Jamie over at Duward Discussion has laid down a new meme, so I just have to give it a go!
This is what you do:
Go to The Birthday Calculator, This Day in History and/or Google and enter your date of birth to find all sorts of interesting things about what was happening when you were born.
Now tell us about some of these interesting things.
Then, if you wish, tag a few of your friends to do the same.
And post a comment to this post so we know who’s followed the meme.
OK so here goes for me!
Birthday: Thursday 11 January 1951, 1250 PM GMT in University College Hospital, London. My mother has told me that I was 2 weeks early. This means I was conceived in the early days of May 1950.
Astrological Sign: Capricorn
Birthstone: Garnet; said to be a power stone
Alternative Birthstones: Emerald, Rose Quartz.
(Interestingly I’m not so keen on Emeralds, but I love Rose Quartz)
Fortune Cookie: There is no limit to love’s forbearance, to its trust, its hope, its power to endure.
Chinese Year: Tiger
Native American Zodiac Sign: Goose
Plant: Bramble
I share my birthday with: Golfer Ben Crenshaw (b. 1952) and Anthony Powell’s younger son John (b. 1946)
Lucky Day: Saturday
Lucky Number: 8
Ruling Planets: Saturn & Uranus
Birth Tree: Fir Tree, the Mysterious. Extraordinary taste, dignity, cultivated airs, loves anything beautiful, moody, stubborn, tends to egoism but cares for those close to it, rather modest, very ambitious, talented, industrious uncontent lover, many friends, many foes, very reliable.
Lunar Phase: waxing crescent
The day I was born:
There appear to have been no major world events, births or deaths.
Arsenal beat Carlisle United 4-1 away in an FA Cup replay.
London Algebra Colloquium met to discuss “Non-Archimedian Normed Spaces”
On this day in other years:
1973. Britain’s Open University awards its first degrees
1946. Enver Hoxha proclaims the People’s Republic of Albania
1922. First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient
1864. London’s Charing Cross station opened
1787. William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus
1569. The first national lottery is held in England; 40,000 lots, at 10 shillings each, go on sale at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London
Top Song of 1951: Mockin’ Bird Hill by Les Paul & Mary Ford
All in all it seems to have been a fairy dull day, so I guess I fit in well.
I wonder whether the first lottery sold out? 10 shillings was a great deal of money in those days.
Your fortune cookie is wonderful and just reading your article titles and links means I’ll be back often. The shout out on my blog will be up this afternoon once a couple of others post their memes. Thank you for taking part and the link to the Anthony Powell society.