Okay so it’s Thursday, and it’s my birthday, so I’m going to do something different, perhaps slightly predictable, and use a lot of commas in the process.
So first, the #1 song on my date of birth:
Meh, okay.
Next, some other interesting facts about this day in 1980:
- The average cost of a new house was $68,700.00
- Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister of Canada
- Jimmy Carter was President of the United States
- Terry Fox abandoned the Marathon of Hope 135 days and over 5,000 km after it started at St. John’s, Newfoundland, on April 12; cancer had returned and spread to his lungs.
Something very interesting, perhaps a bit dark and depressing, that my wife and I have in common on that last point: Terry Fox died the following year, on her birthday. So I made him stop and she finished him off! Damn.