Friday OT - It's My Birthday Too, Yeah

Angie

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Did anything interesting happen in history on your birthday? Ted Bundy was executed on my birthday. What have you got?
 
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Did anything interesting happen in history on your birthday? Ted Bundy was executed on my birthday. What have you got?
Oh yeah??? Well, Louis XVI was guillotined on MY birthday!

(in before someone says I was there to witness it...)
 

Angie

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If you need any help:

https://www.onthisday.com/

Here's what I found for my birthday:


  • 1940 McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California

Thanks for the link! The first beer in a can was also sold on my birthday - who knew? Also, nuclear fusion happened for the first time. But beer in a can!
 

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I started to respond. Then I thought, oh I get it. We'll probably start seeing more of what seem like innocuous Friday OT questions like:

- What interesting series of digits are in your social security ID?
- What city were you born in?
- Whose mother had an interesting maiden name and what was it?
...

Pretty soon, Angie will have enough info to hack us all. ;)
 

Angie

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I started to respond. Then I thought, oh I get it. We'll probably start seeing more of what seem like innocuous Friday OT questions like:

- What interesting series of digits are in your social security ID?
- What city were you born in?
- Whose mother had an interesting maiden name and what was it?
...

Pretty soon, Angie will have enough info to hack us all. ;)

That's totally not my intention! I realized that might be how it was coming off shortly there. I DEFINITELY did not ask for year on purpose!
 

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Aw man, you're a week early, Angie! My birthday is next Friday, not today :D

I share a birthday with Andy Griffith, Marilyn Monroe, Heidi Klum, Amy Schumer

Nothing super exciting in the events list - Anne Boleyn became Queen and Charles de Gaulle was elected.

My mom likes to tell me how even though she was in the hospital with me on the 31st, I wasn't born until the evening of the 1st and they were very disappointed that as dairy farmers, they just missed out on having the first June baby in the hospital and therefore getting a June is Dairy Month basket of goodies.
 

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1960 - The first contraceptive pill was made available for sale in the US
1974 - The first alien message was sent to space
2016 - Brexit

Shared birthdays:
June Carter Cash and Selma Blair
 

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OMG! I share the same birthday as Wonder Woman! As if we weren't already meant for each other. Now, I have a surefire conversation starter, the one thing that was missing for our relationship to begin.

Other than Wonder Woman, the people born on my birthday are pretty lame. When the featured names include a Portugese Prime Minister and a Malaysian business man, there isn't a whole lot of excitement except me and my immortal beloved Wonder Woman.
 

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Without looking I know the Civil War ended on my birthday in 1865 and Hugh Hefner and Dennis Quaid share a birthday. I’ll see if I can find some more stuff on the link
 
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OMG! I share the same birthday as Wonder Woman! As if we weren't already meant for each other. Now, I have a surefire conversation starter, the one thing that was missing for our relationship to begin.

Other than Wonder Woman, the people born on my birthday are pretty lame. When the featured names include a Portugese Prime Minister and a Malaysian business man, there isn't a whole lot of excitement except me and my immortal beloved Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman would break you in half. Death by Snu Snu!
 

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That's totally not my intention! I realized that might be how it was coming off shortly there. I DEFINITELY did not ask for year on purpose!

Well in that case, Abe Lincoln was born on my birthday.

Believe me, I'll be on the lookout for any future questions identifying the year I was born! :)
 
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