# The day you turned 10. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-you-turned-10/611109 "2012-01-29T20:27:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-you-turned-10/611109/81 "2012-02-04T22:38:47Z")
It was the nations 200th Bday. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@The\_Dord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dord)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-you-turned-10/611109/82 "2012-02-05T03:35:23Z")
September 3rd, 1991: - Frank Capra, director (It’s a Wonderful Life), dies at 94 - Henri de Lubac, French theologist/antifascist, dies ---
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-you-turned-10/611109/83 "2012-02-05T04:42:50Z")
Apollo 15 launched. July 26, 1971 ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-you-turned-10/611109/84 "2012-02-05T05:09:55Z")
I got a GI Joe jeep with working rocket launcher and working spotlight in a pull behind trailer and I didn’t give a damn what else was happening in the world. It was a great day. ---
**Author:** ![medicated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@medicated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medicated)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-you-turned-10/611109/85 "2012-02-05T05:30:41Z")
My dad took me to see Return of the Jedi. It was a good day. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-you-turned-10/611109/86 "2012-02-05T07:57:54Z")
These were the only results I got from the link: - Herb Caen, columnist, Lung cancer, dies at 80 - Mitchell Goodman, writer, dies at 71 - Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50 - Thelma Moss, psychologist, dies at 78 I had to click forward a year to make sure I wasn’t just in a “famous deaths” section by mistake. For more exciting birthday events: the space shuttle Columbia accident happened on my sixteenth birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-you-turned-10/611109/87 "2012-02-05T08:29:40Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > (although I may google Kim Hughes to see why he was tearful at his resignation\*) > > \*ETA:Ah, his team was having a bad season, so he resigned and, I guess, took his bat and went home quite literally. Being the Australian Test Cricket Captain is widely regarded by sports nuts as Australia’s top job (we even had a Prime Minister a few years ago who thought that). Kim Hughes was a very good player who became captain. Unfortunately a few other very good players had retired at about that time and Australia started losing. His own batting also suffered badly. An ex-Captain openly criticized Hughes in his regular newspaper column, and eventually the strain proved too much. Hughes resigned as Captain and broke down while announcing it, which is hardly surprising given that he had the ultimate job but was unsuccessful at it. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-you-turned-10/611109/88 "2012-02-05T14:07:27Z")
Protest! Aren’t people using the tenth anniversary of the day they were born? Their 10th birthday would be ten days after that. (Never mind me). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-you-turned-10/611109.md?page=4)