Youir mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) What day of the week were you born? Tell us how you found out.
2) What has happened in recorded history on your birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events.
3) What famous people have been born on your birth date? Tell us how you found out, and list five of them.
4) Put your responses in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a status or comment on Facebook.
Here are mine, without the "Tell us how" bit...
1) 23 October 1943 was a Saturday.
2) Historic events that happened on 23 October:
* On 10/23/1086 - Battle of Zalaka: Alfonso VI vs Almoravids
* On 10/23/1642 - Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament
* On 10/23/1775 - Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
* On 10/23/1824 - 1st steam locomotive is introduced
* On 10/23/1910 - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
3) The famous birthdays:
Hint: For the day of the week you were born, check here.
Hint: For the events on that day, check here.
Hint: For the Famous birthdays, check here.
9 comments:
Thanks for the challenge! Here's what I learned:
I was born on a Sunday, September 9
To find out the day of the week I was born, I found a calendar generator at:
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/generate.html
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These events took place on September 9th:
• California was admitted to the Union, 1850 (31st)
• Esther Cleveland, was the first child born in the White House, 1893
• Mounted police were used for the first time in New York City, 1904
• Singer Elvis Presley made his first appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show," 1956
• A prison riot occurred at Attica State Correctional Facility, in Attica, New York in 1971.
I learned about them at:
http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1221.html
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These people were born on Sept. 9:
• Colonel Sanders
• Otis Redding
• Joan Kennedy
• Hugh Grant
• Jimmy the Greek
I discovered this information at: http://www.nndb.com/lists/770/000106452/
Thanks Randy - another fun challenge. I've posted mine at http://blunderingblindlybackwards.blogspot.com/2011/01/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-date-you.html
Monday April 15th
I knew the day of the week.
Born on April 15th:
Leonardo da Vinci
Emma Watson
Catherine I, Empress of Russia
Emma Thompson
Elizabeth Montgomery
Events on April 15th
1988-Meteorite exploded over Indonesia
1983 Tokyo Disneyland Opened
1959 Fidel Castro began US goodwill tour
1945 British and Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen
1931 1st walk across America backwards began
Thanks Randy! Here is my first SNGF post. http://wchgenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/sngf-date-you-were-born.html
Thank you for another very interesting Saturday night challenge. What do I have in common with Richard the Lionheart, Anne Frank, George W Bush and the American dollar? Find out here: http://goo.gl/NXoHL.
Thanks Randy! My post is at http://www.jenasmart.com/2011/01/sngf-the-date-you-were-born/
Jen
Thanks Randy! Here's mine: http://bit.ly/gJUAq0 - found using a single source.
Mine's posted at Conversations with my Ancestors
I posted mine at
http://kinfolknews.blogspot.com/2011/01/date-you-were-born-sngf.html
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