I’m It
I got tagged by Annie a couple of posts ago, so here’s the crack…
Take your Birthday in the format DD Month and look it up in Wikipedia. Then post 3 events, 2 birthdays, 1 death and 1 holiday.
Here goes…
3 Events
1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
A fitting selection as this is a chronological entry and I’m a Brit. Plus where did those eleven days go? Did people miss a birthday that year?
1814 – Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner.
A little tribute to my American friends 
1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
Now that’s just cool. Nothing crafted by the hand of man had touched that place before. Neat. And Kruschev had the cheek to commerate the landing by giving a gift to Eisenhower. LOL
2 Births
1849 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
Best known for his experiments in conditioning… remember Pavlov’s dog?
1910 – Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
As a child raised on War films I remember him well for his part in the film The Cruel Sea.
1 Death
1982 – Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (b. 1929)
I didn’t know that and I didn’t remember it either, I was probably more interested in playing D&D at the time…
1 Holiday
In ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.
Being of no fixed belief I sided with the polytheist ancients on this selection.
Now if you wanna have a go just do it and I shall be picking on some unsuspecting souls in a short while… OK… My BBFK is first on the list, followed by Mummy/Crit and er… I know, Brom man. Oh sod it, I’ll pick on Rebekah too.
Wild! I may jump on this bandwagon later…
Mummy/Crit: Nothing spectacular, but it’s interesting to know who you share your birthday with. I think Amy Winehouse’s birthday is same day as mine too
Yeah, you’re next, Crit
done and done!
i am efficient! at everything but actual work … thanks, you
Rebekah: Crikey! And I hadn’t even tagged ya yet either!
Cool, I certainly can post this on my blog when I run out of ideas in my head.
Tawcan: Yeah, let’s hope you’ve got some computer-related events etc on your birthday, I think all I got was M$ releasing the last version of DOS which wasn’t that cool
First things first. Apologies. My blogwatcher thingummybob thingy told me there was nothing going on at Blue Skies, so I have missed out on a post or two. I have sacked it and will be adopting the “If you want a job doing properly….” approach.
More soon.
well I have to say, I like the choices.. and photos as well.
Pavlov, gotta love that.. even Francis Scott Key (though I hate the song) The lunar crash is especially good, as are the Eleusian Mysteries, probably my favorites. Thanks for participating…seems like you have some takers.
Brom: I blame new blogger’s crap feed system meself. If not just use http://www.foreverblueskies.com/atom.xml
Talking of which I’ve lost track of most blogs since working out of this studio/office… must use my sage reader for firefox more…
Annie: Thx very much. There weren’t any massively geeky Intenet or computer events but Luna 2 made up for that a bit.
I much prefer Sousa’s “Liberty Bell”