It’s Friday and we are giving away another 10k Satoshis. Ethiopian in the cup today but the bag will be empty before Monday, What will I drink next? Today I give the latest in the neighbors v Bar saga, my trip to get Kori tea was interesting and a quick weekend preview. We picked on The Backwoods Butcher in during The Perfect Cup Question “As we Approach the midpoint of the year, Any Second Half Predictions for 2023? (any topic)” and had a fun fill LOTS of History prepared by Pip over that Ducktioncups.com
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LOTS of History
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June 30th
June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 184 days remain until the end of the year.
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- 1805 – Under An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, adopted by the U.S. Congress on January 11, 1805, the Michigan Territory is organized
an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit was the territorial capital.
Pip’s notes – I’ve visited Michigan once as a kid. If I recall correctly, it was about here…
( Pip holds up open hand, and points at area of “the mitten shaped state” )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Territory
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield
Pip’s notes – the wiki page of Garfield is a scroll-fest of TLDR.
Ooh, look. It’s friday…. (distrated with throwing car parts)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield
- 1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
Pip’s notes – I have inhaled waaaaay tooooo much brake cleaner to understand why the F there are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_mirabilis_papers
- 1937 – The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
Pip’s notes – There was a scene in the TV show Ted Lasso that made jokes about 911 vs 999. Fucking great show. … Anyway…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999_(emergency_telephone_number)
Happy Birthdays
- 1952 – David Garrison, American actor and singer
Pip’s notes – The neighbor in Married with Children. No, not the Fabio look-alike. The earlier dude. Dark black hair, kind of a push-over (in the show).. yeah, that dude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Garrison
- 1966 – Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor
Pip’s notes – nibble, nibble, nibble….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson
- 1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer
with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals.
Pip’s notes – Mike had the munchies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Phelps
BONUS ROUND!
- Cookie, Australian Major Mitchell’s cockatoo, oldest recorded parrot (d. 2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_(cockatoo)
Passings
- 1916 – Eunice Eloisae Gibbs Allyn, American correspondent, author, and poet (b. 1847)
an American correspondent, author, songwriter, illustrator, and painter. She intended to become a teacher, but her mother dissuaded her so she remained at home, entering into society, and writing in a quiet way for the local papers while using various pen names in order to avoid displeasing one of her brothers, who did not wish to have a “bluestocking” in the family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Gibbs_Allyn
- 1971 – Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)
a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the third space crew to die during a space flight.
Pip’s notes – he became the first man to operate a telescope outside the Earth’s atmosphere…..”First!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Patsayev
- 2003 – Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (b. 1924)
an American actor, comedian and singer. His best remembered roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy Benjamin in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Tennessee Steinmetz in The Love Bug (1968), and the voice of Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Hackett
Holidays
- General Prayer Day is observed in Central African Republic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_Central_African_Republic
- Armed Forces Day (Guatemala)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Guatemala
- Asteroid Day (International observance)
an annual global event which is held on June 30, the anniversary of the Tunguska event in 1908 when a meteor air burst levelled about 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest in Siberia, Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_Day
Pip’s Friday notes – Go do stuff.