I googled my birthday – not just the day, but the year. Ignoring who was born or died on my birthday, here’s some of the highlights for June 28, 1957:

Elvis was hanging out with Lou Costello and Jane Russell.

It was Harry and Bess Truman’s 38th anniversary, and he wrote her a note with a comment for each year, and was looking forward to their Diamond Jubilee in 37 more.

The Islamic Center of Washington D.C. was dedicated with a speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower (then President). Ike also wrote a letter to Winston Churchill thanking him for agreeing to an exhibition of Churchill’s paintings in the US and also thanking him for the gift of an original painting.

Paris, Illinois had a record year of rainfall in 1957, totalling 61.6″. 16% of that came on June 28th, a standing record of 10.2″. Geez.

Finland and Norway agreed on building a bridge across a transboundry river.

In baseball (because they keep track of everything)…

IN THE NEWS: By stuffing the ballot box, Cincinnati fans elect 8 Redlegs as starters in the All-Star Game. Over protests from Reds fans, Commissioner Ford Frick names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron to replace Reds Gus Bell, George Crowe, and Wally Post in the starting lineup. In the final vote tally, Musial is the only non-Redleg who would have started.

And hey, two triple plays!

Ponca City and Greenville (Sooner State League) turn triple plays in successive half innings. Greenville turns theirs in the bottom of the first, while Ponca City follows with one in the top half of the 2nd.

Cincinatti is approved for a Nike Missle installation. I guess that’s what they get for stuffing the All Star ballot boxes.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP for high and noble achievement and his courage and commitment to nonviolence. Some sources report that Osama bin Laden was also born on that day. (This source being an astrology site.)

It was a dull, warm day for Annabelle Johnson (left). She baked a cake.

Due to a power circuit failure, a “non-detonation” of a nuke named Diablo occured at a Nevada Test Site. The lucky Marines stationed in the forward trenches got a reprieve until July 15th before being irradiated.

Maryland started gassing people instead of hanging them.

And finally, in honor of this being Tax Day, while I was being birthed in California, judgement was delivered against a Native American in Canada who was arguing that he didn’t have to pay income taxes because he was an Indian. The argument against him went like this:

“The accused, on the evidence, is an Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act, RSC, 1952, ch. 149, and being an Indian is a person (definition Indian Act, sec. 2

[1] [g] ) and being a person is subject to the application of sec. 44 (2) of the Income Tax Act.”

The accused also argued that, though he was supposed to file a “prescribed form”, there was no evidence that the offical tax form T.1 was in prescribed form. And finally, he argued that the “terms of Union” between British Columbia and Canada didn’t include him. He lost and was fined $10.

The results of my birthday search continue on for ten more Google results pages.