Randy is doing more Saturday Night Genealogy Fun!
Your mission this week, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) What day of the week was your Father born? Tell us how you found out. I googled for a 1910 calendar.
My father, Donald George Hansen, was born on Saturday, May 14, 1910.
2) What has happened in recorded history on your Father's birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events. This Day in History is the place I found these events
lEAD STORY
Lewis and Clark depart,1804
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Constitutional Convention delegates begin to assemble, 1787
AUTOMOTIVE
DaimlerChrysler sells most of Chrysler for $7.4 billion, 2007
CIVIL WAR
The Battle of Resaca, Georgia, begins, 1864
COLD WAR
The Warsaw Pact is formed, 1955
CRIME
A brutal murder begins an unusual investigation,1948
DISASTER
Two trains crash in Japan, 1991
GENERAL INTEREST
Jenner tests smallpox vaccine, 1796First American Olympiad,1904State of Israel proclaimed, 19483) What famous people have been born on your Father's birth date? Tell us how you found out, and list five of them. I found this information at biography.com
Thomas Gainsborough 1727 - 1788
Bobby Darrin 1936 - 1973
George Lucas 1944
Mark Zuckerberg 1984
Tony Perez 1942 (baseball player)
4) Put your responses in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a status or comment on Facebook.