Peter Walsh

@pjw78.bsky.social

Old time union dem. Veteran Sober and liberal. Survived an ill spent youth and have been living a life second to none for a long time now. No DMs. I don’t look at them.

Its National Underwear Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Boxers. Briefs. Panties. Tighty-whities today wear your favorite under garments I think every mother has told their kids; “Make sure to always wear clean underwear. You never know when you will be in an accident!" 😆🤣 We will be okay Love Foxy

1861 US Army abolishes flogging
1891 World's first traveler's cheques issued by American Express
1905 First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Theodore Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, New York
1924 "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip by Harold Gray is 1st published in the New York Daily News
1926 Harry Houdini stays in a coffin underwater for 1½ hours before escaping
1930 The Norwegian Bratvaag expedition finds the remains, diaries and negative images of S. A. Andrée's ill-fated balloon polar expedition of 1897 on White Island in the Svalbard archipelago
1944 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising
1957 "American Bandstand" premieres on network TV (ABC)
1966 Protesters throw rocks and bottles at Martin Luther King Jr. before a fair housing protest march at Marquette Park in Chicago
1974 US President Richard Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in
1981 US President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers
1992 Four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department previously acquitted on charges of beating Rodney King are indicted on federal civil rights charges
2000 Moni Maker wins the $500,000 Nat Ray at the Meadowlands in a world record time of 1:52.1 to become harness racing's first $5 million stakes earner
2019 Brazilian drug dealer Clauvino da Silva tries and fails to escape a Rio de Janeiro jail by dressing up as his teenage daughter in a silicone mask and wig
2022 Volkswagen launches a prototype of its first flying car, an automated, electric passenger vehicle nicknamed "Flying Tigers

Joy doesn’t always arrive with fireworks. Sometimes it shows up in a quiet cup of coffee, a shared laugh, a blooming flower, or a few peaceful minutes at sunset. Keep your heart open—you never know where you’ll find it today. 💚💛 #Jaye’sMorningLight

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Good morning #BreakfastCrew Resisters! Happy Monday!🌸🌼🌺 Tucked among the tall pines is this stone & timber house with a lovely waterfall & pool for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!💦🌲☀️ Coffee, Tea, Juices & Cocktails ready!🍹☕️🥂 Meet new friends.👫👬 Everyone welcomed! Comment ✍️ & say Hi! 👋 #BlueCrew🦋

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We shouldn’t stop at saying we want car-free streets. We should add: ~ wide enough sidewalks for youth to hang out after school ~ benches where families with little ones can rest ~ street canopies that shade elders during their morning walks ~ patios providing a platform for local artists and…

The most meaningful life isn’t always the biggest or busiest—it’s the one you intentionally create. Fill your pockets with kindness, laughter, good memories & the people who make your heart smile. Wishing you a beautiful day filled with little treasures. #Jaye’sMorningLight

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It’s National Watermelon 🍉 Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Watermelon is a delicious summertime treat! Quick fact; The first recorded watermelon harvest occurred about 5,000 years ago in Egypt Watermelons were often placed in the burial tombs of kings to nourish them in the afterlife. We will be okay ❤️🦊

1882 US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
1900 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded in Akron, Ohio, by Harvey Firestone
1908 French brothers Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000-year-old Neanderthal man, known as the "Old Man of La Chapelle," at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France
1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War l
1923 Baseball games cancelled following the death of US President Warren G. Harding
1943 General George S. Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice
1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
1955 Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days, making landfall in North Carolina and traveling to the Great Lakes
1977 Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 personal computer, and within weeks, thousands are ordered
2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks
2017 Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter sentenced to 21/2 years for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide
2022 Cells of recently dead pigs brought back to life by researchers at Yale University, with huge implications for organ transplants and stroke sufferers, as well as ethical questions over definition of death

Its National Friendship Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Today we celebrate our friendships and encourage you to connect with the friends in your life Sometimes life gets in the way and we forget to call or make plans, but a true friend will always be there when you need them We will be okay ❤️ Foxy

1610 English explorer Henry Hudson enters the bay later named after him, the Hudson
Bay
1864 Saratoga Racecourse, America's oldest thoroughbred racetrack, opens its inaugural meet with four days of racing
1865 Lewis Carroll publishes the children's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1939 Albert Einstein writes to US President FDR informing him of recent research on fission chain reactions making possible the construction of "extremely powerful bombs"
1943 Gene Roddenberry pilots B-17 'Yankee Doodle' which crashes on takeoff, killing two
1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur "Chuck" Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.
1973 "American Graffiti," directed by George Lucas and starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard, premieres at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland
1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
2018 Apple becomes the first American publicly listed company to reach $1 trillion in value
2021 70% of American have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot, a target President Joe Biden had hoped to meet by 4 July

The beauty of Friday isn’t that the week is ending—it’s that life continues to offer us another chance to love, to learn, & to begin again. May you enter the weekend with a quiet confidence that your best chapters are still being written. Until Monday… keep shining your light. #Jaye’sMorningLight

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Good morning #BreakfastCrew Resisters! It’s Friday! 🙌🙌 Enjoy horseback riding, kayaking, fishing, hiking or just relaxing at this cozy cabin for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!🏡🛶🎣🐠 Coffee, Tea, Juices & Cocktails ready!🍹☕️🥂 Meet new friends.👫👬 Everyone welcomed! Comment ✍️ & say Hi! 👋 #BlueCrew🦋

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Its National Mutt Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 This fur-eindly day we celebrate mixed breed dogs 🐶 Desperately longing for a new home, millions of loving and healthy mixed breed dogs in shelters wait for someone to come and adopt them Adopt don’t shop We will be okay Love Foxy

1912 The US government censors movies and photos of prizefights; it remains in place until 1940
1917 World War I: Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) begins and lasts until November 6, 1917, causing approximately 500,000 casualties
1941 U-boats sink and damage 21 allied ships this month (80,521 tons)
1954 Milwaukee first baseman Joe Adcock becomes only the third player in the 20th century to hit four home runs in a nine-inning game, joining Lou Gehrig and Gil Hodges, in a 15-7 Braves' win over the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field; MLB record 18 total bases
1964 American glider pilot Al Parker glides 644 miles without a motor
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take a 6½-hour electric car ride on the Moon
1984 US men's gymnastics team scores an emotional upset win over the world champion Chinese team in the combined event to take the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics
1991 US Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
2012 Michael Phelps becomes the greatest medal winner in Olympic history as part of the winning American 4 x 200 m freestyle relay team in London, earning his 19th career Olympic medal and 15th overall gold
2019 American officials announce that Osama Bin Laden's son, Hamza bin Laden, a potential successor, has been killed in US airstrikes in Pakistan
2020 Mexico overtakes the UK to have the world's third highest death toll from COVID-19 with 46,688 fatalities
2022 Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who helps plan the 9/11 attacks, is killed in a CIA drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan; US President Joe Biden calls it the group's biggest blow since Osama bin Laden is killed

Good morning #BreakfastCrew Resisters! Happy Thursday!☀️🌳🪾💦 Enjoy kayaking, fishing, hiking, or relaxing on one of the decks at this cozy cabin for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!🏡🛶🎣🐠 Coffee, Tea, Juices & Cocktails ready!🍹☕️🥂 Meet new friends.👫👬 Everyone welcomed! Comment ✍️ & say Hi! 👋 #BlueCrew🦋

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Its National Cheesecake Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 There was SO much to choose from today, and Cheesecake won! I like mine with strawberries on top! Just give me a slice of regular NY Cheesecake and I’m a happy gal What is your favorite flavor? We WILL be Okay Love Foxy ❤️🦊❤️

1863 President Abraham Lincoln issues "eye-for-an-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every Black prisoner shot
1878 German antisemitism begins during the Reichstag election
1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey
1928 George Eastman shows the first amateur color motion pictures to guests at his New York house, including
Thomas Edison
1935 First Penguin Books published, starting the paperback revolution
1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill creating the United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), better known as WAVES
1945 After delivering the atomic bomb across the Pacific, cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-58, killing 880 of the crew, many of whom are attacked by sharks, inspiring the movie
"Jaws"
1965 US President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1970 30,000 people arrive to attend the Powder Ridge Rock Festival in Middlefield, Connecticut, despite its cancellation due to local residents' opposition
1984 Hollie Roffey, aged 10 days, is the youngest person to ever receive a heart transplant and survives 28 days
2002 US President George W. Bush signs the "Sarbanes-Oxley Act" into law, legislation designed to prevent future accounting scandals such as Enron's bankruptcy
2003 The last "old style" Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico
2014 The EU and US extend sanctions on Russia to include banks, energy, and defense firms; Moscow denies the allegation that Russia is arming rebels in Eastern Ukraine
2017 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response  to American sanctions

Yesterday doesn’t get the final word. Like the birds that greet each dawn with a song, we can greet today with hope. Whatever yesterday held—joy, disappointment, or even exhaustion—this morning is a fresh invitation to begin again. May your heart find its own song today. #Jaye’sMorningLight

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Miles Taylor is right: Trump claims he’s worried about election security while gutting the FBI’s election task force, DHS election teams, ODNI’s threat cells, and now leaving the EAC with zero leadership. Weird way of showing you care. #USDemocracy

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Its National Chicken Wing Day 🐓 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 The average person consumes 290 lbs of chicken wings each year Well someone out there is consuming my share!! 🤣😆 AKA Hot Wings, Buffalo Wings or just wings this little treat is a staple at many sports parties and events We will be okay ❤️ Foxy

1905 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes a secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura, agreeing to give Japan free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines
1914 First transcontinental phone link made between New York City and San Francisco
1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
1927 First iron lung installed at Bellevue Hospital in New York
1928 Test footage is first created for Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," featuring Mickey Mouse
1933 Police shootout with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's gang in lowa leaves one member, Clyde's brother Buck Barrow, dead and one captured; Bonnie and Clyde escape
1942 Eastern Bld in the Bronx, NYC, is renamed Bruckner Boulevard in honor of former Bronx Borough President and US Congressman Henry Bruckner
1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in a record 7,500 meters of water
1957 Jack Paar's "The Tonight Show" premieres on NBC
1958 US President Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, establishing
NASA
1967 The Doors' single "Light My Fire" hits #1 in the US
1974 Second impeachment vote against President Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee
1987 Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor: Cherry Garcia, featuring cherry ice cream with cherries and fudge flakes
1995 Monica Seles defeats Martina Navratilova in her return to tennis after she was stabbed in an on-court attack in 1993
2024 Fast-food chain McDonald's reports a fall in sales worldwide for the first time since 2020 as higher

Sometimes letting go isn’t about losing—it’s about making room. Release what no longer serves you, and you’ll be amazed at what life can place in your open hands. 💚 🩵#Jaye’sMorningLight

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☀️ Good morning, friends. Every sunrise is a reminder that new beginnings don’t have to be big—they just have to begin. Thank you for keeping the light shining while I was away. Let’s brighten someone’s day together. Be kind, be patient, and keep sharing your smile. #Jaye’sMorningLight

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It’s National Love is Kind Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 National Love is Kind Day encourages you to become aware of how you are treating people, how people are treating you, and how you can become emboldened, supported, and empowered to lead the joyful and productive life you deserve We WILL be Okay ❤️🦊

1837 US Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina
1844 Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, North Carolina
1890 Dutch painter Vincent van Goghshoots himself in Auvers-sur-Oise and dies of his injuries 2 days later
1909 Orville Wright successfully tests the Wright Military Flyer, the world's first military airplane, with a record flight of 1 hour, 12 minutes, and 40 seconds, flying approximately 64 km (40 mi
1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto
1940 Billboard publishes its first singles record chart; "PIl Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey, with vocals by Frank Sinatra, is ranked #1
1942 Transport #11 departs Drancy, France, with 1000 French Jews sent to Auschwitz concentration camp; 13 survive until the war's end
1947 New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra starts a record 148-game errorless streak
1962 Martin Luther King Jr. is jailed in Albany, Georgia
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette manufacturers to print health warnings about the effects of smoking on all cigarette packages
1976 Former Beatle John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in the US
1987 First expedited salvage of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc
1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3-day jail sentence for slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
2007 Two news helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTV collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there are no survivors. It is the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
2019 US President Trump calls Baltimore a "disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess" and holds Congress Rep Elijah Cummings responsible
2021 Florida records its highest one-day total of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic at 21,683