It's my birthday! I'm 20 now. Just saying that makes me feel old but here's some cool stuff that makes the 27th so great, besides my birth of course.

This day in history:
On May 27, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., was opened to the public.
On this date:

In 1647, the first recorded American execution of a "witch" took place in Massachusetts.

In 1896, 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill.

In 1933, Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" was first released.

In 1935, the Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.

In 1936, the Cunard liner Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage.

In 1941, amid rising world tensions, President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency."

In 1941, the British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France, with a loss of 2,300 lives.

In 1964, independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died.

In 1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.

In 1994, Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after two decades in exile.

Ten years ago: The House of Representatives approved a massive deficit-reduction, tax-increase bill by a vote of 219-213. The Canadian House of Commons approved the North American Free Trade Agreement. Five people were killed in a bombing at the Uffizi museum of art in Florence, Italy; some three dozen paintings were ruined or damaged.

Five years ago: Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot.

One year ago: President Bush commemorated Memorial Day at Normandy American Cemetery in France, where he honored the 9,387 men and women buried there.


Famous People That I Share My Birthday With:
May 27th · Actor Ethan Dampf ("American Dreams") is 9.
· Rapper Dre (Outkast) is 29.
· Rock singer-musician Brian Desveaux (Nine Days) is 32.
· Actor Paul Bettany is 32.
· Actor Dondre Whitfield is 34.
· Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 37.
· Actor Todd Bridges is 38.
· Actress Cathy Silvers is 42.
· Actress Peri Gilpin is 42.
· Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 45.
· Rock musician Eddie Harsch (The Black Crowes) is 46.
· Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 46.
· Actor Richard Schiff is 48.
· Singer Bruce Cockburn is 58.
· Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., is 59.
· Singer Cilla Black is 60.
· Actor Bruce Weitz is 60.
· Country singer Don Williams is 64.
· Rhythm-and-blues singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 64.
· Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 67.
· Musician Ramsey Lewis is 68.
· Actress Lee Meriwether is 68.
· Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 80.
· Actor Christopher Lee is 81. (SWEET! I share my birthday with someone from SW!)
· Novelist Herman Wouk is 88.

I made about $175 for my birthday, which means that I can survive this month! Also got a new spoon ring from my grandma, and some bathroom decor stuff from my mom plus this cool hamper/laundry sorter/ironing board thing. Going out to dinner at Applebees in about an hour with friends. Life is good.