March 7, 2016

Cereal Day

Monday, March 7, 2016

The 67 day of the year

299 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

• Casimir Pulaski Day (Learn more)
• Cereal Day
• Fun Facts About Names Day
• National Be Heard Day
• National Crown of Roast Pork Day (Recipe)

ON THIS DATE...

1854: Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine that stitches buttonholes (Learn more)


1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone. 

1897: Dr. John Kellogg served the world's first corn flakes to his patients at a Battle Creek, Michigan, mental hospital.  The cereal was put on sale several years later. 

1926: The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.
1939: Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians recorded the classic "Auld Lang Syne." 

1955: comedienne Phyllis Diller made her debut at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, California (bio). 

1965: state troopers broke up a march by civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama.  Because of the casualties resulting from the clash, the event became known as "Bloody Sunday"  (See history spotlight) 

1970: Simon and Garfunkel topped the album charts with "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (Song)

1985: the song, "We Are The World," was played on the radio for the first time.  It was the product of a collaboration of 45 of the top stars in pop music (Song).  

1987: Mike Tyson beat James "Bonecrusher" Smith to claim the World Boxing Council heavyweight title.  By doing so, he became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history.  

2011: Warner Bros. announced it had terminated its services with actor Charlie Sheen for work on the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men."  Shortly after the announcement, Sheen climbed to the roof of an office building in Beverly Hills, California where he waved a machete and declared himself "free at last."  



HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

Bloody Sunday (Source) 

On March 7, 1965, about 600 people attempted a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. It was planned as a peaceful demonstration. 
At that time, many African Americans were still facing barriers which either prevented or made it very difficult for them to register to vote. In Selma, African Americans made up almost half the population, but only two percent were registered voters. Discrimination and intimidation tactics aimed at blacks kept them from registering and voting. The demonstrators marched to demand fairness in voter registration.
John Lewis was a key organizer of the march. The 25-year-old son of an Alabama sharecropper was the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization dedicated to ending segregation and to registering black voters. 
The peaceful demonstrators were tear-gassed, clubbed, spat on, whipped, trampled by horses, and jeered by others for demanding the right to register to vote. Television and newspapers carried pictures of the event that became known as "Bloody Sunday." 
The images sickened, outraged, and electrified people throughout the country. Within 48 hours, demonstrations in support of the marchers were held in 80 cities. Many of the nation's religious and lay leaders, including Martin Luther King, flew to Selma. After one more failed attempt, King led a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery. Congress responded to these events by enacting the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
John Lewis went on to serve as Director of the Voter Education Project (VEP), a program which added nearly four million minorities to the voter rolls.

QUICK TRIVIA 

Cereal Facts (Source) 

• Cereal was invented when colonial housewives started serving up popcorn with sugar and cream for breakfast.  Yum!
• Of the more than 294 million people in the U.S, 49% start their day with a bowl of cereal. 
• The word cereal comes from Cerealia, the name of ancient Roman ceremonies that honored Ceres, the goddess of grain. 
• One bushel of wheat will make 53 boxes of cereal. 
• 85% of all protein consumed throughout the world is provided by grains such as wheat, corn, rice, millet, rye, barley, and sorghum – those that are often found in cereal. 
• The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was invented in 1863 by James C. Jackson. It was a form of whole grain flour dough baked into dry leaves, broken into chunks and baked again, and then ground into still smaller chunks. 
• U.S. and Israeli researchers have just found strong evidence that humans refined wheat and barley into cereal 23,000 years ago. If true, the discovery suggests humans were processing grains long before hunter-gather societies developed agriculture. 
• Astronauts from Apollo 11 boosted their brain power while in space with a cereal breakfast. The cereal was mixed with fruit and pressed into cubes since the lack of gravity kept the astronauts from pouring it into a bowl with milk. 

WORD OF THE DAY 

belligerent   [buh-lij-er-uhnt]  –adjective 

1. warlike; given to waging war.
2. of warlike character; aggressively hostile
3. waging war; engaged in war:

"The morning show host became uncharacteristically belligerent after someone ate the last donut"




WORD FROM THE WORD 

Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.--Ezra 5:17


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