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Today is the 4th day of the 33rd week, the 16th day of the 8th month, the 228th day of 2017 [with only 130 shopping days until Christmas], and:
Independence Day: Gabon from France and Cyprus from Britain in 1960
National Airborne Day
National Bratwurst Day
National Medical Dosimetrist Day
National Roller Coaster Day
National Rum Day
National Tell A Joke Day
True Love Forever Day
Wave at Surveillance Day
ON THIS DAY: In 1 BC Wang Mang consolidated his power and was declared marshal of state; Emperor Ai of Han, who had died the previous day, had no heirs. In 1841 US President John Tyler vetoed a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States; enraged Whig Party members rioted outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in US history. In 1858 US President James Buchanan inaugurated the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom -- however, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks. In 1891 the Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, was officially inaugurated and blessed. In 1896 Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discovered gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1920 Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and died early the next day; he was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909. In 1927 the Dole Air Race began from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crashed or disappeared. In 1930 the first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, was made by Ub Iwerks. In 1954 the first issue of Sports Illustrated was published. In 1960 Joseph Kittinger parachuted from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300 m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft. In 1962 Pete Best was discharged from the Beatles, to be replaced two days later by Ringo Starr. In 1987 thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the "harmonic convergence," which believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind. In 1989 a solar flare from the Sun created a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
Today, after the riots in Virginia, Baltimore chose to take down the remaining Confederate statues under the cover of night, without announcing their intent to do so.
My feelings on the Confederacy are rather mixed. On the one hand yes I believe that the War Between the States was about states’ rights. I don’t have any problem believing that there were good men who fought for and died for the Old South and it doesn’t bother me that their graves are cared for and there are statues to Robert E Lee, etc. I have friends who are into reenactment and I have been to many parades and battles and other historical renderings. The Stars and Bars displays do not upset me – it was part of our history. On the other hand, I am aware that many believe the Civil War was about slavery, that those who carry those symbols are aligning themselves with the KKK and other slime. I am sensitive to the fact that for a great number of people talk of the Old South is not a historical reflection, it conveys oppression of the worst kind that continues to this day.
My feelings about “white supremacy” and Nazism, however, are not ambivalent. I believe that these people are evil, cruel and amoral. That they would choose to twist the symbols of our fractious past for their own propaganda purposes sickens me – if the Stars and Bars are flying next to the Swastika, then both have to go.
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