Thursday Throwback – September 1, 2011

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.

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