Via Spacecatrocketship. I have removed the obligatory numbers.
1. Go to wikipedia and type in your birthday, month and day only.
2. List events that occurred on that day that interest you.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
(I am both French and Scottish.)
1864 - American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
(One of my nightmare stories from history.)
1922 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
(Not like there was, or is, anyone to vote for.)
1991 - Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."
(I was there, well in Saudi Arabia, this day.)
3. List a few birthdays.
1940 - Howard Hesseman, American actor
(The DOCTOR is IN!")
1899 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
(A real doctor.)
4. List a death.
1987 - Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
(Amazing voice.)
5. List a holiday or observance. (if any)
Roman Empire - Equirria, horse races in honor of the war god Mars were held.
(Pagans. Horsies.)
Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
(My High School was St. Gabriel's. St. Gabe's)
5. Tag some other bloggers.
If you are in Blogistan, consider yourself tagged. Moira, if you like it, it is a low effort blog post.
6 comments:
Dr Charles Best was the co-discoverer, with Dr Frederick Banting, of insulin, and thus responsible for saving and proloning probably hundreds of thousands of lives. And he was Canadian.
I have removed the obligatory numbers.
A beneficial mutation, I think.
Hm. My birthday is Sept. 11. I guess I could add the 1973 coup in Chile that toppled Salvador Allende and put in Augusto Pinochet courtesy of the CIA. Well, maybe I'll skip this meme!
Leslee,
Oh, that is problematic. Still, it would be a useful exercise in remembering that wasn't all that happened on that date. I may just go look, if you don't mind.
Leslee,
Well, that is a huge entry, at least you are not alone. Ominous day. Auspicious.
Right, on Sept 11 the bishops of Visigothic Gaul met in the Council of Agde! How could I forget? ;-) Also I didn't realize that it was on Sept 11 in 1918 that the Red Sox won their last World Series until the recent one. Although that turned out not to be very auspicious!
If it had been the next day, it would have marked when Henry Hudson discovered the Hudson River, and Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning...
Thanks, fun meme. :-)
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