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the last day of 2017
Today is the 1st day of the week but the last day of the year, the 31st day of the 12th month, the 365th day of 2017, and:
- First Night or New Year's Eve
- Global Champagne Day
- Leap Second Time Adjustment Day [not this year tho]
- Look On The Bright Side Day
- Make Up Your Mind Day
- National Champagne Day
- New Year's Eve Banished Words List [AKA New Year's Dishonor List] -- 43rd annual "List of Words Banished From the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness."
- One Voice Day
- Universal Hour of Peace
- Unlucky Day
- World Healing Day [Different than one on April 29]
- World Peace Meditation Day
- The seventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
- The sixth day of Kwanzaa (United States)
On this day in...
1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
1790 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
1796 – The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.
1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
1929 - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians play Auld Lang Syne to usher in the New Year for the very first time, in their first annual New Year's Eve Party at the Hotel Roosevelt Grill. The show is broadcast over the CBS radio network.
1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
1951 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US $13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
1999 – The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
2017 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 36 mins 33 secs of light-travel time and Voyager II is currently 16 hrs 13 mins 58 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."
~ attributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca (AKA Seneca the Younger or Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist of the Silver Age of Latin literature
Do you have a “word of the year”? Apparently that is a thing now for self-improvement that has more-or-less replaced setting goals. You are supposed to choose a word that will guide you for the next year. When I have to choose a word, I find I gravitate towards “dream”. I can get right cynical at times, and downright pessimistic, so I guess being reminded that not everything is about dull, ordinary, workaday, grinding pressure, coping, mundane, loneliness, matter-of-fact, worrisome, et al is what I need.
So tonight is the last day for playing Christmas music. Some folks take down their Christmas decorations on New Years Eve – I always left them up until the first weekend after New Years because the place always looks a little sad and empty without them. Whatever you do, however you celebrate, stay warm and safe and I’ll see you next year!
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