AFM | Friday, 9/14/2018 | #12
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
- National Bakery Day
- National Coloring Day
- National Live Creative Day
- National Quiet Day (UK)
- The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
This day in history
- The Afghan President is assassinated Nur Muhammad Taraki had taken office less than a year ago when he was killed by gunfire at the behest of Hafizullah Amin. Amin took the seat of the president after the assassination and ruled for only 3 months before he was killed by the Soviets during Operation Storm-333.
- 1979
- IBM 305 RAMAC is Released The 350 RAMAC was the first computer with a disk drive and was primarily targeted towards business that did real-time transactions. RAMAC stood for Random Access Method of Accounting and Control. The RAMAC 350, which was one of the last vacuum tube computers manufactured by IBM, was replaced by the IBM 1401 in the early 1960s.
- 1956
Born on this day
- Aya Ueto · Japanese actress, singer · 1985 · Amy Winehouse · English singer-songwriter · 1983 · National Cream-Filled Donut Day · The Golden Girls Make Their Television Debut The popular American sitcom about 4 single and older women living together in a Miami, Florida house ran for 6 seasons on NBC. The main characters in the show were played by Beatrice Arthur, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White, each of whom won the Emmys for their acting in the show. The series also won 2 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series and 3 Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series. · 1985 · Dmitry Medvedev · Russian politician, 3rd President of Russia · 1965 · Margaret Sanger · American activist · 1879 · National Hug your Boss Day · Alexander von Humboldt · German geographer, explorer · 1769 · Stand up to Cancer Day · First Man-Made Object Successfully Lands on the Moon Soviet space probe Luna 2 was also the first man-made spacecraft to land on any celestial object. It was launched on September 12, 1959, and lost communications with Earth as it impacted the Moon’s surface east of Mare Serenitatis near the Aristides, Archimedes, and Autolycus craters. · 1959
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Irving Thalberg · American screenwriter, producer · 1936 · William McKinley · American politician, 25th President of the United States · 1901 · Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington · Irish/English field marshal, politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom · 1852 · John Chrysostom · Turkish archbishop · 407
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people will always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.— Mark Twain
Riddle of the day
I am the beginning of the end, the end of every place. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
The answer
the letter "e" — in 2018 you'd have waited until the next morning for this.
Aloha Friday Motivation
· Edition #12 · 9/14/2018 ·