This website is pretty cool. It's one of those sites that has a list of historic events, births, deaths, etc, for every day of the year.

Thanks to this website, and assuming that it's accurate, I've just learned that:

• On the day I was born, the Ottawa Rough Riders defeated the Calgary Stampeders, 24-21. That was apparently the only thing of any note that happened on that day.


• On the day my wife was born, Billy Carter, brother of then-President Jimmy Carter, is said to have made a public antisemitic remark. And I think that there's clearly a connection.


• My stepdaughter shares a birthday with Clint Eastwood.


• Ten years to the day before my son was born, Dow Jones closed above 2,000 for 1st time.


• Actor Brian Keith killed himself on the day that my stepson was born! What did he know?? WHAT DID HE KNOW??!


• On the day my mother was born, with WWII raging, U-358 sank in the Atlantic and there were massive strikes in Northern Italian towns.


• Good Karma: I share my birthday with Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Winston Churchill, Ridley Scott, David Mamet, and Playboy's Miss May, 1991.


• Bad Karma: I also share my birthday with Abbie Hoffman, Ben Stiller, and GASP! Clay Aiken!

So have fun with Brainy History ... but be careful. Once you learn something, you can't unlearn it.

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