On this date:...1973...

[Oceansaway]

Lyndon B Johnson died at age 64...

US Supreme Court in its Roe v. Wade decision, legalized abortions.....


also...in 1922...Pope Benedict XV died...he was succeeded by Pius XI

[Lifelong Protester]

1. and I think about then I sent in my first college application.

remembered both the LBJ death (I think we were taken by surprise) and Roe v. Wade.

Not old enough to remember Pope Benedict dying...

[Faygo Kid]

2. Didn't realize LBJ died same day as Roe v. Wade decision.

Interesting. LBJ seemed a lot older than 64, but he was a hard liver (with a hard liver).

[BeatleBoot]

3. I was born in 1964

On the very same day he was elected president.

[Oceansaway]

4. also on this day...1901, Britain's Queen

Victoria died at age 81....

[Oceansaway]

5. 2008...Heath Ledger, 28.....n/t

[spanone]

6. ol lyndon looked eighty....only 64, damn

[CTyankee]

9. Hard drinking and hard smoking. nt

[niyad]

7. k and r

[Raine]

8. Gosh I thought Johnson was lots older

than that, he was only in his 50's when he was prez.

[MrScorpio]

10. The cause of death was a broken heart nt

[Historic NY]

11. The Apple Macintosh was introduced on this date in 1984....wow i had one.

[Oceansaway]

12. ....1995.....

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died at age 104.....