AFM | Monday, 11/5/2018 | #43
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
- Bank Transfer Day
- Job Action Day
- National Love Your Red Hair Day
- National Doughnut Appreciation Day
- National Gunpowder Day
This day in history
- China's first lunar satellite enters lunar orbit The Chang'e 1, an unmanned lunar-orbiting spacecraft sent the first pictures of the Moon on November 26.
- 2007
- Green Valley Killer pleads guilty Gary Ridgeway, a serial killer also known as the Green Valley Killer plead guilty to killing 48 women in the 1980s and 1990s.
- 2003
Born on this day
- Tilda Swinton · English actress · 1960 · Commercial TV Broadcast Day · Bryan Adams · Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor · 1959 · Bob Barr · American politician · 1948 · Art Garfunkel · American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor · 1941 · Ike Turner · American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer · 1931 · Vatican City bombed Vatican City was bombed by a fascist Italian aircraft breaching the neutrality of Vatican during the second World War · 1943 · E. H. Carr · English historian, theorist · 1982
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Antonio Cárdenas Guillén — Mexican drug lord, co-leader (2010)
Work so hard that one day your signature will be called an autograph!— anon
The answer
a boomerang
The riddle itself wasn't kept. The index recorded the answer for every edition and the question for only some — this is one it didn't.
Aloha Friday Motivation
· Edition #43 · 11/5/2018 ·