It's my birthday too--yeah
They say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you.
Besides ME coming into the world on this day, here's what else happened:
1901 - After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series and begins King Edward VII series
1905 - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1924 - KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
1930 - -35øF (-37øC), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
1932 - British Anglicans and Old-Catholic church merge
1938 - "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)
1939 - Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated
1939 - Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
1940 - 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
1941 - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1943 - Temperature rises 49øF (9øC) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD
1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
1947 - 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA
1947 - KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1949 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1953 - Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in NYC
1957 - Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
1958 - KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
1960 - Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die
1964 - World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
1968 - "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
1968 - Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
1969 - Billy Preston becomes 5th Beatle
1971 - John and Yoko record "Power to the People"
1972 - "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
1973 - Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions
1973 - US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord
1980 - PGA begins a senior golf tour
1982 - 75% of North America is covered by snow
1985 - Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
1985 - -30øF (-34øC), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
1992 - Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
1994 - 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg
1994 - 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra
1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
1998 - World League of American Football becomes NFL East
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