Monday, May 18, 2020. The beginning of a brand-new week. Arthur is brushing the outer banks and then will head out to sea and there are no disturbances off the Western coast of Africa. When you live in Florida during hurricane season, you check to see if there are storms in the Atlantic. We’re good. All we have is the pandemic. That’s enough. We don’t have a big selection of events for today. It’s I Love Reese’s® Day, International Museum Day, National Visit Your Relatives Day, National No Dirty Dishes Day, Send an Electronic Greeting Card Day and National Cheese Soufflé Day. I’d like to have a Reese’s peanut butter cup. I’ll go with that. To the history of this day: In 1830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for the manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever. On this day in 1896 the US Supreme court affirms legitimacy of racial separation in Plessy v Ferguson. This is where “Separate but equal” came from and would not be effectively overturned until 1954 under Brown vs. Board Of Education. This is the day in 1897 when “Dracula” by Irish author Bram Stoker is published. Finally, in 1933 the Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) is signed by FDR, to build dams. This is Bertrand Russell’s birthday (1872). He was an English mathematician and philosopher who said, “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” This is the day in 1973 that Jeannette Rankin who is the 1st woman elected to US Congress (R-Montana), women’s rights advocate and pacifist, dies at 92. She said, “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” That’s it for this particular Monday. Stay safe and wash those hands. Abide.
