LOL! For the past 20 years, I've forgotten my birthday every year, until the day -- which is today. I'm not a big holiday person, really.
But I like the Japanese birthday custom -- in Japan, instead of GETTING presents on your birthday, you GIVE them. Thus, pretty much every day someone's having a birthday, and you score some goodies.
So, in that spirit, for readers' amusement, here is some July 5 trivia:
Famous people born on this day include P.T. Barnum, Jean Cocteau, musician Bizarre ("girl chill out that s**t came from my soul"), Dolly the sheep (!), Katharine Helmond (played Jessica Tate on "Soap"), Inayat Khan (founder of Universal Sufism), Huey Lewis and Bill Watterson (creator of "Calvin and Hobbes").
On this day in history:
1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1865 - The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.
1937 - Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
1946 - The bikini is introduced in Paris, France.
1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
There's also the play, "The Fifth of July"; a song by that name; and a blog!
So, wishing you all a very happy July 5 :o)
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