Day 175 - the last Saturday of June
Today is the 7th day of the 25th week, the 24th day of the 6th month, the 175th day of 2023, and:
- American Radio Relay League Day
- Bartender and Mixologist Day
- Celebration of the Senses
- Fors Fortuna - ancient Roman festival for the goddess of fortune and luck
- Global Smurf Day
- Great American Backyard Campout
- Great American Picnic Day
- International Fairy Day
- International Ragweed Day
- Inti Rayim - a winter solstice festival and a New Year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere
- Museum Comes to Life Day
- National Celebrate Your Marriage Day
- National Haskap Berry Day
- National Patch Day
- National Pralines Day
- National Take Back the Lunch Break Day
- Polar Bear Swim Day
- St John's Day
- Stonewall National Monument Day
- Summersgiving
- Swim a Lap Day
- World Bike Naked Day [different cities may have different dates throughout the summer]
- World UFO Day
On this day in....
451 - Halley's Comet's perihelion passage is recorded for the 10th time
1374 - Sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion
1750 - A Jesuit priest hold first mass in The Little Chapel in Tadoussac, New France (built 1747, now the oldest surviving church in North America)
1778 - David Rittenhouse observes and records a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
1901 - Pablo Picasso opens his first art exhibit at the age of 19 in Paris
1916 - Mary Pickford becomes the first female film start to get a million dollar contract
1930 - Reflected radio waves, the precursor to radar, are used to detect an airplane for the first time by the US Naval Research Lab in Anacostia, Washington DC
1938 - 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
1947 - Pilot Ken Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting when he reports three flying saucers flying over Mount Rainier
1949 - 'Hopalong Cassidy', starring William Boyd, becomes the first network western for NBC
1957 - the US Supreme Court rules obscenity is not free speech protected by the First Amendment in Roth VS United States
1963 - first demonstration of a home VCR at the BBC Studios in London
1967 - Pope Paull VI publishes the encyclical Sacerdotalis Coelibatus in defense of clergy celibacy in the Church
1972 - Wake Island becomes an incorporated US territory under the control of the US Air Force
1973 - a 15 year old Marlene Raymond does the limbo under a flaming bar set at 6 1/8 inches high
1982 - France's first spationaut Jean-Loup Chrétien and 2 Soviet cosmonauts, lift off aboard Soyuz T-16
1983 - NASA's seventh space shuttle mission ends as Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
1985 - NASA's Discovery 5 returns to earth
1991 - the NFL adopts the use of instant replay and the tenth of a second clock for the final moment of game play
1997 - the USAF reports the Roswell 'space aliens' were actually dummies
2012 - Female athletes permitted to compete for Saudi Arabia in the Olympics
2018 - Women are permitted to drive in Saudi Arabia
2022 - The US Supreme Court overturned Roe VS Wade [1973] and Planned Parenthood VS Casey [1992], eliminating the constitutional right to choose abortion
2023 - Voyager 1 is 22h 06m 13s of light travel time from Earth
Is that why learning a new language creates a new cultural map internally?
Does the ability to share one's thoughts on paper constitute a communication or a soliloquy?
Do we know those whom we read? Do we want to? Do they want us to know them?
I have been an avid reader since I learned how to read, and as much as I have lived a 2nd life in my mind/imagination, I don't remember the names of all the authors who's stories I absorbed even as I remember the stories themselves. Do I know those authors? They lived lives in the real world of which I am neither aware, nor that I care to know for the most part. Is that who we are in the end? The stories - call them tales or memories - we have caged in language so that we can revisit them?
*deep breath* welcome to the rabbit hole and thank you for wandering with me. I can dive into this kind of musing with very little effort, and then I wonder how it is that time as slipped away from me as this Saturday is doing.....
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