AFM | Monday, 11/12/2018 | #46
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
- Happy Hour Day
- National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day
- Stanton Day
- World Orphans Day
- World Pneumonia Day
- Veterans Day(observed today)
This day in history
- Coup in Lesotho Justin Metsing Lekhanya staged a coup against King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho and took over the government of Lesotho. Lekhanya was deposed a few months later in another military coup.
- 1990
- First salvage operation in space Astronauts Dale A. Gardner and Joseph P. Allen aboard space shuttle Discovery performed a series of space walks to salvage parts from two satellites, the Palapa B-2 and the Westar 6 which had steered away from their orbits.
- 1984
- STS-2 launched The second space shuttle mission by NASA, space shuttle Columbia was launched from NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the first time a manned space shuttle had been launched twice.
- 1981
- First images of a Solar Eclipse taken from space The crew of Gemini 12 which included Edwin Eugene Buzz Aldrin were able to view and take pictures of the total solar eclipse over South America.
- 1966
Born on this day
- Ryan Gosling — Canadian actor, singer (1980)
- Neil Young — Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer (1945)
- Charles Manson — American cult leader, murderer (1934)
- Sun Yat-sen — Chinese revolutionary, politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (1866)
- Auguste Rodin — French sculptor, created The Thinker (1840)
Died on this day
- Henryk Górecki — Polish composer (2010)
- Iskander Mirza — Pakistani politician, 1st President of Pakistan (1969)
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.— Joseph Campbell
The answer
pencil lead
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 #46 · 11/12/2018 ·