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.