Thursday Thirteen: Happy Birthday!

ByKristen Koster
Thursday Thirteen

 

13 Happenings On April 3, 1968

 

You say it’s your birthday? Well, it’s my birthday too! This is somewhat of a running joke in my son’s Cub Scout Pack. I share my birthday with his den leader, but she’s older than I am =P We also share the day with my other friend there’s daughter who will be three-years old. At the meeting last night, she had invitations for a playdate at the park with her and said I could come celebrate too.

Last year, I yelled at another friend for sending me one of those joke emails that get forwarded to everyone you know because it was directed at women over 40 and how life was so much better for them. I took mock offense since I was still legitimately outside that demographic.

So, how’s it feel to be in it now? Bleah. Turning 25 was hard enough. A quarter of a century gone and nothing tangible to show for it. Turning 30 was a breeze except for lugging my DS around in my belly (and for another 18 days afterwards). But I find closing the decade of my thirties is making me look at my accomplishments so far and find them lacking. Oh sure, I have two great kids even though I call them monsters and a wonderful DH who I wouldn’t trade for the world, but I still feel a lack of something to point to where I can say, “I did that!” Maybe I can do something about that.

So, let’s take a look back and see what else happened 40 years ago:

BTW: IE 7 sucks and completely undoes my careful formatting. Firefox is much better for you anyway. =P Go get it. Now. Kthxbye.

1. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I’ve been to the mountain top” speech in Memphis, TN. It was rather difficult to find other happenings on this date because of this and his assassination the next day. My mom remembers being in the hospital with me as a newborn wondering if there were going to be riots an hour away in Baltimore on the 4th.
2. From all the casualty reports from April 3, 1968, you’d never know that North Vietnam agreed to meet with US Representatives to set up preliminary peace talks.
3. The largest draft card turn-in to date in Boston, MA was the same day. How’s that for irony?
4. Concerts that day included: Jimi Hendrix in Virginia Beach, VA and the Grateful Dead at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco, CA.
5. After the NY premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey that night, Stanley Kubrik went back to the drawing board and cut 19 minutes of the film.
6. There was some competition at the theaters, as Planet of the Apes also opened everywhere in the US that night.
7. Of course, if you were the stay at home type, you may have watched the finale of the sixth season of the Beverly Hillbillies instead.
8. Simon and Garfunkel’s Bookends album was released that day as well.
9. The Volkswagon Country Buggy was released to the public. The question still remains, “WHY!?” I guess it was their version of the Hummer. Only uglier, if possible.
10. Sebastian Bach of Skid Row was born in the Bahamas. My parents visited the Bahamas during my mom’s pregnancy with me. Wonder if we were both there at the same time, unable to enjoy the view.
11. Mike Lansing of the Montreal Expos was also born that day.
12. Remember the redhead from the 1994 movie Four Weddings and a Funeral? Charlotte Coleman was born then too. Unfortunately, she died in Nov. 2001 of an asthma attack =(
13. Tank Girl comic book artist and Gorillaz co-creator, Jamie Hewlett was also born forty years ago today.

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47 Comments

  1. Happy birthday Kaige! Cool list of stuffs. Altho the girl who died of asthma about gave me an attack. I’m always afraid my asthma will do me in. Have a happy TT and birthday!

  6. HAPPY BDAY K! And many, many, happy returns!

    Any mention of skid row gives me painful flashbacks to college where my idiot roommate played 18-to-Life on continuous loop but it’s still a great TT!

  10. Fuhgettaboutit! You’e not Forty! Sheesh. People never look their age online. 😀 Great TT! loved the pictures.

  11. I would have gotten my VW buggy and gotten home for the Hillibillies if I had been there then. I wasn’t born until ’66, though! Great list.

  20. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
    I turn 40 in September. I think we were born in a FABULOUS year.
    Have a wonderful day today!!!!!

  22. Happy Birthday! There were some I couldn’t read because they were cut off.
    With such great music playing on your b-day, I wonder what is your musical taste.
    Maribeth:)

  23. Whaaa! I couldn’t read some of them. But I don’t have Firefox, which my daughter swears by!

    Happy Birthday Kaige! Wow, a lot of wonderful things happened on your birthday. Hope it’s waaay fun and a ton naughty!

  26. All that AND you being born? Wow…and I was just sitting there in kindergarten longing to be a first-grader.

  27. Jamie Hewlett is awesome! I have a couple of issues of a special comic Jamie did for the Brit-pop band Pulp (remember them?) based on their song “Common People”. Too cool!

    Great list! Thanks for sharing the b-day goodies! 😉

  28. Happy Birthday! My biggest problem was with 31. 30 was a breeze, but when I started adding numbers to the 3 it hit me hard. Since then 40 was easy!

  30. Happy Birthday to YOU! Happy Birthday to YOU! I hope you have many more! Turning 40 didn’t bother me as much as turning 42…I guess 2 years after turning 40, it finally sunk in that I can’t go back. So, forward march!

  31. Very good, creative list. Thanks for visiting The Pink Flamingo!

    SJR
    The Pink Flamingo

  35. Happy Birthday Kaige! Hope it’s a blast!

    (BTW, what is it with wordpress blogs that text is swallowed by righthand margins? I can’t read half your post!)

  40. I popped on here this morning while at work. All we have is IE and this entry was entirely undone, just like you said it was. Fru. Stray. Shun.

    This was really interesting to read, and I appreciate the time it must have taken to search all of these stories, find appropriate pictures, and then do the HTML to make it all line up so beautifully. Trust me, it was well worth the effort. (I’m having a hard time breathing now, because I’m sad for the girl who died of an asthma attack.)

    Oh.

    And…

    HAPPY FREAKING BIRTHDAY, YOU ARIES YOU!

    Pass the cake.

    XO

  41. I’m totally stealing this idea when my birthday rolls around. Happy birthday. I’m bummed about that redhead….she was so funny in that movie. I love the part when she says, “I don’t know why only perverts wear rubber…it’s actually quite practical.” Kills me every time.

  44. Sorry I’m late, but you know what they say – your birthday isn’t officially OVER until you get the last ‘happy birthday’ wish. *wink*

    Hope you had an amazing day and have another 40 ahead of you, Kaige! *hugs*

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