Results for 21st December 1977*:
# You were born on a Wednesday.
# Your star sign is Sagittarius.
# Your birthstone is Blue Topaz or Turquoise.
# The season was Autumn.
# You were born in the Chinese year of the Snake.
# The US President was Jimmy Carter (Democratic).
# The UK Prime Minister was James Callaghan (Labour).
# You are 31 years 5 months 15 days old.
# It is 199 days until your next birthday.
# In dog years you are 217 years old.
# You are 11,489 days old.
# You are approximately 275,752 hours old.
# You are approximately 992,705,736 seconds old.
On that day in history...
1620 - The "Mayflower", and its passengers, pilgrims from England, landed at Plymouth Rock, MA.
1849 - The first ice-skating club in America was formed in Philadelphia, PA.
1879 - Ibsen's "A Doll's House" was first performed in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a revised happy ending.
1898 - Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.
1909 - McKinley and Washington schools of Berkeley, CA, became the first authorized, junior-high schools in the U.S.
1913 - The "New York World" Sunday edition included a crossword puzzle as an added feature of the "Fun" supplement. It was the first crossword puzzle to be published.
1914 - Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Mack Swain appeared in the first six-reel, feature-length comedy. The film was entitled "Tillie’s Punctured Romance".
1925 - Eisenstein's film "Battleship Potemkin" was first shown in Moscow.
1937 - Walt Disney debuted the first, full-length, animated feature in Hollywood, CA. The movie was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
1944 - Horse racing was banned in the United States until after the end of World War II.
1945 - U.S. Gen. George S. Patton died in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident.
1948 - The state of Eire (formerly the Irish Free State) declared its independence.
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announced his retirement from major league baseball.
1958 - Charles de Gaulle was elected to a seven-year term as the first president of the Fifth Republic of France.
1968 - Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. The craft landed safely in the Pacific Ocean on December 27.
1971 - The U.N. Security Council chose Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as secretary-general.
1978 - Police in Des Plaines, IL, arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of killing.
1981 - Cincinnati defeated Bradley 75-73 in seven overtimes. The game was the longest collegiate basketball game in the history of NCAA Division I competition.
1988 - 270 people were killed when Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack.
1990 - In a German television interview, Saddam Hussein declared that he would not withdraw from Kuwait by the UN deadline.
1991 - Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1995 - The city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1996 - After two years of denials, U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted violating House ethics rules.
1998 - Israel's parliament voted overwhelmingly for early elections. It was the signal to the demise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-line government.
1998 - A Chinese court sentenced two dissidents to long prison terms for attempting to organize an opposition party. A third man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on December 22, 1998.
1998 - The first vaccine for Lyme disease was approved.
2001 - The Islamic militant group Hamas released a statement that said it was suspending suicide bombings and mortar attacks in Israel.
2002 - Larry Mayes was released after spending 21 years in prison for a rape that maintained that he never committed. He was the 100th person in the U.S. to be released after DNA tests were performed.
December 21st birthdays:
* 1401: Masaccio, 'Florentine' painter
* 1804: Benjamin Disraeli, British politician
* 1879: Joseph Stalin, Russian revolutionary leader
* 1937: Jane Fonda, American actress
The Most Girl Popular Names (Top 20):
Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica, Heather, Angela, Michelle, Kimberly, Amanda, Kelly,Sarah, Lisa, Elizabeth, Stephanie, Nicole, Christina, Rebecca, Jamie, Shannon, and Laura.
The year I was born, Anna ranked at #74 of the 100 most popular names.
2 comments:
Hey Girl,
We still speakin'? I hope so. Interesting facts in this batch of random stuff. Thanks for sharing. I apologize, I was only making a suggestion, I was not demanding that you change your posts. I just know that you're a very intelligent woman who works an interesting and creative job and lives an interesting life and I'd rather read about that than see your lunch. Seeing your lunch only made me hungrier for facts about YOU! So, if it's your happy place and you need to, bento post away. I will quietly slip into the background and leave you the hell alone. Still love you much! Aunt Les
Yes, of course we are... I had my moment and I'm done.
Sadly, I don't have a lot of time to post about other things. I don't usually get on the interwebs on the weekend or in the evening unless it's just to check email. And, I should be working during the day so... Yeah, sometimes I don't blog about work stuff.
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