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Today is the 5th day of the 50th week, the 14th day of the 12th month, the 348th day of 2017, and:
- Monkey Day -- created and popularized by artists Casey Sorrow and Eric Millikin beginning in 2000 to spread awareness for monkeys and "all things simian," including other non-human primates such as apes, tarsiers, and lemurs, and to show love and care for them
- National Bouillabaisse Day
- Roast Chestnuts Day
- Yoga Day
On this day....
1701 - The revenge of the forty-seven rōnin, also known as the Akō incident (赤穂事件Akō jiken) or Akō vendetta, in which a band of rōnin (leaderless samurai) avenged the death of their master. The Sengakuji Temple holds a festival commemorating the event each year
1782 – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2 km (1.2 mi).
1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the geographic South Pole.
1958 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility [the point on the Antarctic continent most distant from the Southern Ocean and is far more remote and difficult to reach than the geographic South Pole].
1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1972 – Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
2004 – The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.
Writing prompt of the day:
348. Night Owl: Write about staying up late at night.
I have never been a morning person -- in fact I have always considered myself to be one of the Jellicle Cats of rhyme and song – but a lifetime of having to get up early in the morning to go to school and then to work has taken its toll. These days I am lucky to be able to push aside the wall of weariness that descends in the evening and stay the course until after midnight and I wouldn’t even try to do that on a work night!
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