Blue Moon today!

Yes - finish the week off strong.


Blue moon: the second full moon in a calendar month. The last was in August 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LeedsEaymE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwSde_eEv4

Birthday of Giorgio Vasari (1511), Emily Bronte (1818), and Henry Moore (1898)

Warm enough, but don't expect your legs to catch much sun. Consider a day off.

The first transcontinental phone call took place between New York and San Francisco, 1914

Smallest dress! SF scorcher!

"Hello, Mr. Mayor. As Mayor of New York, which stands at the gateway of the East, I greet you, as Mayor of San Francisco, which stands at the gateway of the West. It is a long way to San Francisco, but I think that by the completion of the transcontinental telephone line our respective cities are now doubly joined together, first by the Panama Canal, which joins us tougher for the rapid passage of maritime commerce, and now by the telephone, which links us together by the power of the human voice."

. . . . .

In the line there are two physical and one phantom circuits and in each physical circuit there are two wires and 6,800 miles of hard drawn copper wire. There are 870 pounds of copper wire in each circuit mile and 2,960 tons in the entire line. The line crosses thirteen States and passes through Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Chicago, and Buffalo, with a branch that runs through Pittsburgh, Washington, and Philadelphia. In the main line there are 130,000 poles.

Vinnie Ream was the first and youngest (age 18) woman to receive an art commission from the U.S. government for a statue of Abraham Lincoln, 1866

Dress!

Bugs Bunny makes his debut in "A Wild Hare," 1940

Yes!

The Kitchen Debates, 1959

Close but no cigar.

Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have an impromptu date about the merits of communism vs. capitalism in a model American kitchen at the National American Exhibition National Exhibition in Moscow.

Excerpts from the New York Times taken from NPR:

"On political problems," the Soviet Premier said, "we will never agree with you. For instance, [Soviet statesman Anastas] Mikoyan likes very peppery soup. I do not. But this does not mean that we do not get along."

"You can learn from us, and we can learn from you," Mr. Nixon said. "There must be a free exchange. Let the people choose the kind of house, the kind of soup, the kind of ideas that they want."

The typographer, precursor to the typewriter, was invented by William Austin Burt and patented on this day in 1829

Forget about dresses.

Burt demonstrating

Burt's letter to his wife

Edward Hopper was born, 1882 / Alexander Calder was born, 1898

No.

Ernest Hemingway was born, 1899

No.

Aung San Suu Kyi was put under house arrest in Myanmar, 1989

YES

Aung San Suu Kyi, opposition leader and chairperson for the National League for Democracy,  remained under house arrest for 15 years until 2010. In 2013 she announced her run for presidency in the 2015 elections, but the current constitution prohibits it.

Disneyland opens, 1955

This is a fringe day, but I'm going to say - go for it.

Photos from The LIFE Picture Collection

Mission San Diego de Alcalá, California's first mission (and later to become San Diego, CA) was founded by Father Junípero Serra, 1769

Wear a dress and be brave until lunch.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born, 1606

Yes!

Gustave Klimt was born, 1862

Yes! Again!

Klimt in a Light Blue Smock
by Egon Schiele,  1913

Adele Bloch-Bauer II. 1912

Otto Wagner was born, 1841

Dress! Dress!

Austrian Postal Savings Bank, Vienna

 Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station, Vienna

Camille Pissarro was born, 1830

Nah.

Tom Hanks was born, 1956

SF summer. No dress.

Philip Johnson was born, 1906

Not today.

Paul Gauguin was born, 1848

No dress.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney first meet at the Woolton Fete, 1957

Take a break.

They formed the Beatles 3 years later.

Amelia Earhart are her navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from while attempting the world's first round-the-world flight, 1937

Wear a dress!

International Geophysical Year, 1957; U.S. mail system introduces zip codes, 1963; Sony introduces the Walkman, 1979

Yes!


The International Geophysical Year marked the end of a period of the Cold War when there was little exchange between East and West. Eisenhower announced that the U.S. would launch satellites during this year. The U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik 1 as the first earth-circling satellite a few months later. Following Sputnik 2, the U.S. sent the third satellite, Explorer 1, in February 1958.

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