Fabulous Facts & Timeless Trivia

Thursday, January 28, 2016

The 28th day of the year
338 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

• National Kazoo Day (Link)
• Data Privacy Day 
• Thank A Plugin Developer Day 
• National Have Fun At Work Day
• National Blueberry Pancake Day

ON THIS DATE...

1521 - The Diet of Worms began, at which Protestant reformer Martin Luther was declared an outlaw by the Roman Catholic church.

1782 - Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States.
1878: The world's first commercial telephone exchange opened in New Haven. George W. Coy invented the switchboard that connected 21 New Haven customers. He made it from teapot cover handles, wires from ladies' bustles and carriage bolts. 
1902 - The Carnegie Institute was established in Washington D.C.
1908 - Author and activist Julia Ward Howe, composer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1913: Alfred Clark of East Corinth, Maine, patented the rocking chair churn. Alfred simply built a churn into a rocking chair so that people could make butter while they rocked.

1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of Congress, to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.


1916 - Louis D. Brandeis was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to the Supreme Court, becoming its first Jewish member.

1917: American forces are recalled from Mexico after nearly 11 months of fruitless searching for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (bio)

1935 - Iceland became the first country to introduce legalized abortion.
1986 - The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members.
2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes Mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.



HISTORY SPOTLIGHT 

Space Shuttle Challenger
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The space shuttle Challenger was one of NASA's greatest triumphs. It was the second shuttle to reach space, in April 1983. It successfully completed nine milestone missions.

But Challenger was also NASA's darkest tragedy. On its 10th launch, on Jan. 28, 1986, the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing the seven crewmembers. The accident changed the space program forever.



QUICK TRIVIA 

The Kazoo (Source and Source) 

• The kazoo was first produced in the USA around 1852
• The kazoo was co-invented by an American man, Alabama Vest, and a German clockmaker, Thaddeus Von Klegg
• The kazoo was played often in popular music in the late 1800's through the early 1900's
• Kazoos can be made of plastic, metal, wood or other materials. Each has unique sound qualities
• The tone quality of a kazoo is determined by the quality of the membrane or resonator
• You don't blow into a kazoo, you HUM into it
• Kazoos are not toys - they are musical instruments in the mirliton or membranophone family

WORD OF THE DAY

Repertoire
[rep-er-twahr]  Noun
the list of dramas, operas, parts, pieces, etc., that a company, actor, singer, or the like, is prepared to perform.


"Although he was only 4, Barry's family knew he was destined for the stage as he stood up and entertained the family with his repertoire"




WORD FROM THE WORD

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.--Psalm 18:6

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