February 5, 2016

Friday, February 5, 2016

The 36 day of the year

330 days left to go 

THIS WEEK IS

• African Heritage & Health Week
• Burn Awareness Week
• Children's Authors & 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

• World Nutella Day (Link)
• National Weatherperson’s Day (Link)
• National Chocolate Fondue Day (A few recipes)
• Adlai Stevenson Day 
• Move Hollywood & Broadway to Lebanon, PA Day
• Shower With A Friend Day 
• Western Monarch Day 
• Canadian Maple Syrup Day 
• National Wear Red Day

ON THIS DATE...
1631: The founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and his wife arrived in Boston from England. Williams edited the first dictionary of Native American languages.

1846: The Oregon Spectator became the first newspaper published in American territory west of the Rocky Mountains.

1850: Frank Baldwin patented the first adding machine.  It was 20 inches high and weighed ten pounds. 

1861: Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati, Ohio patented the first peep show viewer.  He called it a "mutoscope."  The faster the mutoscope was cranked, the faster the images were presented, giving the semblance of continuous motion. 
1917: Congress nullified President Woodrow Wilson's veto of the Immigration Act. The law severely curtailed the immigration of Asians and required literacy tests.

1922: "Reader's Digest" began publication in New York. (History)


1937: the movie "Modern Times," the first Charlie Chaplin "talkie movie," was released. 
1952: New York adopted three-colored traffic lights.

1953: Walt Disney's full length animated feature "Peter Pan" debuted. 




1957: Bill  Haley and the Comets "storm" Great Britain (Read more) 

1971: the Apollo 14 astronauts, Alan Shepard Jr. and Edgar Mitchell, landed on the moon. (Read more)


1972: Bob Douglas became the first black man to be elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. 

1973: funeral services were held at Arlington National Cemetery for the last American soldier killed before the Vietnam cease-fire, William Nolde. 


1978: Fred Newman set a world record of 88 successful basketball free throw shots in a time... while blindfolded! 
1996: the TV show "Second Noah" debuted on ABC. 
1996: actress Elizabeth Taylor filed for divorce from Larry Fortensky, her seventh husband. 
1997: the verdict in the O.J. Civil lawsuit was returned.  Simpson was found guilty and ordered to pay Ron Goldman's family $8.5 million. 
1999: boxer Mike Tyson was sentenced to a year in jail for assaulting two people after a car accident on August 31st 1998. 
2006: the Pittsburgh Steelers clinched the Super Bowl 40 championship in a 21 to ten victory over the Seattle Seahawks at Detroit's Ford Field. 

2009: USA Swimming suspended Olympic superstar Michael Phelps from competition for three months following Phelps' admission to engaging in what he called "regrettable" behavior at a college party.  Photos of the 23-year-old Olympian inhaling from a marijuana water pipe was splashed all over the media.  The photo also cost Phelps an endorsement deal with Kellogg. 

2012: the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots 21-17 to clinch the Super Bowl 46 championship in Indianapolis.  Madonna performed the halftime show. 



HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

End to the Longest War in History  (Source)

On February 5, 1985, the mayors of Rome, Italy, and Carthage, Tunisia, officially ended the Third Punic War. The treaty was an entirely friendly one, as actual hostilities had ended more than 2,000 years earlier.

Carthage, whose inhabitants were called Punici by the Romans, was in ancient times one of the largest and most powerful cities in the Mediterranean basin. For hundreds of years, Carthage and Rome fought for political and financial influence in the region. 

For all intents and purposes, the Third Punic War ended in 146 BCE, when Roman forces sacked Carthage, ending its independence and enveloping the Carthaginian Empire into the Roman Republic.



QUICK TRIVIA 

Roger Williams arrives in America (Source) 

During the 17th century, people left England to escape religious persecution. Many colonists came to America to be able to freely practice their religions. Roger Williams was a defender of religious liberty who arrived in Boston on this day in 1631.





WORD OF THE DAY

Toady
[TOH-dee] noun, verb:
a fawning flatterer; humble dependent

"The movie star found it hard to go out in public because of her many fans and toadies"





WORD FROM THE WORD 

But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister.--Matthew 20:26



Read today's "Our Daily Bread"