January 3, 2016
The 3 day of the year
362 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- New Year's Resolutions Week
- Celebration of Life Week
- Diet Resolution Week
- Silent Record Week
- Someday We'll Laugh About This Week
TODAY IS
- Drinking Straw Day
- J.R.R. Tolkien Day
- Memento Mori "Remember You Die" Day
- National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
- Chocolate-Filled Cherry Day
ON THIS DATE...
1431: Joan of Arc is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
1521: Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
1777: General George Washington's army routed the British, led by Lord Cornwallis, in the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.
1888: the drinking straw was patented by Marvin Stone of Washington D.C..
1920: Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold pitcher-outfielder Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for 125-thousand dollars and a 350-thousand dollar loan.
1938: "The Mothers March" was organized to fight infantile paralysis. It later became "The March of Dimes."
1938: The first broadcast of Woman in White was presented on the NBC Red network. The program remained on radio for 10 years and was one of the first to feature real, honest-to-goodness doctors and nurses in leading roles.
1947: Al Herrin of Trenton, New Jersey, died at the age of 92. Herrin claimed he had never slept during his entire lifetime. Doctors confirmed that evidence showing he had not slept in several months could indicate he may have been awake his entire life.
1953: Francis Bolton and her son Oliver became the first mother-son combination to serve at the same time in Congress.
1959: Alaska became the 49th state of the Union.
1962: Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro.
1962: ground was broken for the Houston Astrodome.
1964: Barry Goldwater announced his candidacy for President of the United States. He eventually lost to Lyndon Johnson.
1972: Don McLean received a gold record for his 8-minute-plus (8:32) hit, American Pie.
1973: CBS sold the New York Yankees baseball club to a 12-member group headed by George Steinbrenner. The team sold for ten-million dollars.
1976: the Bay City Rollers topped the pop singles chart with "Saturday Night."
1981: John Lennon's album "Double Fantasy" hit number one on the music charts only a few weeks after his death.
1985: soprano Leontyne Price said goodbye to New York's Metropolitan Opera. She was a part of the Met for 24 years.
1987: Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Fame.
1991: Wayne Gretzky scored his 700th career goal.
1997: Bryant Gumbel hosted NBC's "Today" show for the final time. He was replaced by Matt Lauer.
2004: pop superstar Britney Spears reportedly tied the knot with childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. Spears reportedly wore jeans and a baseball cap. The marriage as annuled less than three days later.
2008: White House hopefuls Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses for their respective parties. Obama won for the Democrats while Huckabee led his GOP challengers.
2010: it was reported that James Cameron's sci-fi fantasy adventure "Avatar" had crossed the $1 Billion mark at the worldwide box office.
2011: actress Lindsay Lohan left the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California after a 90-day stay.
2012: former Massachusetts Governor and Reublican Mitt Romney just edged out former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum to win the Iowa Presidential Caucus.
2013: the 113th United States Congress was sworn in, replacing the 112th Congress. Republican Congressman John Boehner is re-elected Speaker of the House.
QUICK TRIVIA
“Just the facts, ma’am.” (Taken from Link)
On this day in 1952, Sergeant Joe Friday’s famous catchphrase enters American homes via a new entertainment device: the television. A popular radio series since 1949, the police drama Dragnet became one of the first TV series filmed in Hollywood, instead of New York. It also began a long, nearly unbroken line of popular crime and police TV dramas, continuing into the present day with the ubiquitous Law & Order and CSI (and their seemingly endless spin-offs).
The driving creative force behind Dragnet was its producer, director and star, Jack Webb, who portrayed a laconic Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) sergeant, Joe Friday. After playing a small role in the 1948 film noir He Walked By Night, Webb created a radio series for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network that, like the film, was based on actual LAPD cases. As the narrator of the show, Webb provided a matter-of-fact commentary on how the police department worked and how detectives went about solving the specific cases.
WORD OF THE DAY
flabbergasted[ flab-er-gast], verb
to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
"When she told me the cheesecake was nonfat, I was flabbergasted!"
INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT
Before the flood, man was a vegeterian.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. (Gen 1:29-30).
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. (Gen 9:1-3)
WORD FROM THE WORD
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? —Micah 6:8
Read today's "Our Daily Bread"
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