AFM | Monday, 10/1/2018 | #23
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
- Homemade Cookie Day
- Liaquat Ali Khan
- Indian/Pakistani lawyer, politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan
- 1896
- International Coffee Day
- Mark McGwire
- American Baseballer
- 1963
- International Music Day
- National Black Dog Day
- People's Republic of china is established Mao Zedong declared the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
- 1945
- National BOOK It\! Day
- Trial of the Major War Criminals end The Trial of the Major War Criminals part of the Nuremberg trials ended with sentences being passed against several key members of the Nazi party.
- 1946
- National Fire Pup Day
This day in history
- Formation of Federal Republic of Cameroon British Cameroon or Southern Cameroon joined the Republic of Cameroon to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
- 1961
- Thalidomide launched Thalidomide, an anti-nausea drug and sleep-aid, was launched. For about five years it was commonly prescribed to pregnant women as a drug to deal with morning sickness. It was finally withdrawn from the market after it was determined that it caused birth defects.
- 1957
Born on this day
- Julie Andrews · English actress, singer · 1935 · Jimmy Carter · American politician, 39th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate · 1924 · William Rehnquist · American lawyer, jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States · 1924 · Bonnie Parker · American criminal · 1910 · William Boeing · American Aviation Pioneer · 1881 · Eric Hobsbawm · Egyptian/English historian, author · 2012 · Richard Avedon · American photographer · 2004 · Life Hack of the Day
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Tom Clancy · American author · 2013 · Curtis LeMay · American general · 1990 · Use an empty tube of chapstick to hide emegency money when you are on vacation\!
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten!— Tony Robbins
The answer
a pair of dice
The riddle itself wasn't kept. The index recorded the answer for every edition and the question for only some — this is one it didn't.
Aloha Friday Motivation
· Edition #23 · 10/1/2018 ·