1943 PT 109 is rammed and sunk in the Pacific. Commander John F. Kennedy and crew feared lost. Pilot Gene Roddenberry scheduled to join search, but aircraft accident prevents takeoff.
1961 Cavern Club in Liverpool gets new house band called the Beatles.
1964 North Vietnam allegedly fires on U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin.
1964 Filming begins on "'>Darling" starring Julie Christie.
1965 Morley Safer's report from Vietnam is first to suggest U.S. is losing.
1967 U.S. launches Lunar Orbiter 5.
1990 Iraq invades Kuwait.
Turning 60 (in 2006)
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*This is the first of my birthday posts, back in 2006, just a few years
after I started blogging (since blogs didn't exist before.) It begins a
series ...
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