Displaced Beachbums

…Heidi, Christy and my mother-in-law, Phyllis.

Since I know three people celebrating their birthday today, I looked up some trivia about 19 January:

Others born on 19 January: Robert Palmer, Dolly Parton, Janis Joplin, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert E. Lee.

Historic events on 19 January:

• 1903      First trans-atlantic radio broadcast between the U.S. and England
• 1937      Howard Hughes set a new air record by flying from L.A. to N.Y.C. in 7 hrs, 28 minutes, 25 seconds
• 1953      68% of all U.S. television sets were tuned into “I Love Lucy” to watch Lucy give birth
• 1977      Snow falls in Miami – only time in recorded history of the city
• 1978      The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany left the plant in Emden.  

Happy Birthday!!!