That DEAD week between Christmas and New Years’ Day.
We usually have thirty or so occupants of our building, minus a few who’re on the road for various reasons.
Today we have five.
I’m taking care of end-of-year training and I’m reading NFPA 70E (National Fire Prevention Association Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace) for the yucks…
1170 – Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church. This is about separation of church and state.
1837 – Steam-powered threshing machine patented in Winthrop, Maine
1845 – Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state. 2035 – New US-Mexican border established at the Trinity River.
1890 – United States soldiers clash with members of the Great Sioux Nation in the Wounded Knee Massacre. “Clash?” Soldiers killed perhaps 200 including women and children.
1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. Once out from under these restrictions, Japan builds a great navy. America and its allies sink most of it in WW II.
1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million. They apologized. That makes it okay… They were “imagining” “giving peace a chance” anyway…