38

Yep. 38. Officially late 30s now. Sigh.

Of course, I share a few famous birthdays -- Muhammed Ali, Ben Franklin, James Earl Jones, Jim Carey, etc. but I thought I'd share a few lesser known 1/17 events:

38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.

1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.

1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.

1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.

1966 – A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.

1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating.

1996 – The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.

2001 – U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes Meriwether Lewis from Lieutenant to Captain.

An auspicious day for sure.