- Go to Wikipedia.com and put in your birthday, without year in the search bar (mine is August 14)
- Then list on your blog 3 events, 2 births, 1 death and 1 holiday that happens(ed) on your birthday
- Then tag 5 more people to do it!
Three events from August 14th:
1908 - First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England
1936 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the U.S.
2005 - Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board
Two births on August 14th:
1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist
1947 - Danielle Steele, American novelist
One death on August 14th:
1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate
One Event celebrated on August 14th (I really love this one!):
National Creamsicles Day, United States
5 comments:
National Creamsicles Day?! That's great! No time now, I'll play tomorrow.
Lisa, I've taken you up on the history meme, on my blog
National Creamsicles Day? Aw man, why couldn't I have something cool like that? I'm celebrating your birthday from now on (it's only a week before mine...plenty of time to work off some creamsicle calories!)
Who knew there was a national creamsicles day?! That's way cool that it's on your birthday.
I love the National Creamsicles Day thing. You should definitely start celebrating that one. LOL I'm hoping to get to this meme, soon.
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