Special 40th birthday edition…
1. John Adams born (1735).
2. Ruth Gordon born (1896).
3. Fred Friendly born (1915).
4. Orson Welles broadcasts “The War Of The Worlds” (1938).
5. Grace Slick born (1939).
6. The Soviet Union detonates the 58 megaton hydrogen superbomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya – the largest nuclear bomb ever (1961).
7. The MC5 record “Kick Out The Jams” (1968).
8. The New York Daily News runs the “Ford to City: Drop Dead” headline (1975).
You’re forty! Happy birthday! But wait, you can’t be forty, because that would make me (counts on fingers) oh hell.
We’re all old. Just old.
Congrats on still being relevant after 4 big decades! Ferris Beuhler, you’re my hero.