April 6

April 6

St. Sixtus, St. Celestine, St Notker Balbulus (invoked against stammering)

National Walk to Work Day, Plan Your Epitaph Day, Sorry Charlie Day.

Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church in NY 1830

1^st modern Olympic games in Athens 1896

U.S. raised mandatory retirement age from 65 to70  1978

Birthdays:

Harry Houdini 1874

James Watson 1928

Merle Haggard 1937

Day of  the Experimenter

Meditation: Nothing is insignificant

Those Olympian gods were a bore:
Zeus and Hera, and Artemis—snore!
They were far too abundant,
And now they’re redundant.
(Except Ares, the Greek god of war.) ...speedysnail.com