Former President Jimmy Carter became the first president to celebrate his 100th birthday on Tuesday.
When Carter was born, a loaf of bread cost 8 cents and the sale of alcohol was illegal under Prohibition. In 1977, he entered the Oval Office, the same year Elvis Presley died and the minimum wage was $2.30. Now he remains in hospice care in the same small town where he was born exactly a century ago.
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