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1st Wednesday of 2018
Today is the 4th day of the 1st week, the 3rd day of the 1st month, the 3rd day of 2018, and:
- Earth at Perihelion – a perihelion is the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid or comet where & when it is nearest to the sun. Seems counter-intuitive in the North Hemisphere because it is winter
- Festival of Sleep Day
- Humiliation Day – if that is your kink, have at it. Personally I have managed [1] to do this to myself far too often and [2] been bullied to ever think this is a day that needs to be celebrated.
- JRR Tolkien Day – the 125th anniversary of the author’s birth, marked by fans with a toast each year
- Memento Mori [Remember You Die] Day – remember, tomorrow is promised to no one
- National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
- National Drinking Straw Day
- National Write to Congress Day
- Women Rock! Day
- The tenth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
Quote of the day:
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
~ John F. Kennedy
On this day in...
1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
1868 - The Meiji Restoration re-established the authority of Japan's emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns.
1870 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins. No idea how many times it has been sold.
1913 – An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States. This record may be broken this year by the "bomb cyclone"
1938 – The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
2000 – Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
2004 - NASA's Mars rover, Spirit, touched down on the red planet.
2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Saw an interesting comment asking how Catholics were going to deal with 2018 – Ash Wednesday is on Valentine’s Day this year, and Easter is on April Fools’ Day, and I checked the calendar and it is true! Hadn’t heard that one yet, and it made me think of somethings that I haven’t been reading about lately. Puerto Rico is still without power in many places and it is a situation that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon. Don’t hear much about the situation of this American island in the news these days though. I wonder how the water situation is progressing in Flint, Michigan – there doesn’t seem to be a lot of updates for the past six months. Back in October 2017, a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services study found that the Flint River water did not contribute to the increase in infant deaths and stillbirths in Flint., but I’m not sure how objective that decision was. In November, the Flint City Council voted to sign off on a 30-year contract with the Great Lakes Water Authority. After that reporting seemed to dry up The water protectors at Standing Rock were forced away, but the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline moved into the courts. The DAPL went operational on 05.14.2017 despite the fact that several leaks occurred even before then, but I haven’t heard any more about it. Makes you wonder what else is happening that you aren’t hearing anything about, or won’t make the history books when pundits are writing about this time, neh?
Meanwhile? It is the time of year when I question why I never moved to Florida and started working for the House of the Mouse…..
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