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Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'National Tempura Day'.
[The Hankster says] Tempura is a Japanese dish of lightly battered, deep fried vegetables and seafood. My guess would have been that the batter was rice flour, but it is wheat flour and water.
Tomorrow is 'International Programmers' Day'.
[The Hankster says] I made my living coding. If no one has collected and collated all my mistakes, I guess I can celebrate tomorrow.
For those who become fender benders due to looking at the rear deck of the car in front, tomorrow is for you. It will be 'National Bobblehead Day'.
[The Hankster says] For all you connoisseurs, I understand that in 2016 the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum will be constructed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Tomorrow is 'Harlem Globetrotters Day'. This celebrates their first game back in 1927.
Joseph Hall once said 'Perfection is the child of time.'
[The Hankster says] I wish that time alone could make us perfect. It can make us better if we know, understand and heed the lessons left behind. As a dutiful child, let us look back to the page for January 7, in father time's diary, and see if so doing, can make us a little wiser.
In 1610, Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four (Galilean moons), Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
In 1789, George Washington is voted in as U.S. president in the first nationwide election. He had no opposition candidate running against him.
In 1887, Thomas Stevens finishes his long ride of 13,500 miles on his bike around the world.
[The Hankster says] Some feat for the time, especially if you consider that he was riding a 'penny-farthing bicycle.'. This is the one with the huge front wheel and the small back wheel.
In 1896, Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook 'The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book'.
In 1929,- The first Buck Rogers, sci-fi comic strip premieres.
In 1929, One of the first adventure comic strips, 'Tarzan,' is released.
In 1934, The comic strip 'Flash Gordon' debuts.
In 1947, The song 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' is the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts.
In 1968, The spacecraft 'Surveyor 7' lands on the Moon.
[The Hankster says] This was the last in the Surveyor series, that identified conditions for the Apollo moon landings.
In 1985, The Japanese space probe 'Sakigake' was launched to rendezvous with Halley's Comet’ It flew to within 4.3 million miles of the comet.
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Food holidays
Apple and Apricots Month
Artichoke and Asparagus Month
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,
or your 45 RPM record player was broke, you might watch one of these shows on TV.
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