February 13, 2016

Blame Someone Else day
(anybody but me)

  Saturday, February 13, 2016

The 44 day of the year

321 days left to go 

THIS WEEK IS

• Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
• Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
• International Hoof-Care Week
• Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
• Celebration of Love Week
• Children of Alcoholics Week
• Jell-O Week
• Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
• National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
• Random Acts of Kindness Week
• Love a Mensch Week
• National Green Week
• Feeding Tube Awareness Week 

TODAY IS

• Friday the 13th 
• Blame Someone Else Day
• Desperation Day
• Employee Legal Awareness Day
• Get a Different Name Day
• International Condom Day Link
• Madly In Love With Me Day
• World Radio Day
• National Tortellini Day

ON THIS DATE...

1633, Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory, which holds that the Earth revolves around the Sun (Bio)


1635: The oldest public school in the United States, the Boston Public Latin School, was founded.

1741: "The American Magazine" was published for the first time.  It was the first magazine in the American colonies. 


1776: Patrick Henry becomes colonel of the First Virginia battalion in defense of the state's supply of gunpowder.
1795: The first U.S. state university opened, the University of North Carolina.

1866: Frank James, Cole and Jim Younger and nine more members of the gang robbed the Clay County Savings Bank in Liberty, Missouri of $62,000. Upon their retreat from the bank a 17 year-old boy was killed. This was the first robbery of the gang and the first daytime robbery of any U.S. bank during peacetime (read more)

1867: Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz" was performed for the first time in Vienna, Austria. 
1914: the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was formed in New York City.  The organization was founded to protect copyrighted music. 
1920: the National Negro Baseball League was formed. 

1932: George "Spanky" McFarland appeared in Hal Roach's "Our Gang" series for the first time in the film "Free Eats." 

1935: Bruno Richard Hauptmann was found guilty of first degree murder in the kidnapping death of aviator Charles Lindbergh's infant son.  He was later executed (read more)
1937: the National Football League's Boston Redskins moved to Washington, D.C.. 
1947: "Family Theatre" was heard for the first time on Mutual Radio. 
1961: Frank Sinatra former Reprise Records under the Warner Brothers label.  Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin were all members of the Reprise stable of talent.

1965: 16-year-old Peggy Fleming won the ladies figure skating title.  She would go on to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics (Read more)

1971: The Osmonds hit number one with "One Bad Apple." 

1972: Led Zeppelin was forced to cancel a concert in Singapore when officials refused to allow them off the plane because of their long hair. 

1976: figure skater Dorothy Hamill won an Olympic gold medal at Innsbruck, Austria. 
1990: Bryan Trottier of the New York Islanders scored his 500th career NHL goal. 

1997: The space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts hauled the Hubble Space Telescope aboard to begin a $350 million refurbishment. The mission’s objective was to replace worn-out components and install new ones to increase the performance of the telescope (Read more)

1998: Cuba began releasing 299 political prisoners following an appeal by Pope John Paul The Second. 
2002: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knight. 

2005: the 47th Annual Grammy Awards honored late music legend Ray Charles with five Grammys, including Album of the Year, for his duets album "Genius Loves Company."   

2010: the men's downhill skiing event was postponed at the 21st Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada due to "slushy conditions." 
2013: Pope Benedict appeared at his final public Mass as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, two days after announcing his plans to resign from the papacy.  Benedict was greeted with thunderous applause at St. Peter's Basilica for the Ash Wednesday service. 



HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

The last Peanuts comic strip first appeared in newspapers on this day in 2000--the day after Schulz's death (Source) 

Charles Monroe Schulz was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts comic strip. He wrote and drew every Peanuts strip from its inception to its end. 

Peanuts ran for nearly fifty years without interruption and appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in seventy-five countries. In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized to his stomach. As a result of the chemotherapy and the fact that he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999. After he drew his last strip, he looked up and said, "I just realized... that poor little boy is never going to kick that football!"

Schulz died in Santa Rosa of a heart attack at 9:45 p.m. on February 12, 2000, at age of 78. 



QUICK TRIVIA 

In Bologna, Italy, where it's been said tortellini was created, there is an underground secret society known as the Learned Order of the Tortellini. Their mission is to preserve the tortellini. (Source)




WORD OF THE DAY 

mensch  [mench]  

noun, plural mensch·en  [men-chuhn]  

a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.

"Jimmy's mother would not give him the keys to the car even though he attempted to convince her that he was a mensch."




WORD FROM THE WORD 

Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.—Psalm 119:24



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