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rainy days and Mondays, neh?
Today is the 2nd day of the 32nd week, the 7th day of the 8th month, the 219th day of 2017, and:
- Assistance Dog Day
- Beach Party Day
- National Lighthouse Day
- National Psychic Day
- National Sea Serpent Day
- Particularly preposterous Packaging Day
- Professional Speakers Day
- Purple Heart Day -- in 1782 George Washington ordered the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle; it is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
- Tu B'Av
ON THIS DAY: In 322 BC the Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedonia. In 1420 the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore began in Florence. In 1679 the brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America. In 1858 the first Australian rules football match was played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College. In 1879 the Poor Man's Palace opened in Manchester, England. In 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends became the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California. In 1927 the Peace Bridge opened between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. In 1944 IBM dedicated the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashed into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. In 1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sold its first transistor radios in Japan. In 1959 Explorer 6 launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. In 1971 Apollo 15 returned to Earth after a manned mission to the moon. In 1974 Philippe Petit performed a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air. In 1976 Viking 2 entered orbit around Mars. In 1981 the Washington Star ceased all operations after 128 years of publication. In 1985 Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai were chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. In 1987 Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union. In 2000 DeviantArt was launched.
Quote of the day:
"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality."
~ John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848), 6th President of the United States
And what will the legacy be? That time when I got annoyed and honked at the car in front of me and upset the driver? Will my kids remember all the days we read together and did things or will they remember the spankings and confrontations? Perhaps that time in the office when I pulled off a coup, or maybe that time when I acted like a complete numbskull. How do I, being neither rich nor famous, know what impact I am having on those around me?
I don’t.
Guess it behooves me to keep slogging on and do the best that I can without giving up, neh?
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