1954

It is hard to believe that I am 60 today. I am in good company, as Neil Tennant, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello and Annie Lennox were all born in 1954.

As most of the family are recovering from a flu bug, planning on a relaxing day with some good food and wine and watching some classic films.

Some remarkable events have happened on the 22nd November over the past 60 years:

1956 - 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne

1957 - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel appeared as Tom and Jerry on ABC-TV's American Bandstand.

1957 - Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY

1961 - Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star.

1963 - The Beatles released their second album 'With The Beatles' which went on to spend 51 weeks on the UK charts. The LP had advance orders of a half million and sold another half million by September 1965, making it the second album to sell a million copies in the UK, (after the soundtrack to the 1958 film South Pacific).

1963 - US President John F Kennedy is assassinated by lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.

1967 - BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles

1968 - The Beatles double White album was released in the UK.

1975 - Scottish comedian Billy Connolly was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with a parody of the Tammy Wynette song D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

1989 - Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon

1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

2008 - YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.

2010 - After just one week of availability on the iTunes store, The Beatles' music sold more than 450,000 albums and 2 million individual songs. The Fab Four's debut on iTunes was accompanied by an extensive world-wide marketing campaign.