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but the calendar SAYS it is Tuesday!
Today is the 3rd day of the 3rd week, the 16th day of the 1st month, the 16th day of 2018, and:
- Appreciate a Dragon Day
- Book Publishers Day
- Civil Service Day -- The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed in 1883 and provided selection of government employees by competitive exams rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation
- International Hot and Spicy food Day
- National Fig Newton Day
- National Good Teen Day
- National Nothing Day
- National Religious Freedom Day -- commemorates the Virginia General Assembly's adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786. That statute became the basis for the establishment clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and led to freedom of religion for all Americans and is proclaimed each year by the existing President
- National Without a Scalpel Day
- Printing Ink Day
- Prohibition Remembrance Day -- Prohibition began as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect in 1920. One result was that Canada became a center of smuggling
- Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
On this day in ...
27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.
1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1964 – Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances and Carol Channing found her signature role as Dolly Gallagher Levi after Ethel Merman and Mary Martin both turned it down
1969 - Two manned Soviet Soyuz spaceships became the first vehicles to dock in space and transfer personnel.
1973 - The final first-run episode of the long-running western "Bonanza" aired on NBC. Bonanza, set on the Ponderosa Ranch in Nevada, featured Lorne Greene who played family patriarch and three-time widower Ben Cartwright, with his three disparate sons (each by a different mother) - Adam (Pernell Roberts), Hoss (Dan Blocker) and Little Joe (Michael Landon); the show ran for 14 seasons.
2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one as it disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
It would appear that there is just no escaping that “Monday” feeling…..
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