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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
- National Personal Chef's Day (Read more)
- For Pete's Sake Day (History of Phrase)
- Levi Strauss Day
- World Pistachio Day
- National Tell a Fairy Tale Day
1907: Members of the U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500 each.
1916: Mutual Film Corporation signed Charlie Chaplin to a film contract.
1919: the Grand Canyon National Park was established by Congress (Read more)
1933: Ground was broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
1936: the first Volkswagen factory officially opened in Saxony, German.
1942: "How Green Was My Valley" won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
1951: the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, limiting a president to two terms in office (read more)
1957: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was established by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
1966: Nancy Sinatra topped the pop singles chart with "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" (song)
1983: Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album hit number one on the U.S. album chart. It remained in the top spot for 37 weeks, selling more than 40 million copies worldwide (Song).
1985: Tina Turner was the big winner at the 27th Grammy Awards. She picked up three awards including Best Song, Best Record and Best Vocal Performance by a Female. Lionel Richie won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
1993: a car bomb exploded at New York's World Trade Center. The blast killed six people and injured more than a thousand.
1996: Quincy Jones was named MusicCares Man of the Year. Jones is the most-nominated artist in Grammy history with 77 nominations and 26 wins through his career.
1998: a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey's talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad-cow disease.
2009: NFL quarterback Tom Brady of the New England Patriots and supermodel Gisele Bundchen tied the knot in a twilight wedding at St. Monica's Church in Santa Monica, California.
2012: rain forced the postponement of the Daytona 500 race car event for the first time in the event's 53-year history.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
The World Trade Center Bombing (Source)
At 12:18 p.m., a terrorist bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a crater 60 feet wide and causing the collapse of several steel-reinforced concrete floors in the vicinity of the blast. Although the terrorist bomb failed to critically damage the main structure of the skyscrapers, six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured. The World Trade Center itself suffered more than $500 million in damage
QUICK TRIVIA
Johnny Cash was born on this day in 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. Cash was one of seven children who grew up as cotton farmers. Music was an integral part of everyday life in the Cash household. (Link)
WORD OF THE DAY
Monotony
[muh-not-n-ee] noun
1. wearisome uniformity or lack of variety, as in occupation or scenery.
2. the continuance of an unvarying sound; monotone.
"Jane, after eating salad for 6 days straight, loathed the sight of lettuce--it was becoming utter monotony"
WORD FROM THE WORD
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.--Isaiah 46:4
Read today's "Our Daily Bread"
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