1.
World Health Day—celebrating the date
of creation of the World Health Organization on April 7, 1948 and focusing this
year on the vector borne diseases that infect over a billion people each year.
2. International Beaver Day—not
celebrating or bemoaning those individuals who are way too busy but rather the
accomplishments of the real beavers whose dam building is essential to the
creation and preservation of wetlands.
3. New Beer Day—definitely a holiday to toast to—the celebration of legalization of the sale of beer and wine after the implementation of Prohibition by the enactment of the Cullen-Harrison Act on March 22, 1933 allowing the sale of 3.2% beer (believed to be to low in alcohol to cause intoxication) commencing on April 7, 1933. Readers first alerted to the holiday on its Eve April 6, yesterday; fortunately purchasers did not have to line up for the stroke of midnight.
3. New Beer Day—definitely a holiday to toast to—the celebration of legalization of the sale of beer and wine after the implementation of Prohibition by the enactment of the Cullen-Harrison Act on March 22, 1933 allowing the sale of 3.2% beer (believed to be to low in alcohol to cause intoxication) commencing on April 7, 1933. Readers first alerted to the holiday on its Eve April 6, yesterday; fortunately purchasers did not have to line up for the stroke of midnight.
4. National Coffee Cake Day-- another
caloric holiday to sink one’s teeth into that speaks
for itself.
5. National Tater Day—celebrated in Benton Kentucky since 1843 as a day to rejoice spring and a market place to exchange slips for sweet potatoes (oldest such market day in U.S.) and like all good holiday celebrations has evolved into a great tourist attraction.
5. National Tater Day—celebrated in Benton Kentucky since 1843 as a day to rejoice spring and a market place to exchange slips for sweet potatoes (oldest such market day in U.S.) and like all good holiday celebrations has evolved into a great tourist attraction.
On this day in:
a. 1954 ignoring the fact that
the China dominoes and the Vietnam dominoes are historic enemies, President
Eisenhower propounded his “falling dominoes” rationale for U.S. action to
curtail the spread of communism in Southeast Asia—Sadly, the biggest domino is The
Wall and the 58,269 names as of 2013 engraved on it.
b. 1964 IBM introduced
its System/360 computer, punch cards and all and most students’ introduction to
computer science at the time.
c. 1969 the Internet observed its first symbolic birthday with the publication of RFC 1 entitled "Host Software", was written by Steve Crocker of UCLA; anyone who predicted on that day the growth and importance of the internet was either extremely lucky or had spiritual assistance.
c. 1969 the Internet observed its first symbolic birthday with the publication of RFC 1 entitled "Host Software", was written by Steve Crocker of UCLA; anyone who predicted on that day the growth and importance of the internet was either extremely lucky or had spiritual assistance.
If only for this day your doctor might give this sound medical
advice: “The I in illness is
isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we “Anon
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www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for poems on the Mustangs going to the Dance with a losing
record; to honor Cindy Abbott, a half blind 54 year old mother suffering from a
rare disease who competed in last year's Iditarod until forced out with a
broken pelvis after 600 miles; on Bode Miller and the human spirit; for Cupid
on Valentine's Day; to honor Cory Remsburg to join a great collection of
my poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times for poems on the death of Pastor Fred Phelps, founder of the
Westboro Baptist Church; Obama's "sanctions" compared to Rolling Thunder
49 years ago: Mustangs advance in the Dance to await the Shockers;
Russian Roulette with Putin; EPA's war against a Wyoming family; on Jolly's
upset win over Sink in the House's 13th District of Florida; China's red line
on war in Korea; De Blasio's payback to his union contributors by attacking
charter schools; Rutgers' faculty despicable attempt to ban Condi Rice from
being a commencement speaker; Newport Beach's assault on recovery homes,
including the Ohio House; on students protesting Keystone XL as the world's
largest oil producer militarily occupies the Crimea: the banning the wearing of
the American flag on Cinco de Mayo to join numerous other comments on news
events always in rhyme of course.
©April 7, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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