Welcome, blue Monday! Or maybe it’s green. Or yellow. Or a rainbow. Whatever it is, I’m glad it is.
So, on this day in history, a few events selected as outstanding if not notable….
1777 — Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is the capital of the United States for one whole day. (For all that I know, it may still be the capital of “Mennonitism.”)
1821 — Mexico gains its independence from Spain…and borrowed from its 47-year-old northern neighbor’s name: Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
1905 — The journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc2.
1928 — The United States recognizes the Republic of China. Would it still recognize it today?
1933 — Baby Carol was born. Many years later I became her nephew. Happy Birthday, Aunt Carol!
1939 — Warsaw (Poland) surrenders to both the Nazis and the Communists?!
1964 — The Warren Commission releases its (in)famous report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy. Maybe so.
1979 — The United States Department of Education becomes the thirteenth US Cabinet agency. How lucky is that?!
1994 — More than 350 Republican congressional candidates gather on the steps of the US Capitol to sign the “Contract with America.” How did that hope and change work out?
2010 — Mark and Ruby Roth relocate their sleeping quarters to their next place to live. (At posting time, this is a predicted plan and not an accomplished reality.)