to my father, on his 53rd (I think) birthday:

I love you, Dad. I'm glad you were born. And not just for the obvious reasons. :-)

On this day in 1952:
The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 11 to 5;
Time Magazine had a picture of then Michigan governer "Soapy" Williams on the cover;
Eritrea was turned over to Ethiopia by the UN;
and the European Parliament was formed in Strasbourg.

We just thought you would like to know.

Of course, I may be a year off, in which case, you can disregard all of this information.