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Maundy Thursday
Today is the 5th day of the 13th week, the 29th day of the 3rd month, the 88th day of 2018 [with 270 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Knights of Columbus Founders Day – established on this day in 1882, it was originally a mutual benefit society to working-class and immigrant Catholics in the US
- Manatee Appreciation Day
- Maundy Thursday [AKA Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great & Holy Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries]
- National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day
- National Little Red Wagon Day
- National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day
- National Vietnam War Veterans Day -- the last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam in 1973
- Niagara Falls Runs Dry Day -- it was noticed in the hours of dark before midnight on the 29th, so many sources pinpoint the 30th as the first “day” this phenomena was observed. The flow stopped for about 30 hours due to an ice jam on Lake Erie at the entrance to the River; only time in recorded history.
- Smoke and Mirrors Day
- Texas Love the Children Day
- Earliest day on which the Octave Day of Easter can fall, while May 2 is the latest; observed on the Sunday after Easter. (Christianity)
On this day in...
845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
1778 - Captain James Cook anchors HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery in Resolution Cove
1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road [AKA the Cumberland Turnpike, the Cumberland–Brownsville Turnpike (or Road or Pike)], becoming the first United States federal highway. Today, much of the alignment is followed by U.S. Route 40, with various portions bearing the Alternate U.S. Route 40 designation, or various state-road numbers (such as Maryland Route 144 for several sections between Baltimore and Cumberland). In 2002, the full road, including extensions east to Baltimore and west to St. Louis, was designated the Historic National Road, an All-American Road
1867 - British North America Act proclaimed, to establish the Dominion of Canada, uniting Canada West (Ontario), Canada East (Québec), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; today's Constitution Act
1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal remilitarization and reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
1941 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement [NARBA]goes into effect at 03:00 local time, defining technical standards for AM band (mediumwave) radio stations
1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. Opened in 1868, it was ordered liquidated by a US bankruptcy judge.
1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
1962 - Jack Paar hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the final time.
1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
1984 – The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis. And no 34 years is not enough time to forgive Bob Irsay....
1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
2017 – The United Kingdom invokes Article 50, beginning the formal process of Brexit.
Quote of the day:
“Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.”
-- Keith Douglas, Alamein to Zem Zem
The word Maundy is described as a noun that means “the ceremony of the washing of the feet of the poor” which is pretty self-explanatory since that happened at the Last Supper as the disciples celebrated Passover. I was once invited to a Passover meal on Holy Thursday and found it to be quite a moving experience. And so we come to the heart of what confuses me most about anti-Semitism – if Christ returned to Earth and wanted to worship in a formal setting, it wouldn’t be in a cathedral, it would be in a synagogue. So if Christ was Jewish, and I know that Christians do study the Old Testament even if the New supersedes it, how can Christians treat his people so viciously?
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