Following the lead of DCBrownie, I have queried Wikipedia and found the following correlations to my birthday, April 17:
Events
1937 - Daffy Duck debuts in Warner Bros.' short "Porky's Duck Hunt."
1964 - The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair.
1973 - Federal Express delivers its first package.
Birthdays
1972 - Gary Bennett, American baseball player (current backup catcher for my St. Louis Cardinals)
1974 - Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice), English singer
Death
1790 - Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, diplomat, and printer (b. 1706)
Holiday
Feast Day of Saint Stephen Harding (d. 1134), Christian saint and monastic abbot, one of the founders of the Cistercian Order
4 comments:
Cool. I especially like that Daffy Duck and you share the same birthday, in essence. :-)
I found it most amusing that I share a birthday with one of the Spice Girls! : )
I remember the unveiling of the ford mustang here in good old malden. your papaw worked at the Starrett Ford dealership. your uncle scott was on pins and needles and couldn't wait to see it so he got a preview, which he couldn't wait to rub in on we littler cousins. they painted horse shoe tracks on the pavement out in front of the dealership and kept the car tarped until the morning it was allowed to be unveiled. the paper was there and took pictuers for the front page of the press merit. it was a BIG DEAL!
thanks for mentioning that! another family story that I'd not heard until now!
the miracle following my papaw's stroke is that he still remembers that far back...when i was down home last time, he mentioned something about his time at the ford dealership.
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