Sunday, November 16, 2008

Happy Birthday, Mimi!

Hi Mom,

I made a chocolate chip bundt cake in honor of your birthday (the kind that Memommie used to make). It was good. Also, we had 5 friends over (and 2 babies) to enjoy the cake.

Guess what happened the year you were born?
  • General Electric announces that all Communist employees will be discharged from the company
  • The first color television sets go on sale for about USD $1,175.

  • Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the I Love Lucy television series through 1955.

  • Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies.

  • The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.

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