Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'National English Toffee Day'. 'Toffee is a candy made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of 149 to 154 °C (300 to 310 °F). While being prepared, toffee is sometimes mixed with nuts or raisins.'
'A popular variant in the US is English toffee, which is a very buttery toffee often made with almonds. It is available in both chewy and hard versions. Heath bars are a type of candy made with an English toffee core. Although named English toffee it bears little resemblance to the wide range of confectionery known as toffee currently available in the UK'
[The Hankster says] Another Americanized food, given a name to make it seem better (older) and special (from another country). Who cares. It's good stuff.
Other celebrations/observances tomorrow:
Relax tomorrow on 'Bubble Bath Day'. From Wikipedia: A bubble bath is a filled bathtub with a layer of surfactant foam on the surface of the water and consequently also the surfactant product used to produce the foam. Less commonly, aerated or carbonated baths are called bubble baths.'
[The Hankster says] You would think that such a soothing treat would have a less scientific definition.
Tomorrow is 'National Argyle Day'. From Wikipedia: 'An argyle (occasionally argyll) pattern is made of diamonds or lozenges. The word is sometimes used to refer to an individual diamond in the design but more commonly refers to the overall pattern. Most argyle layouts contain layers of overlapping motifs, adding a sense of three-dimensionality, movement, and texture. Typically, there is an overlay of intercrossing diagonal lines on solid diamonds.'
'The argyle pattern is derived from the tartan of Clan Campbell, of Argyll in western Scotland, used
for kilts and plaids, and from the patterned socks worn by Scottish Highlanders since at least the 17th
century. (See illustrations in History of the kilt.)
These were generally known as "tartan hose"'.
Spread it around. Tomorrow is 'National JoyGerm Day'. A day to spread the germ of kindness and joy.
[The Hankster says] A virus you can love.
This one is for you ladies. Tomorrow is 'National Man Watcher's Day'. A turnaround occupation for the ladies.
[The Hankster says] It's only fair.
It's 'Earth's Rotation Day'. tomorrow Celebrates the day in 1851, when Leon Foucault (French Physicist), demonstrated the Earth rotates on its axis.
From Wikipedia: 'The most celebrated test of Earth's rotation is the Foucault pendulum first built by physicist Léon Foucault in 1851, which consisted of a lead-filled brass sphere suspended 67 m from the top of the Panthéon in Paris. Because of the Earth's rotation under the swinging pendulum, the pendulum's plane of oscillation appears to rotate at a rate depending on latitude. At the latitude of Paris the predicted and observed shift was
about 11 degrees clockwise per hour. Foucault pendulums now swing in museums around the world'.
[The Hankster says] Now you have an excuse for acting a little dizzy tomorrow.
Historical events in the past on: January 8
In 1815, The Battle of New Orleans was fought durig the War of 1812, between the U.S. and Britain. The war had ended on December 24, 1814 but none of the combatants were aware of it's end.
In 1835, The U.S. national debt is zero for the only time.
In 1889, Herman Hollerith is issued U.S. patent for the 'Art of Applying Statistics'. This was his punched card calculator.
From Wikipedia: 'Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American inventor who developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. He was the founder of The Tabulating Machine Company that was consolidated in 1911 with three other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, later renamed IBM. Hollerith is regarded as one of the seminal figures in the development of data processing.
His invention of the punched card tabulating machine marks the beginning of the era of semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century'.
In 1935, Birthday of Elvis Presley.
In 1952, The TV comedy, My Friend Irma, premiers.
From Wikipedia: 'My Friend Irma, created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard, is a top-rated, long-run radio situation comedy that spawned a media franchise. It was so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated to films, television, a comic strip and a comic book. Marie Wilson portrayed the title character, Irma Peterson, on radio, in two films and the television series. The radio series was broadcast on the Columbia network from April 11, 1947 to August 23, 1954.'
'The TV version, seen on C
BS from January 8, 1952 until June 1954, was the first series telecast from the CBS Television City facility in Hollywood on November 16, 1952.
The film My Friend Irma (1949) starred Marie Wilson and Diana Lynn, but is mainly remembered today for introducing Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis to moviegoers, resulting in even more screen time for Martin and Lewis in the sequel, My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)'.
In 1964, President Johnson announces the War On Poverty outlining several initiatives including increasing the mandatory overtime pay rate.
In 1968, Jacques Cousteau's first undersea special airs.
In 1994, Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in January
Food
California Dried Plum Digestive Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Soup Month
Oatmeal Month
Health
Bath Safety Month
Birth Defects Month
Cervical Health Awareness Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Personal Trainer Awareness Month
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month
Self-help Group Awareness Month
Self-Love Month
Shape Up US Month
Thyroid Awareness Month
Animal / Pets
Adopt A Rescued Bird Month
Train Your Dog Month
Unchain A Dog Month
Walk Your Dog Month
Other
Be Kind to Food Servers Month
Book Blitz Month
Celebration of Life Month
Financial Wellness Month
Get A Balanced Life Month
Get Organized Month
International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month
International Child-Centered Divorce Awareness Month
International Creativity Month
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month
Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month
National Be On-Purpose Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Codependency Awareness Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Mentoring Month
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Polka Music Month
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
Rising Star Month
Teen Driving Awareness 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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