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The 71 day of the year
295 days left to go
THIS WEEK IS
- Girl Scout Week
- National Consumer Protection Week
- National Dental Assistants Recognition Week
- National Procrastination Week
- National Schools Social Work Week
- National Sleep Awareness Week
- Professional Pet Sitters Week
- Read an E-Book Week
- Return The Borrowed Books Week
- Save Your Vision Week
- Teen Tech Week
- Women in Construction Week
- Festival of Owls Week
- National School Breakfast Week
- Women of Aviation Worldwide Week
TODAY IS
- National Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day (Recipe)
- Dream 2016 Day
- Johnny Appleseed Day
- Middle Name Pride Day
- World Plumbing Day
- World Sleep Day
- National Promposal Day
- National Worship of Tools Day
ON THIS DATE...
1302: the title characters -- Romeo and Juliet -- were married this day according to William Shakespeare.
1702: "the Daily Courant" -- the first regular English newspaper was published.
1779: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was established.
1810: Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte married Marie Louise, the 18-year-old daughter of the Emperor of Austria. The bride had never seen the groom - and didn't see him at the wedding either, because Bonaparte sent a stand-in.
1847: John Chapman - better known as "Johnny Appleseed" -- died in Allen County, Indiana. This day became known as "Johnny Appleseed Day."
1867: in Hawaii, the volcano Great Mauna Loa erupted (Read more).
1888: The famous "Blizzard of '88" hit the northeastern United States with approximately 40 inches of snow; around 400 people died.
1901: U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie Steep Corp. The event made Andrew Carnegie the world's richest man.
1927: Samuel Roxy Rothafel opened the famous Roxy Theatre in New York City. It cost $10 million to build and seated 6:214: becoming the world's largest movie theater. It opened with Gloria Swanson in "The Love of Sunya" shown on an 18 by 22 foot screen.
1927: the Flatheads Gang stole $104,250 in the first armored-car robbery near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1930: William Howard Taft became the first U.S. President to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1956: Sir Laurence Olivier starred in the three-hour afternoon NBC-TV special, Shakespeare's "Richard III". The network reportedly paid $500:000 for the rights to the program.
1969: Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.
1986: Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a one-stick model.
1989: "COPS", debuted on FOX-TV as a regular series.
1997: an explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant caused 35 workers to be exposed to low levels of radioactivity. The incident was the worst in Japan's history.
1998: the International Astronomical Union issued an alert that said that a mile-wide asteroid could come very close to, and possibly hit, Earth on Oct. 26: 2028. The next day NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that there was no chance the asteroid would hit Earth.
2004: Vancouver Canucks hockey player Todd Bertuzzi was penalized with a season-long suspension for a vicious hit during a hockey game. Bertuzzi struck Steve Moore of the Colorado Avalanche from behind, driving Moore's face to the ice and dragging it. Moore's neck was broken.
2011: an 8.9 magnitude earthquake rocked northern Japan, leaving hundreds dead in the wake of the devastation. The quake triggered a 30-foot tsunami that hit the city of Sendai, sweeping away homes and vehicles. Tsunami waves swept across the Pacific Ocean hitting Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States where a number of harbors were damaged.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
Johnny Appleseed Day (Source)
One of America’s fondest legends is that of Johnny Appleseed, a folk hero and pioneer apple farmer in the 1800’s. There really was a Johnny Appleseed and his real name was John Chapman. He was born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1774. His dream was to produce so many apples that no one would ever go hungry. Although legend paints a picture of Johnny as a dreamy wanderer, planting apple seeds throughout the countryside, research reveal him to be a careful, organized businessman, who over a period of nearly fifty years, bought and sold tracts of land and developed thousands of productive apple trees.
QUICK TRIVIA
A growing number of Americans are working from home. Whether they are self-employed entrepreneurs running small accounting services, or telecommuting for multinational consulting firms, some 30 million of us work from a home office at least once a week. And that number is expected to increase by 63% in the next five years, according to a study by the Telework Research Network. (Link)
WORD OF THE DAY
Didactic
[dahy-dak-tik] –adjective
1. intended for instruction; instructive
2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
"The speaker was heralded as being comedic; however, in practice he was somewhat didactic"
WORD FROM THE WORD
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.--Hebrews 12:1-2
Read today's "Our Daily Bread"
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