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6NOV17
Today is the 2nd day of the 45th week, the 6th day of the 11th month, the 310th day of 2017, and:
- Basketball Day
- Color The World Orange Day -- to spread awareness of COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME (CRPS), AKA REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTORPHY (RSD)
- Fill Our Staplers Day: 6 (always Day after Daylight Savings Ends)
- International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
- Job Action Day
- Malaria Day in the Americas
- Marooned Without a Compass Day
- National Nachos Day
- National Saxophone Day
- Traffic Directors Day
On this day:
1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas. His ship was wrecked on or near Galveston Island as they were trying to get to Mexico -- searching for a city of gold.
1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1995 – Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, the first time the city had a NFL team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts. This was pretty controversial, especially because later Cleveland was awarded another franchise; many felt that we should've waited to get a team rather than take one from somewhere else
2017 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 31 mins 42 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Today has often been election day as Election Day in the United States is the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, which can fall on or between November 2 and November 8 [and overall it seems to be a good day for Republicans]:
1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President defeating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas
1861 – Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America, running unopposed
1900 - William B. McKinley is reelected President defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
1928 – Herbert Hoover is elected the 31st President defeating Democrat Alfred E. Smith
1956 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected President defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson
1984 – Ronald Reagan is reelected President defeating Democrat Walter Mondale
2012 – Barack Obama is reelected President defeating Republican Mitt Romney
Quote of the day:
"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens."
~ Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), American theatre critic
There are times when the quote that comes across for the day seems to tie in with the things that happened on this day. Today is one of those days, but teasing out the connection that I see so that it can be articulated is a bit of a challenge for some reason. In order for one team to win, the other team has to lose. Bob Irsay took our Colts to Indianapolis [on March 29th, 1984 in Mayflower moving vans, and Baltimore never forgave or forgot] and Art Modell changed the Cleveland Browns to the Baltimore Ravens eleven years later [at least he had the dignity to change the name and branding]. Each move left some fans howling with anger and despair but the NFL plowed forward and life went on in the sports world. For one man… *coughs* for one person to become the President, someone else failed to do so, and they and their followers must live under the new administration for the next four years.
At no point do we think that it can be the end of life as we know it – football continues to be played and Inauguration Day rolled around on January 20th of the next year -- and yet I find myself thinking about the frog in boiling water analogy. Do we accept the loss because we are just assuming that everything will ultimately be okay and we are guilty of sitting around in complacency while things fall apart around us?
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