Sunday, January 17, 2014
The 17 day of the year
348 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- Bald Eagle Appreciation Days
- International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week
- Week of Christian Unity
- Clean Out Your Inbox Week
- Healthy Weight Week
- Hunt For Happiness Week
- National Activity Professionals Week
- National Nurse Anesthetists Week
- National Handwriting Analysis Week
- No Name Calling Week
- Sugar Awareness Week
TODAY IS
- Women in Blue Jeans Day (was also yesterday)
- Cable Car Day
- Hot Heads Chili Days
- International Fetish Day
- Judgment Day
- Kid Inventors' Day
- Hot-Buttered Rum Day
ON THIS DATE...
1773: Captain Cook's ship Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.
1871: the cable car was patented by Andrew Smith Hallidie of San Francisco, California.
1916: the Professional Golf Association was formed in New York City.
1928: the first fully automatic film developing machine was patented by A-M Josepho.
1929: "Popeye The Sailor Man" was first seen in E-C Segar's "Thimble Theater" comic strip.
1966: Simon and Garfunkel released their "Sounds of Silence" album.
1969: the song "Lady Samantha" was released in England on Phillips Records. It was one of Elton John's very first recordings.
1972: a section of Highway 51 South in Memphis, Tennessee, was renamed Elvis Presley Boulevard. The road passes in front of Graceland.
1976: Barry Manilow topped the pop singles chart with "I Write The Songs."
1977: convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was killed by firing squad in Utah.
1985: Leonard Nimoy received a star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame. He is best known for his role as Mister Spock on "Star Trek."
1994: Danny Bonaduce won a split decision over Donny Osmond in a charity boxing match.
1996: Detroit Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman scored his 500th career goal.
1996: Congresswoman and educator Barbara Jordan died at the age of 59. Jordan was the first African-American woman elected to Congress from the south and the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at the convention of a major political party -- the 1976 Democratic Convention.
1997: the NBA suspended basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman and fined him $25 thousand for kicking a cameraman in the groin.
1998: President Clinton gave a deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him. He denied having a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2000: decrying the Confederate flag as a symbol of slavery and racism, nearly 50 thousand people marched to South Carolina's Statehouse on Martin Luther King Day to demand the banner be taken down.
2004: Irish rock star Bono of U2 was honored for his global activism by the King Center in Atlanta during a week-long celebration of the 75th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth.
2006: the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not stop Oregon's assisted suicide law. The court voted 6-3 that the government can't prevent doctors from helping terminally ill patients in Oregon end their lives.
2009: President-elect Barack Obama and vice-president elect Joe Biden rode a train into Washington D.C. on a route similar to the one take in the 1800s by former President Abraham Lincoln. The trip began in Philadelphia with stops in Wilmington, Delaware and Baltimore. Obama picked up Biden in Wilmington. The trip came four days before Obama was sworn into office as the 44th President.
2013: in an interview broadcast on Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network, disgraced cycling champ Lance Armstrong admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career.
QUICK TRIVIA
Benjamin Franklin (Taken from Link)
Josiah intended for Benjamin to enter into the clergy. However, Josiah could only afford to send his son to school for one year and clergymen needed years of schooling. But, as young Benjamin loved to read he had him apprenticed to his brother James, who was a printer. After helping James compose pamphlets and set type which was grueling work, 12-year-old Benjamin would sell their products in the streets.
Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers, was an author, printer, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Many of his sayings live on today.
According to Benjamin Franklin himself, many of the proverbs and aphorisms found in "Poor Richard's Almanack" were gleaned from the "wisdom of the ages and nations." In the dictums and maxims that follow, one hears echoes of the Bible, the ancients, and collections of proverbs readily available in Franklin's own time. Yet, in recrafting many older sayings, Franklin, who was among other things an inventor and musician, brought new design and melody to timeworn truisms.
Some of his most-famous sayings:
"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man
healthy, wealthy, and wise."
"Eat to live, and not live to eat"
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
"He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas."
"The worst wheel of a cart makes the most noise."
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years,
Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
"Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of."
"Fish and visitors stink after three days."
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
WORD OF THE DAY
mansuetude \MAN-swi-tood\, noun:Mildness; gentleness.
"Mary had such a mansuetude nature; she was very kind and giving."
WORD FROM THE WORD
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which
are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things
which are not seen are eternal.—2 Corinthians 4:18Read today's "Our Daily Bread"
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