My birthday facts...

Born on this day…

1245 - King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
1553 - Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, queen of France (d. 1601)
1651 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint
1662 - Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)
1770 - David Thompson, English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River)
1858 - Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893)
1901 - Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
1909 - Juliana, Queen of Netherlands (1948-80)
1910 - Al Lewis, actor (Leo-Car 54, Grandpa-Munsters)
1912 - Eve Arden, actress (Connie-Our Miss Brooks)
1917 - Bea Wain, US singer/radio host (Lucky Strike Hit Parade)
1918 - W Donald McNeill, tennis champ (US Open-1940)
1925 - Johnny Horton, American musician (d. 1960)
1926 - Cloris Leachman, actress (Last Picture Show, Phyllis)
1931 - William L [Bill] Clay, (Rep-D-MO, 1969- )
1933 - Willie Nelson, Abbott Texas, country singer (On the Road Again)
1938 - Gary Collins, actor (6th Sense, Home Show)
1939 - Ellen Taafe Zwilich, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982)
1943 - Robert L Livingston, (Rep-R-Louisiana, 1977- )
1946 - Donald Schollander, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold-64)
1947 - Robert Scott, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1953 - Merrill Osmond, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1957 - Duane G Carey, major USAF/astronaut
1957 - Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky
1959 - Lauren Howe, LPGA golfer
1965 - Adrian Pasdar, actor (C Oliver Resor-Feds, Top Gun)
1973 - Akon, American R&B Singer
1975 - Elliott Sadler, American race car driver
1981 - Emma Pierson, British actress
1982 - Kirsten Dunst, actress (Interview with the Vampire)
1985 - Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American singer and call girl
1988 - Molloko, SD Zoo, 1st Californian condor chick conceived in captivity

On this day in history…

1789: George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.

1803: The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.

1812: Louisiana became the 18th state.

1859: The novel "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens was first published in serial form in a literary magazine.

1900: Hawaii was organized as a U.S. territory.

1900: Train engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in an effort to save the passengers. (The event was immortalized in song.)

1926: “Brave Bessie” Coleman of Houston, TX, died when her plane failed to come out of a nosedive. She was the world’s first licensed black pilot.

1939: The New York World's Fair opened.

1945: Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker.

1970: President Richard Nixon announced the United States was sending troops into Cambodia.

1993: Top-ranked women's tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed in the back by a man who ran onto the court during a match in Hamburg, Germany.

1997: ABC aired the "coming out" episode of the sitcom "Ellen," in which the title character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, admitted she is a lesbian.

2001: Chandra Levy, a federal government intern, went missing. Her remains were found more than a year later in a Washington, D.C., park.

2003: Mahmoud Abbas took office as the first Palestinian prime minister. International mediators presented Israeli and Palestinian leaders with a "road map" to peace.

2003: The U.S. Navy withdrew from its disputed Vieques bombing range in Puerto Rico.

2004: Michael Jackson pleaded not guilty in Santa Maria, Calif., to a grand jury indictment that expanded the child molestation case against him. (He was later acquitted.)

2004: Former NBA star Jayson Williams was acquitted of aggravated manslaughter in the shotgun slaying of a limousine driver at his New Jersey mansion, but found guilty of trying to cover up the shooting.

2005: Missing Georgia woman Jennifer Wilbanks turned up in Albuquerque, N.M., originally claiming to have been abducted but then admitting she was a "runaway bride."

2007: A British judge sentenced five al-Qaida-linked men, all British citizens, to life in prison for plotting to attack London targets with bombs.

What Events Happened 1982

U.S.: All time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States; The largest cash robbery in History occurs in New York when $9,800,000 is stolen from an armored car; The First Issue of USA Today is published; Disney Futuristic Park EPCOT ( Experimental Community Of Tomorrow )is opened; Around 700,000 demonstrators gathered in New York City's Central Park protesting the proliferation of nuclear weapons; Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide kill 7 in Chicago September 29th; Doctors performed the first implant of a permanent artificial heart designed by Robert Jarvik; Severe recession begins in the United States; The world's largest oil rig ( The Ocean Ranger ) sinks in the north Atlantic; The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC is dedicated
Argentina: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands / Maldives on 19th March, and the UK sends the Royal Navy, RAF and the Army and retakes possession of the Falkland Islands during the conflict the Nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano; Argentine Exocet missile sinks HMS Sheffield

UK: HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano; The Provisional IRA continues its bombing campaign in London and Mainland Britain; Laker Airways the first of the low cost airlines operating out of the UK Folds; Michael Fagan Brakes into The Queens Bedroom in Buckingham Palace; The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England is raised in the Solent on 11th October and taken to Portsmouth Dockyard where it is preserved and on show to the public; Channel 4 is launched in UK
Lebanon: Israeli forces invade Lebanon; Thousands of Palestinian refugees in refugee camps in West Beirut murdered by Lebanese militia

Egypt: Israeli returns Sinai to Egypt

Palestine: Yassar Arafat elected the President of the Palestinian National Council

Canada: The Serial killer Clifford Robert Olson is convicted and given 11 concurrent life sentences for the murder of 11 children in Canada

Russia: Leonid Brezhnev the General Secretary of the Communist Party dies of a heart attack while in office.

Mexico: Earthquake and a volcanic eruption at El Chichon in southern Mexico kill thousands

World: The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling


Cost of Living 1982
• Average Cost of new house: $82,200.00
• Average Income per year: $21,050.00
• Average Monthly Rent: $320.00
• Cost of a gallon of Gas: 91 cents
• New Car Average price: $7,983.00
• US Postage Stamp: 20 cents

Technological Advancements 1982
• First CD player sold in Japan
• The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time
• The Soviet Spaceship Vanera 13 lands on Venus and sends back color Photographs
• 20 million Elm Trees die in the UK through Dutch Elm Disease
• The First Commercial use of Genetic Engineering is Launched when human insulin produced by bacteria is marketed; Times man of The Year is THE COMPUTER

Popular Culture 1982
• Michael Jackson releases his second adult solo album, Thriller
• Graceland the home of Elvis Presley opens to the public
• The screen legend Grace Kelly / Princess Grace of Monaco dies on September 14th in car crash

Popular Films 1982
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Rocky III
• On Golden Pond
• Porky's
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Poltergeist
• Annie
• Chariots of Fire
• Gandhi

Popular Musicians 1982
• Human League with " Don't You Want Me "
• Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder with " Ebony and Ivory "
• Olivia Newton-John
• Steve Miller band With " Abracadabra "
• Survivor with " Eye of The Tiger "
• Chicago with " Hard to Say I'm Sorry "
• Lionel Richie

Popular TV Programs 1982
• Magnum, P.I.
• Dynasty
• Falcon Crest
• Hill Street Blues
• Knight Rider