What is special about the man’s birthday?

Jill: What are your own origins? When and where were you born?
Bryant: I was born in 1969, sometime between the moon landing and the birth of the Internet.
Jill: What kind of family did you come out of? Where were you raised?
Bryant: I grew up in a poor, single-parent family in North Babylon, New York, out on Long Island. Oldest of two kids, but ninth of eleven if you count all the half-brothers, half-sisters, step-brothers and step-sisters.
Jill: How would you describe your childhood?
Bryant: I spent most of my childhood reading, drawing, playing stick-ball and stoop ball. I didn’t watch much television since our TV was an ancient black and white that had, over the years, begun to show only green and white images. The most memorable thing about TV then was that the set generated so much heat that I didn’t want to watch it in the summer.
Jill: When did you start to study art?
Bryant: In high school, juniors and seniors had an option to attend a trade school for half the school day. When I found out they offered a commercial art program, I jumped at it.
Jill: What made you make the decision?
Bryant: I had heard that commercial artists made good money.