Day 254: rainy days and Mondays....

Today is the 2nd day of the 37th week, the 11th day of the 9th month, the 254th day of 2023, and:

• Emergency Number Day - first implemented in the US in 1968
• Enkutatash 
• "I Want to Start My Own Business" Day
• Libraries Remember Day
• Make Your Bed Day
• National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
• National Day of Service and Remembrance 
• National Emergency Response Day
• National Hot Cross Bun Day
• National No News is Good News Day
• Patriot Day - banks had successfully objected to the proposed 'know your customer' requirements for years, but after the attacks, they were implemented anyway 
• Remember Freedom Day
• Women's Baseball Day
• the first quarter of the moon at 2:06 AM EDT
• and Voyager1 is 22h 19m 30s of light travel time from Earth 

On this day in....

 910 - Benedictine abbey of Cluny founded by William, Duke of Aquitaine, in Burgundy, France, one of the greatest monasteries of Western Europe

1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes

1503 - Michelangelo begins sculpting the 12 Apostles for the Cathedral of Florence, over-life-sized marble statues of which only one was partly finished, that of St. Matthew

1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1847 - the first singing of Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" (in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

1893 - Shaku Soen is the first Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)

1897 - After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom

1906 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa

1909 - German astronomer Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet

1916 - Clarence Saunders opens "Piggly Wiggly" - the first self-service supermarket, in Memphis, Tennessee

1928 - the first TV drama WGY's "Queens Messenger" broadcast in the New York area starring Izetta Jewell

1930 - the Stromboli volcano, Sicily throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles

1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer

1941 - Construction of the Pentagon begins in Arlington County, Virginia (completed Jan 15, 1943). Designed by architect George Bergstrom and built by contractor John McShain, construction was overseen by Leslie Groves.

1945 - Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the first successful kidney dialysis using his artificial kidney machine in the Netherlands

1946 - the first mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation

1950 - the first typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited

1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

1959 - Baltimore starter Jerry Walker pitches all 16 innings as the Orioles edge the Chicago White Sox, 1-0 at Memorial Stadium

1959 - Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans

1962 - Beatles record "Love Me Do", "PS I Love You", and a slow version of "Please, Please Me" ,with Andy White on drums; Ringo relegated to tambourine

1965 - Beatles' "Help!" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks

1966 - France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

1967 - "The Carol Burnett Show" starring Carol Burnett premieres on CBS-TV in the US

1967 - Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour begins with a bus driven somewhat aimlessly around western England

1967 - US Surveyor 5 makes the first chemical analysis of lunar material

1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1977 - The Atari 2600, originally known as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS) is released in North America, revolutionizing the video game industry

1978 - The last known person dies of smallpox - medical photographer Janet Parker through infection in a laboratory, in Birmingham, England

1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1995 - Soyuz TM-22, lands

2007 - Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.

2012 - The US is warned by Moody's that its AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to produce a long-term debt reduction plan

2019 - Water detected for first time on planet outside out solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in "Nature Astronomy"

Quote of the day:
"Grief is a catalyst for healing. Healing grief carves the landscape of your heart in ways that open up deeper pathways of connection to others."

~ Paula Arai, “Where Fear and Love Meet”

Everyone in my parent's generation. as well as my grandparents,  could tell you exactly where they were on 12.07.1945.

Everyone in my generation, as well as our parents and some grandparents, can tell you where they were on 11.22.1963

Everyone in my kid's generation, as well as my generation and some from the previous generation as well, can tell you where they were 22 years ago, on 09.11.2001

What each of these event had in common is they etched a clear line of demarcation, a before and an after, for all of our lives were irrevocably altered in ways the historians will be busy analyzing for many years.  

I wonder and worry about what my granddaughter's generation will face and how it will impact them. 

Serious thoughts for a Monday, neh?