February 7, 2016

Sunday, February 7, 2014

The 38 day of the year

327 days left to go 

THIS WEEK IS

• African Heritage & Health Week
• Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend
• Women's Heart Week
• Boy Scout Anniversary Week
• Dump Your Significant Jerk Week 
• Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
• International Networking Week
• National School Counseling Week

TODAY IS

• Ballet Day
• Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
• Bubble Gum Day
• Cordova Ice Worm Day
• "e" Day (math)
• Girl Scout Cookie Day
• Give Kids A Smile Day
• Wave All Your Fingers At Your Neighbor's Day
• Wear Red Day
• National
• Fettuccine Alfredo Day

ON THIS DATE...
1818: "Academician" began publication in New York City.  It was the first successful education magazine. 
1827: French danseuse Mme. Francisquy Hutin introduced ballet to the U.S. with a performance of "The Deserter" at the Bowery Theater.
1882: John L. Sullivan won the last bare-knuckle heavyweight boxing championship.
1893: the telautograph machine was patented by Elisha Gray of Highland Park, Illinois.  The machine automatically signed autographs to documents. 
1905: Congress granted statehood to Oklahoma. New Mexico and Arizona were the only remaining territories.
1922: "Readers Digest" went on sale for the first time. 
1931: Aviator Amelia Earhart married publisher George P. Putnam.
1936: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president. 
1940: Movie fans watched the world premiere of the Walt Disney animation, Pinocchio, at the Center Theatre in Manhattan. The showing followed that of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as Disney’s second feature-length film. One critic called the show, “The happiest event since the war.”
1943 - The U.S. government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person for the remainder of the year.
1947 - The main group of the Dead Sea Scrolls, dating to about 150 BC-AD 68, was found in caves by the Jordan River.
1948 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff; he was succeeded by General Omar Bradley.
1959: Buddy Holly was buried in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas.  More than one-thousand people turned out for the funeral. 
1963: the Mona Lisa was unveiled at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
1964: Beatlemania invaded the United States.  Thousands of fans crowded New York's John F. Kennedy Airport to watch as the "Fab Four" arrived in the U.S. for the first time.  They later appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show." 
1965: boxer Cassius Clay became a black Muslim and adopted the name Muhammad Ali. 
1974: Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra received a gold record for "Love's Theme." 
1976: Paul Simon topped the pop singles chart with "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover." 
1979: Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles, California. 
1981: Kool and the Gang topped the pop singles chart with "Celebration." 
1985: "New York, New York" became the official anthem of New York City. 
1987: Dennis Conner and the crew of Stars and Stripes won the America's Cup. 
1988: boxer Mike Tyson married actress Robin Givens.  The two divorced one year later. 
1988: "America's Most Wanted" debuted on the Fox television network. 
1990: Lisa Leslie of Morningside High School in Inglewood, California, scored 101 points in the first half of a girls basketball game against South Torrance High School.  Morningside won the game 102-to-24 after the coach of South Torrance decided not to bring his team out for the second half.  
1994: Michael Jordan signed a contract to play baseball for the Chicago White Sox organization. 
1995: Joe Mullen became the first American-born player to record one-thousand points in the National Hockey League. 
1997: Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly retired with the distinction of being the only quarterback to lead the same team to four Super Bowl losses. 
1998: Rocker Bruce Springsteen was among the storytellers at a national read-in in honor of Black History Month at the Count Basie Learning Center in Red Bank, New York.
1999: Jordan's King Hussein died at the age of 63. 
2000: Tiger Woods snagged his sixth straight PGA Tour victory, becoming the first player since Ben Hoga 1948 to win six in a row. 
2000: magician Doug Henning died in Los Angeles at the age of 52.
2006: President Bush and former Presidents Bush, Clinton and Carter were among the hundreds in attendance for the funeral of late civil rights leader Coretta Scott King at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia.  
2009: Jennifer Frigge became the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. 
2010: the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 to win Super Bowl 44 in Miami.  The Who served as the event's halftime show performers. 


QUICK TRIVIA 

The Beatles arrive in America (Taken from Link)

On the airplane, I felt New York," Ringo Starr said many years later. "It was like an octopus....I could feel, like, tentacles coming up to the plane it was so exciting." For the better part of a year leading up to their arrival in America on this day in 1964, the Beatles had been adjusting to the hysteria that seemed to greet them wherever they went. They had grown somewhat accustomed to the screaming hordes of teenage fans and the omnipresent pack of photographers, cameramen and reporters. They had conquered Sweden, France, Germany and their native England. Yet even the Beatles were nervous at the prospect of finally visiting the United States, a country that had seemed to react indifferently to the initial small-label release of singles like "Please Please Me" and "She Loves You" almost a year earlier.  "I know on the plane over I was thinking, 'Oh, we won't make it,'" John Lennon later recalled. "But that's that side of me. We knew we would wipe them out if we could just get a grip."

Getting a grip would be difficult given the reception that awaited them on the ground in New York.

"We got off the plane, and we were used to ten, twelve thousand people, you know," Ringo later recalled. "It must have been four billion people out there. I mean, it was just crazy!" "It was madness! They were all outside and there's barriers and horses and cops all over the place...with the four of us sitting in the car, giggling. I'll speak for everybody—we couldn't believe it! I mean, I'm looking out the car saying, 'What's going on? Look at this! Can you believe this?' It was amazing." Two days later the Beatles made their live television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.


WORD OF THE DAY

pother \POTH-er\ , noun:    

1. A heated discussion, debate, or argument; fuss; to-do.
2. Commotion; uproar.
3. A choking or suffocating cloud, as of smoke or dust.
verb:

"Joey simply took from his sister what rightfully belonged to him and could not understand why it was such a pother"

WORD FROM THE WORD 

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. —Matthew 5:16

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