Thirty-One
It’s my 31st birthday today! (Thank you, Noah!)
People who share my birthday:
- Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States (1856)
- Earl “Fatha” Hines, father of modern jazz piano (1905)
- Stan Lee, artist and writer — creator of Marvel Comics (1922)
- Denzel Washington, Academy Award-winning actor (1954)
- Elizabeth Jordan Carr, first “test tube baby” born in the U.S. (1981)
Significant events in history on this day:
- John C. Calhoun became the first U.S. vice president to resign from office, citing differences with President Andrew Jackson (1832)
- Iowa became the 29th state in the Union (1846)
- Chewing gum was patented by William Finley Semple (1869)
- San Francisco, California’s, first street cars entered service (1912)
- Leonard Bernstein’s musical, “On the Town”, opened in New York City featuring the hit song “New York, New York” (1944)
- Filming for the movie, “Doctor Zhivago”, began on location near Madrid, Spain. The movie received ten Oscar nominations and won five Academy Awards, including Best Original Score. (1964)
- President-elect George W. Bush selected Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary. (2000)
Previously, Rumsfeld had served as defense secretary under President Ford, Ford’s chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to NATO under President Nixon, and as an Illinois congressman.
What was at the top of the music charts when I was born (1973):
- The Most Beautiful Girl - Charlie Rich
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
- Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
- If We Make It Through December - Merle Haggard
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Addendum: My sincere condolences go out to the Moore family today, on the passing of John Moore after a long and painful fight with cancer.
