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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
The 34 day of the year
332 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- African Heritage and Health Week
- Burn Awareness Week
- Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
- International Coaching Week
- Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
- Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend
- Women's Heart Week
- National School Counseling Week
- International Networking Week
- International Hoof-Care Week
- Publicity for Profit Week
TODAY IS
- National Carrot Cake Day (Recipe)
- Four Chaplains Memorial Day
- The Day The Music Died
ON THIS DATE...
1690: The first paper money in America was issued by the colony of Massachusetts.
1783: Spain recognized United States' independence.
1809: The territory of Illinois was created (Read more)
1815: The world's first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland.
1870: the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granting all citizens the right to vote regardless of race or color.
1876: Albert Spalding and his brother started a sporting goods company with 800-dollars they had been saving. The brothers manufactured the first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball and football. (read more).
1924: former President Woodrow Wilson died at the age of 67.
1927: President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law creating the Federal Radio Commission. It brought order to the country's unregulated radio stations.
1946: the first issue of "Holiday" magazine was published. (Link)
1943: The United States Army Transport Dorchester, transporting more than 900 troops to an American base in Greenland, was torpedoed. Four chaplains: Reverend George Fox (Methodist), Jewish Rabbi Alexander Goode, Reverend Clark Poling (Dutch Reformed) and Father John Washington (Roman Catholic) comforted the wounded and directing others to safety (Read More).
1947: Percival Prattis became the first black news correspondent admitted to the House and Senate press gallery in Washington, D.C.
1953: French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau publishes his most famous and lasting work, The Silent World.
1959: a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, claimed the lives of rockers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J-P "The Big Bopper" Richardson.
1964: the Beatles earned their first gold record for their hit "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (Song)
1986: the United States Weather Bureau announced the warmest January in history. The average nationwide temperature for January 1986 was 38 degrees.
1991: Irish singer Sinead O'Connor announced she would not accept any Grammy awards or attend the ceremony. She said the program reflected quote, "false and destructive materialistic values."
2004: Drew Barrymore received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 29-year-old actress became the fifth Barrymore with a star on the legendary walk, joining her father, John D. Barrymore, her grandfather John Barrymore, her great aunt Ethyl Barrymore and her great uncle Lionel Barrymore.
2008: the New York Giants upset the New England Patriots' near-perfect season to clinch the Super Bowl 42 victory in Glendale, Arizona. Game MVP Eli Manning executed a perfect two-minute drill to lead the Giants to a 17-14 victory over the Pats who finished 18-1 with their loss to the Giants.
2013: the Baltimore Ravens held off the San Francisco 49ers, 34-31: to win Super Bowl 47 in New Orleans. The game was interrupted by a 34-minute power outage in the game's third quarter at the Superdome. Beyoncé headlined the halftime show.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
The day the music died (Source)
On this day in 1959, rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorehead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error. Holly and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No. 1 hit with "That'll Be the Day."
After mechanical difficulties with the tour bus, Holly had chartered a plane for his band to fly between stops on the Winter Dance Party Tour. However, Richardson, who had the flu, convinced Holly's band member Waylon Jennings to give up his seat, and Ritchie Valens won a coin toss for another seat on the plane.
QUICK TRIVIA
Carrot Cake (Source)
According to food historians, our modern carrot cake most likely descended from Medieval carrot puddings enjoyed by people in Europe. No one really knows where carrot cake came from. Carrot cake and its precursors took several forms including baked in pastry, like pumpkin pie steamed and served with sauce, like plum pudding baked in pans and served with icing, like cake.
Recipes for carrot pudding date as far back as 1591. In her New York Cookbook (1992), Molly O'Neill says that George Washington was served a carrot tea cake at Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan.
WORD OF THE DAY
Exculpated ehk-skuhl-pay-ted (Verb)
to clear from blame; to prove innocent
"Because she had chocolate all over her mouth, there was no way that Cynthia was going to be exculpated from the taking a cookie without asking"
WORD FROM THE WORD
Read today's "Our Daily Bread"
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