This day’s name is July 17, 2023. A new day and the start of a new week. I can do anything I want, within reason. I will probably do pretty much the same stuff I did last week but, that’s not being in a rut, that’s doing what I like to do. Retirement is better than I thought it would be. Today is Global Hog Your Kids Day, National Get Out of the Doghouse Day, National Tattoo Day, National Peach Ice Cream Day, World Day for International Justice, World Emoji Day, and Yellow Pigs Day. Now some history. On this day in 180, 6 inhabitants of Carthage, North Africa were executed for being Christians. This is the earlies record of Christianity in this part of the world. On this day in 1585 the English Secret Service discovered Anthony Babington’s plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I. Guess what happened to Anthony? Hung, drawn and quartered with his head ending up on a spike. On this day in 1762 Catherine II became Tsarina of Russia. She overthrew her husband Peter III because, among other things, he was crazy. On this day in 1861 Congress authorized paper money. This is the day in 1862 that the US Army was authorized to accept blacks as laborers. On this day in 1917 by proclamation by King George V, the British Royal family changed it’s name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. On this day in 1945 Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill held the Potsdam Conference which was their first post-World War II meeting. This is the day in 1955 of the Grand Opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. On this day in 1962 the republican controlled Senate rejected Medicare for the aged. It was pass into law in 1965 when the democrats took control. Today we will hear from the Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith. He said, “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” “The game women play is men.” “What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?” Last one: “Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he an afforded to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.” Abide.
