Betty’s Birthday

Mark Twain once said Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. So be your own light. Find your own way. It should be easy with all those candles. :-)

Happy Birthday Betty!

Or play the song from this Link…

Your Birthdate: June 17, 1944. Here is what you need to know:

1944 was a leap year
Sign of the Zodiac: Gemini
Birth Flower: Rose
Symbolization of Flower: Love, gratitude, appreciation
Chinese Year of the Monkey
Birthstone: Pearl

Estimated population growth in the world in your lifetime: More than 4.5 billion people

Academy Award nominees for Best Picture in 1944
The winner was: Going My Way

Other nominees for Best Picture were:

Double Indemnity
Gaslight
Since You Went Away
Wilson

Winner of the Nobel Peace Price in 1944: Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)

Time Magazine’s Man of the Year for 1944: Dwight David Eisenhower

Best Selling NonFiction Book in the U.S. in 1944: I Never Left Home by Bob Hope

Some world leaders at the end of 1944:

United States – President: Franklin D. Roosevelt – Democrat
Britain – Prime Minister: Winston Churchill – Conservative (Coalition Government)
Canada – Prime Minister: Mackenzie King
Australia – Prime Minister: John Curtin – Labor
Mexico – President: Manuel Ávila Camacho

Betty is my most prolific Commenter!