"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

--Last line of The Great Gatsby.

In the Monday-morning-things-could-always-be-worse department, on this day in:

1946: Winston Churchill made his famous speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, coining the term "Iron Curtain" to acknowledge the beginning of the Cold War.

1933:  In America, Franklin Roosevelt declares a bank holiday to prevent any further runs on the nation's banks.  And in Germany on that same day, the Nazi Party receives 43% of the vote in the Reichstag election. 

Now, don't you feel better?  Especially knowing that Whamo! patented the hula hoop on this day in 1963.  So go on and hoop it up today.