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 and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)
6) Tag other bloggers to complete
September 10
EVENTS:
2. 1960 - Mickey Mantle hits what was originally thought to be the Major League baseball's longest home run, sending the ball an estimated 643 feet.
3. 1963 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
BIRTHDAYS:
1. 1934 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
2. 1958 - Chris Columbus, American film director (From films such as: Night at the Museum, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ,Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets).
3. 1989 - Sanjaya Malakar, American Idol contestant (Ugh, I had to add this one!)
DEATH:
1. 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759) (Had one daughter, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.)
2. 2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)
HOLIDAY / OBSERVANCE:
World Suicide Prevention Day
It's surprising how much you can learn by doing this.
Find out what happened on your birthday.
I'm tagging:
Nicole - she needs to do more of these memes. Ha ha!
The Burcham Family, and anyone else who wants to participate.
5 thoughtful comments:
I'm glad you played along, Holly! And thanks for dinner last night; it was delicious!! Caleb LOVES fruit, so that was a big hit with him. You guys are a blessing to us.
Dude, Anna Nicole's son died on your bday?? That's crazy.
Yeah, my birthday and my mom's will always be memorable.
9/10 my b-day
9/11/01 World Trade Center
9/11 my great grandma's b-day
9/12 my mom's b-day
Needless to say, we called each other a bunch that week in 2001.
PS. I will get to this tonight! :)
Same bday as Sanjaya!!? doh! That's okay I share the same bday with Winona Ryder. ugh.
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