Vintage Year Birthday Wine Bottle Card 1968

Vintage Year Card 1968 Wine Bottle. Each card contains intricate foil, fact about wine and a brief history of what happened the year you were born!

Front Text: Happy Birthday 1968 Vintage. The best hand-picked birthday wishes

Inside Text: From the Vine... Wine grapes are grown in vineyards, where individual vines are grown or trained on a system of stakes and wires, called a trellis, to optimize sun exposure. The first harvest of grapes can be made in the third year after planting, and a full crop suitable for commercial use can be expected after five years. 

In 1968

• Lyndon Baines Johnson is President
  
• Hubert H. Humphrey is Vice-President.
• Apollo 8 orbits the moon
  
• Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated
• Oil is discovered in Alaska
• The Monday Holiday Law is enacted by Congress.
• Haight-Ashbury becomes the center of counter-culture.
• Jackie Kennedy weds Aristotle Onassis
• "Sock It To Me!" Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts
• The Dock Of The Bay, Hey Jude and MacArthur's Park are hits. The Graduate, The Odd Couple, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and Funny Girl are in the movies. 
• Yellow Submarine, a full length musical cartoon by the Beatles, is released.
• Arthur Ashe wins the US Tennis Open, becoming the first back to do so. 
• Also born in 1968-- Cuba Gooding, Jr., Mary Lou Retton, Gary Coleman, Lisa Marie Presley, Molly Ringwald

Back Text: Life's Essence. Go ahead, indulge yourself with the finest in birthday wishes for that special moment when another year doesn't mean getting older, it means again gracefully. Birthday Wishes 100% by Volume. You can recycle this card, but we prefer you keep it forever. Printed in Canada

Card size: 9 3/16" high by 3 1/8" wide (letter size)

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