The 16 day of the year
349 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
- Appreciate A Dragon Day
- International Fetish Day
- National Nothing Day
- National Religious Freedom Day
- Tu B'shuvat
- National Fig Newton Day
- International Hot & Spicy Food Day
ON THIS DATE...
1547: Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia. (Bio)
1604: Puritan John Rainolds suggests a new translation of the Bible to King James the First. It would be published seven years later.
1786: The legislature of Virginia adopted a religious freedom statute, drafted by Thomas Jefferson and introduced by James Madison. It was the model for the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
1847: John C. Fremont, the famed "Pathfinder" of Western exploration, was appointed governor of California.
1883: the United States Civil Service Commission was established.
1920: "The Kid" opened around the country. The film starred Charlie Chaplin and a child actor named Jackie Coogan. (Clip)
1938: Benny Goodman and his orchestra brought jazz to New York's Carnegie Hall.(Video)
1939: the "Superman" comic strip made its debut.
1942: actress Carole Lombard died in a plane crash at the age of 33. She was married to actor Clark Gable at the time.
1957: the Cavern Club opened in Liverpool, England. The place was just a hangout until the early 1960's when four kids from the neighborhood dropped in to jam. The group eventually became The Beatles.
1964: The musical "Hello, Dolly!" opened on Broadway. Carol Channing starred as Mrs. Dolly Levi (Video of Hello Dolly)
1973: "Bonanza" aired for the final time on NBC. The popular western drama had been on the air for more than 13 years. (Show intro)
1974: Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to the Baseball Hall-of-Fame.
1979: Cher and Gregg Allman divorced.
1984: Michael Jackson picked up a record seven awards at the eleventh annual American Music Awards.
1985: Hugh Hefner announced that his magazine would no longer use staples to hold it together.
1986: Walter Cronkite was again named the most trusted man in America despite his being retired for five years.
1987: The Beastie Boys were censored during their appearance on "American Bandstand." It marked the first time an act had been censored on the show.
1991: Operation Desert Storm began when United States and allied military forces launched air raids on Iraq. The attack was an effort to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
1996: Jimmy Buffett’s sea plane Hemisphere Dancer was shot at by Jamaican police who mistook him for a drug smuggler. U2’s Bono was in the plane with Buffett at the time. Jimmy wrote a song about the incident, Jamaica Mistaica, that appears on the album Banana Wind.
1997: Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis, was shot to death as he changed a tire alongside a Los Angeles freeway. Mikhail Markhasev was later convicted in the murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1998: the tobacco industry reached a $15.3 Billion settlement with the state of Texas.
2003: authorities in DeKalb County, Georgia issued a bench warrant for Bobby Brown after the R&B bad boy skipped out on a scheduled court date earlier in the week to perform at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles.
2005: Jamie Foxx, the TV series "Desperate Housewives" and the Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator" were among the big winners at the 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards.
2007: supermodel Naomi Campbell pled guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court to assaulting her housekeeper with a cell phone. She was sentenced to five days community service, fined 363-dollars and ordered to attend anger management classes.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
Prohibition (Source)
On this day in 1919, breweries, saloons, and distilleries are forced to close their doors after the ratification of the 18th Amendment ushering in the Prohibition Era. This gave rise to the illegal production and sale of liquor and increased gang-related violence.
QUICK TRIVIA
Today is Appreciate a Dragon Day (Source)
Appreciate a Dragon Day was started in 2004 by a Mrs. Donita Paul who retired early from teaching school, but soon got bored. The result: a determination to start a new career. Now she is an award-winning novelist writing Christian Romance and Fantasy.
Other dragon resources
WORD OF THE DAY
Persistent
[per-sis-tuhnt] Adjective
persisting, especially in spite of opposition, obstacles, or discouragement
lasting or enduring tenaciously
constantly repeated; continued
"JJ didn't want to shovel the driveway, and only gave in because his father was so persistent"
WORD FROM THE WORD
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. —Isaiah 55:11
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