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Today is the 5th day of the 14th week, the 5th day of the 4th month, the 95th day of 2017, and:
- Accelerate ACL Awareness Among Young Women Day
- Bell Bottoms Day
- First Contact Day
- Go for Broke Day
- Gold Star Spouses Day
- National Alcohol Screening Day
- National Burrito Day
- National Caramel Day
- National Dandelion Day
- National Deep Dish Pizza Day
- National Fun at Work Day
- National Raisin and Spice Bar Day
- Read a Road Map Day
On this day in ...
1566 – Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces.
1609 – Daimyo (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1614 – Pocahontas, daughter of the leader of the Powhatan tribe, married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia
1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
1792 – United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States. The vetoed bill outlined a new apportionment formula establishing how Congress divided seats in the House of Representatives among the states based on the US census figures. President Washington thought the bill gave an unfair advantage to the northern states
1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B [a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek which predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries]
1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1915 – Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
1958 – Ripple Rock blown up with 1.2 tons of Nitramex, in world's largest non-nuclear explosion to date; the reef was a shipping hazard just below the surface of Seymour Narrows near Campbell River that had sunk or damaged 119 vessels and caused the death of over 100 people. Captain George Vancouver called the narrows "one of the vilest stretches of water in the world."
1976 - Billionaire Howard Hughes died on a plane flying him from Acapulco, Mexico, to Houston, in Texas, for medical treatment at the Methodist Hospital. His estate took 34 years to settle. ((Unfortunately, he was not on the branch of the Hughes family that I was born into))
1987 - Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut.
2018 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 34 mins 48 secs of light-travel time from Earth
2063 - the warp 1 flight of the Phoenix and the first open contact between Humans and Vulcans in Bozeman, Montana.
I talk too much. Always have. In elementary school my desk would be put out in the hall because I was constantly chattering to kids beside me, behind me, in front of me and this bad habit was never successfully broken so that if I fall quiet, it is commented on. You see, even if I am not directing comments to a person, or If no one talks to me, I talk to inanimate objects – my computer is the main recipient this day of muttered exclamations and questions as it either displays information or just doesn’t perform up to my level. All this can make me an uncomfortable person to be around when others are trying to concentrate, and now and then, I have to be reminded that I am getting too comfortable and my mouth is running. That on top of my music playing can make working around me a challenge at times. When I had my own office I could shut my door, but sitting out in the middle of the floor in a cubicle means that everyone has to hear me. Of course such reminders, no matter how tactfully handled [given that I am not always amendable to subtle hints], do tend to hurt my feelings and make me feel both guilty for being a nuisance and annoyed that I am not “loved” as I am. But silence makes me feel isolated and alone. It is hard to shut down and live in quiet.
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