if it makes you feel better, he says it to all us old farts.Thanks guys. I thought I'd better post this before it was too late (see NV's post above). :)
enough of that waltz through the ages. Happy birthday, sir. I will leave you with this sentiment.
- January 29 – The Central Intelligence Group is established (the CIA in 1947).
- July 14 – Benjamin Spock's influential The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care is published.
- September 22 – Yogi Berra makes his Major League Baseball debut, entering a game for the New York Yankees against the Philadelphia A's and hitting a home run in his first time at bat.
- November 6 – Senate and House elections in the United States both give majorities to the Republicans.
- December 7 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, United States kills 119.
- December 20 – Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell, is released in New York.