Plimsoll Day:

(excerpted from http://bugsandbunnies.blogspot.com/2009/02/february-10th-is-plimsoll-day.html)

Plimsoll Day is set aside to remember Samuel Plimsoll, a member of the English Parliament back in the day who championed sailors’ safety while traveling the world’s waterways in crammed-full ships. He was instrumental in the amendment of Britain’s Merchant Shipping Act, which came about in response to the then-national problem of dangerously overloaded ships. Plimsoll’s bill, dubbed the Unseaworthy Ships Bill, passed in 1876, and required that a mark be present on a ship’s hull to indicate the waterline at which maximum cargo capacity was reached for the vessel.

Ah, but politics is a wily profession, is it not? For the law merely required that said line – which came to be known as the Plimsoll Line, or the Plimsoll Mark, – be painted on the boat. It did not say the line had to be an accurate representation of the safe waterline position for the ship’s cargo load. That little stipulation didn’t make it’s way into law until 1894.

Feast of St Paul’s Shipwreck:

(excerpted from http://www.whatsonwhen.com/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=159570)

Held every year in Valletta, the Feast of St Paul’s Shipwreck remembers the saint’s miracles after he took refuge on the island. A procession carries his statue through the streets accompanied by marching bands and fireworks.

In 60 AD, St Paul, patron Saint of Malta, performed a number of miracles during his stay on the island, including the healing of Publius’ father, the Roman governor. Tradition has it that when Publius became the first bishop of Malta, St Paul converted the Maltese to Christianity.

Umbrella Day:

(excerpted from http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/February/umbrelladay.htm)

Umbrella Day is in honor of one of the world’s most invaluable inventions. On a rainy, day, we are sure glad that someone was smart enough to invent it. It’s also increasingly popular to use umbrellas to shade ourselves from harmful UV radiation, and the heat of the sun.

Umbrellas come in all sorts of sizes, colors, shapes, and, designs. Businesses and organizations use them for advertising. The smallest umbrellas fit inside a purse or glove compartment. Golf umbrellas are popular sizes. Then, there are lawn and beach umbrellas. There’s one (or two) made just for you.

(1967) The 25th Amendment to the Constitution went into effect:

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution)

The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities. It supersedes the ambiguous wording of Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, which does not expressly state whether the Vice President becomes the President, as opposed to an Acting President, if the President dies, resigns, is removed from office or is otherwise unable to discharge the powers of the presidency. The Twenty-fifth Amendment was ratified in 1967.

Celebrity Birthdays:

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Flack)

Roberta Flack (born February 10, 1937) is an American singer, songwriter and musician who is notable for jazz, soul, R&B and folk music. Flack is best known for singles such as “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, “Killing Me Softly with His Song”, and “Feel Like Makin’ Love”, as well as “Where Is the Love” and “The Closer I Get to You”, two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway. “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” won the 1973 Grammy Record of the Year and “Killing Me Softly with His Song” won the same award at the Grammy Awards of 1974. She and U2 are the only artists to win the award in back-to-back years.

(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Spitz)

Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is a retired American swimmer. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, an achievement surpassed only by Michael Phelps who won eight golds at the 2008 Olympics. Between 1968 and 1972, Spitz won nine Olympic golds plus a silver and a bronze, five Pan American golds, 31 US Amateur Athletic Union titles and eight US National Collegiate Athletic Association titles. During those years, he set 33 world records. He was named World Swimmer of the Year in 1969, 1971 and 1972.

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