This game is very similar to the Word Association game, except with History! :o

The point of this game is similar to Word Association. I state a fact in History, then you reply to that with whatever historical fact comes to your mind after reading the previous fact.

Rules:
-It must be an actual known FACT.
-It can be from any time, as far as when life began.
-Have fun!

I'll start off,

In 1920, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake killed 200,000 in northwest China.

in 1936, a tornado killed 200 people in northeast mississippi (Tupelo), including my paternal grandmother (found by my then 16-year-old father).

According to many history facts, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 killed approx. 3000 people. The real death toll is mugh higher than 3000 though. You know why? Cause they only counted the white, didn't count the Chinese or Blacks.

Learned that from a recent trip to an art history museum. ;)

oh, my, jenn - i'll have to go back and research the stats on the tornado. i would hope that they'd have counted every soul and forgotten skin color, but i know all too well how that worked in mississippi --- and my historical fact to make this a legitimate post:

my high school graduating class, 1968, marked the first year that any school in tupelo, mississippi was integrated, and it was accomplished without incident, in a year when integration in other parts of the country was accompanied by violence and bloodshed.

In the summer of 1957, the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, made plans to desegregate its public schools. Within a week of the 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision striking down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas was one of two Southern states to announce it would begin immediately to take steps to comply with the new "law of the land."

The HUGE conflict was that the state officials were against the desegregation so they sent guards in the keep the African American students OUT! SO, the president demanded they be removed, and they were, but by that time there was tons of hype and crowds of angry white Southerners crowded around the school harassing any black students or other black people who happened to be around--this made for a very dangerous situation (I remember seeing a video of one man hitting a tall black man over the head with a brick :blink: and not getting arrested! THe black man just kept walking and couldn't do a thing because if he did, he'd be arrested!). ANyways, Eisenhower finally took action and sent the National Guard in to ensure that the famous Little Rock Nine (the black students attending the school) got to school safely.

The funny thing was that most of the students were very open to desegregation; it was the adults and parents who were most afraid of the change.

On September 12, 1992, Dr. Mae Carol Jemison launched into space as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavor, becoming the first African-American female astronaut in space.

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia over Texas on February 1, 2003, during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere on its 28th mission, STS-107. The entire seven-member crew died.

Go Wikipedia!

On January 28, 1986, 73 seconds after launch, the space shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-air killing the crew aboard.