AFM | Thursday, 10/11/2018 | #28
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
- General Pulaski Memorial Day
- Myths and Legends Day
- National It's My Party Day
- National Coming Out Day
- Southern Food Heritage Day
- World Sight Day
This day in history
- First American Woman to walk in Space Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan undertook a 3.5-hour long space walk with fellow astronaut David Leestma while on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-G. The spacewalk was performed to demonstrate the possibility of refueling a satellite. STS-41-G was the first flight mission to carry two women astronauts - Sullivan and Sally Ride.
- 1984
- The First Episode of Saturday Night Live Airs A popular sketch comedy show, SNL, as it is popularly known, was initially called NBC's Saturday Night, and it was created and produced by Lorne Michaels. The original cast members of the show, which usually opens with the slogan “Live from New York, it's Saturday Night\!”, included Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and Chevy Chase.
- 1975
- Second Boer War Begins The almost 3-year long conflict was fought between British and Irish troops and the Boers from the Transvaal and Orange Free State. The war began as a result of disagreements between the two sides over the ownership of gold and diamond mines in the region. The two countries were annexed by the British at the end of the war in May 1902. The word Boer is the Afrikaans word for farmer and it was used at that time to refer to Afrikaans-speaking settlers in the region.
- 1899
Born on this day
- Michelle Wie · American Golfer · 1898 · International Day of the Girl Child · Amitabh Bachchan · Indian Actor · 1942 · Bobby Charlton · English Footballer · 1937 · National Depression Screening Day · Eleanor Roosevelt · American politician, humanitarian, 34th First Lady of the United States · 1884 · Grigory Potemkin · Russian Military leader, politician · 1739 · Brett Favre · American Footballer · 1969 · Mario Lopez · American Actor, tv personality · 1973 · Thelonious Monk · American Jazz Musician · 1917 · National Sausage Pizza Day · Wuchang Uprising The Wuchang Uprising occurred in Wuchang, China, leading to the fall of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China. This day is celebrated as an important holiday in Taiwan. · 1911
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Jorg Haider — Austrian politician, Governor of Carinthia (2008)
- Keith Miller — Australian cricketer, pilot (2004)
- Edith Piaf — french singer-songwriter, actress (1963)
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.— Eleanor Roosevelt
The answer
a computer
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 #28 · 10/11/2018 ·