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Today is the 6th day of the 12th week, the 26th day of the 3rd month, the 85th day of 2021 [with only 273 shopping days left until Christmas], and:
Independence day: Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971
Legal Assistants Day
Live Long and Prosper Day – Leonard Nimoy’s birthday; he would’ve been 90 today
National Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
National Nougat Day
National Spinach Day
No Homework Day
Purple Day
Solitude Day
Spinach Festival Day
OH THIS DAY IN…
127 - Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy begins his observations of the heavens (until 141 AD)
1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1552 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru.
1790 - US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
1820 - Future Mormon church leader Joseph Smith has his "First Vision" in a wooded area of New York, according to Mormon scholars
1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band-aid
1878 - Sabi Game Reserve opens in South Africa, the world's 1st officially designated game reserve
1885 - the first cremation held in England at Woking
1934 – The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye
1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announces that he has successfully tested a vaccine to prevent polio, clinical trials began the next year
1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett" version recorded by Hill Hayes becomes the #1 record in US
1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
1969 - Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use
1969 - Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
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
1987 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it fails to reach orbit
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides
1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
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
2015 - Richard III of England (1452-1485) is reburied at Leicester Cathedral in England, after being discovered under a carpark in Leicester in 2012
2018 - US soldier receives world's first penis and scrotum transplant at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland
2019 Stolen Pablo Picasso painting "Buste de Femme" (Dora Maar) (1938) recovered after 20 years by Dutch art detective
2020 - American cases of COVID-19 exceed all other countries on this date, with 81,578 cases and 1,180 deaths (New York Times)
2021 - NASA Voyager is 21 hrs 04 mins 06 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
"What would those around you say is your identity, if they only knew of you through your works?"
~ Bishop Robert Barron, Lenten Gospel Reflections (03/26/2021)
It doesn’t do any good to go to church every Sunday if you spend the other six days of the week judging and hating. If you want to be seen as a good person, then you have to act like one. How many phrases do we use highlighting the difference between words and deeds? Don’t do aa I do, do as I say. Do you walk the talk? Put your money where your mouth is. Actions speak louder than words. Your actions speak so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying. We can say anything, we can believe anything, we can intend anything, we can feel anything – but the only thing that counts is what we actually DO, the impact we have on other lives. A lot of folks wouldn’t recognize themselves if confronted with that reality.
"What would those around you say is your identity, if they only knew of you through your works?"
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