1. World Water Day--UN promulgated holiday since 1993 promoting the development of and conservation of water resources--more than symbolic in the case of California mired in a devastating drought.
2. National Goof Off Day--Not sure where this came from or why celebrated but given all the time being lost from work watching the March Madness playoffs seems like a good explanation.
3. Young As You Feel Day--hopefully on this day you are feeling younger that your chronological age, free of life's increasing aches and pains.
4. International Day of the Seal--created by congress in 1982 to prevent cruelty of seals and promote public awareness that the mammal is protected under U.S. law. If taking the Balboa Island Ferry today, you now know why the seals in the harbor are smiling and waving their flippers at you.
On this day in:
a. 1630 the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
b. 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court in Eisenstadt v. Baird struck down a Massachusetts law (same people who acted in 1630 to ban dice and cards) outlawing the sale of contraceptives to unmarried persons and on the same day the Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution and sent it to the states for ratification which 35 did, including Massachusetts, and leaving it 3 states short.
c. 1993 Intel Corporation shipped its first Pentium chip to the joy of all PC and laptop users.
Stanford usually gets it right when the "winds of freedom" are blowng: "I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion." Governor of California, railroad baron and with his wife Jane founder of Stanford University.
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