{"id":272,"date":"2026-11-06T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:02:56","slug":"birthdays-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James Naismith<\/strong> (born Almonte, Ontario, Canada, 1861; died Lawrence, Kansas, November 28, 1939) invented basketball in 1891. He was given the task of designing a game that could keep track and field athletes in shape and be played indoors during the cold winter. He created the first hoop from a peach basket, and the first basketball was actually a soccer ball. Children can read more about the original rules of the game at: <a href=\"http:\/\/inventors.about.com\/library\/inventors\/blbasketball.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Basketball Rules<\/a>.\u00a0Children could also read John Coy\u2019s <em>Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adolphe Sax<\/strong> (born Dinant, Belgium, 1814; died Paris, France, February 7, 1894) invented the saxophone and all its relatives. He became famous and wealthy. Children could watch and hear a saxophone and a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HUGE<\/span> saxophone being played at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MbG6CQRz-hk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saxophone<\/a>. Is the saxophone a woodwind instrument or a brass instrument?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8739\" style=\"width: 116px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8739\" class=\"  wp-image-8739\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sousa.jpg\" alt=\"Sousa\" width=\"106\" height=\"154\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Philip Sousa<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>John Philip Sousa<\/strong> (born Washington, DC, 1854; died Reading, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1932) was a band conductor and a composer. He wrote, among other works, &#8220;The Stars and Stripes Forever.&#8221; Children can read about him at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marineband.marines.mil\/About\/Our-History\/John-Philip-Sousa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sousa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Naismith (born Almonte, Ontario, Canada, 1861; died Lawrence, Kansas, November 28, 1939) invented basketball in 1891. He was given the task of designing a game that could keep track and field athletes in shape and be played indoors during the cold winter. He created the first hoop from a peach basket, and the first <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=272' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3808,3807,2024,6000],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-adolphe-sax","tag-james-naismith","tag-john-philip-sousa","tag-november-6-birthdays","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29854,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/29854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}