Wikipedia
The rules are:1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays
5) List two deaths
6) One holiday or observance (if any)
7) Tag 5 other bloggers to complete
So: April 29th:
Events
- 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
1910 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
Bonus: 2005 - Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
Births:
- 1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
- 1951 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
Deaths
1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 16551980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)
Holidays and observances:
- International Dance Day.
- Japan (public holiday since 1927, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period.)
- The Emperor's Birthday (1927-1988. Holiday of Emperor Hirohito's birthday until his death in 1989).
- Greenery Day (1989-2006).
Shōwa Day (2007 - Day of Showa period, which is reigned by EmperorHirohito)
Now, the hard part,
(besides picking only a few birthdays...there is SO many!);
I'm supposed to pick 5 people to tag.
I do have Nomes to thank for this one (see her blog) so she's off the hook.
Instead I think I'll just ask every one who reads this to just find one example of a birth, death, event or holiday that happens on their birthday and leave it on my "commentator" on the right! Okie Doakie??
Okie Doakie!!
signed:
Will (put down the tomatoes and no one will get hurt...) Donaldson
1 comment:
Telegram, dated June 25, 1948, by Alfred M. Bingham, et. al. to President Harry S. Truman, urging Truman to declare that short of war the U.S. will remain in Berlin and maintain supplies for the German people
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