Divac (39)
Maura Tierney (41-in MA, about 15 miles from and 10 years before me)
The Texas Tornado Kerry von Erich
Marty Jannetty (46)
Norman Rockwell
Fran Tarkenton (66)
Morgan Fairchild (56)
Fred Lynn (55)
Fred Rogers (of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood fame)
Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd


This is also a date many would like to forget. This date, in 1913, the 16th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This gave Congress the authority to collect income tax.

In 1961, Bob Dylan made his first recording, taping "San Fransisco Bay Blues" in NY.

 

[Katie H]

Eggs weren't mentioned in mine. Perhaps they were ridiculously low or embarrassingy high.

My year seems a bit mundane. Although I've seen and sat in many of those goofy-looking chairs.


Number-one song in the charts today

In the USA:
"Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)" by Vaughn Monroe

TIME Magazine cover this week​

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TIME Magazine: Milton Berle
(TIME Cover: May the 16th, 1949)

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1949​

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Hideki Yukawa
1907-1981​

for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces​

Japan
Kyoto Imperial University - Kyoto, Japan; Columbia University - New York, NY, USA​

Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1949​

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All the King's Men
directed by Robert Rossen
with Broderick Crawford (Willie Stark) and Mercedes McCambridge (Sadie Burke)

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Designed in 1949​

The JG chair
by Ray Komai​

 

[Barbara]

On the cover of Time Magazine was Albert Einstein the day I was born, I'm feeling old.

 

[jkath]

In the USA:
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" by The Supremes

In the UK:
"Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys

and eggs were 60 cents.

.........and it was Thanksgiving, so everyone wasn't bothering to do anything that day, besides eat.


I'm feeling old, btw, I remember ice skating to TATTRAT'S "Night Fever" and wishing I was like bIGDOG'S Dorothy Hamill.

 

[buckytom]

it won't let me select yesterday.

 

[auntdot]

I forget, I was busy at the time. Hadda learn to breast feed in a hurry or lights out. And there were no manuals available.

Sorry.

 

[corazon]

Won't you take me to funky towwwwwn

#1 song by Lipps Inc
91 cents for eggs

 

[lulu]

Hahahahaha.

USA number one was "Tragedy", UK one was "I will survive".....neither of them suggest a life of peace and serenity was due, eh?!

eggs were 85 cents in US...what are they now?

 

[corazon]

When is your birthday lulu?
We both sound like we were born in the eighties

 

[YT2095]

for what it`s worth:

May the 6th, 1967...​

Today is Saturday !​

Number-one song in the charts today

In the USA:
"Somethin' Stupid" by Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra

In the UK:
"Puppet On A String" by Sandie Shaw

TIME Magazine cover this week​

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TIME Magazine: General Westmoreland
(TIME Cover: May the 5th, 1967)

Famous people born on the 6th of May:​

1501 - Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
1574 - Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)
1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary (d. 1794)
1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
1868 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
1895 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)
1915 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
1953 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1961 - George Clooney, American actor
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967​

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Hans Albrecht Bethe
1906-2005​

for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars​

USA
Cornell University - Ithaca, NY, USA​

Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1967 (USA)

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$0.49

WOW, it didn`t goof up at all!, I`ve impressed myself )

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[kimbaby]

August the 20th, 1972...​

Today is Sunday !​

Number-one song in the charts today

In the USA:
"Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O' Sullivan

In the UK:
"School's Out" by Alice Cooper

TIME Magazine cover this week​

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TIME Magazine: Sargent Shriver and George McGovern
(TIME Cover: August the 14th, 1972)

Famous people born on the 20th of August:​

1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972​

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Christian B. Anfinsen
1916-1995​

for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation​

USA
National Institutes of Health - Bethesda, MD, USA​

Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1972 (USA)

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$0.52​

 

[lulu]

When is your birthday lulu?
We both sound like we were born in the eighties

You spring chicken, you! I was born March 1979...too young for my rheumatism

 

[Katie H]

the Doctor spanked my rear end and said to my Mom, "Look, Twins"

Hey, YT. Are you really a twin or were you just playin' with our heads?

 

[jkath]

How come my '66 price is higher than YT's '67 price & kimbaby's '72?

 

[Buck]

Beware, children! This is what happens when you're older than dirt! (Actually, the iron is kind of cool.)



Number-one song in the charts today

In the USA:
"Sentimental Journey" by Les Brown

TIME Magazine cover this week​

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TIME Magazine: West Pointer Woods
(TIME Cover: June the 11th, 1945)

Famous people born on the 22nd of June:​

1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (d. 2001)
1946 - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist, member of Buena Vista Social Club
1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
1949 - Lindsay Wagner, American actress (Jaime Sommers)
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1957 - Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist from group INXS
1961 - Jimmy Sommerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards and solo)
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945​

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Sir Alexander Fleming
1881-1955​

with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey, for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases​

United Kingdom
London University - London, United Kingdom​

Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1945​

The Lost Weekend
directed by Billy Wilder
with Ray Milland (Don Birnam)​

Designed in 1945​

The Silver Streak Iron
by Designer unknown​

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