January 7 is the 7th day of the year
It is also Boomtime, Chaos 7, 3185 YOLD (discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.6.2.8 by the Mayan Long Count
So, 7, "they say", is a happy number. "Why?" you may ask.
And this, of course, leads to non happy numbers
It appears from Brady's discussion, that there are no ambivalent numbers, so that's all ya get.
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
On this day in history:
1608 – Jamestown, Virginia, was destroyed by fire.
1610 – Galileo made his first observation of the four Galilean moons
1920 – The New York State Assembly refused to seat five duly elected Socialists because it is a kleptocracy, not a democracy
. 1922 – The Dáil Éireann ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service was established between London and New York City
1955 – Marian Anderson became the first person of color to perform at the Met.
1959 – The US recognized Fidel Castro's new Cuban government.
1979 – Vietnamese troops captured Phnom Penh and drove out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
1999 – Clinton's impeachment trial in the Senate began.
Born this day in:
1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, inventor of the telephone
1873 – Adolph Zukor, film producer, co-founder of Paramount Pictures
1899 – Al Bowlly, singer and songwriter
1906 – Red Allen, trumpet player
1906 – Bobbi Trout, record setting pilot
1912 – Charles Addams, cartoonist
1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist
1935 – Kenny Davern,
1938 – Paul Revere, keyboards player and songwriter
1941 – Iona Brown, Violinist and conductor
1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Hiroshima victim who folded 1,000 paper cranes
1948 – Kenny Loggins, singer and songwriter
1950 – Juan Gabriel, singer and songwriter 1959 – Kathy Valentine, bass player and songwriter
Died this day in:
1932 – André Maginot, drew a line in the sand
1943 – Nikola Tesla, physicist, inventor and engineer
2001 – James Carr, singer
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Distaff Day
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Music goes here, iirc, well,
Marian Anderson
Al Bowlly
Red Allen
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Paul Revere
Kenny Loggins
Juan Gabriel
Kathy Valentine
Nikola Tesla
James Carr
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Image Image from page 672 of "Medieval and modern times
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