Marisa invited me to play a little game with Wikipedia. Here's how it goes … type your birthday (August 4) into Wikipedia and find 3 events, 2 births, and one holiday .. and tag five people. Here's what I found.
Man a lot of depressing stuff happened on my birthday. There's loads of “so and so was found dead,” etc. For instance Lizzie Borden's family was found murdered on this day in 1892.
And in 1914, a little thing known as World War I began when Germany invaded Belgium and England declared war in Germany. The US sat on its thumbs (ahhh the good ol' days).
On the bright side, the global conspiracy that is the Free Masons saw fit to elevate George Washington to the highest basic rank of the fraternity in 1753. Yay!
Now, growing up, I always knew I shared my b'day with the Queen Mum and later, Billy Bob Thorton (oh whoopee :P), but who knew that I shared my b'day with the likes of Stefan Brogan (Snake from Degrassi), born in 1972 and Nascar Hottie (well, relatively speaking), Jeff Gordon, Born 1971.
As for Holidays, looks like the only one I can make much sense of is an Egyptian Festival, Jubilation of the Heart of Re, that was held on that day. How they did the calendar versions is anyone's guess. Maybe it was actually held some time in April?
I also found it interesting that on my actual date of birth (Aug 4, 1980), nothing is listed in Wikipedia. Hmmm…
As for the tagging bit, play if you like.
ARGH! I just left a super long comment that didn't take. I gave you my answers. I'll send you an email.
I think I shall. Thank you
It will be on the other blog.
You share a bday with Stefan Brogan! I think he is a hottie