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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
Today is the 4th day of the 47th week, the 21st day of the 11th month, the 325th day of 2018, and:
Alascattalo Day – about Alaska and humor
Blackout Wednesday
False Confession Day
Geographic Information Systems Day
Mawlid Al Nabi - the observance of the birthday of Islamic prophet Muhammad which is commemorated in Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar
National Family Caregivers Day
National Gingerbread Day
National Jukebox Day
National Red Mitten Day [Canada]
National Surfing Day
Pumpkin Pie Day
Tie One On Day – no you are not being encouraged to binge, they are talking about aprons
What Do You Love About America Day
World Hello Day
World Television Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
164 BC – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1832 – Wabash College is founded in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
1837 - Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1848 - Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded
1849 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin" premieres in Vienna
1852 - Duke Uiversity, founded in 1838 as Union Institute, chartered as Normal College
1871 - Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (NYC)
1871 - The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is fired
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
1901 - Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot" premieres in Dresden
1902 – The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
1905 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
1921 - King George V proclaims Canada's Coat of Arms; designates white and red as the official Canadian colours; on the crest, a red maple leaf is added in the right paw of the lion and three maple leaves joined by one stem in the crest.
1942 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by standard road vehicles until 1943).
1946 - Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
1952 - 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.
1961 – The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.
1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. At the time it is the world's longest bridge span.
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk, USSR
1967 - Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1968 - Supremes & The Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
1969 - KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1974 - Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
1976 - "Rocky" directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone premieres in New York (Best Picture 1977)
1977 – Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem "God Save the Queen" and "God Defend New Zealand".
1977 - First flight of Concorde (London to New York)
1980 - Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) in the US ((this was the only episode I ever watched thanks to the persistent "who done it" hype
1989 - Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by US President George H. W. Bush
1995 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.
Serious cooks are in the kitchen getting ready for the big day tomorrow, neh?
Interesting question – I think I’d be quaking in my boots since I am definitely plump and filled out!
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