About the Day

megalogoleft.gif (4757 bytes)

I share my
birthday with:

Ronald Amundsen, South Pole discoverer, born in 1872
Barbara Stanwyck, actress, born in 1907
Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer, born in 1911

Best
of
the
Year:

Children's TV: Reading Rainbow (PBS) Animaniacs (WB)
Children's Video: The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, , Disney
Children's Book: Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
Top Dog: Labrador Retrievers
Best Movie: Titanic
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets
Best Actress: Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets
TV Shows: ER, Seinfeld, Touched by An Angel, Friends, Veronica's Closet
Super Bowl: Denver Broncos

Cost of Common Items:	Average price of a new home: $163,500 4 years of private college in 2015: $209,500 Cost of a ticket to the movies: $6.50 Gallon of unleaded gasoline: $1.12 First Class postage stamp: .32

	Other Famous Events on my Birthday:
Congress established the District of Columbia and set up the permanent place of the U.S. government (1790). The first experimental test of an atomic bomb took place at Alamogordo Air Base in New Mexico (1945) Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first mission to the surface of the moon (1969).


	.