Almanac for April 4th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 4th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-4-Nineteen-Eighty-Four-P5P11D6X42

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Ancient Egyptian goddess Ma'at

Bummer April 4th

April 4, 1841: The 9th U.S. president, William Henry Harrison, dies in office of what was thought at the time to be pneumonia. He has been inaugurated as president only a month earlier. Harrison is the first U.S. president to die in office.

April 4, 1865: During the American Civil War, Union troops set fire to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Only four buildings survive. Among those destroyed is the university’s 7,000-volume library. The Confederacy surrenders only five days later.

April 4, 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated. (Note: This also happened to be the day American poet Maya Angelou turned 40.)

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What was Diane Meyer grateful for on April 4, 2024?

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the solar eclipse is soon!
getting through the day
stretching
sun
chai tea
pasta salad
"I love you"
happy for myself
love, so much love, for my friends

Almanac for January 19

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for January 19: https://ko-fi.com/post/January-19-Edgar-Allan-Poe-and-Dolly-Parton-O5O319738N

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Artist Birthday: Edgar Allan Poe
Dolly Parton movie 9 to 5 by Movies of the 80s
Dolly Parton at Dorothy Surrenders

Today's Observance (United States): Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Beatles Trivia

January 19
January 19, 1971: During Charles Manson’s murder trial, Manson’s defense attorneys introduce the Beatles’ song “Helter Skelter” into evidence. According to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi, one of Manson’s delusion beliefs was that the song, written by Paul McCartney, referred to a coming race war. 

In reality, the lyrics refer to the literal meaning of a helter skelter, an English amusement ride consisting of a tower with a slide curling around it.

Bummer January 19

January 19, 1729: Restoration-era playwright William Congreve dies of complications from internal injuries he suffered in a September 1728 carriage accident.

January 19, 1903: Newspaper publisher and political powerbroker Narciso Gener Gonzales dies of a gunshot wound inflicted by James H. Tillman, the lieutenant governor of South Carolina. Gonzales was critical of Tillman’s uncle Ben Tillman, a U.S. senator. Tillman was a strict segregationist who favored harsh repression of African-American voting rights in South Carolina. Gonzales, although himself a segregationist, was also an anti-lynching activist who abhorred Tillman’s support for violence.

January 19, 1991: 20-year-old Austrian ski racer Gernot Reinstadler, competing in a qualifying race in Wengen, Switzerland, veers slightly to the right during the course of the downhill race. This slight deviation causes one of the tips of his skis to become tangled in the side netting while Reinstadler is still moving at a high speed. Reinstadler suffers a severe injure that essentially threatens to split his body in two from the pelvis upward. Although flown by helicopter to the nearest hospital and given multiple blood transfusions, the young man dies from the injury.