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Tuesday January 5, 2016
Today is the 5th day of the year
361 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- Celebration of Life Week
- Diet Resolution Week
- Silent Record Week
- New Year's Resolutions Week
- Someday We'll Laugh About This Week
- Home Office Safety and Security Week
- National Folic Acid Awareness Week
- National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
- Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week
- National Bird Watch Day (Link)
- National Whipped Cream Day
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1914: Ford Motor Company announced a new minimum daily wage of five dollars and a shortened eight-hour work day for employees.
1925: Nellie T. Ross succeeded her late husband as governor of Wyoming, becoming the first female governor in U.S. history.
1933: construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (Source).
1948: Warner Brothers released the first color newsreel to be shown to movie audiences. It included pictures of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl game.
1961: The TV comedy Mr. Ed, starring a talking horse, debuted in syndication (Show opening)
1970: "All My Children" debuted on ABC.
1971: The New Jersey Reds defeated the Harlem Globetrotters 100-99, raising the Reds’ career record against the Globetrotters to 1 win and 2,495 losses. It was the Globetrotters’ first loss in nine years.
1972: President Richard Nixon ordered development of the space shuttle.
1975: The world's oldest parrot, Jimmy, died in England at the age of 104.
1980: John Cougar Mellencamp made his debut on "American Bandstand" (Song) (Interview)
1984: the Police played their farewell concert in Australia.
1988: Basketball Hall-of-Famer "Pistol Pete" Maravich died of a heart attack at the age of 40.
1998: Congressman Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident at the age of 62.
1999: A clockmaker bequeathed a fortune to the poor in his hometown of Haarlem, Netherlands, almost two centuries after his death. In 1805 Johannes Coelombie left his estate to his housekeeper, a Lutheran orphanage, and two other religious institutions with instructions that would allow an investment fund to be given to help the poor in 1999. The fund had grown to $4.9 million.
2007: Momofuku Ando, also known as "Mr. Noodle," died at age 96 in Osaka, Japan. In 1958 Ando invented ramen noodles, still big with college students and astronauts. Ando's "Space Ram" noodles can be eaten in zero gravity. .
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
First legal divorce in the colonies (Source)
In the first record of a legal divorce in the American colonies, Anne Clarke of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a divorce from her absent and adulterous husband, Denis Clarke, by the Quarter Court of Boston, Massachusetts. In a signed and sealed affidavit presented to John Winthrop Jr., the son of the colony's founder, Denis Clarke admitted to abandoning his wife, with whom he had two children, for another woman, with whom he had another two children. He also stated his refusal to return to his original wife, thus giving the Puritan court no option but to punish Clarke and grant a divorce to his wife, Anne. The Quarter Court's final decision read: "Anne Clarke, beeing deserted by Denis Clarke hir husband, and hee refusing to accompany with hir, she is graunted to bee divorced."
QUICK TRIVIA
Birdwatching
(Source and Source)
According to a 2009 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service survey, today, one in every five Americans is a birdwatcher. Birding is the fastest-growing outdoor activity in America.
INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT
Jesus seemed to have a special friendship with Lazarus, Mary, and Martha.
[1] Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
[2] (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
[3] Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
[4] When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
[5] Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. (John 11:1-5).
[1] Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
[2] There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
[3] Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. (John 12:1-3)
WORD OF THE DAY
Vicissitude
[vi-sis-i-tood] Noun
a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
"Although JJ turns 18 today, there is not expected to be any vicissitude in his weekly garbage duties"
WORD FROM THE WORD
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;---Ephesians 1:16
Read Our Daily Bread
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