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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOn March 30, 1981, John Hinckley ruined my 13th birthday. Anyone else have this happen?
I was all excited about my birthday party that was to happen later in the night when the news came over the radio that President Reagan had been shot. Suddenly, nobody cared about my birthday. At 13, I was old enough to understand how this event overshadowed my birthday, but it stll sucked.
It could be worse. I know two people who have a birthday on September 11.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)My birthday is on Dec 31st.
It doesn't matter if the world is coming to an end. There's always a party.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)which is the day after JFK's funeral
Good times.
LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)the day Lee Harvey Oswald was shot.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...I was born the day Johnson was elected President and I turned 44 on the day we elected our 44th President (and I had pneumonia...bleh).
whistler162
(11,155 posts)I turned 49 on the day President Obama was elected. So
whistler162
(11,155 posts)1979's birthday was pretty bad. But 2008's made up for it.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)That day was actually March 19, local Iraqi time
dana_b
(11,546 posts)so yeah - that sucks!
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)What a downer. Although I still laugh at it because I really don't like my brother very much.
backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)I was born the night LBJ was elected.
Could have been worse
Aristus
(66,386 posts)Not as memorable as being born during one of the moon landings, though...