Having seen this meme via various people who have posted and who feed into Lib Dem Blogs (http://www.libdemblogs.co.uk/) I couldn't resist - You type in your birth date (but not year) and it then comes up with a whole host of events that happened on your birthday.
My list includes the following :
Events
490 BC - Athens defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon
1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1953 - John F. Kennedy marries Jackie Bouvier.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon, and bring him back, by the end of the decade.
Births
1913 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
1951 - Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
Deaths
1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
4 comments:
You forgot one.
1961 - JFK sends American military advisers to South Viet Nam - The number of which continued to grow with America's involvement in the country. Kennedy explained the need for US involvement using "the domino theory."
Just for a bit of balance.
In doing this meme I learned that one of my favorite NFL players shares my birthday.
I found it interesting. I didn't even know wikipedia had that ability.
allan sorry but I checked and that one does not come up under the listings for my birthday
rather cool! nice blog...
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