Tuesday, January 19, 2016
The 19 day of the year
347 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week
- Hunt For Happiness Week
- National Activity Professionals Week
- National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
- National Handwriting Analysis Week
- Healthy Weight Week
- National Bible Week
- Week of Christian Unity
- No Name Calling Week
- Sugar Awareness Week
TODAY IS
- Popcorn Day
- Tin Can Day
- World Day of Migrants and Refugees
ON THIS DATE...
1793: King Louis XVI was tried by the French Convention, found guilty of treason and sentenced to the guillotine.
1825: Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City patented a canning process. They used salmon, oysters and lobsters.
1861: Georgia seceded from the Union
1883: Heavy fog in the North Sea causes the collision of two steamers, the Cimbria and Sultan, and the death of 357 people.
1903: the first west-to-east transatlantic radio broadcast between the U.S. and England took place.
1915: George Claude of Paris patented the neon tube advertising sign.
1937: Howard Hughes set a record by flying from Los Angeles to New York in seven-and-a-half hours.
1949: the salary of the President of the United States was increased from 75-thousand-dollars to 100-thousand dollars.
1953: Lucy Ricardo gave birth to a baby boy on the "I Love Lucy" show. A record 68-percent of all television sets in the U.S. tuned in for the event.
1955: President Eisenhower allowed a filmed news conference to be used on television for the first time.
1957 - Philadelphia comedian, Ernie Kovacs, became a major star, when he was able to pull off the challenge of doing a half-hour TV show without uttering a single word of dialogue.
1963 - The first disco, called "Whiskey-a-go-go," opened in Los Angeles.
1966: Burgess Meredith appeared for the first time as The Penguin on "Batman." (Classic fight scene)
1970: the "Easy Rider" soundtrack became the first soundtrack to earn a gold record.
1974: the University of Notre Dame basketball team beat UCLA 71-to-70 to end the Bruin's 88-game winning streak.
1976: the Beatles turned down a 30-million dollar offer to perform together again.
1980: Michael Jackson topped the pop singles chart with "Rock With You."
2006: NASA launched the first ever Pluto space probe. The 700-million-dollar New Horizons mission began its almost ten-year journey to the planet Pluto becoming the fastest object ever to leave the Earth. The probe was scheduled to reach Pluto in the year 2015 with the intent of shedding more light on a planet scientists know little about. (Read more)
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
Tokyo Rose pardoned (Source)
On January 19, 1977, U.S. President Gerald Ford pardoned Iva Toguri, nicknamed “Tokyo Rose.” During World War II, Toguri was the announcer on a propaganda program broadcast to Americans and other Allies in the Pacific theater.
QUICK TRIVIA
On this day in 1993, the band Fleetwood Mac reunited to perform at President Bill Clinton's first inaugural gala. They had not shared a stage in about 5 years and had squabbled since the '70s. (Song)
WORD OF THE DAY
indignity [in-dig-ni-tee]
noun, plural indignities.
1. an injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury.
"The indignities he suffered at this stage of his career had, he confessed, embittered him" (from C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce).
WORD FROM THE WORD
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