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The 27 day of the year
339 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
- Chocolate Cake Day (Recipe)
- Auschwitz Liberation Day
- Holocaust Memorial Day
- International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
- International Mobile Phone Recycling Day
- National Geographic Day
- Thomas Crapper Day
- Viet Nam Peace Day
ON THIS DATE...
98: Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
1343: Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
1785: The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1870: Kappa Alpha Theta became the first women's Greek letter sorority. It was founded at Indiana Asbury University.
1880: Thomas Alva Edison received a patent for the electric incandescent lamp.
1888: The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington D.C..
1945: Russian troops liberated Auschwitz concentration camp where the Nazis had murdered more than one-million men, women and children.
1961: opera singer Leontyne Price made her debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera.
1967: astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Edward White were killed in a fire aboard Apollo One.
1968: the Bee Gees played their first American concert at the Anaheim Convention Center.
1968: Otis Redding's hit song "(Sittin' on the) Dock of a Bay" was released, seven weeks after his death. It later peaked at number one on the pop singles chart. (Song)
1973: the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris. The signing brought an end to the U.S. military role in Vietnam.
1976: "Laverne and Shirley" debuted on ABC. The show was a popular spinoff of the ABC hit "Happy Days." (Opening)
1984: Michael Jackson's hair caught fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial. The incident was caused by faulty pyrotechnics.
1984: hockey legend Wayne Gretzky's consecutive game scoring streak came to an end at 51 games. During the streak he amassed 153 points, including 61 goals and 92 assists.
1991: the New York Giants held on for a 20-to-19 win over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl 25. The Giants win was preserved when Bills kicker Scott Norwood narrowly missed a 47-yard game-winning field goal with eight seconds remaining. It became the first Super Bowl decided by one point.
1993: wrestler Andre Roussimoff died at the age of 46. The seven-foot, four-inch wrestler was more commonly known as Andre the Giant.
2000: President Clinton delivered his final State Of The Union address.
2004: the sci-fi epic "The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King" topped the 2004 list of Oscar nominees with eleven nods.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
Auschwitz Liberation Day (Source)
Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans. A complex of camps, Auschwitz included a concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp. It was located 37 miles west of Krakow (Cracow), near the prewar German-Polish border.
In mid-January 1945, as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its satellite camps. Nearly 60,000 prisoners were forced to march west from the Auschwitz camp system.
Thousands had been killed in the camps in the days before these death marches began. Tens of thousands of prisoners, mostly Jews, were forced to march to the city of Wodzislaw in the western part of Upper Silesia. Prisoners also suffered from the cold weather, starvation, and exposure on these marches. More than 15,000 died during the death marches from Auschwitz.
On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. It is estimated that at minimum 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of these, at least 1.1 million were killed.
QUICK TRIVIA
On this day in 1965, the Shelby GT 350, a version of a Ford Mustang sports car developed by the American auto racer and car designer Carroll Shelby, was launched. The car had a 306 horsepower V-8 engine.
WORD OF THE DAY
Equine [ee-kwahyn, ek-wahyn] adjective or noun
of, pertaining to, or resembling a horse:
a horse
"Jenny was very disappointed that she did not win the trophy and had a long, equine face"
WORD FROM THE WORD
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.--Exodus 16:15
Read today's "Our Daily Bread"
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.--Exodus 16:15
Read today's "Our Daily Bread"
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