Saturday, July 13, 2013

Dad's Birthday May 14, 1910

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 assemble1787
AUTOMOTIVE
DaimlerChrysler sells most of Chrysler for $7.4 billion2007
CIVIL WAR
The Battle of Resaca, Georgia, begins1864
COLD WAR
The Warsaw Pact is formed1955
CRIME
A brutal murder begins an unusual investigation,1948
DISASTER
Two trains crash in Japan1991
GENERAL INTEREST
Jenner tests smallpox vaccine1796
First American Olympiad,1904
State of Israel proclaimed1948
3)  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.