March 1, 2015

Tuesday, March, 1, 2016

The 61 day of the year
305 days left to go

THIS WEEK IS

• National Cheerleading Week
• National Ghostwriters Week
• National Pet Sitters Week  
• National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
• Universal Human Beings Week 
• Will Eisner Week

TODAY IS

• National Peanut Butter Lover's Day (Link)
• Peace Corps Day (Link)
• Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day 
• Dadgum That's Good Day
• National Black Women in Jazz and The Arts Day  
• National Horse Protection Day (Link)
• Pig Day
• Plan a Solo Vacation Day
• Refired, Not Retired Day
• Saint David's Day 
• World Compliment Day
• National Fruit Compote Day

ON THIS DATE...
1780: Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.

1781: Articles of Confederation are ratified (read more)





1784 - In Great Britain, E. Kidner opened the first cooking school. 

1790: The first United States census is authorized (read more).

1803: Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
1864: Rebecca Lee became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston. 
1867: Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital (learn more)
1869 - Postage stamps with scenes were issued for the first time
1910: Two trains are swept into a canyon by an avalanche in Wellington, Washington, on this day in 1910, killing 96 people (read more). 

1912: Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane (read more).

1932: The infant son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was kidnapped from their home in New Jersey.

1941: "Captain America" first appeared in a comic book (read more). 


1961: Newly elected President John F. Kennedy issues an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.

1962: Former newspaper reporter turned Kresge store manager Harry Cunningham opened the first Kmart in a suburb of Detroit.

1968: Singers Johnny Cash and June Carter were married in Franklin, Kentucky. Best Man was Merle Kilgore, who with June had written one of Johnny’s biggest hits, "Ring of Fire."

1977: Bank of America decided to change the name of its credit cards from Bankamericard to VISA.
1991: Victoria defeated Duncanville 38-36 in the Texas girls basketball 5A state semifinals. It was tough. None of the girls on the Duncanville team had ever lost a high school basketball game. Their win streak ended at 134 games and three state titles.

1994: At the annual Grammy Awards, Whitney Houston won best female pop vocalist and record of the year for Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You."

1995: Yahoo! is incorporated (learn more).
1997: The state of Arizona approved a proposal to install divorce vending machines to cope with the high demand for divorces.
1998: Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
2000: By a rare unanimous vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to allow most Social Security recipients to earn as much money as they want without losing any benefits.
2005: A divided U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juvenile criminals.

2006: English-language Wikipedia adds its one millionth article.


2007: Illinois officials arrested 55-year-old Sebon Brown on a rape conviction warrant issued in 1982. Brown still lived at the address listed on the warrant, which apparently had been misplaced for 25 years. Sheriff's deputies went to his home, the fugitive answered the door and was arrested

HISTORY SPOTLIGHT 

Lindbergh baby kidnapped (Source)

On March 1, 1932, Charles Lindberg, Jr., the 20-month-old son of celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped. The toddler was taken from his second-floor bedroom in East Amwell, New Jersey, and a ransom note demanding an initial $50,000 (about $850,000, adjusted for inflation) left in his place. More ransom notes followed, but law enforcement personnel were unable to either identify the kidnappers or find the baby. The body was discovered two months later near the Lindberghs’ home, apparently killed the night he was kidnapped.
QUICK TRIVIA

PEANUTS AND PEANUT BUTTER FUN FACTS (Source)

• The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before he/she graduates high school.
• Americans consume on average over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut butter and peanut products each year.
• It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
• By law, any product labeled "peanut butter" in the United States must be at least 90 percent peanuts.
• Peanut butter was first introduced to the USA in 1904 at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis by C.H. Sumner, who sold $705.11 of the "new treat" at his concession stand.
• Two peanut farmers have been elected president of the USA - Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter.
• Astronaut Allen B. Sheppard brought a peanut with him to the moon.
• The peanut plant produces a small yellow flower.
• The peanut is not a nut, but a legume related to beans and lentils.

WORD OF THE DAY

Facilitate
[fuh-sil-i-teyt] –verb
1. to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.)
2. to assist the progress of (a person).

"Because the committee had reached a mental roadblock they decided to bring in ice cream in order to help facilitate the process"



WORD FROM THE WORD

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light--1 Peter 2:9



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