43 and Counting (Check the Anniversary!)

“Today’s your Birthday—Happy Birthday to you…”

--John Lennon, Birthday from The White Album 1968.

I was born on 12/06 and I thought I would share with you, gentle reader, the highlights of this day—the day before a date which lives in infamy.

According to History (my comments in Bold and in parenthesis):

In 1534 - Spanish found Quito, Ecuador (did not even know where that is).
1768 - First edition of the Encyclop椩a Britannica is published (boring kids everywhere).
1790 - United States Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (and began screwing the country a bit more inland).
1877 - First publication of the Washington Post (some liberal rag…).
1884 - Washington Monument completed (and site seeing up the giant phallic symbol begins).
1917 - Finland declares its independence from Russia (and when it was over the country was “finished”—heh heh).
1921 - Irish Free State Agreement signed in London by British and Irish representatives (and then “fun” really began).
1922 - One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty the Irish Free State comes into existence (for Guinness fans everywhere).
1933 - A federal judge rules that the James Joyce novel Ulysses is not obscene (probably because he is a democrat and can actually “read” unlike the conservative followers).
1947 - Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated (which years later begins burning due to the heat and God getting even with Jeb Bush).
1957 - A launchpad explosion thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite (Project Vanguard) (because the damn Russians beat us to it).

I share my birthday with many people—here are a few (my comments in Bold and in parenthesis)

1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471) (a King—how cool).
1805 - Adolf Reubke, organ builder (d. 1875) (organ builder—heh heh—I bet he was).
1805 - Jean Eug讥 Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861) (no relation to Houdini).
1875 - Evelyn Underhill, English poet (d. 1941) (now she’s "Underground").
1886 - Joyce Kilmer, poet (d. 1918) (that horrid tree poem).
1887 - Lynne Fontanne, actress (d. 1983) (who?).
1892 - Lina Carstens, actress (d. 1978) (who?).
1896 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist (d. 1983) (finally someone decent).
1900 - Agnes Moorhead, actress (d. 1974) (All right—Me and Endora).
1903 - Tony Lazzeri, Baseball Hall of Famer (Obviously not a Cub).
1905 - James Braddock, boxing champion (d. 1974) (Gentlemen Jim—Go Cinderella Man!).
1920 - Dave Brubeck, jazz musician (Yawn—BORING!).
1921 - Otto Graham, American football star (He was a Brown, wasn’t he???).
1928 - Bobby Van, singer (d. 1980) (Was this the same dude who had a game show--Make Me Laugh I think?).
1932 - Don King, boxing entrepreneur (and Hair Model for the blind).
1948 - JoBeth Williams, actress (she was in Poltergeist and went nude in TEACHERS).
1953 - Thomas Hulce, actor (Amadaeus and Animal House!).
1955 - Steven Wright, comedian (Always bright and cheerful).
1956 - Peter Buck, musician (REM rules).

My birthday is also an anniversary of some deaths:
1185 - Afonso, first king of Portugal (a king—how cool!).
1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Sim鯮 Chardin, French painter (I remember the Monty Python skit).
1868 - August Schleicher, linguist (with that name he ought to be).
1882 - Anthony Trollope, author (I feel sorry for his daughter—that "trollope").
1889 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (No comment).
1955 - Honus Wagner, baseball hall of famer (Obviously not a Cub).
1985 - Bur Tillstrom, puppeteer (Who the Hell is this? I mean playing with puppets is worthy of fame? Wow).
1988 - Roy Orbison, musician (One of my all time favorites).
1989 - Frances Bavier, actress (Aunt Bea).
1993 - Don Ameche, actor (A great one).

If you want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly about your anniversary of your birth, go here: http://www.neohumanism.org/l/li/list_of_historical_anniversaries.html for historical anniversaries. Enjoy.