Day 164 - still too much news
Today is the 3rd day of the 24th week, the 13th day of the 6th month, the 164th day of 2023, and:
1325 - Explorer Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years)
'nuff said
- Call Your Doctor Day
- International Albinism Awareness Day
- International Axe Throwing Day
- National Doe B Day
- National Forklift Safety Day
- National Kitchen Klutzs of America Day - my story about being a total klutz in the kitchen is about the time I set fire to the towel hanging off the oven handle while trying to broil a hot dog....
- Outdoor Marketing Day
- Random Acts of Light Day
- Roller Coaster Day
- Sewing Machine Day
- Weed Your Garden Day
- World Pet Memorial Day
- World Softball day
There is simply too much noise and angst swirling about today, so I decided to see what else went on from an historical perspective, so....
On this day in:
1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Perpetual Alliance (world's oldest still in existence) signed in London between King Edward III of England and King Ferdinand I of Portugal
1611 - John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1863 - Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon" in Christchurch, New Zealand
1895 – Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about fifteen miles per hour (24 km/h)
1920 - US Post Office says children cannot be sent by parcel post (after various instances)
1922 - Longest recorded attack of hiccups begins: Charlie Osborne gets the hiccups and continues for 68 years, dies 11 months after it stops
1925 - Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)
1942 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing")
1970 - The Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks; their single "Long and Winding Road" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1979 - Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota
1983 - NASA's Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
2002 - The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
2006 - The US Senate issues a formal resolution apologizing for failure to create anti-lynching legislation
2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback
2015 - Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission re-awakes after 7 months
2018 - Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate - 200 billion tonnes a year, 3 trillion tonnes in 25 years, in report published in "Nature" journal
2019 - Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older than Stonehenge
2022 - MIT researchers propose creating raft of "space bubbles" floating above the earth to reflect the sun's rays and help fight climate change
2023 - Voyager 1 is 22h 05m 06s of light travel time from Earth
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