Sir Winston Celebrates 88th Birthday
Nov. 30, 1962 - Sir Winston Churchill, celebrating his 88th birthday today, walked unaided to the window of his London residence and...
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May 29, 2022
President Celebrates 45th Birthday in Virginia
May 29, 1962 - President Kennedy (pictured at his celebration 10 days ago at Madison Square Garden) celebrated his actual 45th birthday...
May 19, 2022
President Attends Birthday Dinner at Four Seasons
May 19, 1962 - President Kennedy attended a glittering birthday dinner in his honor tonight at the Four Seasons restaurant — a prelude to...
May 19, 2022
Entertainers Rehearse for President's Birthday Celebration
May 19, 1962 - Madison Square Garden became a blur of dancers, singers, actors, and musicians this morning and afternoon as show business...
May 9, 2022
Brisk Sales for Tickets to President's Birthday Salute at MSG
May 9, 1962 - An advance sale of “well over” 400 tickets at $1,000 each for the “New York Birthday Salute to President Kennedy” was...
Apr 2, 2022
President Kennedy to Attend Birthday Fundraiser at Madison Square Garden
Apr. 2, 1962 - President Kennedy accepted today an invitation from Mayor Wagner of New York City to attend a Democratic fund-raising...
Jan 26, 2022
General MacArthur Celebrates 82nd Birthday
Jan. 26, 1962 - General of the Army Douglas MacArthur celebrated his 82nd birthday in New York today, saying that he had “reached an age...
Jan 25, 2022
"Granny" Harper Turns 106 in Southampton, NY
Jan. 25, 1962 - Mrs. Eliza (Granny) Harper, who remembers seeing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (pictured) parade in Brooklyn after the Civil War,...
Sep 1, 2021
Grandma Moses, Nearing 101, Still Young at Heart
Sept. 1, 1961 - Anna Mary Robertson Moses, the American folk artist better known as Grandma Moses, approaches her 101st birthday still...
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