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Wow-- I just found out that I was tagged last month by 4everHischild--so sorry to be tardy! This is a very interesting one--something to lift me out of the doldrums and give me plenty of coffee-talk fodder for weeks to come. The rules of the tag are to go to Wikipedia and type in the day and month of your birth, excluding the year, and hit search. Then you are to list three events, two births, and one holiday that occurred on your birthday. Wowee! That's really cool! And here are my choices... EVENTS: 4004 BC - Date the universe was created according to British Archbishop James Ussher after using the Bible's chronology to calculate the date. Am I special or what??? 1692 - Last hanging for witchcraft in the United States. Thank heavens... 1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August. This is getting really weird. My dad was a member of PATCO, on strike at that time. He lost his job and his retirement (22 years gov't service.) That summer I had won a national essay contest put on by PATCO, with a scholarship award--which my mother had to talk the gov't out of, since they had frozen the union assets. The name of my essay: "How My Parent's Job as an Air Traffic Controller Affects My Life." I did go on to college (lots of aid available for children with unemployed parents.) And about 14 years later, my dad returned to controlling airplanes. BIRTHS 1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886) 1903 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952), oh pleez 1938 - Derek Jacobi, English actor , I knew I liked him. 1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor, I like him and my husband has worked with him. 1942 - Annette Funicello, American actress , did I mention I hate limits? HOLIDAYS Zip, nada, zilch, oh well, glad I picked more births.
Wow--that was fun and informative--I'll be tagging now: Godsgirl1993, crossroadsmama, MommylovesRJ, labellavita and lauralu. You go girls! (hopefully a little more quickly than I did!) |
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