38 today!

So another year… a little older and a little wiser, ha! Maybe.

It’s a lovely day so I’m off for the afternoon now, but I leave you with a few events from 1967 and famous birthdays for July 1st… scary to think that Pamela Anderson is my astrological twin!

Events from 1967:

• The UK won the Eurovision Song Contest with Sandie Shaw’s ‘Puppet on a String’
• The average wage was £21.7s.6d
• The first all-British satellite, Ariel 3, was put into orbit
• The European Community was formed
• The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album was released
• Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu
• Regular colour television broadcasting began on BBC2
• Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was killed in Bolivia
• Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, was sentenced to life imprisonment

Famous July 1st birthdays:

1899 Charles Laughton - actor

1916 Olivia DeHavilland – actress

1931 Leslie Caron - actress

1934 Jamie Farr – actor

1934 Jean Marsh - actress

1941 Twyla Tharp – dancer, choreographer

1942 Karen Black - actress

1942 Genevieve Bujold - actress

1945 Deborah Harry - singer, actress

1952 Dan Aykroyd - comedian, actor

1956 Alan Ruck - actor

1961 Carl Lewis - runner

1961 Princess Diana

1961 Michelle Wright - country singer

1967 Pamela Anderson - model, actress

1971 Missy Elliott - singer, songwriter

1977 Liv Tyler - actress

1976 Ruud Van Nistelrooy - footballer