AFM | Tuesday, 9/25/2018 | #19
From the founding era. In 2018 this went out every weekday as a card, not an essay — so there is no narrative to publish here, and none has been invented. What follows is the edition itself, reconstructed from the two spreadsheets that recorded it.
Today is
- Math Storytelling Day
- National Cooking Day
- National Food Service Employees Day
- National One-Hit Wonder Day
- National Crab Meat Newburg Day
- National Tune-Up Day
- National Voter Registration Day
This day in history
- NASA launches the Mars Observer The robotic space probe's main goal was to study Mars. Almost a year later all communications with it were lost.
- 1992
- Runners run the first Chicago Marathon One of the world's six major marathons, which include the marathons in Berlin, Boston, London, New York, and Tokyo, the Chicago Marathon was initially called the Mayor Daley Marathon. The first race was won by Rhud Metzner.
- 1977
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is officially created Ferhat Abbas was appointed as the President of the Algerian National Assembly, and Ben Bella was seated as the country's new Prime Minister.
- 1962
- Sequoia National Park is established by the United States Congress The park, situated in the state of California is famous for its giant sequoia trees.
- 1890
Born on this day
- Catherine Zeta-Jones · Welsh actress · 1969 · National Comic Book Day · Christopher Reeve · American actor · 1952 · Glenn Gould · Canadian pianist, composer · 1932 · Mark Rothko · Latvian/American painter · 1903 · National Lobster Day · William Faulkner · American author, Nobel Prize laureate · 1897 · Shel Silverstein · American Poet · 1930 · Barbara Walters · 1929 · National Psychotherapy Day · Will Smith · American Actor · 1968
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Wangari Maathai · Kenyan environmentalist, Nobel Prize laureate · 2011 · Edward Said · Palestinian/American theoretician · 2003 · Hugo Black · American jurist, politician · 1971 · Harald Hardrada · Norwegian king · 1066 · Life Hack of the Day · when ironing a button down shirt, iron it inside out to make it easier to iron over the buttons\!
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.— William Faulkner
Riddle of the day
In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half the lake?
The answer
47th day — in 2018 you'd have waited until the next morning for this.
Aloha Friday Motivation
· Edition #19 · 9/25/2018 ·