I know a few facts concerning about my birthday, but this week's prompt on Girls Talk was something different as it allowed me to learn more about my birth date aside from the personal things told to me by my parents.
Checking Wikepedia, I learned that on the 13th of May, these happened:
Events
In another site I checked - Poke My Birthday, I learned that:
Very interesting facts, eh? I already know I share the same birth date with Stevie Wonder...but it's just today when I found out I share the same birth date with two popes! Well, very funny to learn that even if two popes were born the 13th of May, there was one serial killer born on this date, too. Talk about irony!
- 1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
- 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- 1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
- 1958 – The trade mark Velcro is registered.
- 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
- 1655 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
- 1792 – Blessed Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
- 1883 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the pap smear (d. 1962)
- 1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician
- 1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
- 1809 – Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, first Anglican to challenge the Church's position on slavery (b. 1731)
- 1878 – Joseph Henry, American scientist (b. 1797)
- 1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (b. 1864)
- 1974 – Arthur J. Burks, "million-words-a-year" pulp magazines author (b. 1898)
In another site I checked - Poke My Birthday, I learned that:
- On 8.July.1979, Sunday, your father has produced the semen that will be half of you soon. (He produced 1000 sperms every second of his life and you will be be lucky one out of 500 million sperm he sent on their way in the conceivement. You may find interesting to know that if he had drunk (or not drunk) coffee on this Sunday morning, you might born completely as someone else (for instance in the opposite sex) as kafein changes the speed of male sperms.}
- Your lucky days are Tuesday (Conceivement date, Your parents decided to not to have an abortion, You were born) and Wednesday (Your first cell is built, Your mother suspects she is pregnant, Your heart beat for the first time).
- You are exactly 31 years 8 weeks 5 days 21 hours 12 minutes 36 seconds old.
Very interesting facts, eh? I already know I share the same birth date with Stevie Wonder...but it's just today when I found out I share the same birth date with two popes! Well, very funny to learn that even if two popes were born the 13th of May, there was one serial killer born on this date, too. Talk about irony!
The picture I shared was taken the day I was baptized. Coming from a poor family, I was actually the "underprivileged" child, which led me to have the Middle Child Syndrome. Talking about photographs, my mom had a picture while she was pregnant with brother (possibly a picture while pregnant with sister, too), and that there were pictures of my siblings while they were itty bitty babies, but there was none of me. In a way, I think I was adopted because the oldest pictures I had were the time I was baptized, but of course I know for sure I wasn't adopted as I have my dad's nose and that my second cousin Marjorie told me (the first time I met her a few weeks ago) I looked a lot like one of her aunts. Even if I don't have much baby pictures, I am still thankful I have a handful of pictures to look back to. It's very much better than not having one at all.
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