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Day 12
Today is the 5th day of the 2nd week, the 13th day of the 1st month, the 13th day of 2023, and:
- Curried Chicken Day
- Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
- Health Weight, Health Look Day
- International Kiss a Ginger Day
- National Hot Tea Day
- National Marzipan Day
- National Pharmacist Day
- Stick to Your New Year’s Resolution Day
- Work Harder Day
On this day in:
475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.[1]
1554 – Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.
1616 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1903 - Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam
1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1939 - Timely Comics (later Marvel) founded by American publisher Martin Goodman in New York
1959 - American record company Motown is founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records
1966 - "Batman", starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as The Joker, debuts on ABC
1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. ((it is still frozen))
1971 - "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV
1983 - Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman (and future NASA Administrator) Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist.
1997 – Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-81 to the Russian space station Mir, carrying astronaut Jerry M. Linenger for a four-month stay on board the station, replacing astronaut John E. Blaha
1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It completed its mission, but flew on; communication was lost in August 2013
2007 - Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2023 - NASA Voyager1 is 22 hrs 05 mins 07 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
~ James Baldwin, American writer and civil rights activist
It’s one of those days….
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