My Februray 25th Birthday Facts.....

This one is from paulsadowski.com..... Your date of conception was on or about 4 June 1972 which was a Sunday. You were born on a Sunday The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2441738.5. The year 1973 was not a leap year. Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/3/1973 and ending 1/22/1974. You were born in the Chinese year of the Ox. The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 22 April 1973. The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 7 March 1973. The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 10 June 1973. The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 17 June 1973. The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Thursday, 27 September 1973. The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Tuesday, 17 April 1973. The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 6 March 1973. As of 2/23/2006 9:24:16 PM EST You are 32 years old. You are 396 months old. You are 1,721 weeks old. You are 12,051 days old. You are 289,245 hours old. You are 17,354,724 minutes old. You are 1,041,283,456 seconds old. Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 4.71663405088063 years old. (You're still chasing cats!) There are 2 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 33 candles. Those 33 candles produce 33 BTUs, or 8,316 calories of heat (that's only 8.3160 food Calories!) . You can boil 3.77 US ounces of water with that many candles. In 1973 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US. In 1973 the US population was approximately 203,302,031 people, 57.4 persons per square mile. In 1973 in the US there were approximately 2,158,802 marriages (10.6%) and 708,000 divorces (3.5%) In 1973 in the US there were approximately 1,921,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000) In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds. In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds. Your birthstone is Amethyst Your birth tree is Pine Tree, the Particularity Loves agreeable company, very robust, knows how to make life comfortable, very active, natural, good companion, but seldom friendly, falls easily in love but its passion burns out quickly, gives up easily, many disappointments till it finds its ideal, trustworthy, practical. There are 305 days till Christmas 2006! The moon's phase on the day you were born was in its last quarter. On This Day in History.... US President Richard M. Nixon US Vice President Gerald R. Ford 1973 Prices Bread: $0.27/loaf Milk: $1.36/gal Eggs: $1.22/doz Car: $4,052 (wouldn't that be nice!) Gas: $0.39/gal (this, too!!!) House: $35,500 Stamp: $0.08/ea Avg Income: $13,622/yr (notice how a car was about a third less than this? not anymore!) Min Wage: $1.60/hr DOW Avg: 851 Top Songs for 1973 Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree by Dawn Crocodile Rock by Elton John Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce Killing Me Softly with His Song by Roberta Flack (And here I thought the Fugees sang it! LOL) Top of the World by Carpenters My Love by Paul McCartney & Wings You're So Vain by Carly Simon Keep On Truckin' by Eddie Kendricks Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight & the Pips Academy Award Winners Best Picture: The Sting (Directed By George Roy Hill) Best Actor: Jack Lemmon (in Save The Tiger) Best Actress: Glenda Jackson (in A Touch Of Class) People born on February 25 1873 - Enrico Caruso Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust) 1913 - Jim Backus Cleveland OH, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan's Island) 1943 - George Harrison Liverpool England, rocker (My Sweet Lord, Beatles-Something, Traveling Wilburys-End of the Line) On TV in 1973 Maude The Streets of San Francisco Kojak Good Times Happy Days M*A*S*H (one of my faves and the greatest shows ever!!!) The Little People The Six Million Dollar Man The Rookies The Bob Newhart Show Hot New Toys in 1973 Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle The Lone Ranger Action Figure Boggle Perfection Dungeons & Dragons Fisher-Price Movie Viewer Shrinky Dinks Top Books in 1973 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Interesting facts about events that happened on February 25th. From "Any Day in History" 1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢) 1791 1st Bank of US chartered 1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home) 1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land 1799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation 1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm 1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport 1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours 1859 First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence 1862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing 1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln 1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency 1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act 1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds 1951 1st Pan American Games open (Buenos Aires Argentina) 1951 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances 1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 minutes) 1987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game 1989 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career 1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges 1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich