Former senator but still a jackass, Alan Simpson is 79 today. Why is someone 79 years old co-heading a commission on how to manage the deficit? (His co-chair is just 65. Have we no young people in this country? No one with a stake in the future?)
Hall of fame basketball coach John Thompson is 69 today.
Terry Bradshaw is 62, Mark Harmon 59 and Jimmy Connors 58 today.
Harmon’s father was “Old 98,” Tom Harmon, a football great at Michigan and for the L.A. Rams. Mark himself played quarterback at UCLA, where he graduated cum laude.
Keanu Reeves is 46.
And Salma Hayek is 44. Ms. Hayek received a best actress Oscar nomination for Frida.
It was on the morning of September 2, 1945, that the Japanese officially surrendered to Gen. Douglas MacArthur aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. MacArthur signed the articles at 9:07 am Tokyo time, ending World War II. President Truman declared Sunday, September 2nd V-J Day in the U.S.