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Holi 2018

Today is the 6th day of the 9th week, the 2nd day of the 3rd month, the 61st day of 2018, and: 
  • Dr. Seuss Day
  • Dress in Blue Day
  • Employee Appreciation Day
  • Free Dentistry Day
  • Independence Day:  Morocco from France in 1956, Rhodesia from the United Kingdom in 1970
  • National Banana Cream Pie Day
  • National Doodle Day
  • National Read Across America Day
  • National Salesperson Day
  • National Speech and Debate Education Day
  • Old Stuff Day
  • World Day of Prayer
On this day in ...

1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.

1729 -  King Louis XV 1710-1774 authorizes a new issue of playing card money in New France; not enough printed bills or coinage to pay the troops; Governor at Quebec allowed to sign playing cards as specie.

1791 – Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.

1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.

1904 - Theodor Seuss Geisel, who wrote and illustrated the popular 'Dr. Seuss' children's books, was born.

1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.

1961 – John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.

1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.

1968 – Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country [a region of the West Midlands in England, west of Birmingham]

1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.

1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.

1983 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.

1995 – Yahoo! is incorporated.

1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.

1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

 

Today is Holi or The Festival of Colors – a Hindu spring festival that actually began yesterday evening at the rising of the full moon with Holika dahan [or Bonfire] where evil is consumed in flame and people pray their internal evils will also be consumed.  Today is a festive day to end and rid oneself of past errors, to end conflicts by meeting others, a day to forget and forgive. People pay or forgive debts, as well as deal anew with those in their lives. Holi also marks the start of spring, for many the start of the new year, an occasion for people to enjoy the changing seasons and make new friends – full of color and song and dance.   Holi is celebrated at the end of winter, on the last full moon day of the Hindu luni-solar calendar month marking the spring, making the date vary with the lunar cycle.  The date falls typically in March, but sometimes late February of the Gregorian calendar.  It is especially important in India where the festival brings the entire nation together -- it is not just celebrated by Hindus but, also by the Sikhs, Christians, Jains as well. The festival is unique, as it does not discriminate against any section of the society and treats everyone equally

 

 

 

May you be gifted with all the colors of life; colors of joy, colors of happiness, colors of friendship, colors of love and all the other colors, you want to paint your life with.


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