Today is the 65th birthday of Ringo Starr (Richard Starky). I saw some photographs he took once - they were hanging in a photo lab where I had some processing done. So, like, did we use the same photo lab? Hmmmmm..................

In modern terms, the event known as a blue moon is related to the western calendar system. A blue moon is the second of two full moons to occur in the same calendar month. This meaning originated in Sky & Telescope magazine in 1946, as a result of a misunderstanding of an earlier definition (see below). Blue moons occur infrequently (thus the saying once in a blue moon to denote a rare event), because the length of the calendar month in this system is close to the length of the period of the moon's phases (synodic month). They are not impossible, because every month except February is longer than this period by 1 or 2 days. Blue moons occur every 2.72 years. The next blue moons (based on UTC) will be on June 30, 2007; and December 31, 2009.

The original meaning of blue moon was the third full moon in a season when there were four full moons in that season: this had to do with church holy days related to the last or first full moon of a season (like Easter). This usage had been almost entirely forgotten, and the original meaning was uncovered only when researchers for Sky & Telescope magazine noticed that the Maine Farmer's Almanac from 1829 to 1937 reported blue moons that did not fit the first meaning of the term above.

source: wikipedia
disclaimer: probably sub-urban legend

Prior to Independence Day 2005, you could by fireworks from the Almaville Volunteer Fire Department. It seems they have a license to operate a fireworks stand. Their July 2005 fireworks stand brought in $8,000 - their second biggest fund raiser of the year.

It was on this day in 1954, the first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy came out, The Fellowship of the Ring. It was the sequel to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, which came out in 1937.