Good morning.
A new month begins. We will have a sunny day with a high of eighty.
Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
October 1st brings anniversaries good and bad. On 10.1.1908, Ford Motor Company rolls the first Model T off the production line. On 10.1.1949, Mao Zedong declares himself head of state of the so-called People’s Republic of China. Ford didn’t do everything right, but even on his worst day, he was an incomparably better man that Mao ever was. The choice between peaceful American industrialization and violent communist oppression isn’t even a choice: it’s the chasm between civilization and mass murder.
On 10.1.1866, the leading advocate of a Flag Day, who later taught school in Fredonia, is born:
1866 – Bernard Cirgrand Born
On this date Bernard Cirgrand, known as the founder of Flag Day, was born. Bernard showed his patriotism in 1885 by placing a small flag on his school desk on June 14. As it happens, June 14, 1777 was the day that the stars and stripes were decided upon by the new Senate. Bernard wrote many articles and many speeches trying to urge a national Flag Day to be celebrated. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson finally declared June 14 to be Flag Day. [Source: National Flag Day Foundation]
Scientific American‘s daily trivia question asks about RNA. (Clicking on the question leads to its answer.)