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Monday, Monday
Today is the 2nd day of the 43rd week, the 22nd day of the 10th month, the 295th day of 2018 [and there are only 63 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Clean Up the Earth Day
- Eat a Pretzel Day
- INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY – interestingly enough, the sites that I found about how to celebrate were laced with profanity
- International Stuttering Awareness Day
- Jidai Matsuri (Kyoto, Japan)
- Kof Awareness Day – the versatility of the Hebrew letter
- National Color Day
- National Knee Day
- National Nut Day
- Smart is Cool Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes, located in North-Central Mexico
1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal -- one of the first major canals constructed in Russia and one of the projects of Peter the Great -- is completed.
1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1797 - French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet.
1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
1884 – The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.
1927 – Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.
1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
1957 – First United States casualties in Vietnam. ((the war that shaped an entire generation))
1962 – US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation. ((it was a terrifying time, even kids were scared of nuclear war as the standoff became more tense))
1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor.
1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official flag of Canada.
1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
1968 – Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
2001 – Grand Theft Auto III was released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games. ((the controversy actually started years earlier with a game called Death Race, an arcade game developed and released by Exidy in the United States, first shipping to arcade distributors on April 1, 1976))
2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
Once more it is Monday. Once more the roads are clogged with rush hour traffic in the morning for the weekend is over. As the hubbub around the rapidly ballooning MegaMillions payout reaches a crescendo and people rush to buy tickets just because you gotta play to win, even if your chances are infinitesimally remote, one dreams of the world inhabited by the 1% in which you work because you want to, not to get by. I am grateful I have a job that I am good at and that I like in an office with people I get along with well, that pays enough that I can enjoy some amenities of life – but every Monday morning as another week starts, I have to take a deep breath and remind myself that I am grateful because when you come right down to it, I work to live rather than live to work.
Okay week, let’s do this
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