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Fun Facts for Monday, January 12: 2015
The 12th day of the year -- 353 days left to go!
THIS WEEK IS
- Universal Letter Writing Week
- Cuckoo Dancing Week
- National Vocation Awareness Week
- National Soccer Coaches of America Week
- No Tillage Week
TODAY IS
- National Clean Off Your Desk Day
- National Pharmacist Day
- National Curried Chicken Day
- National Marzipan Day
ON THIS DATE
1896: the first x-ray was taken by H-L Smith. It was a picture of a hand with a bullet in it.
1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1926: "Amos and Andy" debuted on WGN radio in Chicago, Illinois. The show continued on radio until 1948.
1932: Hattie Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1928: pianist Vladimir Horowitz debuted as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic at New York's Carnegie Hall.
1932: Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1932: Ed Sullivan joined CBS radio in a gossip and interview program. He later became host of the most popular variety show on television.
1948: the Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law school applicants because of race.
1949: the kid's show "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" debuted on NBC television.
1959: "The Bozo Show" debuted on television.
1965: History's oldest porcupine died at the National Zoo in Washington. The Sumatran crested porcupine was 27 years 3 months old.
1966: "Batman" debuted on ABC television. Adam West and Burt Ward portrayed the caped crusaders Batman and Robin. (Show intro)
1969: Joe Namath and the AFL's New York Jets defeated the NFL's Baltimore Colts 16-to-seven in Super Bowl Three. It is regarded as one of the most shocking upsets in professional football history. (Video)
1970: The Boeing 747 jetliner made its maiden voyage.
1971: The first episode of "All In The Family" aired on CBS-TV, featuring the first toilet flush on network television. (Show intro)
1981: The primetime soap opera "Dynasty" premiered on ABC. (Show intro)
1985: After a record 24 weeks as the #1 album in the nation, Prince's "Purple Rain" was knocked off by Bruce Springsteen’s "Born In the USA."
1991: country singer Johnny Paycheck was released from a prison in Ohio after serving two years of a seven year sentence for a barroom shooting.
1993: rocker Ted Nugent was fined one-thousand dollars for shooting two flaming arrows across the stage during a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1995: Stevie Wonder performed his first concert in Arizona in almost nine years. He had boycotted the state for canceling its observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Arizona reinstated the holiday 1993.
1999: Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball was sold at auction in New York for $3 million to an anonymous bidder.
2010: a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, devastating the nation's capital of Port-au-Prince. More than 230-thousand people were reported dead, making the quake one of the deadliest on record.
2014: the historical drama "12 Years A Slave" and the con caper "American Hustle" were the big winners at the 71st Golden Globe Awards.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
Pyramid problem solved (Source)
On this day, an international panel overseeing the restoration of the Great Pyramids in Egypt overcomes years of frustration when it abandons modern construction techniques in favor of the method employed by the ancient Egyptians.
Located at Giza outside Cairo, some of the oldest manmade structures on earth were showing severe signs of decay by the early 1980s. Successful repair work began on the 4,600-year-old Sphinx in 1981, but restoration of the pyramids proved destructive when water in modern cement caused adjacent limestone stones to split. On January 12, 1984, restorers stopped using mortar and adopted the system of interlocking blocks practiced by the original pyramid builders. From thereon, the project proceeded smoothly.
QUICK TRIVIA
Haiti Earthquake Facts (Source)
A massive, 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Port au Prince on this day in 2010.
3,500,000 people were affected by the quake
220,000 people estimated to have died
Over 188,383 houses were badly damaged and 105,000 were destroyed by the earthquake (293,383 in total), 1.5m people became homeless
After the quake there were 19 million cubic metres of rubble and debris in Port au Prince – enough to fill a line of shipping containers stretching end to end from London to Beirut.
INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT
Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre (which is at Hebron) in the land of Canaan (Genesis 23:19)
WORD OF THE DAY
Amalgamate
[uh-mal-guh-meyt] Verb
to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine: to amalgamate two companies.
to combine, unite, merge, or coalesce
"Cynthia, the Food Network junkie, had no real plan in mind, she just wanted to amalgamate leftovers from the refrigerator into a gourmet meal"
WORD FROM THE WORD
You, who once were alienated . . . , yet now He has reconciled. —Colossians 1:21
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