At the Age of 55...

• Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press from Mainz, Germany, publishes the first mass-produced edition of the Bible - 300 "42-line Bibles".
• Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invents the battery.
• Pablo Picasso paints Guernica, his harrowing mural of the Facist bombing of the Basque town.
• Bobby Riggs loses to Billie Jean King (age 29) in the tennis's "Battle of the Sexes".
• Ts'ai Lun, Chinese eunuch court officer, invents paper.
• Christina Olsen, a disabled Maine resident, poses for Andrew Wyeth's poignant Christina's World, one of the most popular American paintings.
• Cary Grant stars in Alfred Hitcock's North by Northwest.
• Fritz Wankel, German engineer, invents the rotary engine that will be named for him, the biggest improvement in internal combustion engines in more than a half-century.
• Rachel Carson, biologist, publishes Silent Spring, a warning about rampant pesticide use.
• Maimonides, rabbi and physician, writes Guide of the Perplexed, the famous 12th-century work that attempts better to unite science, philosophy, and religion.
• William Wyler begins filming his spectacle Ben-Hur.
• Irene Weir, painter, founds the School of Design and Liberal Arts, New York City.
• Alex Haley publishes his immensely popular multigenerational epic, Roots.
• Lorenzo Ghiberti completes his astonishing masterwork The Gates of Paradise, one of the finest artistic achievements of the Quattrocento.
• Neil Simon writes his comedy Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first in his "B" theatre trilogy about growing up.

So Dad...as you can see...there is always time for greatness!!

Happy Birthday!