Wednesday, January 20, 2016
The 20 day of the year
346 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
- Camcorder Day
- Penguin Awareness Day Link
- Inauguration Day
- National Disc Jockey Day Link or Link
- Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
- National Buttercrunch Day
- National Cheese Lover’s Day
ON THIS DATE...
1801: John Marshall was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1841: The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain; it returned to Chinese control in July 1997.
1885: the roller coaster was patented by LaMarcus Adna Thompson.
1892: The first organized basketball game was played by students at the Springfield, MA YMCA Training School.
1937: Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first President inaugurated on January 20th. The 20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution set the date as the official date for the swearing in of the President and Vice President.
1954: the National Negro Network was formed. Forty radio stations were charter members of the group.
1958: The rock ’n’ roll classic, Get a Job, by The Silhouettes, was released (song).
1978: Fred Silverman quit his job as programming head at ABC television to become president of NBC. His success in developing ABC hits like "Happy Days" and "Charlie's Angels" launched the network to its highest ratings ever. Silverman did not quite meet the same level of success during his tenure at NBC.
1980: President Jimmy Carter announced the United States Olympic Team would not participate in the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. The move was announced to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1981: the remaining 52 hostages in Iran were released, ending 444 days in captivity.
1982: Ozzy Osbourne was hospitalized after biting the head off a dead bat thrown at him during a concert in Des Moines, Iowa.
1986: new footage of the 1931 horror film "Frankenstein" was discovered. The footage depicts the monster throwing a girl into lake as well as showing a hypodermic needle in the monster's arm. The parts were cut because they were believed to be too shocking for the 1930's theater crowd.
1986: the United States observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1989: George Bush was inaugurated as the 41st president of the United States and Dan Quayle became the 44th vice president.
1990: Roseanne and Tom Arnold were married. They later divorced.
1998: "Dawson's Creek" debuted on the WB network.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
Iran releases hostages (Source)
On this day in 1981, Iran released 52 Americans who had been held hostage for 444 days, just minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan. The hostages were placed on a plane in Tehran as Reagan delivered his inaugural address.
The New York Times said that Reagan’s address “made no reference at all to the long-awaited release of the hostages” as he was “apparently following a self-imposed restraint of not saying anything until the Americans had left Iranian air space.”
QUICK TRIVIA
Penguin Awareness Day (Source)
Live Penguin Cam (Link)
Funny Video of a "mean penguin" (Link)
Penguins are one of about 40 species of flightless birds. Because they don’t have teeth, penguins swallow their prey whole. While penguins can spend as much as 75 percent of their time at sea, all penguins give birth to their young on land or sea ice.
WORD OF THE DAY
Lacuna
[luh-kyoo-nuh] Noun
a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus
"The pastor, who generally read his sermons, was caught off guard by a lacuna in his notes--he was missing page three"
WORD FROM THE WORD
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