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Today is the 6th day of the 5th week, the 31st day of the 1st month, the 31st day of 2020, and:
Amartithi (Meherabad, India, followers of Meher Baba)
Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day
Backwards Day
Brandy Alexander Day
Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day
Eat Brussels Sprouts Day
Hell is Freezing Over Day
Hug an Economist Day
Independence Day - Nauru from Australia in 1968
Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
National Big Wig Day
National Fun at Work Day
National Hot Chocolate Day
National Preschool Health and Fitness Day
Scotch Tape Day
Street Children Day
ON THIS DAY IN...
1627 - Spanish government goes bankrupt
1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1876 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
1901 - Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1905 - the first automobile to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1934 - FDR devalues US dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
1936 - "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
1948 - Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway
1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
1955 - RCA demonstrates the first music synthesizer
1958 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 – Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1971 – Apollo 14 - Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1972 - US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations
Music release
Music Single
1975 - Barry Manilow's single "Mandy" goes gold
1982 - 10 Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman – But in 1991, due to excessive poaching, the WWF declared them endangered again
1983 - In an effort to reduce driving deaths, a new law in UK requires drivers and front-seat passengers to wear seat belts
1997 - "Final Fantasy VII" is released by Square and Sony Computer Entertainment to PlayStation
1998 - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
2018 – Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
2019 - Colonization of the America's in the late 1500s killed so many people it cooled the planet and led to a "Little Ice Age", according to a scientific report published in "Quaternary Science Reviews"
2020 – The United Kingdom's membership within the European Union ceases in accordance with Article 50, after 47 years of being a member state
On the one hand, where did January go? How could we be at the end of month already when I just got the end of year reports done?
On the other hand, January has been at least a couple of months long and all the joy of opening a new year lost.
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