day 66 - first Tuesday in March

Today is the 3rd day of the 10th week, the 7th day of the 3rd month, the 66th day of 2023 and:
  • National Be Heard Day
  • National Cereal Day
  • National Crown of Roast Pork Day
  • National Flapjack Day
  • National Sportsmanship Day
  • Peace Corps Day - formed  03.01.1961 by JFK, it is celebrated on the first Tuesday in March
  • Plant Power Day
  • Unique Names Day
On this day:
  •   321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I declared the dies Solis Invicti [sun-day] a day of rest in the Empire
  • 1778 - Captain James Cook first sights the Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay
  • 1785 - James Hutton, geologist, presented his full Theory of Uniformitarianism at the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
  • 1854 - Charles Miller patents the first US sewing machine able to stitch buttonholes [trust me, this was a huge innovation - I've done buttonholes by hand and they are laborious]
  • 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received the first US patent for the telephone
  • 1905 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" short story collection in London in response to the public outcry over the famous detective's death 12 years ago
  • 1912 - Roald Amundsen announced his discovery of the South Pole on 12.14.1911
  • 1914 - Babe Ruth first took the field as a professional baseball player playing shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles.  
  • 1955 - the musical "Peter Pan" starring Mary Martin was broadcast live on NBC, attracting a record 65 million viewers [and I was one of them!  It is one of my earliest memories, Mary Martin standing with her hands on her hips in the window crowing as only Peter could]
  • 1962 - Ground-breaking report "Smoking and Health" published by the British Royal College of Physicians, the first major report on the dangers of smoking
  • 1966 - US nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • 1969 - USSR nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk
  • 1975 - US nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • 1996 - first images of Pluto's surface photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope
  • 2023 - Voyager 1 is 22 hrs 04 mins 03 secs of light-travel time from Earth 

Quote of the day:

"There are unheralded tipping points, a certain number of times that we will unlock the front door of an apartment. At some point you were closer to the last time than you were to the first time, and you didn’t even know it. You didn’t know that each time you passed the threshold you were saying good-bye"
~ Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York

I am running out of sage incense again.









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