This
is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in
their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if
you wish, to future generations. - See more at:
http://joannfitz.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/the-book-of-me-written-by-you-topic-1.html#sthash.2TuO2bVu.dpuf
This
is a journey of finding yourself and how your loved ones see you in
their eyes. Further, this can be online and carried forward to share, if
you wish, to future generations. - See more at:
http://joannfitz.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/the-book-of-me-written-by-you-topic-1.html#sthash.2TuO2bVu.dpuf
The prompt for the week is:
The day I was born
- What happened
- Historical
- Films
- Music
- Books
- Television
- Or use any other historical (well known or otherwise) event
The topic was the year I was born, but I decided to do the day I was born just to be a bit more specific.
I had previously looked this up when I was at college, but that was over 20 years ago (ouch was it that long?) and I barely remember what I found to be honest. However, upon looking up the newspaper for the day I was born, I found the major thing I found when I was at college was actually the year prior to the day I was born. Oops - talk about a mistake...
Anyhow, some of the events & facts on the day I was born was:
Weather & Pollution:
Politics:
- On this day a federal grand jury indicted the five Watergate burglars, along with E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy
- On this day, White House staff attorney John Dean (on right) met with President Nixon for the first time. In the meeting, which lasted from 5:27 to 6:17, and discussed the covering up of the White House role in the Watergate break-in. Dean would testify about his memory of the discussion at the Watergate hearings on June 25, 1973, unaware that Oval Office conversations were all recorded at Nixon's request. Nixon, Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, and Dean, discussed plans to take revenge on the President's enemies. "They are asking for it and they are going to get it," commented Nixon, adding "We haven't used the Bureau and we haven't used the Justice Department, but things are going to change now. They're going to get it right."
- South Vietnam's army regained control of the city of Quang Tri, more than three months after the provincial capital had been captured by North Vietnamese forces.
- IRA gunmen attack army post in Belfast.
- Born:
- Jimmy Carr, British comedian, in Hounslow
- Jessie Alexander, Actress, Any Given Sunday
- Rosey, Soundtrack, Bridget Jones's Diary
- Kit Chan Actress, Eating Air
- Jennifer Lewicki Art Department, Inception
- Angelika Kallio Actress, The Concierge
- Died:
- Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
- Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66
- Alfred Blalock,1899-1964,Doctor, Surgeon
- Carole Robertson 1949-1963
- Brett Somers,1924-2007, Television Actress, Television Personality
- Ottis Toole,1947-1996,Serial Killer
- Robert Penn Warren,1905-1989, Civil Rights Activist, Literary Critic, Poet
- Thomas Wolf, 1900-1938, Author, Playwright
- According to Beatles Bible: The follow-up to John Lennon's critically acclaimed Imagine was released in the United Kingdom on this day. Some Time In New York City was a departure for the former Beatle. It was a collaboration with Yoko Ono and US band Elephant's Memory, and contained some of his most political songs. It was a critical and commercial failure, and featured two discs containing 10 studio songs and six live performances.
Warning: Click on to begin music. I found this is very hard to listen to - so be aware!
Space:
- NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher released a report on Apollo 15, addressing the essential facts developed through investigation to date concerning postal covers, the Fallen Astronaut sculpture, and unauthorized timepieces.This article goes on to describe a new instruction which revises the policy and procedures on articles that can and cannot be carried on manned flight missions.
Although this newspaper clip doesn't show The Price is Right, but as you can see this video was made in the same year and has been put on YouTube as the day of my birth.
Air flight:
- According to an online article, an SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malm-Bulltofta Airport.
In Drive Ins & Movie Theaters:
- Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
- Dirty Harry Note: This was actually made in 1971 and not the year I was born but it was being shown
- The Undefeated Note: This was actually made in 1969 and not the year I was born but it was being shown
I wonder what I was busy doing? *grin*
