Want a cheap birthday party? Try celebrating in 1930

Yesterday, April 24 — a high-class day.Astrological charts say if born January your birthstone’s an inexpensive garnet — a stone that doesn’t always thrill a Staten Island pawnbroker.June it’s some alexandrite something that rarely excites a crooked fence dealer.

August? Peridot.Which if it falls off a truck — I mean, please.However, Taureans born in April don’t kid around.

Our birthstone’s diamond.So looking to send anyone some junko rhinestone — shove it.Brethren and sistren who came to life this particular day include Kelly Clarkson, Cedric the Entertainer, Barbra Streisand, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bogosian, Shirley MacLaine — and me.1184 B.C.

this famous day the Greeks entered Troy with that Trojan horse.1800 the Library of Congress opened.

(May books by Adam Bull Schiff or that drag Bragg be permanently refused.)1990 came the Hubble Space telescope, which is still looking for Biden’s medulla oblongata — last seen in his basement.And this month’s headliners? Menendez.Who we read had stashed cash due to shrewd financial planning, checking the stock market daily or maybe never picking up a check.Plus, although this wasn’t printed, word is this week lawyer Michael Cohen had some bad luck.

He bought a new rowing machine — and it leaked.Also.I dreamt today about Hunter bursting through a door shouting at Santa’s reindeer: “Donner! Blitzen! I said the next stop is the Schmidt house!” Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.

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April 1930.Year of recovery from the Great Depression: New York City had five major newspaper dailies then.And: a gallon of gas — 10 cents.

Coffee — a nickel.Buying new car — $600.

New house — $3,900.Renting new house — $18 a month.

But you save on food since bread was only 10 c...