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Today is the 3rd day of the 5th week, the 30th day of the 1st month, the 30th day of 2018, and:
- National Croissant Day – Starbucks gave me a free croissant as a regular customer!
- National Escape Day
- National Inane Answering Machine Day – I remember buying tapes for the phone answering machine so that Boris Karlof answered around Halloween and other celebrity imitators answered at various times of the year. Yet another little snippet of the culture those born after the advent of smart phones will never get
- National Plan for Vacation Day – it is only 37 days to WDW, so I have this celebration well in hand
- School Day of Non-violence and Peace - an observance founded by the Spanish poet Llorenç Vidal Vidal in Majorca in 1964 as a starting point and support for a “pacifying and non-violent education of a permanent character”
- Yodel for Your Neighbors Day
Quote of the day:
“The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.”
~ Adolf Hitler
On this day in ...
516 BCE – The Second Temple of Jerusalem finishes construction -- according to Jewish tradition, it replaced Solomon's Temple (the First Temple), which was destroyed by the Babylonians 70 years earlier. It was later destroyed in 70 by Roman legions under Titus.
1646 - Father de Nouë, a Jesuit priest, freezes to death in a blizzard on the way to Fort Richelieu, Trois-Rivières, Québec
1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master -- and are forever immortalized in popular culture
1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
1883 - James Ritty and John Birch received a US patent for the first cash register.
1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. It is worth remembering that no one knew he was going to become a dictator, kill millions of people because they weren’t Aryan, and plunge the world into war -- he was just someone to counter what Germans perceived as the injustice of the post-World War I international order dominated by Britain and France. His first six years in power resulted in rapid economic recovery from the Great Depression, the abrogation of restrictions imposed on Germany after World War I, and the annexation of territories that were home to millions of ethnic Germans, all of which gave him significant popular support.
1933 - The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" was broadcast on radio station WXYZ in Detroit.
1969 – The Beatles performed in public for the last time in a 45-minute gig on the roof of their Apple Records headquarters in London. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
2007 - Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system went on sale.
2013 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
2018 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 36 mins 46 secs of light-travel time from Earth
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