GT: July 26 in History

Posted on 07. Jul, 2011 by in girls talk, meme love

Hi girlies! Welcome to the first Thursday of July! We’re doing birthday-related prompts this whole month, and to start it off, let’s play a little game:

  1. Go to Wikipedia.org.
  2. Search for your birthday (without the year, only date and month, for more results).
  3. Share with us events, births, deaths and holidays which happened during the date of your birth.

So. I will start. In Wikipedia it says:

July 26 is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 158 days remaining until the end of the year.

I searched for July 26 and here are some of the results:

EVENTS:

1745 – The first recorded women’s cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.

1971 – Apollo Program: launch of Apollo 15.

1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

 

BIRTHDAYS:

1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1950)

1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)

1943 – Mick Jagger, English singer (The Rolling Stones)

1945 – Betty Davis, American funk, rock and soul singer

1964 – Sandra Bullock, American actress

1973 – Chris Pirillo, American TV host and blogger

1993 – Taylor Momsen, American actress and singer

 

DEATHS:

1932 – Fred Duesenberg, German-born American automotive pioneer (b. 1876)

1934 – Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)

1990 – Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1952)

1952 – Eva Perón, Argentine First Lady (b. 1919)

 

HOLIDAYS:

Christian Feast Day

Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Liberia from the United States in 1847.

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Maldives from the United Kingdom in 1965.

Kargil Victory Day or Kargil Vijay Diwas (India)

Wow. I only found out now that one of my favorite actresses of all time Sandra Bullock was born on July 26! And Chris Pirillo, one of my internet idols, was also born on the same day! Some more interesting facts from PokeMyBirthday.com (try it too!):

  • I am exactly 26 years 50 weeks 1 day 5 hours 15 minutes 42 seconds old at the time of typing this.
  • My lucky days are Thursday (Conceivement date, my parents decided to not to have an abortion, I was born) and Friday (My first cell is built, my mother suspects she is pregnant, my heart beat for the first time)

Now, your turn. It’s time to learn a little something about your date of birth. Join in the Girls Talk fun! How? Simple! Just make a post including the Girls Talk badge AND link, submit the EXACT URL of your post at the inLinkz tool below and hop to the blogs of the other participants to see what other they have to say on the prompt of the week topic! That is how you play Girls Talk!

By the way, I plan to give something special to a lucky Girl Talker by the end of the month. Not sure what it is yet, but definitely something to make her feel like it’s her birthday too! Just join ALL FOUR weeks this July to be included in the draw :)



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26 Responses to “GT: July 26 in History”

  1. Chris 7 July 2011 at 12:10 am #

    great trivia! by the way, happy birthday marce! :D

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  2. aine 7 July 2011 at 1:50 am #

    happy birthday kaye! :)

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  3. Yami 7 July 2011 at 4:32 am #

    I’m joining mare! Happy birthday! :)

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  4. Lyza 7 July 2011 at 8:09 am #

    Advance happy bday! I really enjoyed our topic :)

    http://www.lyzalane.info/2011/07/gt-my-birthdate.html

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  5. jona 7 July 2011 at 8:13 am #

    same birthday with Sandra Bullock, cool! :D i had fun, thanks!

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  6. Dyes 7 July 2011 at 8:28 am #

    Sandra is also my fave actress :) and great to know when you were conceived and had a first heart beat :) advance happy bday!

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  7. Lucia 7 July 2011 at 8:42 am #

    Doing the research for my entry was so much fun! I learned so many new things about my birthday, and I would never do this on my own, so thank you for the idea, sweety *huggles*

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  8. Wena 7 July 2011 at 9:20 am #

    i really enjoyed playing this game, hehe… Sandra Bullock is one of my favorite actresses, too.

    Advanced Happy Birthday, Kaye!!!

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  9. niko 7 July 2011 at 9:49 am #

    super galing nung wiki at pokemybotday :) saya saya to know kabotday ko pala si scarlett johansson!! grabeeeeey

    the post made my day! saya hiihih

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  10. Jenn 7 July 2011 at 10:33 am #

    Oh wow… you share your birthday with a lot of popular people!

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  11. Clarissa 7 July 2011 at 10:41 am #

    oo nga,malapit na nga pala ang birthday mo,K!Advance Happy Birthday! I’m back uli sa GT!yey!

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  12. kikamz 7 July 2011 at 11:32 am #

    cool interesting stuff marce! at lapit na birthday mo ha? wanna greet you advance happy birthday. baka kasi di na naman ako maka greet. glad to have joined today! mwah!

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  13. nancy 7 July 2011 at 12:12 pm #

    I knew it! Advance Happy Birthday Kaye! :)

    Nakakalurkey yung akin sa dami ng events pero natapos ko din naman sa wakas :D

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  14. zoan 7 July 2011 at 12:18 pm #

    i love the topics!!! birthday ko din JULY ahahah gagawa na ako ng post LOL

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  15. anne 7 July 2011 at 12:38 pm #

    ang galing ng theme natin ngayon ah, I learned something in my birthday. Hehehe thanks!

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  16. claire 7 July 2011 at 2:12 pm #

    had fun knowing facts about each other’s birth dates. thank you for sharing.

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  17. janakidiary 7 July 2011 at 3:53 pm #

    this is such a fun topic :)

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  18. Janice 7 July 2011 at 8:33 pm #

    Nice! :D I had fun with this one. :D Advance happy birthday!

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  19. scarlet's walk 7 July 2011 at 11:36 pm #

    it’s my birthday today. heheh! happy GT everyone..

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  20. gengen 8 July 2011 at 1:00 am #

    This is cool topic mine is up…

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  21. jared's mum 8 July 2011 at 9:42 am #

    i enjoyed doing this! nice one! happy birthday pretty Kaye :)

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  22. genefaith 8 July 2011 at 1:46 pm #

    wow ha marce kabirthday mo si Sandra Bullock..one of my fave actresses ko din sya. Sorry marce ngayon lang nakajoin uli and I’m having fun digging the history of my birthdate. July 26 ang anniversary ng parents ko kaya i can’t forget your birthday. Advance Happy birthday!!!

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  23. joy 9 July 2011 at 10:18 am #

    I had so much fun! Thanks!

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  24. Kha 12 July 2011 at 12:30 pm #

    I had so much fun doing this post. I learned a lot from my birthday and yes as they say I may not be doing this only by my own idea. Thanks for your topic.

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  25. Actually Mummy... 13 July 2011 at 8:08 pm #

    I love this idea! Just found you through Chloe: the next chapter via the Gallery on Sticky Fingers. Off to sign up so I can join in next time!

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