Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Wikipedia Meme

Oh this is really fun. I really just tagged myself after reading Kookiejar's blog and then researching my own birthday! Here's how you play:

  • 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!
I'm not tagging, but if you read this and want to tag yourself, like I did - feel free! It's fun!

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
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6 comments:

  1. tanabataApril 17, 2007 at 11:57:00 PM PDT

    National Creamsicles Day?! That's great! No time now, I'll play tomorrow.

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  2. LauraApril 18, 2007 at 9:47:00 AM PDT

    Lisa, I've taken you up on the history meme, on my blog

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  3. kookieApril 18, 2007 at 1:09:00 PM PDT

    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!)

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  4. BookloggedApril 21, 2007 at 6:27:00 PM PDT

    Who knew there was a national creamsicles day?! That's way cool that it's on your birthday.

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  5. BookfoolApril 21, 2007 at 7:35:00 PM PDT

    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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  6. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2010 at 8:48:00 AM PDT

    You need to improve the colors of your blog. It is quite difficult to read it. I think that it is a great meme to learn more about history. It is nice to know things that happen in your birthday.

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