Still in my prime, but wow, where'd the last 20 years go---?
I get to share the same birthday with:
Maureen O'Sullivan
Dennis Hopper
Bill Paxton
Grace Zabriske
Sendhil Ramamurthy
Matthew McGrory
A.C. Lyles
Sugar Ray Leonard
Dave Sim
Enya
and, er... the Ayatollah Khomeini (and the nearly-as-evil Bob Saget).
On the other hand, this day meant death for:
Frank Gorshin
Tony Randall
Victor Halperin
Henry Jones
Montagu Love
Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins
Virgil Ross
Dave Berg
Lawrence Welk
Seabiscuit
Also on this day:
* Jupiter's belts were discovered
* England declared war on France (twice!)
* Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden
* The New York Stock Exchange was founded
* The first Kentucky Derby was run
* "Porto Rico" officially became "Puerto Rico"
* Nazi Germany began its invasion of France
* Brown vs. Board of Education passed
* The Watergate hearings began
* Megan's Law was signed
* Alex Trebek got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
--and most importantly of all--
* The first synthetic mica was for offered sale (in New Jersey) on this date in 1956!
