Monday, January 25, 2016
The 25th day of the year
341 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- National CRNA (Cerfified Registered Nurse Anesthetists)
- Clean Out Your Inbox Week
- Natinal School Choice Week
- Tax Identity Theft Week
- National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week
- National Medical Group Practice Week
TODAY IS
- A Room of One's Own Day
- Macintosh Computer Day
- National Irish Coffee Day
- Opposite Day
- Robert Burns Day
- Tu B'shuvat
- Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (Virtual popping site)
1858: Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" was presented for the first time at the wedding of the daughter of Queen Victoria.
1915: Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
1924: the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France.
1956: RCA released Elvis Presley's first record, "Heartbreak Hotel."
1961: Walt Disney's animated movie "101 Dalmatians" was released throughout the U.S. (see trailer)
1961: President Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.
1964 - The Beatles reached the #1 spot on the music charts, as their hit single, I Want to Hold Your Hand, grabbed the top position in Cash Box magazine, as well as on the list of hits on scores of radio stations. It was the first #1 hit for the Beatles. (song)
1991: A 13-year-old Piru, California, boy was arrested for throwing a Chihuahua at his mother.
1993: Sears announced, after 97 years, it was closing its catalog sales department. The Sears Catalog was gone.
1998: Rampaging monkeys swooped down and attacked passersby in the Japanese seaside town of Ito, biting people on their backs and legs for no apparent reason. Injuries were minor; but as a precaution, 26 victims were given rabies injections.
2004: An elderly Dutch woman scared a burglar out of her house by repeatedly hitting him over the head with a chamber pot. The burglar was so frightened he begged to be allowed to leave the house so the woman opened her front door and he ran into the street. Nothing was stolen
2004: Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars (read more).
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
1890: Around the World in 72 Days (Source)
On January 25, 1890, journalist Nellie Bly arrived in New York City, 72 days and 6 hours after leaving—an around-the-world record in the days before air travel.
Nellie Bly was already a celebrated investigative reporter when she set off on her trip, which was inspired by the Jules Verne novel Around the World in 80 Days. Bly had exposed sweatshop labor conditions among female garment workers in New York and documented the harsh dictatorship of Porfirio Dias in Mexico. Most famously, she uncovered horrific abuse at psychiatric facilities by faking insanity.
The technology of telegraph and underwater cable networks allowed Bly to send short updates to her thousands of readers. She rode steamships across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; met Jules Verne in France; bicycled along a tropical promenade in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka); rode a litter carried by porters in Hong Kong; and, finally, took a private train from California to New York for the final leg of her journey.
QUICK TRIVIA
The Macintosh (See first commercial)
In 1984, Apple's Macintosh computer went on sale for $2,495. It was not until mid-1985 that sales began to take off and this computer began to replace the Apple II model. Steven Jobs himself took over the project, insisting that the computer should be not merely great but "insanely great." The Macintosh was introduced during the broadcast of the 1984 Super Bowl.
WORD OF THE DAY
Prolific
[pruh-lif-ik] adjective
producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful
producing in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive
characterized by abundant production
"Wayne and Kimberly Jo, who are now experienced farmers, anticipate a prolific harvest next year"
WORD FROM THE WORD
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!--James 3:5
Read "Our Daily Bread"
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