Friday, January 15, 2016
The 15 day of the year
351 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- Universal Letter Writing Week
- Cuckoo Dancing Week
- National Vocation Awareness Week
- National Soccer Coaches of America Week
- No Tillage Week
TODAY IS
- Humanitarian Day (Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday)
- International Fetish Day
- National Hat Day
- National Strawberry Ice Cream Day
ON THIS DATE...
1535: Henry VIII assumed the title "Supreme Head of the Church."
1559: England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1777: The people of New Connecticut declared their independence; the tiny republic later became the state of Vermont.
1870: the donkey was first used to symbolize the Democratic Party. The donkey appeared in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in "Harper's Weekly."
1919: Fiery hot molasses floods the streets of Boston killing 21 people and injuring scores of others. The molasses burst from a huge tank at the United States Industrial Alcohol Company building in the heart of the city. (Read more)
1929: Civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1936: The first all glass, windowless building was completed in Toledo, Ohio as the home of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company Laboratory.
1943: the Pentagon was completed in Arlington, Virginia. It is the world's largest office building.
1953: President Harry Truman became the first U.S. President to use radio and television to say farewell as he left office. (Video)
1955: the first solar-heated, radiation-cooled house was built by Raymond Bliss in Tucson, Arizona.
1967: the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-to-ten in the first Super Bowl in Los Angeles. Packers quarterback Bart Starr was named the game's Most Valuable Player. Tickets for the game cost ten dollars. (Video)
1967: the Rolling Stones appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The legendary host asked them to change the words to their song "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "Let's Spend Some Time Together." Singer Mick Jagger decided to mumble the actual lyrics during the performance (Song)
1972: Don McLean topped the pop singles chart with "American Pie - Parts One and Two." (Song--if you've got some time to kill)
1973: President Nixon ordered an end to all military attacks against North Vietnam following progress in the Paris peace talks.
1974: "Happy Days" began its eleven-year run on ABC. (Show open)
1977: The Coneheads made their debut on "Saturday Night Live." The aliens were portrayed by Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin. (Video)
1981: Hill Street Blues debuts on NBC (Season 1 compilation)
1983: Men At Work topped the pop singles chart with "Down Under" (Song--Live)
1987: Paramount Home Videos announced it would place a commercial at the front of a video release for the first time. The commercial would precede the Paramount video release "Top Gun."
1990: ‘Big’ George Foreman, on the comeback-trail at 42 years of age, knocked out Gerry Cooney in the second round at Atlantic City, NJ. (Foreman became the oldest [age 45] ever to win the heavyweight title when he knocked out Michael Moorer on Nov 5, 1994.)
2007: the movie-musical "Dreamgirls" won three awards at the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. "Babel" was named Best Dramatic film while Martin Scorsese was named Best Director for "The Departed." The cast of the ABC series "Ugly Betty" and "Grey's Anatomy" also celebrated wins.
2009: in what was quickly dubbed "Miracle on the Hudson," the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 crash-landed the plane into the freezing waters of the Hudson River near midtown Manhattan after the plane sustained major engine failure shortly after takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport. Pilot Chesley Sullenberger of Danville, California, an air force veteran, was hailed as a hero for putting the jet down at 165 miles an hour. (Video)
2011: Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlon, was crowned Miss America on the 90th anniversary of the time-honored pageant.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
First use of the donkey (Source)
On this day in 1870, the first recorded use of a donkey to represent the Democratic Party appears in Harper's Weekly. Drawn by political illustrator Thomas Nast, the cartoon is entitled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion." The jackass (donkey) is tagged "Copperhead Papers," referring to the Democrat-dominated newspapers of the South, and the dead lion represents the late Edwin McMasters Stanton, President Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war during the final three years of the Civil War. In the background is an eagle perched on a rock, representing the postwar federal domination in the South, and in the far background is the U.S. Capitol.
QUICK TRIVIA
Strawberry ice cream (Source)
Strawberry ice cream is one of the first flavors ever created. It makes sense. In the early days, ice cream flavors were vanilla-based concoctions with various bits of fruit mixed in for good measure.
One of the earliest documented uses of strawberry ice cream comes from 1744 – long before George Washington and Thomas Jefferson caught on to the joys of ice cream in the latter half of the 18th century. It was in 1744 that Maryland Governor Thomas Bladen began serving strawberry ice cream to impress dignitaries and other house guests.
WORD OF THE DAY
blithe [blahyth]
- adjective
1. joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful
2. without thought or regard; carefree; heedless
"Before coffee, I am anything but blithe."
WORD FROM THE WORD
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.--Hebrews 4:16
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