Half Day and History

Today is my 35th and 1/2 birthday. Whoo-hoo! Welcome to my cyber-party. :-)

In celebration, I decided to participate in the following history birthday blog game of tag, proposed by Marnie Pehrson at The Power of Gratitude.

Here were the instructions:

1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday without the year:

October 27

2. List 3 events that occurred that day:

* 1904- The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of the biggest in world.

* 1997- Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. for the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activated their “circuit breakers” twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early.

* 2004 – Curse of the Bambino: The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinal in Game 4 of the World Series, winning their first championship since 1918.

(Have to playfully get this jab in to Hubby-Honey, who put the festivities for my birthday in 1999 on hold until the game where his beloved Yankees won the World Series title was over. We were still just dating--lucky for him he more than made up for it!)

3. List 2 important birthdays:

* 1873 – Emily Post, American etiquette author

* 1924- Ruby Dee, American actress (once had the pleasure of meeting her at a booksigning and subsequently becoming an invited backstage guest of hers after a show performance as a birthday gift to Hubby-Honey)

4. List 1 death:

2003 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b.1937)
(“Come on down!” The Price Is Right weighs heavily in my loving memories of my great-grandmother, a huge fan of the show.)

5. List 1 holiday or observance:

St. Vincent and the Grenadines – Independence Day (from Britain, 1979)
(Ohhhh, yes! As if I needed yet another reason to head to the Caribbean!)

So now, according to the instructions, I'm supposed to "tag" someone else. How about... you?!

And if you've got a blog (you know who you are--don't make me call you out) ;-) and you want to play, post your results on your blog and come back here and comment with a link to it on mine. Consider it a fun half-birthday present that I'll accept with gratitude!

Marnie, you and celebrations of the everyday have just been added to The Thanks Ranks.

Tag to the rest of you--you're it!