It's My Birthday! by WalkerAJ

WHAT BEVERAGE was, like me, introduced to the world on April 23, 1985? I was much better received, as this product was pulled from shelves by July of that year.

My Dad wanted to play THIS SONG (released 10 months prior) in the delivery room, but Mom vetoed bringing a tape deck in. Some might say that was probably just as well since it’s actually about Vietnam veterans.

THIS MAN died on April 23, 1616. April 23rd may have also been his birthday, as extrapolated from baptismal records, but that has not been confirmed.

“Responding to President Reagan’s widely publicized surgery for [redacted], individuals throughout the country have been calling physicians and information services in record numbers.” So wrote a Los Angeles Times reporter on July 27, 1985, crediting Reagan’s surgery with sparking interest in prevention of WHAT TWO-WORD MALADY REDACTED ABOVE?

When I was born THIS SONG was #1 on the charts. It eventually sold over 20 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling singles ever.

I’ve always thought it neat to share a birthday with WHAT WINSOME ACTRESS, who would have turned 88 this year?

When I turned 13 I had a pink pig themed party. Yes, I was scraping the bottom of the theme barrel there, but I got the idea because I shared a birthday with Squealer the Pig; Squealer was WHAT KIND OF TOY, enjoying peak popularity at the time?

If you were in the USSR from February 1984 until March 1985, you would have lived under three different General Secretaries. Name those THREE LEADERS IN ORDER.

This Saturday, Dad will call me and probably exclaim “You say it’s your birthday!” in greeting. Back when I lived at home, though, he’d simply blast the stereo until the sound of WHAT BAND singing those words woke me up?

On April 23, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt gave his “Citizenship in a Republic” speech in Paris. One of its most famous sections contains these lines: “The credit belongs to [redacted], whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming...” The oft-quoted excerpt is usually referred to by WHAT FIVE WORD TITLE, from the redacted portion above?

It feels only right to mention Mom in this quiz about the day of my birth. Incidentally, she shares her first name with WHAT PROTAGONIST of the Bowling for Soup song “1985”?

It’s not a birthday without a cake, and here’s four-year-old Amanda helping with hers. On the wall behind me are some country chic towel holders identical to the ones in WHAT SITCOM kitchen, pictured at left? It aired its last episode on May 14, 1989.

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