 |
| Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane Day |
Thursday, February 18, 2016
The 49 day of the year
317 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- Random Acts of Kindness Week
- International Flirting Weeks Day
- Love a Mensch Week
- National Nestbox Week
- NCCDP Alzheimer's and Dementia Staff Education Week
TODAY IS
- Cow Milked While Flying In An Airplane Day (Link)
- Battery Day (Volta's birthday)
- Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
- National Drink Wine Day
- Great American Spit Out (Link)
- National Hate Florida Day
- Pluto Day (Planet is Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh)
- National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day
ON THIS DATE...
1564: painter, sculptor and architect Michelangelo died in Rome at the age of 88 (Bio)
1678: John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" was published.
1688: Quakers in Germantown, Pennsylvania adopted the first formal antislavery resolution in America.
1735: The first opera produced in the colonies was performed in Charleston, South Carolina, entitled "Flora."
1841: the first continuous filibuster in the United States Senate began. It lasted until March eleventh.
1885: Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the United States for the first time.
1908: U.S. postage stamps in coil form were sold for the very first time.
1930: Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane, doing
so as part of the International Air Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
1930: the planet Pluto was discovered by
Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Originally classified as the ninth planet from the Sun, Pluto was
reclassified as a "dwarf planet," or minor planet, 2006 (See Quick
Trivia).
1953: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz signed
an eight-million dollar contract to continue the "I Love Lucy" show.
The deal was the richest contract in television at the time.
1970: five of the Chicago Seven defendants were found guilty of crossing
state lines to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic national
convention, but all were acquitted of conspiracy charges.
1974: the New York heavy metal group Kiss released its self-titled debut album (Kiss live).
1987: the color of the Girl Scout uniform was changed from green to blue.
1989: Mike Myers and Dana Carvey performed the "Wayne's World" skit on "Saturday Night Live" for the first time.
2001: seven-time NASCAR champion Dale
Earnhardt died at the age of 49. Earnhardt was killed after his race
car crashed in the last lap of the Daytona 500.
2001: veteran FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested, accused of spying for Russia for more than 15 years.
2003: country music star Johnny Paycheck
died on this date at the age of 64. The honky tonk wild man is best
known for his 1977 hit "Take This Job And Shove It."
2006: Shani Davis became the first
African-American man to win a Winter Olympics gold medal. Davis won the
men's one-thousand meter speedskating event with a winning time of
1:08.99. He beat out fellow American Joey Cheek, who finished
27-hundredths of a second behind Davis to win the silver. Erben
Wennemars from the Netherlands took home the bronze.
2010: President Obama met with spiritual leader the Dalai Lama despite opposition from China.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
The Pilgrim's Progress is regarded as one of the most significant works
of religious English literature, has been translated into more than 200
languages, and has never been out of print.
QUICK TRIVIA
The "dwarf planet", Pluto, has a surface
temperature estimated at approximately -360 Fahrenheit. It's average
distance from the sun is nearly four billion miles and it takes
approximately 248 years to complete one orbit.
Pluto was named after the Roman god of the underworld in Greek mythology.
WORD OF THE DAY
Hypnagogic
[hip-nuh-goj-ik] –adjective
1. of or pertaining to drowsiness.
2. inducing drowsiness
"Many parents with babies have learned
that placing Jr. in a car seat and going on a short ride in the car will
produce a hypnagogic state"
WORD FROM THE WORD
And the people, when they knew it, followed Him: and He received them,
and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need
of healing.--Luke 9:11
No comments:
Post a Comment