Showing posts with label 1964. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1964. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

May 30

On this date, in 1964, yours truly was born.

That makes me 43, way past expiration in gay years. But dammit, I feel and look good. Why, just tonight, I ran into someone I haven't seen for a while and he said (God's honest truth he said exactly this), "Your face looks really good now!"

Anyway, these things also happened in '64:

  • Plans to build the twin World Trade Center Towers in NYC were announced
  • Barry Goldwater announces he will seek GOP nomination
  • The first Beatles album is released in the U.S.; they make their first U.S. tour and appear on the Ed Sullivan show
  • Malcolm X forms a black nationalist party
  • The Warren Commission reports that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone; Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Oswald.
  • The Jeopardy game show debuts on TV
  • The first computer program written in BASIC debuts
  • Nelson Mandela is imprisoned in South Africa
  • Three civil rights workers are killed in Mississippi
  • Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Christmas special premieres on TV
Frankly, on my birthdays, I tend to feel a little down. I'm trying hard not to feel that way this year.