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Today is the sixth day of the 51st week, the 20th day of the 12th month, the 354th day of 2019, and:
- Cathode-Ray Tube Day
- Dot Your I's Day
- Games Day
- Go Caroling Day
- International Human Solidarity Day
- Mudd Day
- National Sangria Day
- National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day
- Poet Laureat Day - in 1985, the position of American Poet Laureate was established (Robert Warren is the first)
- Sacagawea Day
- Underdog Day
- World Day of Prayer and Action for Children
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1606 - The English colonial expedition to America, consisting of the ships Discovery, Godspeed and Susan Constant, departs Blackwall and will later found Jamestown
1699 - Russian Tsar Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed from Sept 1 to Jan 1
1790 - the first successful US cotton mill begins spinning yarn in Pawtucket, Rhode Island built by Samuel Slater based on Richard Arkwright's design
1812 - "Grimm's Fairy Tales" or "Children's and Household Tales" by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm is first published
1879 - Thomas Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
1883 - the international cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
1891 - Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
1892 - Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
1919 - Canadian National Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1920 - Bob Hope becomes an American citizen ((he was born in London, England))
1928 - the first international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Quebec
1935 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
1946 - Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life" film premieres in New York, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore
1949 - Maurice Ravel and John Cranko's ballet "Beauty & the Beast" premieres
1950 - "Harvey" starring James Stewart premieres in New York
1951 - Walter Zinn's Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, goes live at the Argonne National Laboratory, USA
1957 - Elvis Presley receives his draft notice to join the US Army for National Service
1962 - Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - Peter, Paul & Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
1971 - First preview issue of "Ms" magazine is published in the US launched by Gloria Steinem
1977 - the first Space walk made by Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Grechko during Salyut 6 EO-1 mission
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN
2005 - US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
2007 - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
2012 - Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities
2018 - New figures show average US male weighs 198 pounds and stands 5 feet 9 inches, women 171 pounds and 5 feet 4 inches
2019 - NASA Voyager is 20 hrs 35 mins 24 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Here lately I have noticed that every single time I get on an airplane to come home, I get off and get sick. It happened after my trip in the spring, after AWA the end of October, and now. Maybe it’s because I am rundown from all the vacation activities? I just know that when I am sitting in the cabin, listening to the chorus of sneezing, snuffling, coughing, and throat clearing, that about 48 hours later, I am going to be sick. I do everything I can to avoid it, take care of myself when I get home, dress warmly, pamper myself, catch up on my sleep, but here I am again, running a fever and coughing a lung out, losing my voice and getting stink eyes from my coworkers who kindly don’t say anything because they know I am out of leave for this year and have to come in no matter how I feel. I spray Lysol around and keep using hand sanitizer and stay ensconced in my cubicle as much as possible.
Two things have me concerned – I don’t want to make my granddaughters ill by seeing them while I’m contagious and it’s especially crucial to get better in just five days – four if I want to make it to Christmas Eve services with my family.
Meanwhile I’m drinking lots of fluids, putting herbal ginger patches on aching joints, mainlining DayQuill, NyQuill, and Mucinex, and keeping the heater under my desk going
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