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Monday, January 4, 2016
The 4th day of the year--362 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- Celebration of Life Week
- Diet Resolution Week
- Silent Record Week
- New Year's Resolutions Week
- Someday We'll Laugh About This Week
- Home Office Safety and Security Week
- National Folic Acid Awareness Week
- National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
- Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week
TODAY IS
- Blue Monday
- Dimpled Chad Day
- Divorce Monday (First Monday of year which is when most feel that divorces are filed. )
- National Weigh-In Day
- Pop Music Chart Day
- "Thank God It's Monday" Day
- Tom Thumb Day
- Trivia Day
- World Braille Day
- World Hypnotism Day
- National Spaghetti Day
ON THIS DATE...
1493: Christopher Columbus returned to Europe from what he thought was India with six native Americans that he called "Indians."
1885: Dr. William Grant of Davenport, IA performed the first successful appendectomy on this day. The operation was performed on Mary Gartside.
1863: James Plimpton of New York City patented 4-wheeled roller skates with one wheel at each corner of the skate. Previous skates had wheels in a line (read more).
1896: Utah (45th state) entered the United States of America
1936: Billboard magazine published the
first list of best-selling pop records, covering the week ending Dec.
30, 1935. On the list were records by the Guy Lombardo and Ozzie Nelson
orchestras.
1954: Elvis Presley paid Sun Records
$4.00 to record two songs for his mother: "My Happiness" and "That’s
When Your Heartaches Begin." The session took ten minutes. Then, he went
back to work at the machine shop.
1970: Television history was made when super dog Lassie was hit by a car while pushing a child away from danger. "Lassie" was seen on TV, for the next month, suffering from amnesia.
1977: Leroy beat Quenemo 83 to 1 in a girls' high school basketball game in Kansas. Dee Dee Neil was high scorer for Quenemo with one.
1981: The Broadway show "Frankenstein" opened and closed on the same night at a reported loss of $2 million.
1987: TV evangelist Oral Roberts said God would strike him down unless donations improved. The money poured in at first, then dropped off, and within two years Roberts had to sell much of his property in Tulsa.
1994: The 104th Congress convened, the first Republican Congress since the Eisenhower era. Newt Gingrich was elected speaker of the House.
1999: Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt bought dinner for 140 members of Ohio’s Defiance High School band, who were trapped in California following the Rose Bowl Parade because bad weather shut down airports back home. Others provided free meals, amusement park tickets, and tour buses to help the band endure its 4-day entrapment.
1999: Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura took the oath of office as Minnesota's 37th governor.
2002: A passer-by told police that two men, wearing ski masks and carrying rifles, were loitering outside a Bank One branch in Elkhart, Indiana. But the men finally figured out the branch only offered drive-through service and the doors were locked. Before police arrived, the would-be bandits gave up and left. Police found their stolen getaway car abandoned a few blocks away.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
Tallest building in the world opens (Source--for list 100 tallest buildings see link)
On January 4, 2010, the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, opened. The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world, at 829.8 meters (2,723 feet).
The Burj Khalifa, which simply means the “Khalifa Tower,” is named after Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates. The tower is part of a national effort by Dubai to support a strong tourist economy. The Burj Khalifa is part of a mixed-use community, including shopping centers, parks, housing, and even a large fountain.
The Burj Khalifa itself is a mixed-use property. The tower includes office space, hotels, restaurants, and observation decks.
QUICK TRIVIA
Five Food Finds about Spaghetti (Source)
- The word, Spaghetti is the plural form of an Italian word spaghetto, meaning “thin string” or “twine.”
- Pasta existed for thousands of years before anyone ever thought to put tomato sauce on it.
- You can fry your leftover spaghetti noodles.
- The average person in Italy eats more than 51 pounds of pasta every year.
- According to Miss Manners (a.k.a. Judith Martin), a fork is the only utensil that may be used to eat spaghetti while anyone is looking.
WORD OF THE DAY
Flibbertigibbet
[flib-er-tee-jib-it] Noun
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
"It was Anne's first time on anesthesia--she was feeling no pain and was definitely a flibbertigibbet"
INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT
Jacob and Esau are described as the first twins in the Bible
[21] And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
[22] And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.
[23] And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
[24] And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
[25] And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
[26] And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. (Gen 25:21-26).
WORD FROM THE WORD
Read "Our Daily Bread"
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