You better change your tone, mister!!!

So, it's my birthday.

Only not really, 'cause I'm typing this at about 8:40 on the 11th, but I'm not going to post it until tomorrow, so it will be when you read this, if you get me.

Let's start with this: I'm happy to report that 'bu's back in action, and I won't have to walk to work on my birthday. That makes me so happy, I can't even tell you.

Then there's the fact that I've had a fucking awesome visit with Michael, and he'll be here tomorrow as well...perhaps the 1st time we've spent my birthday together, tho I may be wrong.....

And, on the strange side, there's this: In another demonstration of my 'errie powers,' as soon as I threw that whole 'kendra naked topless' search thing out there, it totally stopped.

Again.

Just like the last time.

I'm not sure what that says about anything, but I'm sure that's what happened last time. As soon as I noticed it/said something about it, it disappeared like ribs at a Texas wedding....

In honor of my 'big day,' and since I've always loved music, I thought it would be fun to explore the net a bit, and see what songs were in the air that day/year.

Here are the song charts for WMCA radio on Jan 12, 1966. That led inevitably to here.

And since links are nothing without facts, I present you with the following list, which must be true, because I read it on the internet.

Events

* January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa takes over the
Central African Republic.
* January 3 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco.
* January 12 - Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay
in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
* January 13 - Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American
Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development.
* January 17 - A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over
Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of
Palomares and one into the sea
* January 19 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India.
* January 26 - Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia when
Robert Menzies retires.
* January 29 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at
the Palace Theatre in New York City.
* January - First SR-71 spy plane goes into service.
* February 3 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first
controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
* February 23 - A military coup in Syria replaces the previous
government.
* March 1 - Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the
first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
* March 1 - The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria
* March 4 - John Lennon says, "We (The Beatles) are more popular than
Jesus" later sparking controversy in the United States.
* March 8 - Vietnam War: Australia announces it was going to
substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam.
* March 10 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg.
* March 17 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the ALVIN
submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
* May 25 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
* May 25 - In St. Louis, Missouri, US Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and
US Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall dedicate the Gateway Arch as
part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
* May 26 - Guyana achieves independence.
* March 31 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the
first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the moon.
* July 4 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information
Act into United States law. The act will go into effect next year.
* July 6 - Malawi becomes a republic.
* July 14 - In Chicago, Illinois, Richard Speck murders eight student
nurses in their dormitory.
* July 18-July 21 - Gemini 10 orbits the earth.
* July 26 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of
Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous
precedent.
* August 10 - Lunar Orbiter 1 is launched.
* August 16 - Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee
begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong with
the intent to introduce legislation making these activities illegal.
Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested.
* September 30 - Botswana achieves independence.
* October 4 - Lesotho achieves independence.
* October 14 - Montreal metro system inaugurated.
* December 1 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger becomes Chancellor of Germany.
* November 6 - Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched.
* November 30 - Barbados achieves independence.
* December 26 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the
chair of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach

* Cultural Revolution declared in China.
* In Burundi, King Mwambutsa IV is deposed by his son Ntare IV, who is in
turn deposed by prime minister Michel Micombero.
* Rene Barrientos is elected president of Bolivia.
* Joaquin Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic.
* US Supreme Court decides Miranda v. Arizona.
* Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found Black Panther Party.
* Gwynfor Evans becomes first Plaid Cymru member of Parliament in UK.
* Haile Selassie visits Jamaica for the first time, meeting with
Rastafarian leaders
* Konstantin Chernenko, later leader of Soviet Union, becomes candidate
member of the Central Committee.
* Surrealist Movement in the United States founded by Franklin and
Penelope Rosemont.
* Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn are awarded the Fermi Prize.
* US Congress creates National Council for Marine Resources and
Engineering Development.
* Martin Richards designs the BCPL programming language.
* The DKW automobile goes out of production.
* World Buddhist Sangha Council convened by Theravadins in Sri Lanka with
the hope of bridging differences and working together.

Art, Culture & Fashion

* 1966 in film
o A Man for All Seasons
o Alfie
o The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
o Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
o The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood and
directed by Sergio Leone
* 1966 in literature
o The Circle Game by Margaret Atwood
o Expeditions by Margaret Atwood
o Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein by Margaret Atwood
o The Dartmoor Worker anthology of William Crossing
o Der Meteor by Friedrich D�rrenmatt
o The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
o The Solid Mandala by Patrick White
* 1966 in music
o January 16 - Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center, New
York City.
o January 17 - Simon and Garfunkel release album Sounds of Silence.
o October 10 - Simon and Garfunkel release album Parsley, Sage,
Rosemary and Thyme.
o August 29 - Beatles give last concert, in San Francisco.
* 1966 in sports
o July 30 - At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the first
televised Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2.
* 1966 in television
o Star Trek premieres.
o January 12 - Batman debuts on ABC.
o September 12 - The Monkees premieres.
o Canadian television stations broadcast in color for the first
time.

Births

* January 12 - Rob Zombie, musician, artist, writer
* January 13 - Patrick Dempsey, actor
* January 17 - Shabba Ranks, singer
* February 9 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
* February 11 - Anthony Parker, American football player
* February 11 - Patrick Kuhnen, West German tennis player
* February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
* February 20 - Cindy Crawford, model
* February 22 - Brian Andrew Greig, statesman
* February 24 - Billy Zane, actor
* February 25 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete
* March 3 - Tone Loc, musician
* March 10 - Edie Brickell, singer
* April 18 - Trine Hattestad, Norwegian javelin thrower
* May 12 - Stephen Baldwin, actor
* May 13 - Darius Rucker, musician ("Hootie & the Blowfish")
* May 16 - Krist Novoselic, a musician of Nirvana (band)
* May 16 - Janet Jackson, singer
* May 25 - Sugar Minott, singer
* May 26 - Helena Bonham Carter, actress
* July 15 - Ir�ne Jacob, actress
* August 3 - Oliver Brown, ukulele performer and theorist
* August 11 - Juan Maria Solare, classical music composer
* August 14 - Halle Berry, actress
* September 9 - Georg Hackl, German luger
* September 4 - Yanka Dyagileva, Russian punk-rock singer
* November 12 - David Schwimmer, American actor.
* November 17 - Sophie Marceau, actress
* November 17 - Jeff Buckley, singer
* Jonathan Edwards, British triple jumper

Deaths

* January 11 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor
* January 14 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor
* January 18 - Kathleen Norris, writer
* February 1 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
* February 1 - Hedda Hopper, gossip columnist
* February 10 - Billy Rose, composer, band leader
* February 20 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral
* March 3 - Maxfield Parrish, artist
* April 2 - C.S. Forester, author
* June 7 - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet
* June 8 - Anton Melik, Slovene geographer
* August 3 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian
* August 6 - Cordwainer Smith, science fiction author
* September 6 - Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate
* September 28 - Andre Breton, founder of surrealism
* November 2 - Mississippi John Hurt
* November 23 - Sean T. O'Kelly, second President of Irteland
* December 7 - C. Thomas Howell, actor
* December 15 - Walt Disney

Nobel Prizes

* Physics - Alfred Kastler
* Chemistry - Robert S. Mulliken
* Medicine - Peyton Rous, Charles Brenton Huggins
* Literature - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
* Peace - Not Awarded

That's the HUGE ASS post in honor of my 43rd anniversary.

Yeah, it's every bit as lame as any of my regular posts, but what did you expect, I mean, really?

Pantalones del gato,

T.