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13 DEC 2017
Today is the 4th day of the 50th week, the 13th day of the 12th month, the 347th day of 2017, and:
- Hanukkah ((2nd night))
- Independence Day -- Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979
- Ice Cream Day
- National Cocoa Day
- National Day of the Horse
- National Violin Day
- Pick a Pathologist Pal Day
On this day in....
1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit, after he issued a solemn decree declaring it permissible for a pope to resign
1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage
1642 – Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand, in the service of the Dutch East India Company, the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight the Fiji islands.
1758 - The Duke William, a deportation ship carrying Acadians from Île Saint-Jean (PEI) to France sinks in a storm in the North Atlantic with the
loss of over 360 lives, including Acadian lader Noel Dorion; one of the greatest marine disasters in Canadian history.
1928 – George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed. Freed bought the rights from his brother, Ira, for $158,750, over a game of pool in 1950 and the award-winning movie came out the next year.
1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem, which is a holy city of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, West Jerusalem was among the areas captured and later annexed by Israel while East Jerusalem, including the Old City, was captured and later annexed by Jordan. Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War and subsequently annexed it into Jerusalem, together with additional surrounding territory. Many United Nations (UN) member states formally adhere to the United Nations proposal that Jerusalem should have an international status
1958 - The squirrel monkey named Gordo survived a 300-mile journey into space and then travelled more than 1,500 miles in the rocket until it dropped in the South Atlantic. A technical problem with the recovery gear meant a parachute failed to open and the nose-cone sank taking Gordo with it
1962 – NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
1972 – Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon
1979 - Supreme Court of Canada unanimously strikes down Québec and Manitoba laws which created unconstitutional unilingual courts and legislatures; unanimously upheld the power of the federal government to guarantee French and English can be used in the courts and legislatures across Canada
2017 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 35 mins 38 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.”
~ Robert Southey, English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years
I once read an explanation of why time seems to move so slowly for the young and so rapidly for the older folks. Take me versus my oldest granddaughter as we remember the WDW family trip in 2016 some 21 months ago – for me that time passed represents just 2,58% of my life; for her that same time is a staggering 38.89% of her entire life. No wonder the memories we make in those first decades loom so large in our consciousness even as time passes! And Christmas really seems like it just never will come when you are little….
PS: I am not a good proofreader, for I tend to read what I meant not what is actually written. This means while I do go back and proofread my blog posts, my eyes tend to slip over missed words and misspelled items. Looking back over a couple of posts made in the past two weeks, I can see my level of distraction has increased and more errors have correspondingly snuck in. I even found a “u” instead of “you”, which is puzzling to me since I am not a fan of “r u here” type of shorthand even when texting.
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