Happy Birthday PopPop!

Today you are 91! We are so blessed to have you in our lives and we treasure all the time we get to spend together. We hope your day is filled with family, fun and some really good food!

We Love You PopPop!

What was happening on February 24th in 1918?

• As of 2/24/2009 10:05:47 AM EST
  
• You are 91 years old.
  
• You are 1,092 months old.
  
• You are 4,748 weeks old.
  
• You are 33,238 days old.
  
• You are 797,722 hours old.
  
• You are 47,863,325 minutes old.
  
• You are 2,871,799,547 seconds old.
  
• Your date of conception was on or about 3 June 1917 which was a Sunday.
  
• You were born on a Sunday under the astrological sign Pisces.
  
• Celebrities who share your birthday:
  Billy Zane (1966)
  Kristin Davis (1965)
  Eddie Murray (1956)
  Steven Jobs (1955)
  Alain Prost (1955)
  Edward James Olmos (1947)
  Joe Lieberman (1942)
  James Farentino (1938)
  Michel Legrand (1932)
  Abe Vigoda (1921)
  Chester W. Nimitz (1885)
  Enrico Caruso (1873)
  
• The moon's phase on the day you were born was waxing gibbous.
  
• In 1918 the US population was approximately 91,972,266 people, 31.0 persons per square mile.
  
• In 1918, a gallon of milk sold for $.55, a loaf of bread sold for $.10, a new car sold for $500.00, a gallon of gas sold for $.08, and a new house sold for $4,821.00. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was about 82.20. (In 2009, a gallon of milk sold for $3.87, a loaf of bread sold for $1.40, a new car sold for $24,125.00, a gallon of gas sold for $1.86, and a new house sold for $183.300. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was about 8,635.42.)
  
• The average wage earner in 1918 made $1,144.00 per year, compared to $34,327.44 today.
  
• Back in 1918, the popular songs were: Bagdad performed by Harold Atteridge; Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo performed by Edward Rowland; How Can You Tell sung by Ned Wayburn; as well as I'll Say She Does by Al Jolson. Also topping the musical charts: JA-DA by Bob Carleton; K-K-K-Kayt by Geoffery O'Hara; Oh! Frenchy by Sam Ehrlich; and the ever popular Sometime by Rida Johnson Young.
  
• A separation of church and state is established by the new Bolshevik government in Russia. In other news, a method of producing motion pictures in color is developed by Leon Forest Douglas. The "New York Times" starts home delivery for subscribers. A.F.L. President Samuel Gompers promises labor's support for the war effort. The first American made warplanes begin carrying out missions on the Western Front.
  
• In the world of baseball, the Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago four games to two win the World Series. United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing declares baseball a "nonessential" occupation to the country. A horse named Exterminator, ridden by W. Knapp, pulls ahead of the pack to win the Kentucky Derby. The Mare Island Marines soundly defeat Camp Lewis Army 19-7 in the Rose Bowl.

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