🌮 Improve Your Office Day
🌮 Kids Music Day
🌮 Kindness to Animal Day
🇰🇮 Kiribati: Education Day
🇱🇸 Lesotho Independence Day
🌮 Manufacturing Day
🇮🇳 Mera Chaoren Houba
🌮 National Body Language Day
🌮 National Cinnamon Roll Day
🌮 National Golf Lovers Day
🌮 National Taco Day
🌮 National Truckers Day
🌮 National Vodka Day
🌮 World Animal Day
🌮 World Habitat Day
🌮 World Smile Day
🌮 First Day of National Manufacturing Week
🌮 First Day of Semana Morazánica in Honduras
🌮 First Day of World Space Week
🌒 On this day the Moon will be in a Waxing Crescent Phase. Best seen in the west after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. This is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon's surface.
Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 3%
Moon Age: 1.53 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 404,161.26 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 149,593,247.79 km
Today in History: Kenneth, What Is the Frequency? (1986), First Woman Co-Anchor of a Network TV Evening News Program (1976), Janis Joplin Dies of Overdose (1970), First Pictures of the Far Side of the Moon (1959), Sputnik 1 Launched (1957), Snoopy Makes His First Appearance (1950), Dick Tracy Debuts (1931), Lee Harvey Oswald's Body Exhumed (1981), Death Penalty Ban Overturned (1976), First Reporter Jailed for Not Revealing Their Source (1972), Carving on Mount Rushmore Begins (1927), Start of the Gregorian Calendar (1582)
Today in Media History: Snoopy Makes His First Appearance (1950, SQUEEE! Look how cute he is!)
Today's birthdays: Anne Rice, Buster Keaton, Giacomo and Giovanni Tocci (Italian Siamese Twins), Rutherford B. Hayes (Suggested to the Union "Let Them Go."), James Lind (Conducted First Clinical Trial and Discovered that Citrus Prevented Scurvy), Dakota Johnson, Armand Assante, Susan Sarandon, Clifton Davis, Robert Shayne, Damon Runyon, Michael Pupin (Invented "Pupinization"),
Today's deaths: Janis Joplin, Diahann Carroll, Loretta Lynn, Gordon Cooper, Roy Lee "Rocky" Dennis, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (Designed the Statue of Liberty), Rembrandt, Kalina (Baby Shamu), Secretariat (First Horse to Finish the Kentucky Derby in Under Two Minutes), Graham Chapman, Max Planck (Executed for the July 1944 Attempt to Assassinate Adolf Hitler), Catherine Booth (Mother of the Salvation Army)
🔮 You will now have a good day!
While Max Planck did die October 4 (1947), it was his son Erwin Planck who was executed for his involvement in the July 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler (23 Jan 1945).
That is a Monk Seal in that tub. That is my younger daughter’s amakua (Hawaiian Spirit Animal!)
I think your SubStack is awesome. And thank you for not trying to monetise it. 💖😎