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Today is the 3rd day of the 31st week, the 31st day of the 7th month, the 212th day of 2018, and:
Black Women's Equal Pay Day
National Avocado Day
national Cotton Candy Day
National Jump for Jelly Beans Day
National Mutt Day
National Raspberry Cake Day
Shredded Wheat Day
Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day
World Ranger Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: 6th day of the 7th month of the 1st year of the Ten'o (天応) era).
1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1790 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1865 – The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
1880 - Imperial Order-in-Council transfers all British possessions in North America to Canada except Newfoundland and the Labrador coast, effective September 1, 1880; including ownership of all Arctic Islands
1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
1964 – Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1971 – Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1991 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2008 - Scientists reported the Phoenix spacecraft had confirmed the presence of frozen water in Martian soil.
2012 – Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
2018 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 43 mins 26 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Some of the reasons I need to stop reading the news:
Coordinated disinformation operations around the mid-term elections
Collusion is not a crime
Guns can be printed from 3D blueprints
Wildfires
Healthcare costs
Budget cuts to all social programs while tax cuts to the 1% continue
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