My grandmother (“Nannie”) is 101 years old today. Yesterday I got an email from her. I was overwhelmed!
In 1908
- the summer olympics were held in London, England
- the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed December 30th at 86.15
- General Motors Corporation was created
- the Model T Ford model was introduced
- the first around-the-world car race, the 1908 New York to Paris Race, began
- the Wright brothers had flown the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight just a couple of years earlier
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, 35, began a series of Anne of Green Gables novels
- nearly 90 percent of the horsepower used on English and Welsh farms came from horses
- only about 10 percent of U.S. homes were wired for electricity
- a long-distance radio message was sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time
- the Tunguska event, also known as the Russian explosion, occurred in Siberia
- Ernest Rutherford of England won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his studies of radioactivity, alpha particles, and the atom
And to think I just received her email in 2009….. It really makes me wonder what 2110 will be like!
Happy birthday Nannie! May you celebrate many more with all of us who love you and collectively are your numerous progeny.
Although I missed celebrating Erin’s birthday this last May, I am in fact doing a little better these days. At this point, my goal is to be able to be out of bed and downstairs on Christmas Day (2007 that is!). Lyme disease has taken enough of my life and that of my family. Being stuck in bed is fun for the first day, but as of October 8, 2007 it will be one full year (with the exception of brief periods in Dec. 2006 through Feb. 2007 when I was able to be up). I will beat this! 🙂