Joyce Van Patten is 76, Mickey Gilley is 74 and Charles Gibson is 67.
Juliette Binoche is 46. Sigh.
Webster, that is Emmanuel Lewis, is 39.
Yuri Gagarin, the first human being in space, was born on March 9th in 1934.
Until the morning of April 12, 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was no better known than any of the other 1,200 or so Gagarins living in the Moscow area.
But that morning, Yuri Gagarin, then 27 years old, sat cramped in the cockpit of a Vostok space capsule as it was launched from a pad at Baykonur, in Kazakhstan.
At 9:07 A.M., the capsule went into orbit around the earth and Yuri Gagarin became the world’s first man in space. His flight represented an epochal scientific and technological achievement for the Russians.
In both the Soviet Union and the West, it was realized that Cosmonaut Gagarin had begun a new chapter in history, one in which man had dared cross the threshold of the universe.
Gagarin died in an aircraft accident in 1968.
It’s also Natalie’s birthday. Happy birthday, Natalie.
🙂 Thanks, Ken.
I feel better knowing I share this day with Juliette Binoche. *sigh* is right!
Especially since the other people in the line-up include Mark Lindsay, Bobby Fischer, Robin Trower and Ray Royer, Keely Smith, Raul Julia, John Cale, Kato Kaelin, “Chingy”,and, of course, Barbie…. to name a few.
I still want one of those “Tattoo Barbie” dolls… lol!