Thursday, October 7, 2010

Fun Due Date Facts


Fun Birthday Facts

  • Zodiac Sign: Libra
  • Half birthday: April 9
  • Birthstone: Opal
  • Birth Flower: Calendula or Cosmos
  • Chinese Zodiac: Year of The White Metal Tiger
  • Your baby will start kindergarten in 2016, be old enough to drive a car in 2026, finish high school in 2029, and will graduate from college with the class of 2033, give or take a year. Can you imagine?

Famous People Born On This Day

  • King Charles X was born in 1757
  • Guillermo del Toro was born in 1964
  • Sean Ono Lennon was born in 1975
  • John Lennon was born in 1940

On This Day In History...

  • British Lord Cornwallis and his army were defeated by George Washingtons American forces during the last major battle of the American Revolution in 1781
  • The Washington monument was opened to the public in 1888
  • Belgium was captured by the Germans in WW I in 1914
  • The famous Black Sox scandal ensued after the Cincinnati Reds won the World Series in 1919
  • The first solo transcontinental flight by a woman ended today when Laura Ingalls landed in California in 1930
  • A landslide caused the Viont Dam in Italy to fail which resulted in 2,000 deaths in 1963
  • The father of the hydrogen bomb Andrei Sakharov, received the Nobel Prize in 1975
  • The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro surrendered in 1985
  • The Phantom of the Opera opened in 1986
  • U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne was impeached in 1986
  • Saddam Hussein began massing his war machine along the Kuwaiti border, as a result U.S. troops and warships were dispatched to the Persian Gulf in 1994
  • Roger Moore was knighted by Queen Elizabeth of Britain in 2003
  • This time last year you weren't even pregnant yet!

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