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a moment of reflection

Today is the 2nd day of the 44th week, the 29th day of the 10th month, the 302nd day of 2018, and: 
  • International Internet Day -- celebrating the anniversary of the first internet transmission in 1969
  • National Cat Day  --
  • National Hermit Day --  The feast day of Saint Colman mac Duagh.   It is said that Colman declared that no person nor animal in the diocese of Kilmacduagh would ever die of lightning strike, something that appears true to this day
  • National Oatmeal Day
  • World Psoriasis Day
  • World Stroke Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...

539 BC – Cyrus the Great (founder of Persian Empire) entered the capital of Babylon and allowed the Jews to return to their land.

1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.

1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

1682 - The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pa.

1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

1863 – Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.

1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

1956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered as NBC's nightly TV newscast.   Arguably the most famous set of co-anchors on the TV, the tag line of ”Good night, Chet. Good night, David. And good night, for NBC News ran until July 31st, 1970 when Huntley retired.  Brinkley continued as co-anchor for what was then called NBC Nightly News until 1981. 

1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.

1962 - The Beach Boys' debut album, "Surfin' Safari," was released and started a wave of imitators

1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.  At the time of the heist the burglar alarm system was non-operational, and a fourth story window in the jewel room was usually left open to aid in ventilation. The thieves climbed in through the window and discovered that the display case alarms were non-functional as well. The thieves were caught two days later and the uninsured Star of India was recovered in a foot locker at a Miami bus station. Most of the other gems were also recovered, except the Eagle Diamond, which has since been hypothesized to have been cut down into smaller stones

1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded.

1967 – Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.

1967 - The musical "Hair" opened off-Broadway.

1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.

1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.

2015 – China announces the end of One-child policy after 35 years.

When the quote of the day came up, I wondered if it had been chosen in advance because it is certainly apropos

 

Let us hope she is right.
Permalink | Monday, October 29, 2018