AFM | Friday, 10/12/2018 | #29
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
- Old Farmers Day
- Edward VI of England
- 1537
- World Egg Day
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Italian Operatic Tenor
- 1935
- Nikita Khrushchev's Famous Shoe Pounding Incident The First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union removed his shoe and pounded it on the table during a UN General Assembly meeting in New York. The incident was thought to be a response to comments about freedoms in Eastern Europe made by the Filipino delegate, Lorenzo Sumulong.
- 1960
- 1997
This day in history
- Equatorial Guinea Gains Independence The African republic was part of the Spanish Empire since the late 1700s. Known as Spanish Guinea, the country became independent and changed its name to Equatorial Guinea under the leadership of President Francisco Macías Nguema. In 1972, Nguema proclaimed himself president for life.
- 1968
- First Multi Person Space Flight Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 1 carried 3 cosmonauts for the first time to space. It was also the first time the crew did not wear any space suits for the duration of the flight.
- 1964
- Christopher Columbus Steps Foot on the New World Two months after he had set sail from Spain with crews on 3 ships – the Santa María, the Pinta, and the Santa Clara, Columbus spotted land that he believed was Japan. He had, in fact, stepped foot on what is now the Bahamas. Claiming that he was the first one to set sight on the lands, he declared the lands as being owned by the Spanish empire.
- 1492
Born on this day
- Hugh Jackman · Australian Actor, Producer · 1968 · Aleister Crowley · English Magician, author · 1875 · Ramsay MacDonald · Scottish Politician, PM of United Kingdom · 1866 · Pedro I of Brazil · 1798 · Andre Casanova · French Composer · 1919
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Wilt Chamberlain · American Basketball Player · John Denver · American Singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor · Dean Acheson · American Lawyer, politician, 51st Sec of State · 1971
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.— Alice Walker
The answer
green paint
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 #29 · 10/12/2018 ·