Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'National Popcorn Day'.
[The Hankster says] I saw a reference to the fact that Popcorn Day was also celebrated on Super Bowl Sunday. I will indeed have a big bowl of corn, but we all know it will really be pizza day. Which I will also have, along with Nachos and ..., well you get the idea.
Tomorrow is 'Martin Luther King Jr. Day' and 'Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service - MLK Day'.
It will be 'Tin Can Day' tomorrow. It celebrates Peter Durand's patent for the tin can.
From Wikipedia: ''Durand did not pursue food canning, but, in 1812, sold his patent to two Englishmen, Bryan Donkin and John Hall, who refined the process and product, and set up the world's first commercial canning factory on Southwark Park Road, London. By 1813 they were producing their first tin canned goods for the Royal Navy.. and 'Early tin cans were sealed by soldering with a tin-lead alloy, which could lead to lead poisoning.'
[The Hankster says] There were many other childhood uses for the cans. There was the game 'Kick The Can', they made just the right container to carry fishing worms and were used for targets. BTW, goats do not eat tin cans. They do try to eat the paper and especially the wheat flour glue that holds the labels on the cans.
Talking of good targets, tomorrow is 'Archery Day'.
[The Hankster says] As a kid, I practiced with a bow in the fields under the transmission lines in my home town, Galena Park TX. As for accuracy I did manage to hit the target or the ground every time. And yes, since you ask, quite often, they landed, I knew not where.
We have the first day of an awareness week tomorrow. It will be 'Healthy Weight Week '. January 19-23 - First day is 'It’s Let Go of Dieting Day.' It contrasts the difference between dieting and a healthy balanced life style of both food and activity.
Another awareness day celebrated in Ireland tomorrow is 'Shave or Dye'.
It is a cancer fund raiser in which money pledges are obtained, not for walking, running or biking, but for shaving or dying ones hair.
M. Scott Peck once said 'Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.'
[The Hankster says] Your positive motivation can and will do wonders for you, now and in the future. As mentioned on the post before, I can only deal with the past. Let us see what those in the past did with their time on January 19.
In 1883. The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
[The Hankster says] This was Edison, so I'm sure we are talking DC not AC current.
In 1903 - A new bicycle race 'Tour de France' is announced.
In 1920, The U.S. Senate votes against membership in the League of Nations. Although Wilson propose such an organization after WW I, congress was concerned about wording that might lead to more entanglement in Europe.
In 1929, The 'Acadia National Park', in Maine is established.
In 1935, Coopers Inc. (later Jockey) sells the world's first briefs.
In 1937, Howard Hughes sets a speed record for transcontinental air flight. The flight was from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
In 1953, Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into 'I Love Lucy' for the episode 'Lucy Goes To The Hospital'. in which she was to give birth to 'Little Ricky'.
[The Hankster says] You can find it on YouTube and I will link to it on the 'Today Is' page for January 19.
In 1955, The TV show 'Millionaire' premieres. It followed the lives of persons receiving a million dollars, tax free and anonymously.
In 1978, The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
In 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
In 1986, The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
In 2006, The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. It will fly close to Pluto in July of 2015.
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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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