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Carol H Tucker
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Monday
Today is the 2nd day of the 16th week, the 16th day of the 4th month, the 106th day of 2017, and:
- Boston Marathon Day ((I don't run))
- Day of the Mushroom ((are they related to Triffids?))
- Emancipation Day -- April 15 is a Sunday and since April 16 is a legal holiday in the District of Columbia where the IRS headquarters are so it gives you an extra day to file.
- Foursquare Day -- an homage to Foursquare, a location-based social networking service that lets users "check in" to various eating and drinking establishments
- National Bean Counter Day ((of all the things that you can count, did you ever wonder why beans get counted?))
- National Eggs Benedict Day ((love that sauce))
- National Healthcare Decisions Day ((check -- I did a colonoscopy "consult"))
- National Librarian Day ((so read))
- National Orchid Day ((the flower not the color))
- National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day ((how'd that work out for you?))
- Patriots' Day -- a holiday commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord, which took place on April 19, 1775. ((so why do it today instead of on Thursday?))
- Save the Elephant Day ((you can watch a movie -- yeah that will really help))
- Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day ((would rather she pursue her dreams))
On this day in ...
1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1780 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1943 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
1947 – Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1962 - Bob Dylan debuted his song "Blowin' in the Wind" at Gerde's Folk City in New York.
1964 - "The Rolling Stones (England's Newest Hitmakers)," the band's debut album, was released.
1972 – The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1990 – "Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
I am positive that it was important for every cell phone to blare out an alert that there was flash flood warning before 4:30 AM
Monday. What more can I say?
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