February 10, 2016

National Umbrella Day

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

The 41 day of the year

325 days left to go 

THIS WEEK IS

• Celebration of Love Week
• Children of Alcoholics Week
• Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
• Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
• Risk Awareness Week
• Jell-O Week
• Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
• National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
• Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
• American Camp Week

TODAY IS

• National Umbrella Day
• Plimsoll Day
• All The News That's Fit To Print Day
• National Home Warranty Day
• National Cream Cheese Brownie Day

ON THIS DATE...
1763: France ceded Canada to England under the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years' War) (Read more).
1840: Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.

1846: Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, began an exodus to the west from Illinois.

1863: General Tom Thumb married fellow little person Lavinia Warren in New York City. 
1863: the fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane. 
1870: the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) was founded in New York City. 

1897: "All the news that's fit to print" appeared on the front page of "The New York Times" beginning this day.


1933: the singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City (Sesame Street's Grover delivers singing telegram). 
1935: the Pennsylvania Railroad began passenger service with its new streamlined electric locomotive. 

1940: the Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Tom and Jerry" debuted (See Cartoon). 

1942: The first gold record (sprayed with gold by the record company RCA Victor) was presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
1949: "Death of a Salesman" opened at the Morocco Theatre in New York City. 

1978: Van Halen released its debut album. 
1990: South African black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years. 

1992: heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of deviate sexual conduct.   
1994: five astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery after the first joint United States-Russian space shuttle mission.   

1998: animal star Buddy The Wonder Dog died.  He starred in the film "Air Bud." 


2005: Britain's Royal family announced Prince Charles' plans to marry his longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles on April 8th, 2005.  Charles was previously married to Princess Diana who died in a Paris car crash 1997.  The couple had divorced prior to Diana's death. 
2005: after a week long hospital stay in Rome, Pope John Paul the Second was discharged from the hospital.  The Pope was rushed to the hospital a week earlier with acute breathing problems related to the flu. 

2007: Illinois Senator Barack Obama officially entered the race for the White House in Springfield, Ilinois. Thousands of people turned out in freezing temperatures to see Obama declare his candidacy for President of the United States.  

2013: Mumford & Sons' "Babel" was named Album of the Year at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.  




HISTORY SPOTLIGHT 

Computer Defeats Chess Champion (Source)

On February 10, 1996, Deep Blue became the first computer to win a chess game against a reigning world chess champion, Gary Kasparov. Chess matches include several individual games, however, and Kasparov went on to win three (and tie two) of the next five games.




QUICK TRIVIA 

Singing telegrams (Source)

A singing telegram is a message that is delivered by an artist in a musical form. Singing telegrams are historically linked to normal telegrams, but tend to be humorous. Sometimes the artist is in costume or formal clothing. Singing telegrams are often given as a gift. Western Union, the American telegraph company began offering singing telegram services on this date in 1933. As relatively few telegram recipients had telephones, most telegrams, including singing telegrams, were first delivered in person. 



WORD OF THE DAY

Nebulous  [neb-yuh-luhs]  –adjective 

hazy, vague, indistinct:


"In order to be a meteorologist, there are times when you need to be somewhat nebulous"






WORD FROM THE WORD 

And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.--Colossians 1:17

Read today's "Our Daily Bread"