some interesting thins about the day of my birth from the past...
Just called a few people and now as I wait for 12:08 at which time my mom calls and reminds me of my birthday at the exact time I was born.... (it is kinda creepy and it reminds me of "City Slickers" when Mitchs mom calls him... yeah just like that cept for it is in the middle of the night.) I figured I would do this...
Just for fun...
ON THIS DAY: April 9
HOLIDAYS:
Feast day of St Madrun, St Uramar, St Hugh of Rouen, St Gaucherius, St Mary Cleophas, and St Waldetrudis.
US: National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.
Tunisia: Martyrs' Day.
EVENTS:
1682 - French explorer Robert La Salle reached the lower Mississippi River and claimed it and all lands that touched it for France.
1770 - English navigator James Cook became the first European to arrive in Botany Bay, Australia.
1833 - The nation's first tax-supported public library was founded in Peterborough, NH.
1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, ending the Civil War.
1866 - The Civil Rights Bill of 1866 was passed by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, granting blacks the rights and privileges of American citizenship. It formed the basis for the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
1869 - The Hudson Bay Company agreed to transfer its territory to Canada.
1939 - Singer Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her race.
1940 - During World War II, Nazi Germany invaded neutral Norway and also Denmark.
1959 - NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.
1965 - The Houston Astrodome opened in Texas.
1970 - Paul McCartney announced the official breakup of the Beatles.
1991 - The parliament of Georgia voted to have independence from USSR.
BIRTHS:
1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet.
1879 - W.C. Fields (Claude William Dukenfield), actor, screenwriter, comedian.
1898 - Paul Robeson, singer, actor.
1903 - Gregory Pincus, American endocrinologist whose discoveries led to the development of the first birth-control pills.
-www.Reference.com
Just for fun...
ON THIS DAY: April 9
HOLIDAYS:
Feast day of St Madrun, St Uramar, St Hugh of Rouen, St Gaucherius, St Mary Cleophas, and St Waldetrudis.
US: National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.
Tunisia: Martyrs' Day.
EVENTS:
1682 - French explorer Robert La Salle reached the lower Mississippi River and claimed it and all lands that touched it for France.
1770 - English navigator James Cook became the first European to arrive in Botany Bay, Australia.
1833 - The nation's first tax-supported public library was founded in Peterborough, NH.
1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, ending the Civil War.
1866 - The Civil Rights Bill of 1866 was passed by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, granting blacks the rights and privileges of American citizenship. It formed the basis for the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
1869 - The Hudson Bay Company agreed to transfer its territory to Canada.
1939 - Singer Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her race.
1940 - During World War II, Nazi Germany invaded neutral Norway and also Denmark.
1959 - NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.
1965 - The Houston Astrodome opened in Texas.
1970 - Paul McCartney announced the official breakup of the Beatles.
1991 - The parliament of Georgia voted to have independence from USSR.
BIRTHS:
1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet.
1879 - W.C. Fields (Claude William Dukenfield), actor, screenwriter, comedian.
1898 - Paul Robeson, singer, actor.
1903 - Gregory Pincus, American endocrinologist whose discoveries led to the development of the first birth-control pills.
-www.Reference.com