Birthday Meme

Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birthday (only month and day) and write down 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday then tag 5 people.

My birthday is August 13th.

Events:

• 3114 BC – According to the Lounsbury correlation, the Maya calendar starts.
• 1913 – Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
• 1942 – Walt Disney’s fifth animated feature, Bambi, premieres. (This is the very first movie I ever saw in a movie theatre.)

Births:

• 1803 – Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)
• 1860 – Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (d. 1926)
• 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
• 1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
• 1941 – Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
• 1949 – Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Marty Turco, Canadian ice hockey player

Holiday:

• International Lefthanders Day.

Okay, so I cheated with the births.  In honour of meme’s I’m allowed to have this variation.

Monday’s Thought

The days are too short.  I cannot keep up with the intensity of some blogs that I’ve read.  In order to keep up with my own, I’m going to be making some adjustments.  Obviously I missed a few days last week.  I’ve got to work a bit harder at getting in my post per day.  I might have to cut out some of the week.  I’ve already decided to skip weekends.  We’ll see how it goes.  If I can’t make the time for one puny little post per day during 5 days of the week then perhaps I should give up the blogging thing.  We will have to see.