AFM | Wednesday, 10/10/2018 | #27
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
- Hug a Drummer Day
- World Porridge Day
- International Stage Management Day
- International Top Spinning Day
- Stop America's Violence Everywhere Today
- National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work and School Day
- National Handbag Day
- National Pet Obesity Awareness Day
- National Stop Bullying Day
- World Mental Health Day
- National Tuxedo Day
This day in history
- Fijian independence The South Pacific Ocean island country had been ruled by the British since 1874. Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara became the first prime minister of independent Fiji.
- 1970
- Outer Space Treaty is Enforced Also known as the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, it regulated the exploration and use of outer space and created the field of international space law. The treaty declared that outer space and all celestial bodies were the common heritage of mankind and could not be claimed by any one nation.
- 1967
Born on this day
- Mýa · American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, actress · 1979 · Brett Favre · American Footballer · 1969 · U.S. Naval Academy Day · Harold Pinter · English Playwright, screenwriter, director, nobel prize laureate · 1930 · Fridtjof Nansen · Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate · 1861 · Guiseppe Verdi · Italian Composer · 1813 · International Walk to School Day · National Angel Food Cake Day · Squid and Cuttlefish Day · National Metric Day · The Tokyo Summer Olympics Begin 93 countries participated in the first Olympics to be held in Asia. As a tribute to the horrors of the Second World War, Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day an atomic bomb destroyed the city, was chosen as the torchbearer to light the Olympic flame during the opening. The Tokyo Olympics was also the first Olympic Games that used satellites - Syncom 3 in the United States and Relay 1 in Europe - to telecast the games. Some of the games were also broadcasted in color for the first time. · 1964
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Powers of Ten Day · United Airlines Boeing 247 explosion In one of the oldest unsolved cases in aviation history, the airplane which was flying from Newark, New Jersey to Oakland California exploded mid-air and crashed near Chesterton, Indiana. All 7 passengers and crew members died in the incident. To this day, it is not known what and who caused the explosion. · 1933 · Solomon Burke · American singer-songwriter · 2010 · Stephen Gately · Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, actor · 2009 · Christopher Reeve · American Actor · 2004 · World Hospice and Palliative Care Day · Orson Welles · American Actor, director, producer, screenwriter · 1985
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.— Leo Tolstoy
Riddle of the day
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
The answer
A deck of cards — in 2018 you'd have waited until the next morning for this.
Aloha Friday Motivation
· Edition #27 · 10/10/2018 ·