Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What Date Was Your Grandmother Born?

It's Saturday Night -

time for more Genealogy Fun!

Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to:

1)  What is the day, month and year was your grandfather born (either one)? [Use a grandmother if you want!] What was the day of the week for this event?  Tell us how you found out.

2) What has happened in recorded history on your grandfather’s birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events.

3) What famous people have been born on your grandfather’s birth date?  Tell us how you found out, and list five of them.

4) Put your responses in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a status or comment on Facebook.

Here's mine:

After being gone on vacation for the past four weeks, I’m ready to do a SNGF post. Today is the birthday of my paternal grandmother, Anna Maria Sullivan, who was born on this day, 15 October 1892 in Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, Montana.

To find out what day of the week it was, I used an online calendar on this website: https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1892&country=1. Her birthday landed on a Saturday.

Some headlines in the 15 October 1892 Anaconda Standard that I found on Newspapers.com:

• “It was a Hard One.” Two days’ worth of a heavy storm in Cheyenne, Wyoming cut off telegraph communication on the Union Pacific Railroad.

• “Japan and the Fair.” The World’s Fair commissioner of Japan, S. Tejima, arrived on October 14 in San Francisco. The World’s Fair was in Chicago that year.

• “Eleven Killed.” Many men were killed and injured in an explosion of gas in the Sterling run colliery in Shamokin, Pennsylvania.

• “Carnegie in London.” Andrew Carnegie and his wife visited London on their way to the continent, and he was working on a new book treating the industrial problems of the day.

• “Seized but Escaped.” The schooner Sea Lion came to port in Victoria with 800 skins and was seized by the US Collector Bullock but the schooner put to sail in the night and escaped.

I used “Famous Birthdays on October 15” at https://www.onthisday.com/birthdays/october/15 to get this list. Most of the people I had never heard of.

• Virgil in 70 BCE
• Jose Miguel Carrera, first president of Chile, in 1785
• Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1840-61), in 1795
• John L Sullivan, boxer (no relation), in 1858
• Mario Puzo, author, in 1920
• Mark Lenard, actor (Spock’s father), in 1924
• Jim Palmer, baseball player, in 1945

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