Monday, November 17, 2008

This Day in History... how could anything be more important?

Happy Birthday to ME!
Yes, it's true I am yet one more year closer to the time of my death!
According to my "calculation" (which I'm making up) it won't be for many, many, many, many, many (you getting this?) years down the road.
Great Events for the year of my birth:
- The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 35–31 in Super Bowl XIII (to some a most exciting and disappointing game)

- The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch. (wicked cool Government Space travel, gets usurpt in 2011 by private sector space travel... or atleast that's what I'm predicting) :^)

- Anyone Remember "The Three Mile Island Incident"? A nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, caused a partial meltdown.

- The Seattle SuperSonics won the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets.

- The Susan B. Anthony dollar is introduced in the U.S.

- NASA's first orbiting space station Skylab begins its return to Earth, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months. (EPIC FAIL!!)

- Michael Jackson releases his first breakthrough album Off The Wall. It sold 7 million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7x platinum album. (MJ was much cooler, when he was Black!)

- The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn, when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.

- The Entertainment Sports Programming Network, known as ESPN, debuts.

- The world premiere for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.

#1 most important event - Jacob was born!!

Now if this doesn't clue you in to how old I am...
Then I pity your failing memory,
it means you're far older than I and becoming senile!

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