February 14, 2016

  Sunday, February 14, 2016

The 45 day of the year

320 days left to go 

THIS WEEK IS

• NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
• Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week
• Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
• Through With The Chew
• National Date (fruit) Week
• National Justice for Animals Week
• National Engineers Week
• National Entrepreneurship Week

TODAY IS

• Valentines Day
• World Marriage Day
• National Creme-Filled Chocolates Day
• Ferris Wheel Day
• Frederick Douglass Day
• Pet Theft Awareness Day
• Library Lovers Day
• National Have A Heart Day
• (World) Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day
• League of Women Voters Day
• National Women's Heart Day
• Race Relations Day
• Singles Awareness Day or Singles Appreciation Day
• National Donor Day
• Quirky Alone Day

ON THIS DATE...
1779: Captain James Cook, the great English explorer and navigator, is murdered by natives of Hawaii during his third visit to the Pacific island group.
1803: Moses Coats received a patent for the apple parer.
1849: The first photograph of a U.S. President, James Polk, was taken by Matthew Brady, in New York City.
1859: Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state.
1870: Esther Morris became the world's first female justice of the peace.
1899: the U.S. Congress approved the use of voting machines for federal elections. 
1912: Arizona was named the 48th state of the union. 
1918: the film "Tarzan of the Apes" was released.  It was the first of many "Tarzan" films. 
1919: the United Parcel Service was incorporated in Oakland, California. 
1920: the League of Women Voters was founded.  
1929: the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in Chicago, Illinois.  Noted gangster Al Capone and his gang killed seven members of a rival gang in a warehouse. 
1951: Sugar ray Robinson defeated Jake LaMotta to win the world middleweight boxing title.  It was the first time a welterweight champion defeated a middleweight champion. 
1962: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House. 
1966: Rick Mount of Lebanon, Indiana became the first high school male athlete to be pictured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated."
1972: the musical "Grease" opened at the Eden Theatre in New York City. 
1980: Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the "CBS Evening News."  Dan Rather was introduced as his replacement. 
1984: six-year-old Stormie Jones became the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient.  She lived until November 1990. 
1987: Bon Jovi topped the pop singles chart with "Livin' On A Prayer." 
1987: 57-thousand-745 people turned out to see the Detroit Pistons beat the Philadelphia 76ers at the Pontiac Silverdome.  It is the largest crowd in NBA history.   
1988: Broadway composer Frederick Loewe died at the age of 86.  He wrote scores for several popular musicals including "My fair Lady" and "Camelot." 
1989: Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni condemned "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie, calling his book blasphemous.  
1989: boxer Mike Tyson and actress Robin Givens divorced. 
1991: "The Silence of the Lambs" opened in theaters across the U.S..  It would go on to claim Academy Awards for best picture, best director, best actor, and best actress. 
1991: Hollywood actors Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan were married. 2003: Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized by veterinarians after being found to be suffering from progressive lung disease.
2005: Alberto Gonzales was formally sworn in as the nation's 80th Attorney General, and the nation's first Hispanic Attorney General. 
2013: South African Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was arrested for allegedly shooting and killing his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp in Johannesburg.  Pistorius, known as the "Blade Runner, made history 2012 by becoming the first double-amputee to compete in both the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. 
2013: the crippled Carnival cruise ship Triumph docked in Mobile, Alabama, four days after the ship suffered an engine room fire that knocked out power and plumbing for almost all of the 893-foot vessel.  More than 42-hundred people were on board the ship, which had to be pushed and pulled by tugboats into Mobile.  


QUICK TRIVIA 

Penicillin Discovered (Taken from Link)

Sir Alexander Fleming was a young bacteriologist when an accidental discovery led to one of the great developments of modern medicine on this day in 1929. Having left a plate of staphylococcus bacteria uncovered, Fleming noticed that a mold that had fallen on the culture had killed many of the bacteria. He identified the mold as penicillium notatum, similar to the kind found on bread. On February 14, 1929, Fleming introduced his mold by-product called penicillin to cure bacterial infections.


WORD OF THE DAY 

predilection  [pred-l-ek-shuhn, preed-]  noun

a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: 


"Bob, the scientist, wasn't ready to say that he loved Sue, but he did admit a certain predilection towards her." 



WORD FROM THE WORD 

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. —John 15:13 

Read today's "Our Daily Bread"