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Today is the 6th day of the 43rd week, the 27th day of the 10th month, the 300th day of 2017, and:
- American Beer Day – even after Prohibition ended a few states continued to prohibit alcohol but Mississippi stayed “dry” until 1966.
- Boxer Shorts Day – were invented in 1925 by a boxers’ manager
- Cranky Co-Workers Day – if you think you don’t have any cranky co-workers, that just might mean it is you, neh?
- Frankenstein Friday – always the last Friday in October, it was created by Ron MacCloskey from Westfield, New Jersey in 1997 and he awards "The Franky Award" to someone who has made a significant contribution to the promotion of Frankenstein.
- Independence day: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from the United Kingdom in 1979; Turkmenistan from the Soviet Union in 1991
- National Bandanna Day
- National Black Cat Day
- National Breadstick Day
- National Potato Day
- Navy Day -- celebrated today starting in 1922 because it is the birthday of 26th President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, served 1901-1909), who was a naval enthusiast/promoter of sea power and former assistant Secretary of the Navy
- Occupational Therapy Day
- Sylvia Plath Day -- the American poet known for an intense, confessional quality of writing, was born in 1932.
- World Day for Audiovisual Heritabe
On this day:
312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross -- a German scholar named Peter Weiss argued that what Constantine may have seen was a “solar halo” – with the result that he became Christian.
1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson [who was from Baltimore] obtains her divorce decree nisi, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne to be with the woman he loved. He did try proposing an alternative solution of a morganatic marriage, in which he would remain king but Simpson would not become queen. She would enjoy some lesser title instead, and any children they might have would not inherit the throne, but the British government wouldn't agree. He was king for 326 days and is one of the shortest-reigning monarchs in British history.
His brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York, succeeded to the throne as George VI and his oldest daughter, Princess Elizabeth, became heiress presumptive.
1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records. Frank arrested him, and was not gentle as the group had pushed and pummeled the lady who was in the office to get to the records. In the pictures of Father Berrigan's arrest, those are Frank's handcuffs on him
1994 – Gliese 229B [a brown dwarf] is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
2017 -- NASA Voyager 1 is 19 hrs 30 mins 12 secs and Voyager 2 is 16 hrs 04 mins 23 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Forty years ago, in the afternoon, I was sitting on the telephone in my kitchen in our house on Poplar Drive, having a rather contentious conversation with my son’s pre-school teacher who was perturbed because he had refused the drink she had provided for snack. I patiently explained that he only liked milk and apple juice, although he would drink water. She was all huffy and told me that he should be drinking kool-aid [I hate that stuff] and Coke and the way that I was talking about these drinks, one would think they were bad for kids…. And then suddenly she stopped. I gently agreed that they were bad for kids in my opinion, and agreed that there was no reason that she should have to supply my son with anything special because he could always drink water. I was just shy of nine months pregnant, the baby wasn’t due for another two weeks although I was and felt huge and I am sure that my fatigue and exasperation were showing. Still huffy, she got off the phone and I hung up and stood up
WHOOSH!!
My water broke and there was amniotic fluid everywhere and I do mean everywhere – every time I bent over to try and mop it up, more came out. And six hours later, a little girl baby had joined our family. She has grown into an amazing woman and has two little girls of her own now, but to me, she will always be my baby daughter
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