AFM | Wednesday, 11/7/2018 | #45
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
- Cook Something Bold Day
- National Ample Time Day
- National Dunce Day
- National Harvey Wallbanger Day
- National Cappuccino Day
- World Town Planning Day
- World Usability Day
This day in history
- Coup in Thailand Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn staged a coup against his own government and dismissed the parliament citing increasing communist influence.
- 1971
- Beer Hall Putsch On this day, Adolf Hitler and other members of the Nazi party attempted to overthrow current government by marching to Berlin. They started the march at the Bürgerbräu Keller in Munich. The coup attempt was eventually unsuccessful and Hitler was captured and imprisoned for 2 years.
- 1923
- First person to observe X-rays German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays, also sometimes called Röntgen rays while working on cathode rays. X-rays are a type of electromagnetic radiation that are often used today in medicine. Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his discovery.
- 1895
Born on this day
- Aaron Swartz · American computer programmer, activist · 1986 · Gordon Ramsay · Scottish chef, television host · 1966 · Micky Adams · English footballer, manager · 1961 · Nguyen Khanh · Vietnamese general, politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam · 1927 · Margaret Mitchell · American author · 1900 · National Parents as Teachers Day · Assassination attempt on Hitler Johann Georg Elser, a German woodworker, attempted to kill Adolf Hilter and other high ranking members of the Nazi party during the 16th anniversary observances of the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed coup attempt by Hitler in 1923. The time bomb Elser used in a beer hall called Bürgerbräukeller in Munich went off but failed to kill Hitler. Elser was caught and imprisoned in Dachau for 5 years. · 1939 · National STEM Day
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Vyacheslav Molotov — Soviet politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs fr the Soviet Union (1986)
- Dorothy Kilgallen — American journalist (1965)
- Ivan Bunin — Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate (1953)
- John Milton — English poet (1674)
Don't be afraid to give up the good, to go for the great.— John D Rockefeller
Riddle of the day
Why did the snail paint a big “S” on his car?
The answer
2c escargot — in 2018 you'd have waited until the next morning for this.
Aloha Friday Motivation
· Edition #45 · 11/7/2018 ·