Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What Happened On Your Mother's Birth Date

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1)  What day was your Mother born? Where was she born?  What day of the week was it?  Tell us how you found out.

2) What has happened in recorded history on your Mother'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 Mother's birth date?  Tell us how you found out, and list five of them.

4)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post.

Update: My mother is still alive; therefore, I will omit certain details that showcase her personal information. 

1)  My mother was born on a Wednesday. I searched on Google for my mother's birthday and year to find the day she was born.

2) World events that have occurred on March 10th (Wikipedia):

*  1629– Charles dissolves Parliament of England, which begun the Personal Rule.

*  1876 – The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.

*  1933 – Long Beach Earthquake, affecting the Greater LA area.

*  1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo which kills more than 100,000 people, many of whom are civilians.

*  1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.

3)  Famous people born on March 10th (Wikipedia):

*  1653– John Benbow, English officer (d. 1702)

*  1788– Edward Hodges Baily, English sculptor (d. 1867)

*  1876- Anna Hyatt Huntington, American sculptor (d. 1973)

*  1964– Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

*  1983 – Carrie Underwood, American country singer