Haven’t done this in a while. Kelly has stolen from me, more than once, so I hought I’d steal from her this time. You wanna play? Go here. It doesn’t always generate the same list, BTW.
You said your birthday is 3 / 7 / 1953
which means you are 52 years old and about:
36 years 4 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 89
31 years 8 months younger than Nancy Reagan, age 84
28 years 9 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 81
21 years 5 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 74
19 years 4 months younger than Larry King, age 72
13 years 1 month younger than Ted Koppel, age 65
9 years 8 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 62
6 years 8 months younger than George W. Bush, age 59
1 year 8 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 54
2 years 8 months older than Bill Gates, age 50
7 years 6 months older than Cal Ripken Jr., age 45
13 years 4 months older than Mike Tyson, age 39
17 years 5 months older than Jennifer Lopez, age 35
22 years 10 months older than Tiger Woods, age 30
29 years 3 months older than Prince William, age 23
and that you were:
48 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
46 years old on the first day of Y2K
44 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
42 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
41 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
39 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
37 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
36 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
32 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
30 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
30 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space
28 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
26 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
23 years old on the U.S.’s bicentennial Fourth of July
21 years old when President Nixon left office
19 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
16 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
15 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
12 years old during the Watts riot
10 years old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated
6 years old when Hawaii was admitted as 50th of the United States
4 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched
not yet 1 year old at the end of the Korean War
And all of the things that happened on this list since I was 10 I remember in bizarre detail, except for the introduction of the Mac. All sorts of uplifting stuff on that roster.
FWIW, Joe Stalin died two days before I was born, as did Prokofiev.
I was 6 years old when the events that triggered the Truman Capote book “In Cold Blood” took place. My wife was not yet born, so she was really unfamiliar with the subject matter of the movie “Capote”, which we saw yesterday FOR FREE, thanks to the generosity of a local realtor. (We could have seen anything playing at the Spectrum theater.) Carol said that it was a very good film, but disturbing, and she’s not sure she’s glad see saw it. I was more familiar with the subject matter, so I anticipated certain of the more graphic scenes. Not only was Catherine Keener, and especially Philip Seymour Hoffman deserving of their Oscar nominations, but the screenplay was gripping.
