What was on the cover of Time when you were born? I got Admiral Harry Felt, commander of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC). Woo-hoo!
Actually, like all of these, “when I was born” isn’t all that interesting or nostalgic an answer (I wasn’t interested in geopolitics or the military for a number of years afterwards). When I graduated from college, perhaps … or when I got married. Those would be more nostalgic/romantic …
… or maybe not.
(via Stan)
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Well,
Birthday – Sargent Shriver (sp)
College Grad – Halley’s Comet (I like that one.)
Wedding – Hell Freezing Over (since it hasn’t happened)
Birthday – Sir Alec Douglas
18th Birthday – Arming the world – what are the limits
21th Birthday – Mondale vs Reagan
30th Birthday – Eddie Vedder
40th Birthday – Inside the new SATs
For me:
Birthday – Bobby Riggs – Though I honestly don’t know who that is.
HS Grad – Thelma and Louise
Wedding – OJ Accquital
Very Interesting.
Bobby Riggs! Hah! Tennis pro who made a (late) name for himself by arguing that women tennis players were themselves second-rate, and challenged (and lost to) Billy Jean King in a well-publicized match.
Despite his admiral career on the courts, Riggs is probably best known for the disparaging remarks he made during women’s tennis competitions. Branded a “chauvinist pig,” after claiming that “any half-decent male player could defeat even the best female players,” he came out of retirement to challenge Margaret Smith Court, a leading women’s player, to a winner-take-all match on national television. Riggs easily defeated a psyched-out Court in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1. Riggs continued to press his point with the media and eventually proposed the same challenge to Billie Jean King. Touted as the “Battle of the Sexes,” Riggs took to the court in September of 1973, at the age of 55. Promising a victory, Riggs and King battled it out before a record crowd of 30,472 spectators at the Houston (Texas) Astrodome. The television audience was said to exceed some 50 million viewers. The winner of the match would take home $100,000 in cash. Much to his dismay, King won all three sets, and consequently helped to elevate women’s tennis to its current status.
More info here and here.
Still Franco for B’Day
And…
Farraro and Feinstein for HS graduation
Bday: Leonard Bernstein
More importantly, since I’m pretty sure my teenaged mother wasn’t paying much attention to news magazines at the time, is what music she was listening to 9 months earlier.
She’s mentioned records more than radio, and I know something of her tastes, so figure tunes up to a year old at the time: Rock Around the Clock, Maybelline, Ain’t That a Shame, Tutti Frutti, Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes.
Knowing my folks, they probably were listening to Leonard Bernstein at the time …