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12th day of Christmas 2018
Today is the 6th day of the 1st week, the 5th day of the 1st month, the 6th day of 2018, and:
On this day in...
1066 – Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England. The Saxons never did quite forgive him even as they granted his status as unworldly and pious, the title of "Confessor" reflecting his reputation as a saint who did not suffer martyrdom
1477 – Charles the Bold is killed at the Battle of Nancy, and Burgundy becomes part of France.
1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
1896 - The Austrian newspaper Wiener Presse reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that came to be known as an X-ray.
1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses subject to restrictions and imposed "character standards."
1919 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1944 – The Daily Mail, a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London, becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1953 – The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is first performed.
1970 - The soap opera "All My Children" premiered on ABC-TV. Set in the fictional East Coast suburb Pine Valley, the risk-taking soap that centers around Erica Kane and her long line of husbands. It went off the air in 2011
1972 – United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program. Who knew tricky Dick had such vision?
1974 – Warmest reliably measured temperature below the Antarctic Circle of +59 °F (+15 °C) recorded at Vanda Station
2005 – Eris, the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
2014 – A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.
2018 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 36 mins 41 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
“It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types – people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing – are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.”
~ Laurie Colwin, “A Mythological Subject,” in The Lone Pilgrim
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