Fun Facts for Monday January 5, 2015

National Whipped Cream Day

Fun Facts for Monday January 5, 2015

Today is the 5th day of the year

360 days left to go

THIS WEEK IS

• Home Office Safety and Security Week
• National Folic Acid Awareness Week
• National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
• Universal Letter Writing Week

TODAY IS

• National Bird Day
• Blue Monday
• National Weigh-In Day
• Divorce Monday  (First Monday of year which is when most feel that divorces are filed. )
• "Thank God It's Monday" Day
• National Whipped Cream Day

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1914: Ford Motor Company announced a new minimum daily wage of five dollars and a shortened eight-hour work day for employees. 
1925: Nellie T. Ross succeeded her late husband as governor of Wyoming, becoming the first female governor in U.S. history.
1933: construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.  
1948: Warner Brothers released the first color newsreel to be shown to movie audiences. It included pictures of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl game.

1961: The TV comedy Mr. Ed, starring a talking horse, debuted in syndication (Show opening)


1970: "All My Children" debuted on ABC. 
1971: The New Jersey Reds defeated the Harlem Globetrotters 100-99, raising the Reds’ career record against the Globetrotters to 1 win and 2,495 losses. It was the Globetrotters’ first loss in nine years.

1972: President Richard Nixon ordered development of the space shuttle.
1975: The world's oldest parrot, Jimmy, died in England at the age of 104.
1980: John Cougar Mellencamp made his debut on "American Bandstand." 
1984: the Police played their farewell concert in Australia. 

1988: Basketball Hall-of-Famer "Pistol Pete" Maravich died of a heart attack at the age of 40.


1998: Congressman Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident at the age of 62.  
1999: A clockmaker bequeathed a fortune to the poor in his hometown of Haarlem, Netherlands, almost two centuries after his death. In 1805 Johannes Coelombie left his estate to his housekeeper, a Lutheran orphanage, and two other religious institutions with instructions that would allow an investment fund to be given to help the poor in 1999. The fund had grown to $4.9 million.

2007: Momofuku Ando, also known as "Mr. Noodle," died at age 96 in Osaka, Japan. In 1958 Ando invented ramen noodles, still big with college students and astronauts. Ando's "Space Ram" noodles can be eaten in zero gravity. .



HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

First legal divorce in the colonies (Source)

In the first record of a legal divorce in the American colonies, Anne Clarke of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a divorce from her absent and adulterous husband, Denis Clarke, by the Quarter Court of Boston, Massachusetts. In a signed and sealed affidavit presented to John Winthrop Jr., the son of the colony's founder, Denis Clarke admitted to abandoning his wife, with whom he had two children, for another woman, with whom he had another two children. He also stated his refusal to return to his original wife, thus giving the Puritan court no option but to punish Clarke and grant a divorce to his wife, Anne. The Quarter Court's final decision read: "Anne Clarke, beeing deserted by Denis Clarke hir husband, and hee refusing to accompany with hir, she is graunted to bee divorced."



QUICK TRIVIA

National Bird Day 
(Source and Source) 

According to a 2009 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service survey, today, one in every five Americans is a birdwatcher. Birding is the fastest-growing outdoor activity in America. 




INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT

Jesus seemed to have a special friendship with Lazarus, Mary, and Martha. 

"Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) 3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.” 4 When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus"(John 11:1-5).

"Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume" (John 12:1-3


WORD OF THE DAY

Vicissitude
[vi-sis-i-tood]  Noun 

a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
interchange or alternation, as of states or things.

"Although JJ turns 18 today, there is not expected to be any vicissitude in his weekly garbage duties"



WORD FROM THE WORD

Be anxious for nothing, but . . . let your requests be made known to God. —Philippians 4:6


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