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What happened the day/year you were born?
03-10-2012, 07:27 PM
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What happened the day/year you were born?
A fun site. You enter and date and year, then take a peek in the events of that time. Included price of gas, bread, too.
dMarie Time Capsule
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Have you ever seen a headstone with these words
"If only I had spent more time at work" ... from "Busy Man" sung by Billy Ray Cyrus
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03-10-2012, 07:40 PM
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Nothing interesting on my birthday, but on the birth year, 3 of the top 10 songs were Elvis Presley's: "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog", "Love Me Tender", and "Heartbreak Hotel". I did not know these songs were that old.
This is interesting. Milk cost $0.90/gal, car cost $2100, and gas was $0.30/gal.
Milk did not go up in price as much as most other things. Did we get cows to be more productive or what?
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03-10-2012, 08:14 PM
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was President the day I was born. That makes me feel old. 
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03-10-2012, 08:18 PM
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Nothing happening on my Bday way back when but Perry Como was singing up a storm.
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03-10-2012, 08:36 PM
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03-10-2012, 08:39 PM
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Harry S. Truman was president when I was born and I do not feel old. 
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03-10-2012, 08:43 PM
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was President the day I was born. That makes me feel old.
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Nah! Old is when you share the same birthyear with Eisenhower. 
OK, OK, I was exaggerating.
Old is when you voted in his election year. Some people here did that.
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03-10-2012, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by easysurfer
A fun site. You enter and date and year, then take a peek in the events of that time. Included price of gas, bread, too.
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It is interesting that many things are roughly 10-12 times what they were the year that I was born except milk, eggs and the Dow.
I entered my birthday in 2011 and 2010 to try to get some comparative data, but there is none and George Bush is still president.
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03-10-2012, 08:59 PM
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Now THAT is a cute memory....made me smile. 
Ok y'all, maybe I shouldn't feel so old. On a positive note, this song was at the top of the charts in 1957....
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03-10-2012, 09:13 PM
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I don't remember.
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03-10-2012, 09:30 PM
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Not much of interest in my birth year, unless you count Pearl Harbor, or the USSR defeating German blitzkrieg in the Battle of Moscow.
I guess compared to Elvis, small beans.
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03-11-2012, 12:39 AM
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Nothing of interest happened. Maybe because it was Sunday.
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03-11-2012, 03:14 AM
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Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine.
Anyone know if he ever succeeded? *grin*
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03-11-2012, 03:20 AM
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"Take the gun, leave the cannoli's" The Godfather was the hit movie when I was born!
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03-11-2012, 04:14 AM
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Help! by the Beatles was a top song in 1965... Maybe it was a sign
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03-11-2012, 06:54 AM
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03-11-2012, 08:42 AM
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The Dow was at 177, so everyone must be rich now, right?
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I thought growing old would take longer.
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03-11-2012, 10:26 AM
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In the year I was born, JFK was president. Best picture of the year was West Side Story.
BTW, a little trivia. The actor who plays Riff in West Side Story was an uncredited advisor to Elvis for Jailhouse Rock.
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03-11-2012, 10:36 AM
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Bread: $0.18/loaf r Milk: $0.92/gal ggs: $0.79/doz Car: $1,950 Gas: $0.29/gal Best Picture:Marty Directed By Delbert Mann Best Actor:Ernest Borgnine in Marty Best Actress:Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo House: $17,600 Stamp: $0.03/ea Avg Income: $4,962/yr Min Wage: $0.75/hr DOW Avg: 488
woo-hoo!
Also, a time bomb killed 44 on an airplane in Colorado.
Milk and eggs were relatively expensive.
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03-11-2012, 12:58 PM
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Quote:
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Milk did not go up in price as much as most other things. Did we get cows to be more productive or what?
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Yes.
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_up...fare/dairy.pdf
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Milk yield per cow has more than doubled in the previous 40 years
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Mostly due to selective breeding, and AI allows selected bulls to fertilize many more females than possible the fun way.
Although there are govt subsidies or price fixing or something that goofs around with the market value of milk, so it's hard to say really.
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