| In 1967…
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| Jose Martin “Joey / Accordion Guy” deVilla is born in Manila, Philippines. Also born this year: Dave Matthews, Kurt Cobain, Liz Phair, Vin Diesel, Julia Roberts, and Anna Nicole Smith.
Ferdinand Marcos is president of the Philippines. Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US, the next country in which I live. Lester B. Pearson is prime minister of Canada. my current home. Love is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on US daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit. President Johnson and Soviet premiere Aleksei Kosygin agree not to let any crisis push them into war. The X-15 research aircraft with Chuck Yeager establishes a speed record of Mach 6.7. Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice. The first home microwave is released by Amana. St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series. Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I. The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. They have not won it since. Disney’s The Jungle Book and The Graduate are the top grossing films The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is published. Paul McCartney announces that all four members of the Beatles have “dropped acid”. For the first time, Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire during a concert in London. Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released. The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published. US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Sesame Street ensues. The FCC orders that cigarette ads on television, radio and in print must include a warning about the health risks of smoking. And finally: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state law which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. That’s gonna come in pretty handy next year,
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Happy Birthday man!
- Stephen
Happy birthday, dude.
And really - you were born the same year that Marcos became president? Wow, your timing totally sucked, dude.
My Birthday is on Sun (Nov 7) - so I'll party from now until then to honor you - where did you dig up that great info?
Happy birthday, fellow Scorpio. My birthday is on November 14 (next Sunday). After your big bash tomorrow night get ready for my Vampire Party next week!
Happy birthday & welcome to the club! Looking forward to seeing you & Wendy tomorrow.
I got most of it from Wikipedia. Here's the Wikipedia page for your birthday.
Happy birthday, Joey, from myself and the two other Evil Short Brunettes over here on the left coast.
-- Lara
I can't believe a guy from the Accordion City thinks the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 1967. Definitely a cautionary tale against taking Wikipedia info for granted.
Matt
Actually, that wasn't Wikipedia that said that, but another source. That's a bad cut-and-paste that has since been fixed!
Happy birthday!
I am actually in Ottawa at the moment, but am flying back to New Jersey early tomorrow though I surely would have liked to see your digs! Congratulations on the upcoming nuptials.
Allan of Rough Days.