Category Archive: 2017

The Chinese called it the Year of the Rooster.  The United Nations dubbed 2017 the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development.  It was the year that the Super Bowl and the Big Mac turned 50.  Girl Guide Cookies turned 100 years old in 2017 which also marked the 100^th anniversary of:

• the Russian Revolution

• the WWI battles of Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele

• America’s entry into WWI

• England’s Balfour Declaration ^{(supporting a home for Jewish people in Palestine)}

• the National Hockey League (NHL)

• the toggle light switch

• the Converse All Stars basketball shoe

• the Pulitzer Prize

• the Kikkoman Corporation (soy sauce, etc.)

• Aqua Velva aftershave

• the Mitsubishi Model A ^{(the first series production automobile manufactured in Japan)}

• Japanese Anime cartoons

• the arrest and execution of Mata Hari in France

• the 1^st US congresswoman ^{(Jeannette Rankin, Montana)}

• the 1^st commercial jazz recording^{(“Dixie Jazz Band One Step”)}

• Lions Clubs International

• the introduction of Canada’s 1^st income tax ^{(as a “temporary” measure)}

• the right for women to vote in Canada

• the right for women to vote in New York State

• the Halifax Explosion ^{(1,963 dead, 9,000 injured)}

It was the year of the Dodder, the hackers, and the usual terrorist stuff we don’t care about because, if we did, the terrorists would just keep doing it and we would just become more numbed to their stupidity… until it effects the price of gas, at which point, holy gas gauge Batman thems fighting words.