# What Was On The Cover Of "Time" When You Were Born? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234 "2005-06-14T16:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/101 "2005-06-15T12:03:36Z")
[Willie Mays.](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,29-07-1954,00.html) At least it was somebody good. ---
**Author:** ![Arwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Arwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwin)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/102 "2005-06-15T12:45:21Z")
More Nixon for me … Nixon in the Middle-East. (I was born 23 June 1974) ---
**Author:** ![EvilHamsterOnCrack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@EvilHamsterOnCrack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilHamsterOnCrack)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/103 "2005-06-15T15:31:42Z")
I like this thread. Anyways, I think I have the most recent one here: [Mosaic of Christ](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,17-08-1988,00.html) Who was Jesus? A startling new movie raises age-old questions. Aww… why couldn’t I have a cool one. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/104 "2005-06-15T17:18:50Z")
Walt Disney. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/105 "2005-06-15T17:23:13Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > [Ahhh crap…](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101721009,00.html) Oh, c’mon…you gotta _love_ the irony of that! Mine is [Pope John XXIII](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,06-10-1962,00.html). ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/106 "2005-06-15T17:31:55Z")
> [@mr bus guy](#): > > Nehru sucking on his fingers Yeah, but dig that jacket! For me, [a dead President](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,09-05-1963,00.html) on _Time_ and a [really bad idea](http://www.life.com/Life/covers/1963/cv051063.html) on _Life_. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/107 "2005-06-15T18:09:39Z")
Yasser Arafat I guess not much chance of anyone figuring out my age from that 😛 . ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/108 "2005-06-15T18:35:35Z")
[Totally boring.](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,26-10-1958,00.html) The banner says “How to Run for Congress” with a sketch of Michigan’s Chamberlain? Who the heck was Chamberlain? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/109 "2005-06-15T19:07:08Z")
“Showdown in Jordan: The Arab Guerrillas” ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/110 "2005-06-15T19:11:08Z")
This is so embarassing. My birthday cover was: [Charlie’s Freaking Angels!](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,22-11-1976,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/111 "2005-06-15T20:16:59Z")
[Who the dickens is Rowland Hughes?](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601560123,00.html) Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![waits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df788c/32.png) [@waits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waits)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/112 "2005-06-15T20:56:29Z")
Candidate Kennedy. My DOB was the day before the 1960 presidential election. As a birthday gift few years ago, my wife tried to get an original copy of a newspaper from that day. Anything and everything Kennedy-related was gone from the supplier she contacted. So she got me Life magazine instead. It had the International Geophysical Year as the cover story. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/113 "2005-06-15T21:20:31Z")
History repeats itself, I guess. Kind of sad, really. The cover for mine reads: “Mideast - New Quest for Peace” with a picture of Anwar Sadat on it. 30 years later… ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/114 "2005-06-15T21:25:32Z")
From three days before my birthday (there isn’t one for the 19th) [Islam, The Militant Revival](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19-04-1979,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/115 "2005-06-15T22:22:09Z")
> [@AmericanMaid](#): > > This is so embarassing. My birthday cover was: > > [Charlie’s Freaking Angels!](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,22-11-1976,00.html) Yeah, mine too, of course. I did go to 3rd grade with two girls named Farrah. 🙂 **EvilHamsterOnCrack** , I remember reading that article when it came out. I was 11 years old then, and raised in an extremely conservative Christian household. I was fascinated by that article and the hoopla surrounding The Last Temptation of Christ, because it opened my mind to so many possibilities and concepts I’d never been allowed to consider before. I’ll always remember that cover and article because it represented the beginning of a massive (and very positive) change in my worldview. So you see, not so sucky at all. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/116 "2005-06-15T22:40:02Z")
I get [Chernobyl](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,11-05-1986,00.html). Oo. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/117 "2005-06-15T22:59:45Z")
I don’t understand anything about mine. (5 days before my actual B-Day). The [cover](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,14-02-1970,00.html) reads “The American Indian: Goodbye to Tonto.” It’s some strange artwork with an abstract-looking red Indian wearing a yellow chicken on his head holding a flower with stars from the American Flag in it. More utter confusion inside: “The Unreal MACOI” “Ling Chops up the Meatball” “Some People Come Back Like Hecuba” 😕 Now this is interesting: > [@](#): > > Flash: the Department of Agriculture has just discovered how to banish pests without lethal insecticides like DDT. “Beer, either fresh or stale,” reports the department’s recent newsletter, “is substantially superior to other bait compounds used to control slugs, one of the most troublesome pests infesting farms, gardens and greenhouses.” ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/118 "2005-06-15T23:01:49Z")
[War in the Middle East](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,14-10-1973,00.html) Nothing really changes, does it? ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/119 "2005-06-15T23:42:37Z")
[My birthday cover](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,05-09-1979,00.html) features [Ansel Adams](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams) and a snippet of President Carter in a muddle 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/120 "2005-06-16T00:17:29Z")
[Nixon in Deep Crap](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101731029,00.html) [sub]so I paraphrased…[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234.md?page=7)