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Today is the 5th day of the 14th week, the 6th day of the 4th month, the 96th day of 2017, and:
Army Day
Church of Latter Day Saints Day – in 1830 the Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, was organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York. In 1860 the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, was organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois. In 1893 the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
Drowsy Drivers Awareness Day
Fresh Tomato Day
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
Jump Over Things Day
National Alcohol Screening Day
National Caramel Popcorn Day
National Fun at Work Day
National Hostess Twinkie Day
National Siamese Cat Day
National Student Athlete Day
National Tartan Day
New Beers Eve -- an unofficial holiday in the US celebrated on the night preceding the day the sale of beer became legal again in the United States, on April 7, 1933.
Plan Your Epitaph Day
Sorry Charlie Day
Teflon Day
ON THIS DAY: In 46 BC Julius Caesar defeated Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus. In 1327 the poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon. In 1652 at the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck established a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town. In 1782 King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) founded the Chakri dynasty. In 1861 the first performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas. In 1869 Celluloid was patented. In 1896 in Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games was celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I. In 1909 Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson purportedly became the first men to reach the North Pole. (The exact location they reached has since been called into question.) In 1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ordered a general strike. In 1926 Varney Airlines made its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines). In 1947 the first Tony Awards were presented for theatrical achievement. In 1962 Leonard Bernstein caused controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto. In 1965 Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit, was launched. 1973 the Pioneer 11 spacecraft was launched. In 1974 the Swedish pop band ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career. In 1998 the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9,000 points for the first time.
Quote of the day:
"I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you."
~ J Kenfield Morley (1838 - 1923), a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor
Not sure I agree that [1] you have to work or [2] you have to have a family to be happy – after all, it seems to me that lazy people who enjoy their own company would be quite happy with their lives….
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