My grandfather is celebrating his 100th birthday today.

Since being born in 1908, he been around for…

• the sinking of the "unsinkable" Titanic
• the first crossword puzzle
• The Great War (which wasn’t so great)
• The Great Depression (which also wasn’t so great)
• World War II
• 16 Canadian Prime Ministers
• 18 US Presidents
• Four kings and a queen (not a bad poker hand)
• the building of the Berlin Wall
• the tearing down of the Berlin Wall
• the first satellite in orbit
• the first dog in space
• the first human in space
• Man landing on the Moon
• the formation of The Beatles
• the break-up of The Beatles
• the invention of the colour photographic process
• the invention of the fortune cookie
• the first trans-Atlantic phone call
• penicillin and bubble gum (in the same year!)
• television
• the Internet
• email
• spam
• the invention of the pocket calculator
• the first man-made object on another planet
• the end of smallpox

More significantly, he’s been an important part of my life since before I can remember. 🙂

Happy birthday, Granddad!!!