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Thursday, February 25, 2016
The 57 day of the year
309 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- National Entrepreneurship Week
- Bird Health Awareness Week
- Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week
- National Date (fruit) Week
- National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
- National Engineers Week
- National FFA Week
- National Invasive Species Awareness Week
- National Pancake Week
- Through With The Chew
TODAY IS
- Introduce A Girl to Engineering Day (Link)
- National Chili Day (Link)
- National Chocolate Covered Nut Day
- National Clam Chowder Day (Recipe)
1570: Pope Pius the Fifth excommunicated England's Queen Elizabeth I.
1751: Edward Willet displayed the first trained monkey act in the U.S.
1793: George Washington convened the first U.S. Cabinet meeting -- at his home.
1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patented the revolver (bio)
1913: The Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, authorizing the income tax, went into effect (Read more).
1919: Oregon became the first U.S. state to tax gasoline. The tax was 1 cent per gallon.
1933: The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier (Read more).
1938: The nation's first drive-in theater opens in Miami. Admission was 35 cents per person, which was more than the average ticket price at an indoor theater. They eventually had to trim the price to 25 cents per person.
1956: Elvis Presley scored his first #1 country song with "I Forgot To Remember To Forget." Less than a month later "Heartbreak Hotel" would also hit #1 (Song).
1957: Buddy Holly and the Crickets recorded "That’ll Be the Day" in Clovis, New Mexico.
1964: 22-year-old Cassius Clay (who was a 7-1 underdog) defeated Sonny Liston to become the world heavyweight boxing champ. The next day he changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
1977: New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
1978: The top three songs on the U.S. charts ("Stayin Alive," "How Deep Is Your Love," and "Night Fever") were all by the Bee Gees. The #4 song, Andy Gibb's "Love Is Thicker Than Water," and the #5 song, Samantha Sang's "Emotion," were written by the Bee Gees (Stayin Alive).
1989: Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
1989: With his Fairview High School team trailing Iroquois 50-49 in Erie, Pennsylvania, 17-year-old Chris Eddy launched a desperation shot at the buzzer 90 feet 2 inches from the basket. Fairview won 51-50 with history's longest basketball goal.
1992: Singer Natalie Cole won seven awards at the 34th annual Grammys, including best album for "Unforgettable."
2004: The Mel Gibson film ''The Passion of the Christ'' opened in 3,000 U.S. theaters on Ash Wednesday.
2006 - The world's estimated population reaches 6.5 billion.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
U.S. Congress passes Legal Tender Act (Source and Source)
On this day in 1862, the U.S. Congress passes the Legal Tender Act, authorizing the use of paper notes to pay the government's bills. This ended the long-standing policy of using only gold or silver in transactions, and it allowed the government to finance the enormously costly Civil War long after its gold and silver reserves were depleted.
QUICK TRIVIA
Giant Clams (Source)
These bottom-dwelling behemoths are the largest mollusks on Earth, capable of reaching 4 feet (1.2 meters) in length and weighing more than 500 pounds. Once it fastens itself to a spot on a reef, there it sits for the rest of its life.
Giant clams have a wildly undeserved reputation as man-eaters, with South Pacific legends describing clams that lie in wait to trap unsuspecting swimmers or swallow them whole. No account of a human death by giant clam has ever been substantiated, and scientists say its adductor muscles, used to close the shell, move far too slowly to take a swimmer by surprise.
WORD OF THE DAY
Denigrate
[DEN-i-greyt] verb:
to attack the character or reputation of; defame
"During his trial, false witnesses were brought in to attempt to denigrate the character of Jesus"
WORD FROM THE WORD
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.--Psalm 37:7
Read today's "Our Daily Bread"
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