My birthday meme
Apr. 8th, 2006 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mysid"On the day you were born" meme borrowed from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elwing_alcyone.
"Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year).
List three neat facts/events, two births, and one death in your journal, including the year."
July 2
Events:
1776—The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain, though a formal Declaration of Independence is not adopted until July 4. (I’ve always said that the fireworks were part of my birthday celebration.)
1777—Vermont becomes the first American state to abolish slavery. (Yay, Vermont! Both of my parents are from there.)
1947—An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon. (My sci fi loving heart loves that this was on my birthday.)
Births:
1908—Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d.1993)
1925—Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
Death:
1937—Amelia Earhart, American aviator disappeared (b. 1897) (I’ve always thought Amelia was a cool lady.)
I read my list of choices to my husband. "You're so American," he noted.
elwing_alcyone."Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year).
List three neat facts/events, two births, and one death in your journal, including the year."
July 2
Events:
1776—The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain, though a formal Declaration of Independence is not adopted until July 4. (I’ve always said that the fireworks were part of my birthday celebration.)
1777—Vermont becomes the first American state to abolish slavery. (Yay, Vermont! Both of my parents are from there.)
1947—An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon. (My sci fi loving heart loves that this was on my birthday.)
Births:
1908—Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d.1993)
1925—Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
Death:
1937—Amelia Earhart, American aviator disappeared (b. 1897) (I’ve always thought Amelia was a cool lady.)
I read my list of choices to my husband. "You're so American," he noted.