Foo - What happened...(A Guessing Game)

on your birthday? Anything memorable or note worthy? Was it mentioned in a song? You can use the whole date including the year or just the month and day.

Also a different way to find out how old/young we all are. You can make it as hard or as easy as you want. I'll go first.

1. It was mentioned in the song 'In the Name of Love'
2. James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in jail for something he did on this day.

Can you guess my date of birth?

Monday morning, April 4th, a shot rings out in a Memphis sky. Free at last, they took your life, they cannot take your pride.

04/04/1968, James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr.

Monday morning, April 4th, a shot rings out in a Memphis sky.

Correct ;) Though I wasn't born in '68.

Anything happen on your date of birth?

...my dad told my mother "You said you were on birth control."

Guess THAT date. :)

The angels wept and Lyndon Baines Johnson used dynamite in a very creative way.

Correct ;)

Anything happen on your date of birth?

God smiled and the devil cried.

It is my turn dang it. If you can figure out what LBJ blew up to reshape Texas, then you can guess my date of birth.

Okay EVERYBODY hush...

!!!

It's Jsharr's turn on stage.

Go ahead, Jsharr. Go shine. :)

*drops trou, turns around, bends over*

Ya'll tell me when you are done basking in my light.

Gustavo Diaz Ordaz was involved as well.

*drops trou, turns around, bends over*

Ya'll tell me when you are done basking in my light.

Gustavo Diaz Ordaz was involved as well.

are we talking ground breaking or opening?

yes.

John Wayne made a movie with a title that tells what was blown up, but he made the movie 14 years prior to the big boom of which I speak.

I PROUDLY SIGN legislation authorizing a joint project with our sister Republic of Mexico for the solution of the salinity problem in the Lower Rio Grande.

- LBJ, September 19, 1966

Part of the agreement changed the international boundary.

Dam(n) Beat me to it!

Pope John Paul II (as he will be later known) celebrates his first full day as a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Grace Kelly got married on this day

I PROUDLY SIGN legislation authorizing a joint project with our sister Republic of Mexico for the solution of the salinity problem in the Lower Rio Grande.

- LBJ, September 19, 1966

Part of the agreement changed the international boundary.

This event happened before the actual transfer of land.

John Wayne made a movie with a title that tells what was blown up, but he made the movie 14 years prior to the big boom of which I speak.

Well the Rio Grande movie was made in 1950, so I'm guessing your bday is 11.12.64?

The explosion happened 12.13.68 though. Is that your bday?

Grace Kelly got married on this day

4.18

Well the Rio Grande movie was made in 1950, so I'm guessing your bday is 11.12.64?

The explosion happened 12.13.68 though. Is that your bday?

I show the explosion happening 12-13-1964. Am I wrong?

http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/december_13.html

Pope John Paul II (as he will be later known) celebrates his first full day as a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

10.16.78?

I show the explosion happening 12-13-1964. Am I wrong?

http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/december_13.html

No idea which is right, this is what I read:


Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Lyndon B. Johnson Dec. 13, 1968
El Chamizal, Mex. And
El Paso, TX

Under terms of the 1963 Chamizal Convention the U.S.-Mexico border was changed officially in a
ceremony in El Paso, TX on December 13, 1968. Presidents Johnson and Díaz Ordaz, standing on a bridge
between the two countries, set off an explosion shifting the Rio Grande into a new 4.5-mile concrete
channel placing all the 176.92 hectares of the disputed El Chamizal area on the Mexican side of the river.
The U.S. simultaneously received 193 acres of Mexican territory, the Northern half of Cordova Island.

From: http://www.usembassy-mexico.gov/meetpres.pdf

10.16.78?

nope

The first automated cash machine was installed in Enfield, England.

June 27, 1967.

well done.

well done.

Oh sure, give him the easier clue. :(

...my dad told my mother "You said you were on birth control."

Guess THAT date. :)

Did it happen at the drive-in, in the back of an old chevy?

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night

Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.

She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,

Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night

Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.

She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,

Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"

June 17, 1966

June 17, 1966
Correct

Yuri Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth in Vostok 1.

My birth month/day, not year.

4.12?

I'll play. My birthday is always a bit of a sad note for the C&V'ers. I was born the day Mario Confente died. Anyone?

March 8, 1979.

Google is my friend.

Google is my friend.

That's what it wants you to think. It will make the transition that much smoother.

That's what it wants you to think. It will make the transition that much smoother.

Is your birthdate 0-0-0?

Is your birthdate 0-0-0?

I was gonna guess pie.

In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.

In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.

Nov. 6, 1985

On the day of my birth, but several years prior, a house burned down. Or I should probably say, was burned down.

August 24th, 1814?

A writer of some note, born and died on the same date. Who and when?

A writer of some note, born and died on the same date. Who and when?

The Bard of Stratford. (oh crap, I don't know the dates-- sorry I lose)

The Bard of Stratford. (oh crap, I don't know the dates-- sorry I lose)

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again.