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| The Day I was Born |
This was an exercise given to us by our history teacher back in college.Its pretty cool and you should try it for your curiosity. It can actually add to your knowledge of what was going on, on the most precious day of your life. Actually, this is one of the most enjoyable stuff I did as a history minor for my degree. The instruction was to ask anybody or your mother what they can recall on the day you were born. Or do some research on what happened on the day you were born.
So that means going back to newspapers issued on the day you were born, read books or simply seach the web. This is what I found out:
I was born in MAy 10, 1989, Wednesday, at the Metropolitan Manila Hospital around 7:23 a.m. Her caesarian birth operation to deliver a baby was all my mother can remember on that day. In short, she was hardly aware of the events happening outside the four white walls of the hospital.
I checked out a newspaper on another schools archive issued on the day I was born and it says May 10, 1989 had a fair weather but on the afternonit became cloudy with rainshowers and thunderstorms. The sun rose up at 6:29 in the morning and set at 6:16 in the afternoon. Political turmoil caused by terrorists attacks made President Corazon Aquino say, 'The message we have to convey to our people is that we will not allow terrorist attacks to deter us (the government) from doing our duties' She also ordered a new bidding for the sale of the Philipine property in Roppongi district in Tokyo, Japan, following the failure of the first bidding held in March 1989. Also, on the same day, government troops claimed to have killed 19 insurgents in a 13-hour battle in province of Ilocos. Lastly, $300 loan by the Philippines to support a financial reform program was approved by the World Bank.
In other parts of the world, on the day of May 10, 1989, Polish unionist Lech Walesa, who later served as president of Poland, received the gold medal of the Rights of Man 1989, grnated by the Council of Europe. In addition, it was on the same day that China joined the UN Trusteeship Council and the bicycle parade - the first bicyle parade of the world and part of the Tiananmen Suqare Protests in China, reached the Tiananmen Square.
Isn't it a cool, fun and enriching way to appreciate history?
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Posted by HazeGem on 2009-06-13 06:53:18 | Rating: | Views: 23
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