Ok I am officially really old. Our oldest turned 28 today. She was born on a Tuesday (actually all my kids were along with hubs and me). After 12 hours on Pitocin the docs decided to do a C-section. I had a spinal and hubs got to assist with the surgery. When daughter was born, my doc turned to him and said, Congratulations you have a daughter. He turned to me and told me the exact same thing. I looked at him and said well dingaling, so do you. He quickly switched out of surgeon mode into father mode and then I became chopped liver. Daughter has had and still has him wrapped around his little finger and he doesn't have a clue. She is a very strong minded assertive woman now and recently married. She and her husband have the 2 bulldogs we get to babysit on the weekends. She has recently been doing some babysitting for people since she has been laid off and looking for a job. Her response to the babysitting tonight at dinner was: Yeah mom, you are definitely quitting and watching my kids because I don't know how mothers do it. I want to work. My comment was....we shall wait and see. It's different with your own kid.
So 28 trivia things for either July 15th or 1980.
1. The Pittsburgh Steelers become the first NFL franchise to win 4 Super Bowls.
2. The XIII Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
3. The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics, in the Miracle on Ice.
4. U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
5. Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage.
6. Pac-Man is released, the best-selling Arcade game of all time.
7. The Cable News Network (CNN) is officially launched.
8. Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox, and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.
9. Millions of viewers tune into the U.S. TV soap opera Dallas to learn who shot lead character J.R. Ewing. The "Who shot J.R.?" event is a national obsession.
10. Former Beatle John Lennon dies in hospital after being shot outside his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had received his signature earlier in the day.
11. World population: 4,434,682,000
12. Alicia Keys was born.
Michelle Kwan, American figure skater, was born.
13. "Call Me" by Blondie was the #1 US single.
14. Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
15. Top Songs for 1980: Lady by Kenny Rogers, Upside Down by Diana Ross, Call Me by Blondie, Starting Over by John Lennon, Another Brick In the Wall by Pink Floyd, Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen, Rock with You by Michael Jackson, Magic by Olivia Newton-John, Funkytown by Lipps, Inc., Another One Bites the Dust by Queen.
16. Top TV Shows: M*A*S*H, All in the Family, Happy Days, Little House on the Prairie, Dallas, Barney Miller, Laverne & Shirley, Magnum P.I., Charlie's Angels, The Waltons, Hawaii Five-0, CHiPs, Soap, Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati, Three's Company, The Rockford Files, Alice, Mork & Mindy.
17. The Magna doodle was the top toy for 1980.
18. 1980 prices: Bread was $0.51/loaf, Milk was $1.60/gallon, Eggs were $1.33/dozen, Average price of a car was $7574.00, Stamps were $0.15/each, Average Income was $23,974/year, Minimum wage was $3.10/hour.
19. US President was Jimmy Carter and VP was Walter Mondale.
20. Best Picture was Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford.
21. Best Actor was Robert De Niro in "Raging Bull".
22. Best Actress was Sissy Spacek in "Coal Miner's Daughter".
23. Rembrandt was born in 1606–69.
24. On July 15th in 1869, margarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.
25. On July 15, 1870, Georgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.
26. Academy Award, Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer
27. Smallpox eradicated.
28. A brown eyed 8 pound, 3 ounce, 21 and 1/2 inch baby girl was born.
Happy 28th Birthday Daughter!
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