April 1

April 1

St. Gilbert, St Hugh, St Catherine of Palma

Records and Information Management Month, Stress Awareness Month, Library Week, Read a Road Map Week, International Fun at Work Day,  International Tatting Day

British Air Force formed 1918

USAF Academy established 1954

US launched 1^stweather satellite – Tiros I 1960

     

Birthdays:

William Harvey 1578

Lon Chaney 1883

Debbie Reynolds 1932

Day of  Dignity

Meditation: As we play on violins, guitars, and pianos, so the universe plays on us.

Ahhh, how we loved it at school
When we’d find us some gullible tool,
Then take him aside,
Say “yer shoes are untied!”
And the moment he looked: “April fool!”

 

March 31

March 31

St. Benjamin, St. Balbina (invoked against diseases of lymph glands, scrofula)

Bunsen Burner Day, National Clams on the half shell day

Eiffel Tower inaugurated 1889
1^st zipper patented 1896
A record 6,745 immigrants arrived at Ellis Island in one day  1913

  Birthdays:

Rene Descartes 1596

Jack Johnson 1878

Albert Gore 1948

Day of  Tenacity

Meditation: Quitting is not always a bad idea.

Vice-Presidents sometimes will trample
Their dance partners’ feet; for example,
Al Gore wasn’t rhythmic.
He was too algorithmic—
He danced like a random code sample.

Descartes was consuming roast yam
But pronounced that he’d rather have lamb.
When he tried spinach drink,
René ventured, “I think
That I am what I am what I am.”