Every day has some historical event. History has been recorded for thousands of years. The earliest recorded, specific event is in 3100 BCE - a transaction for barley.
It seems to me that it would make sense for us to have a favourite historical event(s) associated with our birthday. We would choose from history what events should be associated with our birthday.
Maybe or maybe not. here are some notables for February 17th, in 1876 Sardines were first canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine. In 1878 the first telephone exchange in San Francisco opens. Or in 1904 Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly premeired at La Scala in Milan. Otherwise, it is all about wars, catastrophes, and dramatic deaths.
Since it is Gerry’s birthday today, we would take a theme approach and choose cars. There’s a big historical milestone for this date: on February 17th 1972, the Volkswagen Beetle became the world’s best-selling car, surpassing the Ford Model T’s record. Ford’s record had lasted over four decades.
This seems to be the only historical car moment that historians consider worthy of record. Perhaps we could turn to car racing events. There’s NASCAR’s Daytona 500 each year - it always includes February 17th so one could pick milestones from there. We would prefer to find something in the Grand Prix range. Here are a few.
In 1960, Stirling Moss won the Cuban Grand Prix.
In 1901, the second edition of the Circuit du Sud-Ouest in France took place.
In 1962 the Oran Park Raceway in Australia was established for motorsport.
This is a start. It would be nice to have a few more events on this day. One can turn to the national celebration day calendar. That’s the let’s celebrate something - really anything - for a day. As today is National Random Acts of Kindness Day and National Cabbage Day, one could give a cabbage leaf to people randomly and persuade them it is an act of kindness.
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