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I caught my husband’s nasty cold.
I hate being sick.
today is
Absinthe Day
Cheese Doodle Day
Mercator Day
1512–Gerardus Mercator born, Flemish mathematician-geographer-cartographer-philosopher; would create the Mercator projection, a 1569 world map based on projection of sailing courses with constant bearings (rhumb lines, still used on nautical charts); also maker of terrestrial and celestial globes, astrolabes and astronomical rings
Namesake Day
St. Piran’s Day (patron saint of Cornwall)
1885 –Louise Pearce born, one of the foremost pathologists of the early 20th century, found a cure for trypanosomiasis in 1919, researched African sleeping sickness, awarded the Order of the Crown of Belgium
1922–Annie Oakley (Phoebe Ann Moses) breaks all existing records for women's trap shooting, hitting 98 out of 100 targets
1931–Geraldyn (Jerrie) Cobb born, record-setting aviator, first woman to pass the qualifying exams for astronaut training (1959), but not allowed to train because she’s a woman
1935–Letizia Battaglia born, Italian photojournalist, notable for her work documenting the Sicilian Mafia; a member of the Green Party, she served on the city council of Palermo (1985-1991) and as a Deputy at the Sicilian Regional Assembly (1991-1996); a feminist, she co-founded Mezzocielo (Half-the-Sky), a monthly women’s journal
1938 –Lynn Margulis born, American biologist and theorist on Symbiogenesis, the evolution of eukaryotic cells (cells with a nucleus)
