Something fun

Here's sort of a cool Meme I stole from Susanne. I thought it appropriate since today is my birthday - let's see what happened this day in history.

1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday Month and day only.

2. List 3 Events that occurred that day.

1799 New York State abolished slavery

1929 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador

1936 Birth of Bill Gaither, contemporary Gospel songwriter and vocal artist. Together with his wife Gloria, he wrote some of the most popular Christian songs of the 1960s-1970s, including "Because He Lives," "The King is Coming," "The Longer I Serve Him" and "Something Beautiful."

1961 English apologist C. S. Lewis wrote in "Letters to American Lady": 'The main purpose of our life is to reach the point at which one's own life as a person is at an end. One must in this sense "die," relinquish one's freedom and independence... "He that loses his life shall find it."'


3. List 2 important Birth days

Reba McEntire - 1955

August Anheuser Busch Jr. - 1898

4. List 1 Death.

1969 - Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78


5. List a Holiday or Observance. (if any):

American Chocolate Week - Last week of March

Constitution Day in Serbia

Czechoslovakia : Teachers' Day

Libya : Evacuation Day



Thanks for reading -

Cyndee