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The 364 day of the year
1 day left in the year
THIS WEEK IS
- New Year's Resolutions Week
- Celebration of Life Week
- Diet Resolution Week
- Silent Record Week
TODAY IS
- Falling Needles Family Fest Day
- National Bicarbonate Of Soda Day (Baking Soda)
- Bacon Day
ON THIS DATE...
1853: The United States bought 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase. The treaty established the final boundaries of the southern United States.
1862: The Union ironclad ship USS Monitor (famous for her battle with the Merrimac) sank off Cape Hatteras during a storm. (See History Spotlight)
1894: suffragette Amelia Jenks Bloomer died at the age of 76. She became famous for wearing short skirts over baggy trousers - a style that became known as "bloomers."
1924: Edwin Hubble announced existence of other galactic systems.
1929: a survey revealed that more than half the population of York, Pennsylvania, believed in witchcraft.
1936: the famous feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen was ignited on this night. After a ten-year-old performer finished a violin solo on "The Fred Allen Show," Mr. Allen said, "A certain alleged violinist should hide his head in shame for his poor fiddle playing." It didn't take long for Mr. Benny to respond. The humorous feud lasted for years on both comedians' radio shows.
1939: the film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke and Thomas Mitchell, premiered.
1940: Los Angeles opened its first freeway to the public.
1951: "The Roy Rogers" show debuted on NBC-TV (Show Open)
1953: the first color TV sets went on sale, for about $1,175.
1954: the 24-minute shot clock was used in professional basketball for the first time.
1963: the John F. Kennedy half-dollar was authorized by Congress.
1963: "Let's Make A Deal" debuted on NBC-TV with host Monty Hall.
1969: Peter, Paul and Mary received a gold record for the single, Leaving On a Jet Plane. The song had hit #1 on December 20 (Song)
1980: "The Wonderful World of Disney" was cancelled by NBC-TV after more than 25 years on TV. It was the longest-running series in prime-time television history.
1983: "Dr. J.," Julius Erving, of the Philadelphia 76ers, sank a free throw in the third quarter to become the ninth professional basketball player to score 25-thousand points.
1984: wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage married his manager, "the Lovely Elizabeth Hulette."
1994: the song, "Heartbreak Hotel," was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which honors recordings of lasting historical significance.
1998: weak but radiant with pride, Nkem Chukwu, the mother of the Houston octuplets, went home from the hospital.
1999: Sarah "Sadie" Clark Knauss, listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest person with a verifiable date of birth, died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, at age 119.
2004: officials reported that the death toll in the massive earthquake-triggered tsunami in South Asia days earlier had risen to more than 120 thousand.
2004: 177 people were killed in a fire that broke out at a nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2011: due to a change of time zone, the country of Samoa skipped the day December 30th.
HISTORY WEEKLY
U.S.S Monitor Sinks (Taken from Link)
On December 30, 1862, the U.S.S. Monitor sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The Monitor was an “ironclad,” a steamship protected by heavy sheets of iron and other metals.
The Monitor held up well in the Civil War’s Battle of Hampton Roads, fought just nine months earlier. In the battle, the Monitor faced off against the Confederacy’s own ironclad, the C.S.S. Virginia. (The Virginia was built with the hull and engines of the U.S.S. Merrimac, and it is sometimes referred to by that name.) The Battle of Hampton Roads is considered the most important naval conflict of the Civil War, although neither side could claim a decisive victory.
Although the Monitor functioned well in the shallow, relatively calm waters of the Chesapeake Bay, the ship was heavy and sat low in the water. She could not hold up to the turbulent storms around the Outer Banks.
The Monitor remained at the bottom of the ocean until 1973. Then, an expedition partly funded by the National Geographic Society rediscovered the historic shipwreck using radar, photography, and a ROV. In 1975, the site of the Monitor shipwreck became the nation’s first national marine sanctuary.
QUICK TRIVIA
On average, Americans each eat about 18 pounds of bacon a year. Sixty-eight percent of bacon's calories are fat, with half of that fat being saturated. (Link)
WORD OF THE DAY
pejorative (pih-JOR-eh-tiv) adjective
tending to make or become worse
"The supposed comfort of Job's 3 friends had a pejorative effect"
INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT
The Dead Sea is also known as the Salt Sea
WORD FROM THE WORD
He leads me beside the still waters. —Psalm 23:2
Read Our Daily Bread
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