Swifty, Nifty, guess who's fifty!

Is that really the saying?

Anyways, Gerald Laskey is officially OLD.

I looked for something "of note" that happened on May 16, 1958. The only thing I found was: "Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex." All righty then.

This site lists a bunch of stuff that happened on May 16ths from 955 (Alberich II, son of Octavianus elected pope) through 2005 (Sony's PlayStation 3 makes it's debut at the E3 trade show). There was also, apparently, a Papal speech on "Christian optimism and the defense of human rights" at the NATO Defence College .... seems quite fitting.