A Birthday Meme
For my birthday, I'm just going to play along with this meme I found at Lyn's place, Bloggin' Outloud. Feel free to play along.Instructions:
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
Mine is TODAY (July 7 or 7/7) :-)
3. List three important events that happened on your birthday.
1947 - Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident (we're all a little better as the result of this bit of historic lunacy)
1991 - Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (Unfortunately, Croatia's and Bosnia's respective fights for independence were not as efficient)
2004 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expired. (just when we thought nothing important ever happened on my birthday) ;-)
4. List two interesting birthdays and one interesting death.
Births:
1940 - Ringo Starr
1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (I'm sure you all wish a "famous" mathematician was born on your birthday) ;-)
Deaths:
2005 - 52 innocent people in the London subway, the result of terrorist bombings (a sad day)
1129 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (born and died on my birthday, different years ;-)
5. List one holiday or observance (if none, make one up).
Bottler Bonza Day (I'm not making this up although this is the first I've heard of it; the mascot is a dancing groundhog...this is just so fitting)
Labels: Quizzes and Memes
posted by Gwynne @ 12:49 AM
15 Comments:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
This is a fun meme...I have to wait a long time to do it on my b-day though, so maybe I'll do it soonish.
Happy Birthday, of course! Bottler Bonza... heh. lol
oh and Beth, it doesn't have to be done ON your birthday, memes are memes after all, they happen spontaneously :-)
Happy Birthday!
Thank you, all! :-)
I thought you all knew I was an alien. Leave it to Eric to point out the obvious. ;-)
Happy, Happy Birthday!!!! May your year be filled with many Giordano's pizzas! Grin!
May this day be an abundantly blessed one! Happy birthday, Gwynne!!
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That was an interesting list - Sadly I think I lost mine when my blog went bye bye - Oh well hehe. What exciting things are you getting up to today?
Happy Birthday! Ringo Starr, eh? Cool.
Happy Birthday, Gwynne!
Thanks, Jennifer (a good wish to be sure ;-)!
And thank you, too, Janie, Jim & Foo!
Rach, my "excitement" today did not even register on the excite-o-meter, but it was an easy-going day and that is my idea of "celebrating," so it's all good.
It said Gwynne was born!!! July 7!!! WOO HOO!! Hehehe. Happy Belated Birthday!
Thanks, Emma!! :-)
Happy Birthday!! Last Friday!! :-)
Hey, THANKS, Jami!! :-)
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