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Today is the 5th day of the 16th week, the 19th day of the 4th month, the 109th day of 2018, and:
- Bicycle Day – after intentionally dosing himself with LSD, Hofmann experienced sudden and intense changes in perception. He asked his laboratory assistant to escort him home and, as use of motor vehicles was prohibited because of wartime restrictions, they had to make the journey on a bicycle.
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Action Day
- Get to Know Your Customers Day
- Humorous Day – a day to find the funny side of things. Some have credited to Larry Wilde, Director of The Carmel Institute of Humor, as he had proclaimed April to be Humor Month back in 1976
- International Pizza Cake Day -- multiple-layer pizza baked in a pot or cake pan. Recipes were posted online as early as April 2014 and the Phillsbury folks posted the recipe a few months later
- John Parker Day – faced the British troops on the road to Concord and told his men "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
- National Amaretto Day
- National Ask an Atheist Day
- National DARE Day
- National Garlic Day
- National Hanging Out Day
- National High Five Day
- National Stress Awareness Day
- Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day – In 1995 the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
On this day in ...
1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
1770 – Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1775 - British troops fire on American minutemen, starting a seven year conflict between Britain and the Thirteen Colonies
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
1897 - The first Boston Marathon was run.
1933 - The United States went off the gold standard.
1943 – Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on three days earlier
1961 - The Federal Communications Commission authorized regular FM stereo broadcasting starting on June 1, 1961.
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1975 – India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
2001 - The Mel Brooks musical "The Producers" opened on Broadway.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
It’s the little things that get you, that one step you take that is one step too far. A scholar and his works is banned and a religious movement is born in the protests that ensue as rulers attempt to enforce an old religious decree and the Roman Catholic Church loses its monopoly in western culture. A middle-aged man, tired and ill, looks at a column of soldiers and decides he and his men will not give way and a new country breaks away from a vast colonial power. A scientist decides to test the new substance he discovered on himself and twenty years later the counter culture swept an entire generation’s imagination. And we learned to never trust anyone over 30. And we only see these moments as pivotal in retrospect and we are left speculating about the back story
So too, we make decisions in our private lives, irrevocable choices that may seem trivial at the time but are precipitating factors, a pebble that got shifted and gets magnified into an avalanche. I used to tell my kids it was Mom’s law of relationships: for every action there was an opposite but not necessarily equal reaction. You make an offhand comment and lo! A huge cyclone of argument, dissension and hurt feelings is whirling about your ears. You sacrifice a great deal to help out and no one even notices. That’s why karma [and Lady Luck] is so arbitrary and chancy – you just don’t know what will happen
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