March 15, 2016

  Tuesday, March, 15, 2016

The 75 day of the year--

291 days left to go

THIS WEEK IS

• Campfire USA Birthday Week
• Consider Christianity Week
• Termite Awareness Week
• National Agriculture Week
• International Brain Awareness Week

TODAY IS

• Brutus Day
• Buzzards Day 
• Ides of March (See History Spotlight)
• International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter  
• National Agriculture Day 
• National Shoe The World Day
• True Confessions Day
• World Consumer Rights Day 
• Peanut Lovers Day
• National Pears Helene Day
• National Everything You Think is Wrong Day
• National Ag Day – Changes Annually March 15, 2016

ON THIS DATE...
44 BC: Julius Caesar was assassinated.

1545: First meeting of the Council of Trent (Link).


1820: Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.

1869: The Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first all-pro baseball team (Read More).

1875: Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
1892: American inventor Jesse Reno patented the first escalator.
1906: Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
1916: President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa. (Link)
1937: The first blood bank was established, in Chicago's Cook County Hospital

1954: the CBS television "Morning Show" debuted with Walter Cronkite as host. 

1956: My Fair Lady opened at the Mark Hellinger Theater on Broadway. It starred Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins and Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle.
1964: Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton the first time at the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal. It was Taylor's fifth marriage and Burton's second.

1968: Life magazine proclaimed Jimi Hendrix as the most "spectacular" guitarist in the world.

1971: CBS television announced it would drop "The Ed Sullivan Show" after 23 years on the network. 
1999: A 19-year-old Sheffield Lake, Ohio, man plea bargained himself into the U.S. Marine Corps after admitting he stole his mother’s credit card to pay for his girlfriend’s $2,496 breast enlargement surgery. He also had to pay a $1,500 fine and re-pay his mother within a year.

1999: Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel and Dusty Springfield were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2004: Martha Stewart resigned from the board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia after being convicted in a stock scandal.
2006: After a dump truck backed into Curtis Gokey's car, he sued the city of Lodi, California, for $3,600. The city denied the claim since Gokey, a city employee, was himself driving the dump truck, bumping his own car. So Gokey's wife sued the city. But a judge ruled she could not sue her own husband as a city employee (read more). 
2007: An Englishman returned from an extended vacation to his London home to find that thieves had stolen everything in his new kitchen, including the sink. The burglars got away with $6,000 worth of new appliances and cabinets.


HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
The Ides of March (Taken from Link)

On this day in 44 B.C., Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. The group of conspirators believed that his death would lead to the restoration of the Roman Republic. However, the result of the "Ides of March" was to plunge Rome into a fresh round of civil wars, out of which Octavian, Caesar's grand-nephew, would emerge as Augustus, the first Roman emperor, destroying the republic forever.


QUICK TRIVIA

Boiled Peanuts (Source) 

Boiled peanuts” are considered a delicacy in the peanut growing areas of the South. Freshly harvested peanuts are boiled in supersaturated salt water until they are of a soft bean like texture. They are most frequently enjoyed at the end of the day with a favorite beverage

 

 

 

 

WORD OF THE DAY

madcap  [mad-kap]  
adjective
wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash

"Although it was a hopeless, madcap scheme, Joey and Eddie tried to sneak out the back door to play before doing their chores"



 

WORD FROM THE WORD

The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:--Psalm 146:8

Read "Our Daily Bread"