Jan 2


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Jan 2, 2019 Week: 01  \ Day: 2
86004 Today: H 22° \ L 3° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
   Feels like 14°
Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 60°[1902]   Record Low: -21°[1919]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering,
'It will be happier.'
Alfred Lord Tennyson


Random Tidbits

In 1582, the Gregorian calendar, which marks January 1 as the new year, is adopted by the Roman Catholic Church.
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January is named after Janus, the god with two faces, one looking forward and one looking backward.
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"Auld Lang Syne" was written by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788. He may have based it on a folk song. The words auld lang syne mean "times gone by".
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The first rooftop celebration atop One Times Square, a fireworks display, took place in 1904 and was produced by The New York Times to inaugurate their new headquarters in Times Square and celebrate the renaming of Longacre Square to Times Square.
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The first ball dropping celebration atop One Times Square was held on December 31, 1907. In 1942 and 1943 the ball lowering was suspended due to the wartime dimout.
The original New Year's Eve Ball weighed 700 pounds and was five feet in diameter. It was made of iron and wood and was decorated with 100 25-watt light bulbs.


More Observances This Month
           
Financial Wellness Month
FirstFolio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare

Get A Balanced Life Month
Get Organized Month

International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month
International Child-Centered Divorce Month
International Creativity Month
International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month

Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month

Menudo Month 

Observances This Week
           
1-7
Diet Resolution Week
New Year's Resolutions Week
Silent Record Week

2-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week


Observances for Today
           
55-MPH Speed Limit Day
Happy Mew Year for Cats Day
National Buffet Day
National Cream Puff Day
National Motivation and Inspiration Day
National Personal Trainer Awareness Day
National Science Fiction Day 
Pet Travel and Safety Day


My Rambling Thoughts

Woke up to a clear sky and cold temps…must be January.  There was only about 3” of the forecasted 6” of snow and it was a very dry snow. Darn. I didn’t go anywhere yesterday so this morning I went out to clear the car windows. I had my scraper, my gloves, etc. Only to discover that the snow could be just brushed off with no residue on the windows, so went back inside and got the snow broom. Bam! Entire car cleaned in 3 minutes flat. The storm we had just before this one was a wet one. When I went out to clear the windows I had snow and ¼” solid ice on the windshield. That was no 3-minute job.

For those who think the shut-down is no big deal since Federal Employees always get paid for days not working during the shutdown, think about the trickledown effect. Those working as contract workers don’t get paid back. Vendors who run concessions at National Parks, Monuments, etc. do get paid back. Visitors to many government facilities find them closed…after saving up for a vacation. Landlords, Mortgage companies, grocery stores, don’t offer credit. And the work is just piling up. This is a real mess and needs to be fixed as soon as possible.

My New Year’s Eve was quiet. Roads were icy so no one came over, & I didn’t go anywhere. I watched the ball drop in NYC at 10p here and went to bed. I decided I didn’t have to wait until midnight to watch the calendar change on my phone. When I got up this morning the phone said it was Jan. 1, 2019, so I guess things went as planned.


Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s
1832 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens

1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

1890 Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer

1893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago

1900’s
1903 US President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black

1906 Willis Carrier receives a US patent for the world's first air conditioner

1910 1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley California)

1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded

1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion

1974 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon

1975 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species

1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)


Birthdays Today

1822 Rudolph J E Clausius,
German physicist (thermodynamics) (d. 1888)@66

1854 Alice Mary Robertson,
American educator, social worker and 2nd woman in US Congress, born in Tullahassee Mission, Indian Territory (d. 1931)@77

1901 Robert "Bob" Marshall,
American forester, wilderness activist and co-founder of the Wilderness Society, born in NYC, New York (d. 1939)@38

1902 Barry Goldwater,
American politician (d. 1998)@89

1920 Isaac Asimov,
Russian scientist and sci-fi writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy), born in Petrovichi, Russia (d. 1992)@72, heart attack

1936 Roger Miller,
country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me), born in Fort Worth, (d. 1992)@56, throat cancer
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87- Dabney Coleman,
Actor (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill), born in Austin, Texas

72- Jack Hanna,
American zoologist, TV host

67- Ricky Van Shelton,
American country singer (Wild-Eyed Dream), born in Danville, Virginia

51- Cuba Gooding Jr,
actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)

48- Taye Diggs,
American actor

44- Dax Shepard,
American actor


Historical Obits Today
80’s
@80-2011 Anne Francis,
American actress (Honey West, Forbidden Planet, Pancho Villa)

70’s
@71-1953 Guccio Gucci,
Italian founder of Gucci fashion house

60’s
@68-1990 Alan Hale Jr.,
American actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island), dies of cancer

@67-1974 Tex Ritter,
country singer (5 Star Jubilee)

@65-1983 Richard "Dick" Emery,
British comedian and actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), dies from cardio-respiratory failure

@64-1971 Willard Maas,
American educator and experimental filmmaker

@63-2012 Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt,
rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly) dies of cirrhosis

50’s
@±59-17 Roman poet Ovid
(in Latin: Publius Ovidius Naso)



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