AFM | Friday, 11/2/2018 | #42
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
- All Souls' Day
- National Jersey Friday
- National Deviled Egg Day
- Plan Your Epitaph Day
- Practice Being Psychic Day
This day in history
- Coup in Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud takes over the government of Saudi Arabia while his half-brother, King Saud is overseas for medical reasons.
- 1964
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation established Officially known as CBC/Radio-Canada, the network is Canada's public radio and television broadcaster.
- 1938
- Balfour Declaration Originally sent as a letter on this day to Baron Rothschild from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, it declared BRitish support for a Jewish state in Palestine. The letter was eventually added to Sevres peace treaty.
- 1917
Born on this day
- Shahrukh Khan · Indian Actor · 1965 · Look for Circles Day · Ken Rosewall · Australian Tennis Player · 1934 · Warren G. Harding · American Politician 29th US Pres. · 1865 · Marie Antoinette · Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France · 1755 · National Medical Science Liaison Awareness and Appreciation Day · Mahmud of Ghazni · 971 · Haile Selassie I becomes the emperor of Ethiopia Considered as a leading figure in the Rastafari movement, Selassie reigned over Ethiopia for 44 years. · 1930
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- The Fabulous Moolah — American wrestler (2007)
- Theo Van Gogh — Dutch Director (2004)
- Peter Debye — Dutch/American physicist, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1966)
- George Bernard Shaw — Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (1950)
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous. The ice of life is slippery.— George Bernard Shaw
Riddle of the day
What is it that no man wants to have but no man wants to lose?
The answer
a lawsuit — in 2018 you'd have waited until the next morning for this.
Aloha Friday Motivation
· Edition #42 · 11/2/2018 ·