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no I haven't fallen off the face of the earth....
Today is the 2nd day of the 7th week, the 12th day of the 2nd month, the 43rd day of 2018, and:
- Clean Out Your Computer Day
- Extraterrestrial Culture Day
- Extraterrestrial Visitor Day
- Hug Day - an annual event created by Kevin Zaborney and first celebrated in 1986 in Clio, Michigan, USA.
- International Darwin Day – Charles Darwin was born 209 years ago
- Lincoln's Birthday – remember when we used to get this off? Now we get “Presidents’ Day” and a holiday in January for MLK
- NAACP Day – founded in 1909
- National Freedom to Marry Day -- in 2004 San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Newsom.
- National Lost Penny Day
- National Plum Pudding Day
- Oatmeal Monday – well I managed to celebrate this since I had oatmeal for breakfast!
- Oglethorpe Day - British General James Edward Oglethorpe landed near what is now known as Savannah, GA in 1733
- Paul Bunyan Day (Born 1834 in Bangor, ME)
- Red Hand Day (AKA International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers)
- Safety Pup Day
- Shrove Monday – how odd is it that this year Ash Wednesday is on Valentine’s Day and Easter is on April Fools’ Day?
On this day in ...
1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
1879 - First artificial ice rink in North America installed at Madison Square Gardens in New York City, NY.
1912 - Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates; China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1924 – George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
1947 – The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
1947 – Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
1961 – The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
1963 – Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
1994 – Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
Quote of the day:
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
~ Albert Einstein
And it is Monday….
Oh yeah, I know it's been a couple of days.... I’ll work on that writing and communicating thing, KK?
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