AFM | Thursday, 8/30/2018 | #2
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
- Frankenstein Day & Slinky Day
- International Day of the Disappeared
- National Beach Day
- National Holisitc Pet Day
- National Toasted Marshmallow Day
- Thoughtful Thursday
- Love Litigating Lawyers Day
- College Colors Day
- Eat Outside Day
- Forgive your Foe Day
- National Trail Mix Day
- National Matchmaker Day
This day in history
- Thurgood Marshall, 1st African American Supreme Justice Appointed
- 1967
- Telephone hotlin between DC & Moscow established
- 1963
- Guion Bluford, 1st African American to go into space
- 1983
- Put a blue ink cartridge, in a red pen. Cause no one steals a red pen\!
- North Korea Launches it's first satellite
- 1998
- Princess Diana Dies in car crash
- 1997
- Malaysia, then known as Malaya, gains it's independence
- 1957
Born on this day
- Andy Roddick (tennis) (1982)
- Warren Buffet (1930)
- Huey Long (politician) (1893)
- Mickie James (wrestler/singer) (1979)
- Van Morrison (1945)
- Maria Montessori (1870)
- Jeff Hardy (singer, wrestler, painter, writer) (1977)
Died on this day
- Seamus Heaney (poet) · 2013 · Indian Larry (motorcycle builder) · 2004 · John Bell Hood (American General) · 1879 8.31 (3) · 8/31/2018 · Princess Di · 1997 · John Ford (american director) · 1973
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself.— Anon
Riddle of the day
What has a forest but no trees, lakes without water, roads with no cars and deserts with no sand?
The answer
A Map — in 2018 you'd have waited until the next morning for this.
Aloha Friday Motivation
· Edition #2 · 8/30/2018 ·