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yet another Monday
Today is the 2nd day of the 46th week, the 13th day of the 11th month, the 317th day of 2017, and:
- Actors' Day
- National Indian Pudding Day
- National Mom's and Dad's Day
- Sadie Hawkins Day -- an American folk event and pseudo-holiday originated by Al Capp's classic hillbilly comic strip Li'l Abner (1934–1978)
- Start a Rumor Day
- World Kindness Day
- World Orphans Day
On this day:
1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
1896 - Te Maari, a crater at the northern end of the Tongariro range in New Zealand, erupted spectacularly. It continued to erupt sporadically for nearly a year
1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia, the third Disney animated feature film, is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles. – a military assault weapon that has made its way into civilian life
1971 - space probe Mariner 9 reaches Mars and goes into orbit, but scientists have to wait for clear pictures because of a Martian dust storm.
1974 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror [film adaptations in 1979 and 2005]
1976 - Gordon Lightfoot's single, The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop chart.
1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death of a subdural hematoma (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport. Minutes after the fight was over, Kim collapsed into a coma, and was removed from the Caesars Palace arena on a stretcher. These included: reduction of title fights from fifteen rounds to twelve; new medical procedures were introduced to fighters' pre-fight checkups, such as electrocardiograms, brain tests, and lung tests; the number of ring ropes was increased from three to four to prevent fighters from falling through the ropes and out of the ring.
1997 - The Disney musical "The Lion King" opened on Broadway – I’ve seen this show. You may think that making a play from a cartoon wouldn’t be something you would want to see, but it is a spectacular show.
2017 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 32 mins 39 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
"There's so many of these songs that either are very overtly or kind of quietly speaking to the island of broken toys. It's the people that are, for whatever reason, outsiders –- people that feel like they don't fit in, in one way or another, those songs are there for them."
~ Michael Stipe, R.E.M. about the hit song Everybody Hurts
For those of us lucky enough to get off on Friday for the federal holiday [Veterans’ Day] on Saturday, it was a long weekend. And yet as I talk to those around me, the general consensus is that it wasn’t terribly relaxing or long enough. Already we are setting our sights on next weekend, or to the Thanksgiving holiday – a focus being aided and abetted by the number of Black Friday ads already surfacing. The holidays are bearing down upon us with all their burdens and joys, all the expectations and worries, all the celebrations and the parties. Thanksgiving is the official start of that holiday season, and it will be here in just ten days. Christmas follows 32 days later. The end of the year is only 46 days away. My first thought, as my daughter faces a bilateral mastectomy a week before Christmas, is that I wish it was all over and done with and she was on the road to recovery. I look at my goals for 2017, especially the spiritual ones, and wonder why my second thought is that I haven’t finished my Christmas shopping and what I have hasn’t been wrapped. Have I lost the reason for the season? It is a time that seems to leave some behind it its wake as it plows on and the refrain of the Country & Western song I once wrote starts to sound in my ears:
Good people think of me when you go to pray,
For the Lord and I we haven’t had a lot to say,
And Heaven only knows just when I lost my way,
But Christmas this year is just another day…..
And then I take a deep breath. Time to resolve to take it one day at a time, neh? The holidays will come and go. First, let me get through Monday….
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