From Elanajane's blog
1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday Month and day only November 24
2. List 3 Events that occurred that day
1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain - Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant
capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
1917 - Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when the Milwaukee, WI police headquarters building explodes due to a bomb
3. List 2 important Birth days
1868 - Scott Joplin, Ragtime Composer (d. 1917) (exactly 100 years before my birth!)
1690 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
1787 - Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863) (composed Silent Night)
4. List 1 Death
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
5. List a Holiday or Observance. (if any)
Well of course--Thanksgiving :-) Once every 7 years or so, I'm a Turkey Baby :-)
And then, well, I just can't resist the irony--it's Teacher's Day in Turkey!
6. Tag 5 other bloggers --Consider yourself tagged if you've read this!
5 comments:
Oy, I read this I'm tagged! =D
(By the way, cool about Joplin. I looooove Joplin.)
Events:
* 1846 - The saxophone is patented by Alphonse Sax.
* 1809 - Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
* 1973 - Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
2 Births:
* 1682 - Bartholomew Roberts, AKA Black Bart, notorious Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
* 1866 - Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925) NEEEEAT. I love Satie's Gymnopedes compositions.
2 Deaths:
* 1510 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)
1 Holiday:
International Day Against Homophobia aka IDAHO. (Well! I did not know there was such a day.)
Okay, here's mine (Mar 17):
Events:
*1805 - The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
*1845 - The rubber band is invented
*1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling.
*1942 - Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto (western Ukraine) are gassed at the Belzec death camp (eastern Poland).
Births:
*1951 - Kurt Russell, American actor
*1895 - Shemp Howard, American actor The Three Stooges
Deaths:
*493 - Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland
Holiday:
*St. Patrick's Day
That was so fun! See my blog for the answers...
I followed jenny's path and posted my answers there- very interesting.
that was great, glad you tagged yourself :)
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