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Flagstaff
Today 50°:
32° Week 1 Day 1
Air
Quality: Fair Sunshine
Wind
5 mph Gusts 12 mph Breezy
Active Fire:
247 miles away Risk
of Fire: Moderate
Nearest
lightning: 1727 miles away
Jan
Averages: Temps: 44°\18° Moisture: 4 Days
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Monthly Observations
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January in Navajo: Yas Niłtʼees melting or cooking the
snow
Adopt A Rescued Bird Month Link
Bath Safety Month
Be Kind to Food Servers Month
Birth Defects Month Link
Black Diamond Month Link
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Book Blitz Month
California Dried Plum Digestive Month Link
Carnival Season: Jan. 6- March 4
Celebration of Life Month
Cervical Health Awareness Month Link
Children Impacted By Parent's Cancer Month
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Weekly Observations
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Diet Resolution Week: 1-7
Silent Record Week: 1-7
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14-1/5/25
Christmas Bird Count Week Link
25—1/2/25
Chanukah
25-31
It's About Time Week
26-1/1/25
Kwanzaa
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Daily Observations
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Apple
Gifting Day
Commitment Day
Copyright Law Day
Ellis Island Day
Euro Day
First Foot Day Link
Global Family Day Link
National Bloody Mary Day
Mummer's
Parade
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New
Years Day
New Year's Dishonor List Day
Polar Bear Plunge or Swim Day Link (Cony Island
NY & Vancouver, BC)
Public Domain Day Link
Rose Bowl Game
Tournament of Roses Parade Day
World Day of Peace Link
Z Day
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Today’s Quote
Today’s Meme
Thoughts for the day
Hoping for some moisture as Flag
begins 2025. We had a very dry December.
There are enough clothes in the world
to clothe the last 6 generations. That’s everyone alive since your great-great-great
grandparents to all the people alive today.
The Hogmanay, the New Year’s Eve celebration
in Edinburgh had to be cancelled this year due to stormy weather. Sad.
The local Pinecone Drop in downtown
Flagstaff has been around for 25 years. I’ve seen it several times since living
here. It is usually very cold, and parking is a real hassle, but a fun experience
all around.
This morning, I did my last blood draw
of 2024. Easy one.
Inventions…
Sarah Boone - Ironing Board
Sarah Boone, a former slave, patented
an improved ironing board in 1892 that made ironing sleeves and women’s
garments much easier. Her design featured a narrow, curved board that could fit
a sleeve and was padded on both sides. The board could be folded up for
storage, making it perfect for home use. Boone’s innovation became the
foundation for modern ironing boards, though she received little recognition
during her lifetime.
Random Thoughts…
Micheal Collins, one of the Apollo 11 astronauts, became the loneliest human ever when
he solitarily orbited the dark side of the moon, and lost all radio
contact with Earth and his fellow astronauts for 48 minutes.
Hangovers cost an estimated $220 billion loss in productivity per year.
An ore (like a gold or silver ore) is only called an ore if it’s economically
feasible to mine the mineral.
Almost all cattle are descended from only 80 aurochs tamed in northern Mesopotamia about
10,000 years ago.
The seven sins according
to Gandhi: “Wealth without work. Pleasure
without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without
principle.”
Quirky town names…
Booger Hole, West Virginia
This unsettling name comes from local folklore about ghosts,
or “boogers,” haunting the area. While it sounds spooky, the town remains a
charming slice of Appalachian history.
Historic Events
On Jan. 1, 1863,
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that
slaves in rebel states shall be “forever free.”
On this date:
In 1660, Englishman
Samuel Pepys (peeps) began keeping his famous diary.
In 1892, the Ellis
Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.
In 1953, country
singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car
during a stop in Oak Hill, West Virginia, while he was being driven to a
concert date in Canton, Ohio.
In 1954, NBC
broadcast the first coast-to-coast color TV program as it presented live
coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.
In 1959, Fidel
Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, who
fled to the Dominican Republic.
In 1975, a jury in
Washington found Nixon administration officials John N. Mitchell, H.R.
Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Robert C. Mardian guilty of charges related to
the Watergate cover-up (Mardian’s conviction for conspiracy was later
overturned on appeal).
In 1979, the United
States and China held celebrations in Washington and Beijing to mark the
establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
In 1984, the breakup
of AT&T took place as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22
Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.
In 1992, Boutros
Boutros-Ghali succeeded Javier Perez de Cuellar (hah-vee-EHR’ PEHR’-ehs day
KWAY’-yahr) as secretary-general of the United Nations.
In 1993,
Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two new countries, the Czech Republic and
Slovakia.
In 2005, desperate,
homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American
helicopters carrying aid as the U.S. military launched its largest operation in
the region since the Vietnam War. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected
to the U.S. Congress, died near Daytona Beach, Florida, at age 80.
In 2014, the
nation’s first legal recreational pot shops opened in Colorado at 8 a.m.
Mountain time.
Birthdays
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Morris
Chestnut, 56
TV Actor
Ben Wang, 25
TV Actor
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@91 –
J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (d. 2010)
@90 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1990)
@84 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress, credited with designing the Flag of
the United States (d. 1836)
@83 –
Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
@83
– Paul Revere, American silversmith and engraver (d. 1818)
@77 – J. Edgar Hoover, American civil servant, first director of the FBI (d.
1972; heart attack)
@71 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer and actor (d. 1990; heart failure)
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…The End for today…
