It's my month long celebration of my birthday. So I am going to do something a bit unique. Give you the month of August day by day. I may miss a day or two, but will see how it goes. Birthdays, this day in history. Holidays you may never have know about. I think it will be fun. Don't worry, I blog about things I am doing as well. So here goes. August was named after Augustus Cesar for taking down the Egyptians. So to give him a month that was equal to Julius Cesar(July) with the same amount of days they gave august 31.The flower for the month is the Gladiolus(splendid beauty)
The gemstone is the Peridot, Jade.
August is golf month, catfish month, water quality month, eye exam month.
The first week of august is breast feeding week and clown week.
On this day we observe sister's day and respect your parents day. so i expect all of you to give you sister's and parents a call.
Events happening on this day are:
Columbus lands in south America(1498)
Colorado becomes a state(1876, yeah Colorado people)
Hitler opens the 10th Olympic games(1933)
First world war erupts in Europe(1914)
GW suspended from flying in the Air Force national guard(1972)
Bert Blyleven becomes 10th player to strikeout 3,ooo batters(1986)
Reggie Jackson gets inducted into the Hall of Fame(1993)
People born on this day:
Francis Scott Key(1779)
Dom Delouse(1933)
Jerry Garcia(1941)
So this is just day one people. I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.
1 comment:
Happy Birthday early babe. Interesting post!
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