AFM | Tuesday, 9/18/2018 | #14
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
- International Read an eBook Day
- Jada Pinkett Smith
- American model, actress
- 1971
- National Respect Day
- Greta Garbo
- Swedish actress
- 1905
- World Bamboo Day
- Oscar II becomes King of Norway and Sweden He succeeded his brother Charles XV and IV
- 1872
This day in history
- West Germany adopts the Deutsche Mark This action replaced the East German Mark and helped complete the economic reunification part of the union between East and West Germany.
- 1973
- Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth's orbit The geocentric satellite was launched into Earth's orbit by a Vanguard rocket, built by Glenn L. Martin Company, which is now known as Lockheed-Martin.
- 1959
Born on this day
- Ronaldo · Brazilian footballer · 1970 · James Gandolfini · American actor · 1961 · Samuel Johnson · English author, lexicographer · 1709 · Dag Hammarskjöld · Swedish diplomat, economist, author, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate · 1961 · William Hazlitt · English critic, painter · 1830 · Domitian · Roman emperor · 96
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Jimi Hendrix · American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer · 1970 · Life Hack of the Day
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.— Samuel Johnson
Riddle of the day
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
The answer
a towel — in 2018 you'd have waited until the next morning for this.
Aloha Friday Motivation
· Edition #14 · 9/18/2018 ·