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Fun Facts for Thursday, January 8, 2015
The 8 day of the year
357 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
- Argyle Day
- Bubble Bath Day
- Earth's Rotation Day
- National English Toffee Day
- Midwife's Day or Women's Day
- National Joy Germ Day
- Show and Tell Day at Work
- War on Poverty Day
- English Toffee Day
ON THIS DATE...
1675: the New York Fishing Company became the first corporation charted in the United States.
1815: the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans.
1851: Jean Foucault demonstrated definitively that the Earth rotates on its axis.
1853: A bronze statue of Andrew Jackson on a horse was unveiled in Lafayette Park in Washington, DC. The statue was the work of Clark Mills.
1906: Arthur Rubenstein made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City (Clip).
1918: United States President Woodrow Wilson presented his "14 Points" to Congress. It was a peace plan aimed at a new world order after World War One.
1925: Russian composer Igor Stravinsky appeared in his first American concert conducting the New York Philharmonic in a program of his own compositions.
1935: Rock 'N Roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1946: Elvis's highly protective mother, Gladys, took him to the Tupelo Hardware Store and bought a gift that would change the course of history: a $6.95 guitar. Elvis Aaron Presley was 11 years old.
1955: Georgia Tech stopped Kentucky's 130-game home winning streak with a 59-to-58 win over the Wildcats.
1957: in an article appearing in "LOOK" magazine, Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to break the color lines in major league baseball, announced his retirement from the sport.
1958: 14-year-old Bobby Fischer won the U.S. Chess Championship for the first time.
1965: the television dance show "Hullaballoo" debuted on NBC (Flashback)
1966: The Beatles topped the pop singles chart with "We Can Work It Out" (Song)
1973: the trial of the "Watergate Seven" began in Washington, D.C.
1975: Ella Grasso became the governor of Connecticut. She became the first woman to become governor of a state without her husband preceding her.
1979: the Canadian rock band Rush was named the country's official "Ambassadors of Music" by the Canadian government (Tom Sawyer)
1983: country singer Reba McEntire landed her first number one hit with "Can't Even Get The Blues" (Song)
1987: the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed over the two-thousand mark for the first time.
1989: "42nd Street" closed after eight years on Broadway.
1992: U.S. President George Bush fell suddenly ill at a state dinner in Japan. He became pale, slumped in his chair and promptly vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister.
1994: Tonya Harding won the ladies' U.S. Figure Skating Championship one day after rival skater Nancy Kerrigan dropped out due to a knee injury sustained in a clubbing attack.
1995: Mike Schmidt was elected to the Baseball Hall-of-Fame.
2001: Pope John Paul II was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
2002: Wendy's Restaurants founder Dave Thomas died at the age of 69.
2004: in an interview with ABC's "Primetime Thursday," Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader, admitted that he bet on baseball and the Cincinnati Reds while he managed the team.
2004: the Donald Trump reality series "The Apprentice" made its debut on NBC.
2005: Paul Newman narrowly escaped injury after his racing car caught fire at Daytona Beach. The 79-year-old actor was test-driving the Ford Crawford in preparation for a race when the car's engine caught fire.
2007: "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" was the big winner at the 34th Annual People's Choice Awards. The Johnny Depp movie took four People's Choice Awards. Pop star Justin Timberlake also took three awards in the music categories.
2011: Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was among several people shot during a meet-and-greet session at a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona.
2013: no new members were elected to join the Baseball Hall of Fame. None of the eligible candidates received the required 75 percent of votes for election. It marked just the eighth time since voting began in 1936 that no new members were elected to the Hall.
HISTORY SPOTLIGHT
War of 1812 and the Battle of New Orleans (Source)
Andrew Jackson is the only president who served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. The War of 1812 gave him the national recognition he would later need to win the presidency. After winning a major battle in this war, Jackson was promoted to major general in the U.S. Army, with command of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
In the Battle of New Orleans, Jackson's army was mostly a bunch of inexperienced volunteers. They were free blacks, Tennessee and Kentucky riflemen and Louisiana militia. He even recruited some pirates!
Despite the fact that Jackson's volunteer troops were outnumbered two to one by the British professionals, they prevailed. Overnight, Jackson was transformed into a national icon and hero, which would later help him win the presidency.
QUICK TRIVIA
Today is Argyle Day (Source)
Argyle knitwear became fashionable in England and then the USA after the first world war. Pringle of Scotland ppopularizedthe design, helped by its identification with the Duke of Windsor. The duke, like others, used this pattern for golf clothing: both for jerseys and for the long socks needed for the plus-fours trouser fashion of the day.
WORD OF THE DAY
toom [toom] adjective
1. empty; vacant.
verb (used with object)
2. to empty or drain (a vessel), especially by drinking the contents.
"The toom apartment lacked luster, but nothing that a little paint and imagination couldn't help"
INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT
Ezekiel and John the Apostle had a similar experience with a scroll.
"And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the people of Israel.” So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat. Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth" (Ezekiel 3:1-3).
"So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey. I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour" (Revelation 10:9-10).
WORD FROM THE WORD
There shall be showers of blessing. —Ezekiel 34:26
Read today's "Our Daily Bread"
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