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Today is the 5th day of the 34th week, the 24th day of the 8th month, the 236th day of 2017 [with only 122 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Can Opener Day – can you believe it took them 48 years to figure this out?
- International Day Against Intolerance, Discrimination, and Violence Based on Musical Preferences, Lifestyle and Dress Code – a rather sad anniversary that we have celebrated for ten years now
- International Strange Music Day – not related to the day above, but created by Patrick Grant
- National Knife Day -- designated to "celebrate and honor the right to own, use and sell knives"
- National Peach Pie Day
- National Waffle Day
- National Waffle Iron Day
- Pluto Demoted Day -- In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
- Shooting Star Day
- Vesuvius Day -- Mount Vesuvius near Pompeii, Italy, begian to erupt on this day in the year 79; within the next 25 hours, it wipes out the entire town. Hundreds of years later, archaeologists excavated Pompeii and found everything and everyone that had been there that day perfectly preserved by the volcano’s ash. (NOTE: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24).
- Weather Complaint Day
- Wayzgoose Day -- at one time an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew's Day (24 August), marking the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight.
- William Wilberforce Day – he was born in 1759 and was instrumental in the abolition of slavery in the British Empire
ON THIS DAY: In 49 BC Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio was defeated in the Battle of the Bagradas by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia; Curio committed suicide to avoid capture. In 1215 Pope Innocent III declared Magna Carta invalid. In 1456 the printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed. In 1608 the first official English representative to India landed in Surat. In 1662 the Act of Uniformity required England to accept the Book of Common Prayer. In 1682 William Penn received the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania. In 1690 Job Charnock of the East India Company established a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown). In 1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel. In 1891 Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera. In 1909 workers started pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ in just over 19 hours. In 1936 the Australian Antarctic Territory was created. In 1989 Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose was banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti. In 1995 Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America. In 1998 the first radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation was tested in the United Kingdom. In 1968 France became the world's fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
Quote of the day:
“I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
~ Benjamin Franklin -- renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
In this time of polarization, of fanaticism, of revisionist history and alternative facts, I hold on to this thought and try to speak softly….
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