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Tomorrow's food holiday 'National Spaghetti Day'.
[The Hankster says] For the Italian in all of us.
Tomorrow is 'Trivia Day'.
[The Hankster says] OK, so I hit it right 1 out of 365 times in the year.
Tomorrow is 'Earth at Perihelion'.
[The Hankster says] The Earth's orbit around the Sun is not a circle, but elliptical. We will be about 3 million miles closer to the Sun at 1:36 a.m. EST. We will be farthest from the Sun at Aphelion on July 6th.
Tomorrow we celebrate a birthday for 'Tom Thumb Day'.
[The Hankster says] He is of course, General Tom Thumb, which was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883). He was a 'little person', who became famous in P.T. Barnum's shows. He sang, danced, did mime, and impersonated famous people in his act.
Another birthday boy is celebrated tomorrow. It will be 'World Braille Day'.
[The Hankster says] It is the birthday of Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852), who invented the system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired.
Tomorrow is the start of 'Folic Acid Awareness Week'.
[The Hankster says] It is January 4-10 during January's National Birth Defects Prevention Month.
Max Frisch once said 'Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.'
[The Hankster says] Perhaps we do not change from day to day, but our personalities and beliefs unfold to the pressure of experience over time and we are revealed in a new light by that day's experience. What others see as change in us is really only one less wrinkle in who we are. Let us see how January 4 in the past, unfolded.
In 1896, Utah is admitted as the 45th state of the U.S.
In 1936, Billboard Magazine releases the first music chart that ranks albums by national record sales.
In 1958, Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
In 1962, The first automated (unmanned) subway train begins in New York City NY.
In 1999, The Euro currency goes into circulation.
In 2004, Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars.
In 2010, Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is officially opened. A 'skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is the tallest man-made structure in the world, standing at 829.8 m (2,722 ft)'.
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Food holidays
Apple and Apricots Month
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California Dried Plum Digestive Month
Natiionl Candy Month
National Egg Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Soup Month
Oatmeal Month
Other holidays and awareness days
Adopt A Rescued Bird Month
Bath Safety Month
Be Kind to Food Servers Month
Birth Defects Month
Book Blitz Month
Celebration of Life Month
Cervical Health Awareness Month
Financial Wellness Month
Get Organized Month
International Brain Teaser Month
International Creativity Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Polka Music Month
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Skating Month
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month
Self-help Group Awareness Month
Teen Driving Awareness Month
Train Your Dog Month
Thyroid Awareness Month
Walk Your Dog Month
January is:
January origin (from Wikipedia):
'January is named after Janus, the God of beginnings and transitions;
the name has its beginnings in Roman mythology, coming from the Latin
word for door since January is the door to the year.'
'January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars
and one of seven months with the length of 31 days.
The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average,
the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere
(where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year
within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
In the Southern hemisphere, January is the seasonal equivalent of July in the
Northern hemisphere and vice versa.'
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If you couldn't afford 90 cents for a movie ticket, 50 years ago,
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