Fabulous Facts & Timeless Trivia

Sunday, January 10, 2016
The 10 day of the year
355 days left to go 

THIS WEEK IS

• Someday We'll Laugh About This Week
• Home Office Safety and Security Week
• National Folic Acid Awareness Week
• National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
• International 3-D Week
• Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week
• Universal Letter Writing Week

TODAY IS

• National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
• League of Nations Day
• Bittersweet Chocolate Day

ON THIS DATE...
1810: Napoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Joséphine.
1861: Florida became the third U.S. state to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. 
1911: Major Jimmie Erickson shot the first photograph ever taken from an airplane. 
1917: frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody died at the age of 70. 
1920: the League of Nations was created. 
1943: President Franklin Roosevelt traveled to Trinidad.  The trip made him the first president ever to visit a foreign country during wartime. 
1949: Vinyl records were launched by RCA (45 rpm) and Columbia (33.3 rpm).
1951: Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet on a trip from Chicago to New York City. 
1956: Elvis Presley recorded his first tunes for RCA Victor. 
1969: the final issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" was published.  The magazine had been published for 147 years. 
1971: fashion designer Coco Chanel died at the age of 87. 
1982: actor, comedian Paul Lynde died at the age of 55.  He is best remembered as the man who occupied the center square on "The Hollywood Squares." 
1984: singer Cyndi Lauper became the first woman since Bobbie Gentry to be nominated for five Grammy Awards. 
1986: the uncut, four-hour version of the musical "ShowBoat" opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington.  It was the first time in 60 years the uncut version had been played for an audience. 
1993: David Letterman announced he would move his late night show from NBC to CBS.  Letterman signed a 14-million dollar contract with CBS to host "The Late Show With David Letterman." 
1999: the mob drama series "The Sopranos" made its debut on HBO.  
2000: America Online announced that it had agreed to buy Time Warner, the largest traditional media company in the U.S., for $165 billion. 
2004: in a show of support for local cattle ranchers following the discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease, almost two thousand residents of Mabton, Washington braved freezing temperatures to eat beef at a rally sponsored by a local radio station.  
2005: a Southern California mudslide turned deadly when the steep hillside in La Conchita, north of Los Angeles, collapsed after several days of heavy rain.  Several people were buried under the rubble created by the mudslide.    



QUICK TRIVIA 

Dwight Clark makes "the catch" (taken from Link)

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On this day in 1982, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark makes a leaping catch in the end zone on a pass from quarterback Joe Montana with 51 seconds left in the National Football Conference (NFC) championship game against the Dallas Cowboys. "The Catch" set up a successful extra point kick by Ray Wersching that lifted the 49ers to a 28-27 victory and a trip to Super Bowl XVI.

The win confirmed the dominance of Coach Bill Walsh’s offensive lineup, starring Jerry Rice, Montana, Solomon and Clark, as well as Montana’s meteoric rise to full-fledged hero status. In only his third season with San Francisco, the previously struggling 49ers were Super Bowl-bound for the first time since the franchise was founded in 1946. Three weeks later, Montana was named MVP of Super Bowl XVI after San Francisco defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 26-21 at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. He would win the title twice more in the next decade, as the 49ers continued as one of the NFL’s most dominant teams throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s.

WORD OF THE DAY

blithe [blahyth] 
- adjective
1. joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful
2. without thought or regard; carefree; heedless

"Everyone loved Mary for her blithe spirit."


INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT

Jesus cast "about" 2000 demons from one man into a herd of swine. There are 2 reasons: 1) His name "legion" was based on the Roman army's use of legion to represent 6000 soldiers and 2) there were about 2000 swine. 

[6] But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
[7] And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
[8] For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
[9] And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
[10] And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
[11] Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
[12] And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
[13] And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. (Mark 5:6-13). 


WORD FROM THE WORD 

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. —James 5:7 

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