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The last Tuesday of March
Today is the 3rd day of the 13th week, the 26th day of the 3rd month, the 85th day of 2019, and:
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1910 - The United States forbids immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick
1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
1955 - The "Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes the #1 record in the United States
1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1964 - The musical "Funny Girl," starring Barbra Streisand, opened on Broadway, Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances.
1970 - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2005 - "Doctor Who" returns to BBC TV after 16 years with the debut of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose
2018 - US soldier receives world's first penis and scrotum transplant at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland
Quote of the day:
“There is a surprisingly large number of people who go around dreaming about an island.”
-- Tove Jansson [Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author], “The Island,” the Paris Review
There’s a new holiday for you – Retreat to a Desert Island. Spend the day answering such questions as: who would you prefer to be marooned on a desert island with? What would you take with you if you knew you would be marooned on a desert island? And why is it always a “desert” island in the tropics, anyway?
Personally I would prefer something in a more temperate zone, with a nice savannah and maybe a forested area, and I don’t like the idea of being stranded….
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