The time/space Earth will travel on this day is named April 6, 2023. We are locked into an orbit around our sun which takes us 365 days to complete. Our sun is locked into an orbit around a massive black hole named Sagittarius A which is the center of the Milky Way which takes 230 million years to complete. Our sun is one of the 1.5 trillion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of the estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe. It’s good to remind ourselves of how important we are in the greater scheme of things. But here on Earth we can celebrate Fresh Tomato Day, Army Day, Drowsy Drivers Awareness Day, Jump Over Things Day, National Burrito Day, National Caramel Popcorn Day, National Twinkie Day, New Beer’s Eve, and Plan Your Epitaph Day. Now a few historical footnotes to help put today into context: On this day in 402 the Romans and Visigoths fought the Battle of Pollentia. The Romans won. I couldn’t find out how many people fought it or how many people died. It was noted that the Romans took many of the Visigoth’s wives. On this day in 1652 the 1ast European settlement in South Africa, Cape Colony, was established. On this day in 1772 Catherine the Great of Russia ended the tax on men’s beards put in place by Tsar Peter the Great. On this day in 1848 the Jews of Prussia were granted equality. This is the day in 1917 that the US declared war on Germany entering WWI. On this day in 1935 H. Levitt makes 499 basketball free throws, misses one, and then goes onto make 371 more. Today’s dead person is Isaac Asimov who wrote over 500 science fiction books. Isaac said, “When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” “Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.” “the easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.” Since I live in Florida, I’ll end with this gem: “any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” Abide.
