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Who was USA President in your birth year ?

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Dwight David Eisenhower

Also -
Alaska becomes a state of the USA
The first commercial Xerox machine is released
Mattel introduces the doll "Barbie"
Ornette Coleman introduces "free jazz"
Fidel Castro leads to success the revolution against the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista
The chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died"
The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles
Famous Jazz singer Billie Holiday dies.
Explorer 6 sends the first picture of Earth from space.
Rod Serling's classic anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS
And perhaps most importantly-
Pantyhose are invented.
 
Not only am I probably older than most on the forum, my daughter is probably older than quite a few as well.

April 5, 1943 (FDR)

July 11, 1964 for my daughter who, if asked, probably doesn't know who was President then. (LBJ)
 
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