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Today is the 4th day of the 35th week, the 31st day of the 8th month, the last day of meteorological summer, the 244th day of 2016, and:
- Eat Outside Day
- Independence Day: the Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) from the UK in 1957; Trinidad and Tobago from the UK in 1962; Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet Union in 1991.
- International Overdose Awareness Day
- Love Litigating Lawyers Day ((I do not))
- National Matchmaker Day
- National Trail Mix Day
- Tug-of-War Day
- We Love Memoirs Day
- Willing-To-Lend-A-Hand Wednesday
On this day in 1056 Byzantine Empress Theodora died childless after a sudden illness ending the Macedonian dynasty. In 1314 King Håkon V Magnusson moved the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo. In 1803 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark started their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh at 11 AM. In 1888 the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims, Mary Ann Nichols, was found. In 1895 German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patented his Navigable Balloon [AKA the Zeppelin]. In 1897 Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. In 1920 the first radio news program was broadcast by 8MK in Detroit. In 1936 Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, went on the air. In 1954 Hurricane Carol hit the NE US, resulting in nearly 70 deaths and millions of dollars in damage. In 1968 Garfield Sobers became the first batsman ever to hit six sixes in a single over of six consecutive balls in first-class cricket. And in 2016 NASA Voyager is 18 hrs 49 mins 57 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:244:120000:1L)
Another month gone in the blink of an eye. I read somewhere that the reason time moves so slowly for kids is that each month, each season, is such a large percentage of their life to date. Looking at it that way? August was 2.56% of my three year old granddaughter’s life to date and I can remember when the summer seemed to last forever instead of being over as soon I as turn around. And Christmas? Imagine how far away it must seem at 9.7% of her entire young life. But for me at 66, August was only 0.125% of my life’s journey to date and Christmas really seems ready to pounce on me before I can get ready for it
Another season ended – according to the meteorologists, who divide the year neatly into three months for each season, fall starts tomorrow on September 1st. I actually never really had an issue with autumn beginning at the equinox because September seems to be such a hot month sometimes, but I will agree that by the time school is starting back up, fall should be in the air.
Another third of 2016 has slid away into the shades of history, and exactly a third of 2016 stretches ahead…..
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