Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: The Date You Were Born
From Genea-Musings comes a bit of a catch-up Saturday Night Genealogy Fun prompt:
1) What day of the week were you born? Tell us how you found out.
2) What has happened in recorded history on your birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events.
3) What famous people have been born on your birth date? Tell us how you found out, and list five of them.
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1. 6 January 19— was a Tuesday.
2. The 6th of January is otherwise well-known as “Twelfth Day” (the previous night being “Twelfth Night”) and celebrated in Western Christianity as the Epiphany, a feast commemorating the visitation of the Magi to the baby Jesus. Some historical 6 January moments from a combination of Brainy History and Wikipedia:
- 1066 – Harold Godwinson crowned King Harold II of England for less than one year (see my The Wrong Side of History post)
- 1759 – George Washington married Martha Dandridge Curtis
- 1832 – New England Anti-Slavery Society organized in Boston
- 1880 – Record snow cover in Seattle: 120cm (calculated: 47.2 inches, nearly 4 feet)
- 1941 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his Four Freedoms Speech (officially known as the 1941 State of the Union Address)
3. Famous 6 January births (from the same lists):
- 1745 – Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, inventor (along with his brother) of the Montgolfiere Hot Air Balloon, pioneer balloonist
- 1878 – Carl Sandburg, American Poet, biographer of Abraham Lincoln
- 1925 – John Zachary DeLorean, automobile engineer (Pontiac GTO, Firebird, and Grand Prix, and DeLorean DMC-12)
- 1945 – Pepé le Pew (in “Odor-able Kitty”), Warner Brothers’ animated incurably-romantic skunk
- 1946 – Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett, original guitarist and lyricist of Pink Floyd (also credited with choosing the name) and solo works
Bonus collateral family same-birthday hit:
- 1901 – Charlie Ertel (Wisconsin, USA), a paternal second-cousin’s husband’s granduncle
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“When a nation goes down or a society perishes, one condition may always be found — They forgot where they came from.”
~ Carl Sandberg (attribution unknown)
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