AFM #7 — 9/7/2018

AFM | Friday, 9/7/2018 | #7

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

Google Commemoration Day (creation Day-1996)
National 401K Day (plz contribute to yours)
Grandma Moses Day
National Feel the Love Day
National Beer Lovers Day
National Grateful Patient Day
National Lazy Mom's Day
Wear Teal Day
National Neither Snow Nor Rain Day
Salami Day
World Suicide Prevention Day
International Make-Up(cosmetics) day
National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
Blame it on the large hadron collider day
National Hot Dog Day
libraries remember day
national ants on a log day
national hot cross bun day
national no news is good news day
Patriot Day
National Chocolate Milkshake Day
National Police Woman Day
Fortune Cookie Day
International Chocolate Day
Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day
National Defy Superstition Day
National Peanut Day
National Celiac Awareness Day
Positive Thinking Day
Uncle Sam Day
Programmer's Day
R U OK Day (Australia)

This day in history

Independence of South Sudan
2011
Georgi Markov is murdered (bulgarian writer)
1978
Treaty giving Panama Canal to Panama is signed
1977
Germas Begin Blitz over London
1940
The Tasmanian Tiger becomes Extinct
1936
A frozen, saturated sponge in a ziplock bag makes the perfect icepack that won't drip all over as it melts.
Matt Morgan (wrestler)
1976
Large Hadron Collider goes live(world's largest particle collider)
2008
Stephen J Gould (paleontologist)
1941
Baghdad Conference Begins (Led to OPEC)
1960
Charles Sandes Pierce (philosopher, mathmetician)
1839
Russia Tests Father of all Bombs
2007
Occupy wall street begins in Zuccotti Park
2011
2012 Attacks on US Diplomatic compound Benghazi
2012
Common Wealth Games open in Kuala Lumpur
1998
Emperor Haile Selassie is ousted in A coup in Ethiopia
1974
Luna 16, Soviet Robotic Probe, is Launched
1970
Jacqueline Bouvier marries JFK in Newport RI
1953
Gran Sasso Raid is conducted by German Troops to free Mussolini
1943
French Ambassador is Kidnapped in the Hague 3 members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), a communist militant group that was formed in Lebanon, stormed the French Embassy in the Hague and took 10 hostages, including the French Ambassador. The siege ended after the militants’ demands for a release of another JRA member, cash, and a plane was met.

Born on this day

Vera Zvonareva (tennis) · 1984 · Abdurrahman Wahid (politics) · 1940 · Elia Kazan (Actor, Dir, Pro) · 1909 · Paul Brown (american football coach) · 1908 · Elizabeth I of England · 1533 · Colin Firth · 1960 · Ranjitsinji (Cricketer) · 1872 · 9/11/2018 · Moby · 1965 · Bashar al-Assad (21st Syrian Pres) · 1965 · Rudolf Vrba (Holocaust Survivor/Educator) · 1924 · D.H. Lawrence (english novelist) · 1885 · Nikita Krushchev · 1971 · Christian Rakovsky (Bulgarian revolutionary) · 1941 · 9/12/2018 · Louis C.K. (controversial comedian) · 1967 · Sam Brownback (46th gov of Kansas) · 1956 · Bertie Ahern (Irish Politician) · 1951 · Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. (American Publisher) · 1892 · Norman Borlaug (Nobel Prize Laureate) · 2009 · David Foster Wallace (American Author) · Johnny Cash · 2003 · Robert Lowell (american poet) · 1977 9.13 (11) · Thomas Muller · Angelina Love · Canadian Wrestler · 1981 · Shane Warrne · Roald Dahl · Clara Schumann · 1933 · 1750 · Leopold Stokowski

Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.

Died on this day

Victims of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Air Disaster · 2011 · Mobutu Sese Seko (President of Zaire) · 1997 · Keith Moon (Rock n Roll Drummer) · 1978 · Suleiman the Magnificent (Ottoman Sultan) · 1566 9.10 (8) · Mary Wollstonecraft (author, philosopher) · 1797 · Henrietta Maria of France · 1669 9.11 (9) · Salvador Allende · 1973 · Muhammad Ali Jinnah (founder of pakistan) · 1948 · 2,997 victims of 9/11 Attacks · 2001 9.12 (10) · 1974 · A Woman is Elected to New Zealand Parliament for the first time Elizabeth McCombs won the by-elections for the parliamentary seat of Lyttelton, which was held by her husband before he died in August 1933. New Zealand extended suffrage to women in 1893. · The Battle of Quebec is fought between the British and the French A key event in the Seven Years’ War that involved the great European powers at the time, the battle took place on the farm of Abraham Martin. Because of this, the battle is also often called the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. British troops under the command of General James Wolfe defeated the French in the very short, 15-minute long battle and took over Quebec. The Battle resulted in the French giving up their control over areas in present-day Canada and most of North America coming under the control of the British. · Tupac Shakur · American rapper, producer, actor · 1996 · Lin Biao · Chinese military officer, politician, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China · 1971

Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.

And if I asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?

— Walt Whitman

Riddle of the day

Look at me one way and I weight a whole lot; turn me around and you'll see that I am not. What am I? The Start of Rosh Hashanah First Invictus Games Held, for wounded armed forces 2014 I'm on top of it day Last Person to be executed in France 1977 National Swap Ideas day Patent for sewing machine awarded 1846 Sew Be it Day TV Dinner Day make your bed day national emergency responders day national day of service and remembrance Women's Baseball day remember freedom day National Day of Encouragement National Report Medicare Fraud Day

The answer

A ton — in 2018 you'd have waited until the next morning for this.

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