The name of this day is Thursday, August 18th, 2022. Ra will begin his ride across our sky in a few hours. Writing this post is the middle of the night isn’t something I do often, but it happens every few weeks. Let’s jump into it. This is Helium Discovery Day, Mail Order Catalog Day, National Bad Poetry Day, National Fajita Day, Never Give Up Day, Pinot Noir Day, Serendipity Day, and National Ice Cream Pie Day. I may celebrate fajitas for dinner. On this day in 293 BC the oldest known Roman temple to Venus was founded to celebrate the Vinalia Rustica which means ‘Grape Harvest Festival’. Jumping ahead nearly 2,000 years, on this day in 1612 the Pendle Witch trial began with 10 people being accused of witchcraft in Lancaster, England. The key witness was a 9-year-old boy. This is the day in 1769 that a lighting strike in Brescia, Italy ignited 90 tons of gunpowder killing over 3,000. In 1872 on this day the first mail-order catalog was issued by A. M. Ward. On this day in 1909 Yukio Ozaki, Mayor of Tokyo presented 2,000 cherry trees to President William Howard Taft who planted them near the Potomac River in Washington D.C They are truly a beautiful sight when they bloom each spring. This is the day in 1956 that Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” and “Don’t be Cruel” reached #1 in the charts. The first quote from a dead person today is from B.F. Skinner who was a psychologist who passed in 1990. Doctor Skinner observed that “The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.” Next is Walter Chrysler who was a leader in the automotive industry. Walter said, “Whenever there is a hard job to be done, I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.” Last for today is Honore de Balzac, a French novelist who died in 1850 who said, “Someday you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.” That’s enough for this post. Abide.
