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Jan 7, 2019 Week:
01 \ Day: 7
86004 Today: H 31° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 95%
Feels like 19°
Wind: 7mph\Gusts:
17mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 65°[1914]
Record Low: -17°[1913]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°
Today’s
Quote
If you do not
change direction,
you may end
up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu
Random
Tidbits
The earliest Latin calendar was a 10-month
one, beginning with March; thus, September was the seventh month, October, the
eighth, etc. July was originally called Quintilis, meaning fifth; August was
originally called Sextilis, meaning six
In A.D. 610, while baking bread, an Italian
monk decided to create a treat to motivate his distracted catechism students.
He rolled out ropes of dough, twisted them to resemble hands crossed on the
chest in prayer, and baked them. The monk named his snacks pretiola, Latin for
"little reward." Parents who tried them referred to them as
brachiola, or "little arms." When pretiola arrived in Germany, they
were called bretzels.
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
6-12
Home Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
7-9
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week
Observances
for Today
Asarah B'Tevet
Blue Monday
Divorce Monday
Golden Globes
Handsel Day (Scotland)
Harlem Globetrotter's Day
I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day
International Programmers' Day
Orthodox Christmas
National Bobblehead Day
National Tempura Day
National Weigh-In Day
Plough Monday
"Thank God It's Monday" Day
My
Rambling Thoughts
Awoke
to a nice blanket of snow all around town. It was about 2” of the predicted 6”-8”
but it continues to snow. Clouds aren’t very thick, so it is very bright
outside as it snows. Nice! And the snow shoveling guys were here working at 7a.
The
American, Paul Whelan, being held in Russia does raise questions. My first one
is why does he have several passports?
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1600’s
1610
Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of
Jupiter: Io, Europa & Ganymede
1700’s
1714
Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill
(built years later)
1800’s
1896
Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook
"The Boston Cooking-School Cook
Book"
1900’s
1914
1st steamboat passes through the Panama Canal
1929
"Buck Rogers" sci-fi comic strip's 1st appearance
in a newspaper
1929
"Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips,
1st appears
1934
"Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
1946
Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside
French Union
1959
American gangster Meyer Lansky flees Cuba for the
Bahamas due to the Cuban Revolution
and rise of
Fidel Castro
1964
Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing
707)
1971
-40°F (-40°C) in Hawley Lake, Arizona (state record)
1992
AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
2000’s
2015
Terrorist attack on the offices of satirical newspaper
"Charlie Hebdo" in Paris
kills 12 (including Jean Cabut
and Stéphane Charbonnier), injures
11
2018
It snows in the Sahara Desert - 15 inches reported
in Aïn Séfra, Northwest Algeria
Birthdays
Today
1800
Millard Fillmore,
13th US President (Whig: 1850-53), born in Moravia,
New York (d. 1874)@74
1926
Kim Jong-pil,
South Korean Prime Minister (1971-75, 1998-2000)
and founder of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency
(now the National
Intelligence Service),
born in Buyeo County, Japanese Korea (d. 2018)@92
1903
Alan Napier,
British actor (The Sword in the Stone, Batman),
born in Birmingham, England (d. 1988)@85
1911
Butterfly McQueen [Thelma],
American actress (Gone With the Wind,
Flame of Barbary Coast), born in Tampa, Florida
(d. 1995)@84
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62-
Katie Couric,
TV show host
56-
Rand Paul,
American politician (Senate-R-Kentucky 2011-),
born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
55-
Nicolas Cage,
American actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon),
born in Long Beach, California
1938
Paul Revere,
American pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders),
born in Harvard Nebraska, (d. 2014)@76
71-
Kenny Loggins,
American singer (Loggins and Messina-This is it,
Footloose), born in Everett, Washington
Historical
Obits Today
@87-1989
Emperor Hirohito
of Japan (1922-89) dies after a 62-year reign
@86-1943
Nikola Tesla,
Serbian-American physicist (tesla motor)
@50-1536
Catherine of Aragon,
1st wife of England's King Henry VIII
@44-1980
Larry Williams,
American rocker (Dizzy, Miss Lizzie), dies by suicide
