Fun Facts for Thursday, January, 1, 2015
The 1 day of the year
364 Days left in the year
THIS WEEK IS
- New Year's Resolutions Week
- Celebration of Life Week
- Diet Resolution Week
- Silent Record Week
TODAY IS
Asarah B'Tevet
Copyright Law Day
Commitment Day
Ellis Island Day
First Foot Day
Global Family Day
Mummer's Parade
New Years Day
Polar Bear Plunge or Swim Day
Saint Basil's Day
ON THIS DATE...
45 BC: The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.
1764: eight-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played for the Royal Family in France.
1863: President Abraham Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates.
1872: The Holtermann nugget was mined at Hill End, New South Wales in Australia; weighing 630 lbs -- the largest gold nugget ever found.
1890: the first Tournament of Roses Parade took place in Pasadena, California.
1892: Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.
1898: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island were consolidated into New York City.
1902: the University of Michigan beat Stanford 49-to-nothing in the Tournament of Roses Association Game -- the first postseason football game. The event later became known as the Rose Bowl.
1925: Notre Dame's legendary Four Horsemen played together for the final time as the Fightin' Irish beat Stanford 27-to-10 in the Rose Bowl.
1934: Alcatraz Island became a federal prison.
1935: Tulane University downed Temple University 20-14 in the first Sugar Bowl.
1937: Texas Christian University beat Marquette 16-6 in the first Cotton Bowl.
1946: Wake Forest defeated South Carolina 26-14 in the first Gator Bowl.
1953: Hall-of-Fame country singer Hank Williams, Sr., died at the age of 29. (bio)
1966: Simon and Garfunkel topped the pop singles chart with "The Sounds of Silence" (Song)
1968: the group known as the Blue Velvets changed their name to Creedence Clearwater Revival.
1968: daredevil Evel Knievel lost control of his motorcycle during his attempt at jumping the fountains at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. (Video--warning graphic)
1971: tobacco advertisements were banned from broadcast.
1990: David Dinkins was sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
1995: Gary Larsen's final "Far Side" comic strip appeared in newspapers.
1996: Betty Rubble made her debut as a "Flintstones" vitamin after a 27-year delay.
2012: two hours after a midnight Eastern time deadline, the U.S. Senate voted 89 to 8 in favor of a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," which would see automatic spending cuts and tax increases go into effect on New Year's Day.
2012: celebrations were held throughout the country to mark the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed millions of enslaved men, women and children.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation (Taken from Link)
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory.
Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans and fundamentally transformed the character of the war. After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.
QUICK TRIVIA
On this day in 1996, Betty Rubble made her debut as a "Flintstones" vitamin (Taken from Link)
Back in 1960, vitamin giant Miles Laboratories introduced ‘Chocks’, the first chewable multivitamin marketed directly for children. Their stop-motion commercials offered a series of fun, though unfamiliar, characters. This all changed in 1968, when Miles began producing vitamins in the shape of everyone’s favorite prehistoric family. Nearly all the characters were available at one time to be chewed up and swallowed - Fred, Wilma, Barney, Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, Dino...even that weird green Martian, the Great Gazoo! There was one glaring omission, however - Barney’s wife, Betty!
There was a small movement to correct this injustice (including a rock band that called themselves “Betty’s Not a Vitamin”!), but they may as well have been reinventing the wheel until Rosie O’Donnell came along. Fresh off her appearance as Betty in the Flintstones feature film, Rosie brought our nation’s attention to this key civil issue during a TV interview. A marketing campaign followed in which people voted either by calling a 1-800 number or in prehistoric booths that were erected in shopping malls! Once the 20,000-plus ballots were tallied, Betty had won her vitaminship by 91% of the vote! She finally replaced the Flintmobile car in the lineup of shapes.
WORD OF THE DAY
Resolution
rez-uh-loo-shuhn--Noun
a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.
the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure,
"Spying the chocolate cheese cake, Wayne knew that his breaking his resolution was just a matter of time"
INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT
Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It gets its name from the first word in the Hebrew, Bereshith, which means, 'in the beginning'. The LXX (Septuagint) uses the word Genesis which means beginning or origin.
WORD FROM THE WORD
You must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of. —2 Timothy 3:14
Read Our Daily Bread
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