Happy 74th

Dad going topless
Originally uploaded by Kiki Marcus

I admit it. I'm a daddy's girl. And today is Dad's 74th. Doesn't look 74, does he? It's the car. Hot cars make old guys look better!

Just for grins and giggles (and as a total rip off from the NY Times) a list of today's date in history:

1781 The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.

1852 "Uncle Sam" made his debut as a cartoon character in the New York Lantern.

1884 Standard Time was adopted throughout the United States.

1901 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, died in Indianapolis at age 67.

1906 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony died at age 86.

1925 A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution.

1933 Banks began to re-open after a holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1938 Defense attorney Clarence S. Darrow died at age 80.

1947 The Lerner and Loewe musical "Brigadoon" opened on Broadway.

1964 Thirty-eight neighbors ignored the screams of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she was stabbed to death in Queens, New York. The case came to be a symbol of urban apathy and fear.

1969 Apollo 9 returned to Earth after a mission to test the lunar module that was used in the moon landings.

1980 A jury in Winamac, Ind., found Ford Motor Co. innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women riding in a Ford Pinto.

1988 Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president.

1996 A gunman opened fire on a class of kindergartners at an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

2005 Robert Iger was named to succeed Michael Eisner as chief executive of Walt Disney Co.

2009 Happy birthday, Dad.