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On This Date
1867 – The United States took ownership of Alaska from Russia.
The price was $7.2 million, and skeptics dubbed the purchase
“Seward’s Icebox” or “Seward’s Folly,” after Secretary of State William H. Seward. Seward’s decision was vindicated when a major gold deposit was discovered in the Yukon in 1896.
1929 – The Judicial Committee of England’s Privy Council ruled that women were to be considered as persons in Canada. Previously, under English common law, women were “persons in matters of pains and penalties but were not persons in matters of rights and privileges.”
1958 – The first computer-arranged marriage took place on Art Linkletter’s television show.
Daily Trivia
The first letters of the months July through November, in order,
spell the name JASON.
Happy Birthday!
Chuck Berry (1926–2017) was a magnetic American singer who pioneered the style and sound of rock and roll. His catchy rhythms and flashy guitar solos translated into 1950s cultural anthems such as
“Johnny B. Goode” and “Rock and Roll Music,” songs that transformed popular music as we know it. The dynamic performer found fame when his first song, “Maybellene,” topped Billboard’s rhythm and blues chart.
Berry always makes Rolling Stone’s
“greatest of all time”
list, and he was part of the first class in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Quote of the Day
“Music should be made to make people forget their
problems, if only for a short while.”
~ Chuck Berry
MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2021
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Centennial Memories
On this day 100 years ago, Charles Strite received a patent for the first pop-up toaster. Prior to Strite’s invention, toasters could effectively toast bread, but if left unattended, the bread would burn and start fires.
Strite was tired of eating burnt toast from his work’s cafeteria.
His innovations were twofold:
he devised electric filaments that could toast bread on both sides, and he created a mechanism that automatically popped the toast when it was finished. Strite’s invention made toasters common household appliances.
Eye in the Sky
Stargazers are likely familiar with Jupiter’s “Great Red Spot.” Less familiar is Saturn’s “Great White Spot.” Every 30 Earth years, the northern hemisphere of Saturn tilts toward the sun and the Great White Spot appears. Over the course of two months, it evolves into a ring that encircles the entire planet. This ring is a massive thunderstorm the size of Earth with intense lightning and ever-shifting clouds. Inside the storm, lightning strikes 10 times a second, with each strike 10,000 times stronger than Earth lightning. Only six such storms have been observed over the past 140 years.
Punny Business
Geology rocks, but geography is where it’s at!
Today is
Meatloaf Appreciation Day. Meatloaf stands high in the pantheon of American cuisine. The dish evolved from the scrapple recipes of German immigrants. The first recorded recipe was a breakfast dish dating to the 1870s.M
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