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TGIF

Today is the 6th day of the 14th week, the 6th day of the 4th month, the 96th day of 2018, and: 
  • Army Day
  • Church of the Latter Day Saints Day
  • Drowsy Drivers Awareness Day
  • Fresh Tomato Day
  • Hospital Admitting Clerks Day
  • Hostess Twinkie Day [AKA National Twinkie Day]
  • International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
  • Jump Over Things Day
  • National Caramel Popcorn Day
  • National Kids Yoga Day
  • National Pie Day
  • National Siamese Cat Day
  • National Student Athlete Day
  • National Tartan Day -- a celebration of Scottish heritage on the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320
  • National Walk to Work Day
  • New Beer's Eve
  • Plan Your Epitaph Day
  • Poet in a Cupcake Day
  • Sorry Charlie Day [AKA Charlie the Tuna Day]
  • Student Government Day
  • Teflon Day
On this day in ...

1327 – The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.

1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.

1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

1830 – Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York.

1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.

1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

1869 – Celluloid is patented.  The main use was in movie and photography film industries, which used only celluloid film stock prior to the adoption of acetate safety film in the 1950s. Celluloid is highly flammable, difficult and expensive to produce and no longer widely used, although its most common uses today are in table tennis balls, musical instruments, and guitar picks

1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.

1909 – explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation.

1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).

1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.

1974 – The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.

1983 - Interior Secretary James Watt banned the Beach Boys from the 4th of July celebration on the Washington Mall, saying rock 'n' roll bands attract the "wrong element."

1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.



Quote of the day
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"Not for nothing is their motto TGIF – ‘Thank God It’s Friday.’ They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do."

~ Richard Nelson Bolles, Episcopal clergyman and the author of the best-selling job-hunting book, What Color is Your Parachute?

 

 

 

I don’t even care that snow and wintry mix is forecast for the weekend….


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