March 4, 2016

Friday, March 4, 2016

The 64 day of the year

302 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

• Pound Cake Day (Recipe)
• National Grammar Day (Link)
• National Hug a G.I. Day
• March Forth-Do Something Day
• Benjamin Harrison Day
• Courageous Follower Day
• Dress in Blue Day (Link)
• Employee Appreciation Day  
• National Day of Unplugging (Link)
• World Day of Prayer 
• Shabbat Across America/Canada
• Holy Experiment Day
• International Scrapbooking Industry Day
• Old Inauguration Day
• Toy Soldier Day 
• National Salesperson Day

ON THIS DATE...

1766:  The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, the cause of bitter and violent opposition in the colonies (Link).


1789 - Until the passage of the 20th Amendment in 1937, March 4 was the official date set by the Constitution of the United States of America for presidential inaugurations. 
1791: Vermont admitted to the Union as the 14th state.  
1829: a crowd mobbed the White House during the inaugural reception for President Andrew Jackson.  
1861: Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States. 

1877: Emile Berliner announced his invention of the microphone (Read more).

1901: the American Automobile Association was founded in Chicago. 
1925: President Calvin Coolidge's inauguration was broadcast live on radio coast to coast.  

1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt pledged to lead the country out of the Great Depression during his inauguration speech (Read more).  
1849: David Atchison became President of the U.S. for one day (See Quick Trivia) 
1902: The American Automobile Association (AAA) was founded in Chicago.
1930: ‘The Redhead’, Red Barber, began his radio career this day. Barber broadcast on WRUF at the University of Florida in Gainsville. He soon became one of the best known sports voices in America.

1950: Walt Disney’s Cinderella was released. It was the first full-length, animated, feature film in eight years from the man who brought us Mickey Mouse (Original Trailer).

1952: Ernest Hemingway completes his short novel The Old Man and the Sea. He wrote his publisher the same day, saying he had finished the book and that it was the best writing he had ever done. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and became one of his bestselling works.

1974: "People" magazine began publication
1984: the Television Academy Hall of Fame inducted its first members - Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Paddy Chayefsky, Norman Lear, Edward R. Murrow, William S. Paley, and David Sarnoff. 

1994: comedian John Candy died of heart failure at the age of 43 while filming the "Wagons East" in Mexico (Uncle Buck Trailer). 

1996: country singer and comedian Minnie Pearl died at the age of 84 (Howdy). 




1997: President Clinton barred spending federal money on human cloning. 
2005: Martha Stewart is released from a federal prison near Alderson, West Virginia, after serving five months for lying about her sale of ImClone stock in 2001

2008: longtime Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre announced his retirement after 17 seasons in the NFL.  He returned a few months later to play for the New York Jets and later the Minnesota Vikings before retiring again 2011 (Video). 



HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

Old Inauguration Day (Source) 

The head of state of the USA has been a president since 1789. In that year, George Washington was elected and inaugurated as president of the United States of America. He was inaugurated for the first time on April 30, 1789, and for the second time on March 4, 1793. Subsequent inaugurations were held on March 4 until the second inauguration of President Franklin Roosevelt on January 20, 1937. Since then Inauguration Day has been held on January 20 and the term of office officially starts at 12:00 noon on that date.



QUICK TRIVIA 

On this day in 1849, David Atchison became President of the U.S. for one day when Zachary Taylor refused to be sworn in on a Sunday. (Link) 

WORD OF THE DAY 

Procrastinate
[proh-kras-tuh-neyt]  –verb 

to defer action; delay to put off till another day or time.

"The big science project was due tomorrow--Elizabeth could no longer procrastinate"




WORD FROM THE WORD 

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.--Psalm 31:15

Read today's "Our Daily Bread"