# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/121 "2005-06-16T20:17:12Z")
[May 6, 1985- Did Comets Kill The Dinosaurs?](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,08-05-1985,00.html) Plus a weird picture of Reagan. Coca-Cola’s plan to change its formula is as strange an idea as “putting a pink miniskirt on the refurbished Statue of Liberty.” _The Cosby Show_ is “a smash, but not groundbreaking.” ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/122 "2005-06-16T20:21:07Z")
My birthday cover: [NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,11-04-1979,00.html) at Three Mile Island. How depressing. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/123 "2005-06-16T20:23:00Z")
Barry Goldwater! Good Lord what a revolting development. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/124 "2005-06-16T20:30:21Z")
So, I get a picture of Rosalind Russell with a heading ‘One hundred easy ways to lose a man’. My birth didn’t even rate above that? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/125 "2005-06-16T22:06:00Z")
[Ineffeciency in America](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101700323,00.html): Why Nothing Seems to Work Anymore. ---
**Author:** ![EarthStone777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EarthStone777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EarthStone777)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/126 "2005-06-16T23:26:10Z")
Yale President- Kingman Brewster Jr. The precarious future of the private college. Egads is that boring. Anybody wanna trade? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/127 "2005-06-17T00:01:39Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > [Dick Cavett Born.](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601720207,00.html) When I clicked your link, the issue was 1974, I’m pretty sure Dick Cavett was born before that 😕 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/128 "2005-06-17T00:11:49Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > [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 🙂 He had a three legged dog named Tripod 😃 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/129 "2005-06-17T00:18:07Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > At 15, I remember that cover all to vividly and all the coverage that went with it…the footage of the helicopter flying overhead taking pictures and recording it. I think that was my first time that I had seen pictures of dead people of that magnitude if not at all. > > Good thing your mom didn’t hold back a [week later.](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101690801,00.html) > As for me: > Time had [Averell Harriman.](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101630802,00.html) > Life had some LA guy named [Sandy.](http://www.life.com/Life/covers/1963/cv080263.html) In case you don’t know, Averell Harriman was the Kenneth Starr of the '60s ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/130 "2005-06-17T00:18:10Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > When I clicked your link, the issue was 1974, I’m pretty sure Dick Cavett was born before that 😕 It’s a reference to the Simpsons’ King Kong parody, which features a newspaper reading “Woman Weds Ape” with a subheadline “Dick Cavett Born” with a picture of an adult Cavett next to it. (The line reads “Woody Allen Born” until the final frame.) ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/131 "2005-06-17T00:22:44Z")
Oh MY OG! I think I have the oldest one so far… [General Mark Clark](http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,852840,00.html) :rolleyes: How did I get to be this old? sigh… Can somebody answer me that?? I remember most of the Time and Life covers from your birthdays cause I \* read\* them! The Jim Jones one I read in spanish, I was in Bogota, Colombia. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/132 "2005-06-17T00:24:38Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > It’s a reference to the Simpsons’ King Kong parody, which features a newspaper reading “Woman Weds Ape” with a subheadline “Dick Cavett Born” with a picture of an adult Cavett next to it. (The line reads “Woody Allen Born” until the final frame.) Damn! I am sooo old. :dubious: Its just not right. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/133 "2005-06-17T00:26:13Z")
Picunurse- look on the bright side. You make me feel a little bit younger. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/134 "2005-06-17T00:37:36Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Oh MY OG! I think I have the oldest one so far… [General Mark Clark](http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,852840,00.html) > :rolleyes: How did I get to be this old? sigh… Can somebody answer me that?? > I remember most of the Time and Life covers from your birthdays cause I \* read\* them! > The Jim Jones one I read in spanish, I was in Bogota, Colombia. Don’t feel too bad. **David Simmons** ’s birthday predates anything in their database. That’s right! He’s older than Time itself! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/135 "2005-06-17T00:46:02Z")
[Robert Wagner](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,03-10-1956,00.html), the then mayor of New York, not the actor. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/136 "2005-06-17T06:00:31Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Picunurse- look on the bright side. You make me feel a little bit younger. 😛 See, you cheated, you didn’t link to the year 😃 ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/137 "2005-06-17T06:08:07Z")
“Gambling Goes Legit” ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/138 "2005-06-17T06:14:36Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Don’t feel too bad. **David Simmons** ’s birthday predates anything in their database. That’s right! He’s older than Time itself! 😛 Sonovabitch. I knew it. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/139 "2005-06-17T06:19:10Z")
Destined to be red! EEEEEK!!! For me, it’s a young, healthy-looking Mao Tse-tung! And here’s the table of contents for that issue: [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601490207,00.html](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601490207,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/140 "2005-06-17T14:20:58Z")
[General James Doolittle](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,25-11-1942,00.html) It was just 11 months after Pearl Harbor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234.md?page=6)