Apr 7, 2007

Birthday Meme

Tagged by my SIL.... ( I know it took a while!!)

1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday... Month and Day only!!
*May 19

2. List Three events that occurred on that day...
*1568 Queen Elizabeth I has Mary Queen of Scots arrested
*1780 - New England's Dark Day: never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm.
*1962 - A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday.

3. List Three important birthdays...
*1795 - Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
*1949 - Dusty Hill, American blues rock singer/bassist (ZZ Top)
*1928 - Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)

4. List One death...
*1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)

5. List a Holiday or Observance...
*Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
Saint Ciarán mac Colga
Dunstan
Peter Celestine
Ives
Emiliana
Pudentiana
Theophilus of Corte

6. Okay, now go TAG yourself

2 comments:

lioux said...

I think I'm going to do this one.

Terry said...

Okay Lioux, you are definitely tagged!!