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Happy anniversary of the Caldwell Sky Thread!
On 8/2/1970 residents in Caldwell, NJ, reported a mysterious "wire" or "silver thread" suspended in the sky above their house, stretching into the clouds & motionless regardless of weather. It was eventually pulled down and analyzed, determined to be similar to nylon fishing line, but no explanation for its origin or seemingly impossible behavior was discovered.
https://weirdnj.com/stories/unexplained-phenomena/caldwell-mystery-sky-thread/
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Happy anniversary of the Caldwell Sky Thread!
On 8/2/1970 residents in Caldwell, NJ, reported a mysterious "wire" or "silver thread" suspended in the sky above their house, stretching into the clouds & motionless regardless of weather. It was eventually pulled down and analyzed, determined to be similar to nylon fishing line, but no explanation for its origin or seemingly impossible behavior was discovered.
https://weirdnj.com/stories/unexplained-phenomena/caldwell-mystery-sky-thread/
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Happy 1st anniversary of the Pennsylvania Hot Dog Spill!
On 8/1/2025, a tractor-trailer carrying hot dogs ripped open, scattering its contents across I-83 and forcing a temporary closure of the highway until the mess could be cleared using a front loader.
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-hot-dogs-crash-96a3994dc8d5c5ce8835ddf3928b35b6
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Happy 1st anniversary of the Pennsylvania Hot Dog Spill!
On 8/1/2025, a tractor-trailer carrying hot dogs ripped open, scattering its contents across I-83 and forcing a temporary closure of the highway until the mess could be cleared using a front loader.
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-hot-dogs-crash-96a3994dc8d5c5ce8835ddf3928b35b6
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Happy anniversary of the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa!
Hoffa left his home on the morning of 7/30/1975, supposedly for a meeting with Mafiosi Anthony"Tony Pro" Provenzano & Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, and never returned. He is presumed murdered, but this has never been proven, nor have his remains been discovered. Hoffa was declared dead 7/30/1982.
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Happy anniversary of the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa!
Hoffa left his home on the morning of 7/30/1975, supposedly for a meeting with Mafiosi Anthony"Tony Pro" Provenzano & Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, and never returned. He is presumed murdered, but this has never been proven, nor have his remains been discovered. Hoffa was declared dead 7/30/1982.
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Happy birthday to NASA!
The National Aeronautics and Space Act was signed into law by Dwight Eisenhower on 7/29/1958.
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Happy birthday to NASA!
The National Aeronautics and Space Act was signed into law by Dwight Eisenhower on 7/29/1958.
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Happy(?) anniversary of the Erfurt Latrine Disaster (26 July 1184)!
Up to 60 people died when the floor under a group of nobles collapsed, dropping the occupants into the cesspit below.
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Happy(?) anniversary of the Erfurt Latrine Disaster (26 July 1184)!
Up to 60 people died when the floor under a group of nobles collapsed, dropping the occupants into the cesspit below.
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Happy birthday, Steve Albini (b. 7/22/1962 in Pasadena)!
Here's my favorite of his songs.
https://youtu.be/_7_OpDdqGeg -
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Happy World Brain Day!
I'd rather be a disembodied intelligence drifting through the ether, but if that's off the table, I guess having a brain is ok.
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Happy World Brain Day!
I'd rather be a disembodied intelligence drifting through the ether, but if that's off the table, I guess having a brain is ok.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@reinodeboer/116957098667697866
I need to add this mysterious event to my #UnofficialDiaryDates calendar.
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RE: https://jawns.club/@andrewhinton/116949090439855886
Happy National Ice Cream Day!
#UnofficialDiaryDates #IScream #YouScream #WeAllScream #ForIceCream
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Happy National Ice Cream Day!
#UnofficialDiaryDates #IScream #YouScream #WeAllScream #ForIceCream
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Happy birthday, William Thackeray (b. 7/18/1811)!
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Happy St. Swithin's Day!
7/15 is the feast day of St. Swithin/Swithun, patron saint of Winchester Cathedral (b. ~800, d. 2 July 863).
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Happy St. Swithin's Day!
7/15 is the feast day of St. Swithin/Swithun, patron saint of Winchester Cathedral (b. ~800, d. 2 July 863).
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Not-coincidentally to today being Bastille Day, today also marks the birth of Dada.
On July 14th, 1916, writes the New York Times‘ Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, “the poet Hugo Ball proclaimed the manifesto for a new movement. Its name: Dada. Its aim: to ‘get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated.'”
https://www.openculture.com/2016/07/dada-was-born-100-years-ago.html
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Not-coincidentally to today being Bastille Day, today also marks the birth of Dada.
On July 14th, 1916, writes the New York Times‘ Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, “the poet Hugo Ball proclaimed the manifesto for a new movement. Its name: Dada. Its aim: to ‘get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated.'”
https://www.openculture.com/2016/07/dada-was-born-100-years-ago.html
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7/11! Happy Slurpee Day!
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7/11! Happy Slurpee Day!
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Happy Aphelion!
The earth is at its farthest from the sun today—94,502,962 mi!
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Happy Aphelion!
The earth is at its farthest from the sun today—94,502,962 mi!
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Happy birthday to national treasure Bill Watterson (b. 7/5/1958)!
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Happy birthday to national treasure Bill Watterson (b. 7/5/1958)!
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RIP, Big Ed Delahanty, who died 7/2/1903 by being swept over Niagara Falls after being kicked off a train for being drunk and brandishing a razor. His body was found 2 weeks later.
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Happy birthday, iPhone (released 6/29/2007)!
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Happy birthday, Mick Jones of the Clash (b. 6/26/1955 in Wandsworth, London)!
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Happy birthday, Mick Jones of the Clash (b. 6/26/1955 in Wandsworth, London)!
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Happy 33⅓ Day!
The 33⅓ rpm microgroove record album was unveiled by the Columbia Record Company at a NYC press conference June 18, 1948.
#UnofficialDiaryDates #33⅓Day
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Happy 33⅓ Day!
The 33⅓ rpm microgroove record album was unveiled by the Columbia Record Company at a NYC press conference June 18, 1948.
#UnofficialDiaryDates #33⅓Day
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Happy Bloomsday, fedizens!
Here's a playlist for your peregrinations. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/624qUhQNDU1cPiiC8FQHbH?si=kbXepkLASxCvxiS7D-4wBQ
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Happy birthday, James Clerk Maxwell (b. 6/13/1831)!
John Nefastis & Stanley Koteks still believe in your demon.
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RE: https://spore.social/@minouette/116742621002744426
Happy birthday, James Clerk Maxwell (b. 6/13/1831)!
John Nefastis & Stanley Koteks still believe in your demon.
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Happy Dock Ellis Day!
On June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis no-hit the San Diego Padres, 2–0, in the first game of a two-game doubleheader at San Diego Stadium, while reportedly under the influence of LSD.
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Happy Dock Ellis Day!
On June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis no-hit the San Diego Padres, 2–0, in the first game of a two-game doubleheader at San Diego Stadium, while reportedly under the influence of LSD.
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Happy birthday, floppy disks!
I never used 8" floppies, but I remember the excitement of my first 5 1/4", which meant I no longer had to save programs for my Trash-80 on cassette tapes. What a time to be alive!
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Happy birthday, floppy disks!
I never used 8" floppies, but I remember the excitement of my first 5 1/4", which meant I no longer had to save programs for my Trash-80 on cassette tapes. What a time to be alive!
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Happy World Oceans Day!
Remember that, as Herman Melville put it, "however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make".
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Happy birthday, Paul Gauguin (b. 6/8/1848)!
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Happy birthday, Paul Gauguin (b. 6/8/1848)!
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Happy National Donut Day!
(Every day is Donut Day here at 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘵 𝘈𝘨𝘦, but some days are more donut than others.)
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Happy Hot Air Balloon Day!
The first hot air balloon flight took place 6/5/1783 in France.
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Happy Casey at the Bat Day!
The poem "Casey at the Bat" was published in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) 6/3/1888.
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Happy Casey at the Bat Day!
The poem "Casey at the Bat" was published in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) 6/3/1888.
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Happy National Heimlich Maneuver Day!
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Happy National Heimlich Maneuver Day!
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Happy birthday, Walt Whitman (b. 5/31/1819 in Huntington, NY)!
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Happy birthday, Walt Whitman (b. 5/31/1819 in Huntington, NY)!
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Happy birthday, Mel Blanc!
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Happy International Day of the Potato! Have some Louis Armstrong:
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Happy Feast of St. Bede!
The "Venerable Bede" was born ca. 672/673 AD in Northumbria and became a monk, author & scholar, best known for his 𝘌𝘤𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@reinodeboer/116617263540577250
Happy World Goth Day! (Are goths allowed to be happy that they've been given a day of their own?)
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Happy birthdays to Andre the Giant (b. André René Roussimoff, 5/19/1946) and Joey the Ramone (b. Jeffrey Ross Hyman, 5/19/1951)!
I bet that would be one hell of a birthday bash.