Anyone else born under 49 stars?

[PatAz]

48 stars and Harry Truman the President

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Gosh, when I was born Herbert Hoover was president. Just saying.

 

[zelima]

48 stars

I was born almost 20 yrs before 1959. In fact I was on a ship out of Pearl Harbor when Hawaii voted to become a state. I recall one island voted not to but that didn't make a difference.
I was also on The territory of Guam in 1958 when there was not much civil structures there. Agana was mostly a ghost town. The one road from our military bases to Agana was littered with old military Jap tanks. And there were still live Jap soldiers lurking around in the jungles. I guess the last one gave up around 1963. Not sure of that date.

Alaska became the 49th state on January 3rd, 1959.

I was born two days before Hawaii was admitted on August 21st, 1959.

Given the two were only seven months apart, I always assumed there had never been a 49-star flag, but after finally looking it up, found that there had been, seven rows of seven, each row staggered.

Curiously, the 50th Star wasn't added until July 4th, 1960, almost a year after Hawaii became a state.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I was born under St George's Cross. Elizabeth II had just ascended to the throne and Sir Winston was Prime Minister.

I left and things went downhill from there.

 

[jtcarm]

I don't know, either, but the dessert's obvious: Baked Alaska!

Pass around a chunk of whale blubber for everyone to chew.

 

[kozmic]

I was born under a bad sign, but there was 49 stars on the flag. I popped out on Ground Hog's Day 1959. Just hours before the music died.

 

[djt17]

48...go Ike!

 

[Der Verminator]

I was born Oct. 30, 1959. 49 for me. By default.

I tell kids, "I was born when Eisenhower was president".

They always ask, "Who?"

Truman for me. I suppose that would REALLY puzzle them.

 

[jeffsmith]

I know you REALLY Old Guys will Poo-Poo this

But, next year it will be 60 years since Alaska and Hawaii became states
and it will mean us "49ers" will be 60 too

 

[D Brown]

49 Stars

1958 for me. in Nurnberg. My Geburtsurkunde is in German, and is not considered a legal document in the United States of America.

Luckily for me, I became a Naturalized American Citizen on May 2nd, 1963, about 4 1/2 years after I was born, and 2 1/2 years after moving to the United States.

 

[DevilDog72]

48 for me as well.....born 1952

 

[Golddollar]

48 stars and Harry Truman the President

Same for me. I got a silver half dollar from my great grandmother with the year of my birth, and I still have it.

 

[johngalt]

I was born under St George's Cross. Elizabeth II had just ascended to the throne and Sir Winston was Prime Minister.

I left and things went downhill from there.

Coincidence?

 

[H Richard]

I enlisted in the USAF abut the time Hawaii was made a state.

 

[Gaffer]

Well most of you are just kids as I was born in 1932 to staunch Downeast Maine Yankees. This is not about north/south but just Yankees who were born and raised on dirt poor farms and knew what poverty was. I was raised on fried beets and potatoes that were ground up and fried in cast iron skillet. Wood cooking stove and slept in cold beds warmed by soapstones at night in the winter. But they were good times and we learned how to survive and work. Only poor folk were one family in the whole town. The rest were poor by today's standards, but didn't know it. Most had a cow or two, chickens and hogs along with a garden.

 

[Whitwabit]

48 stars for me too .. 1950 ..

 

[jtcarm]

Gosh, when I was born Herbert Hoover was president. Just saying.

If Ike confuses the youngsters, just imagine what that would do:

"You mean the guy who invented the vacuum cleaner ?"
"The cross-dressing FBI dude?"

 

[AZretired]

48 stars for me.

 

[AJ]

48 for me and a lot of others here I would suppose.

 

[Snapping Twig]

Born in 55, so make mine 48.