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Happy Birthday to me!

I was born 35 years ago today. This what else was happening that late spring day in 1968:

• Picasso paints the above picture
• Young soldier in Vietnam wrote home about losing his camera


• Nine people were killed by a tornado in Tracy, Minnesota


• A Day of Awareness, Day of Hope is held in Atlanta to combat poverty


• A helicopter crew dies in Vietnam when they collide with another plane


• Phelim O’Neil is expelled from the Orange Order in Belfast for attending a Catholic service


• The BeeGees record Indian Gin and Whiskey Dry


• The Shah of Iran speaks at Harvard University on the challenges of the developing world. He quotes Saadi, Coleridge, Confucius and the Bible


• The tanker World Glory spills 14.2 million gallons of oil in the Indian Ociean, 105 kilometres east of Durban, South Africa.


• A single Red Knot was spotted in the St. Croix River Valley in Minnesota


• Gloucestershire beats Cambridge University by an innings and 69 runs. Green and Shepard have centuries.


• Five days after he is imprisoned, Hussain Ibrahim’s house is blown up by Israeli solders in Ramallah because he is accussed of being a member of Fateh. His wife and sons are left homeless.


• Pope Paul VI gives an Audience during which he warns of the dangers of a lack on faith in an incresingly materialistic world.

I would like to say that having children is one of the greatest acts of faith anyone can commit. So here’s a resounding thank you to my parents for helping me to experience the Precious Human Birth: