Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Tuesday Tag


Here's a tag from Roadchick.

1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday, month and day only.

2. List 3 events that occurred on that day.

3. List 2 important birthdays.

4. List 1 death.

5. List a holiday or observance. (if any)

6. Tag 5 other bloggers.

Birthday: July 30

Events:
1932 - Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and the first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premiers. (Were there action figures for this one?)

1954 - Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer. (Thank ya, thank ya very much)

1956 - A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizing "In God We Trust" as the US national motto. (We're trying Ike, we're trying . . .)

Birthdays:
1818 - Emily Bronte - English novelist (can't figure out how to accent the "e" but I'm sure she'd forgive me)

1863 - Henry Ford, American Industrialist (wish he was here to tell me what the clunking noise is in my Windstar . . .)

Other notable birthdays: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kate Bush, Laurence Fishburne, Lisa Kudrow, Hilary Swank & Jamie Pressly

Death:
1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American Mathematician (b. 1919)
She was the first woman president of the American Mathematical Society and was best known for her work on Diophantine equations and something called "game theory" where she proved that the fictitious play dynamics converges to the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium in two player zero sum games. (Uhhh . . . . what?)

Holidays/Observances
Vanuatu Independence Day (Do you think they offer free lodging for those of us born on Independence Day?)

I tag:
Cheryl
Jennifer
Jenny R.
Michelle
Amber
& anyone else who wants to play!

12 comments:

Michelle O'Neil said...

If Seth stops puking in the next day or two....I'll have time to play!

: )

Tricia said...

I'll play - cool idea!

anonymous jones said...

Hi, thanks for the visit! I'm hopeless at tagging games. Not computer-savvy enough!

Jennifer said...

I am so in and already done! Check me out...

Kamsin said...

My brother was born on the day Elvis Presley died, 16th August '77, but that's the only birthday related fact I have up my sleep, actually I think that day is Madonna and Micheal Jackson's birthday too. Don't know anything about my birthday though!

Amber said...

I'll play along.

Someday it will read "Kim, Famous American Writer". ;)

:)

Cheryl said...

I loved reading your events and shared birthdays! Very fun!

I played along and had fun. It was quite interesting! Thanks for the game. I passed it on as well.

Left-handed Trees... said...

Emily Bronte would totally forgive you (and me)...I'm sure. Arnold might not though, so I'm not even going to try to type his name in unless it's been spellchecked. I'm a July baby also...might have to look this up for myself.
Love,
D.

Tammy Brierly said...

Very cool Kim!

Angela Marie said...

I was tagged by Cheryl! I found this to be fun and very informative! It was hard to choose the amount we were given.

Very Fun!

Deb R said...

Wow, lots o' cool stuff happened that day - including your grand entrance to Planet Earth. :-)

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