My calendar, which is empty, tells me that it’s April 28, 2020. I should be playing eight ball with my friends this morning, doing something this afternoon (lots of choices there) and going to the square to have a couple of drinks with my friends and listen to some tunes there. If the virus doesn’t get me, I’ll be there again. Soon I hope. In the meantime, today is National Kiss Your Mate Day, Biological Clock Day, Great Poetry Reading Day, Pay it Forward Day, Clean Comedy Day, National Superhero Day and Blueberry Pie Day. Since we’re going to throw caution to the wind and pick some blueberries today, I’ll be going with the pie. Now to our daily look at history: On this date in 1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against captain William Bligh in the South Pacific. In 1881 on this day Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico. Billy said, “I like to dance, but not in the air.” On this day in 1934 FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act which was part of the New Deal that provided mortgage assistance to homeowners or would-be homeowners by providing them money or refinancing mortgages. This is the birthday (1908) of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman that saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He said, “no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.” (Watch the attached video clip) There are two deaths on this day of interest. 1918 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian-Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, dies of tuberculosis at 23. This is the act that started World War I. This is also the day that partisans shot and killed Benito Mussolini. Lots of quotes from him which I won’t repeat. Not an uplifting one in the bunch. Interesting day to look at. I’ll toast Mr. Schindler and maybe eat some blueberry pie. You be sure and stay safe out there. Abide
