Two food holidays for tomorrow:
- 'National Apricot Day '. It is a good source of Vitamin A and C and has many other vitamins and minerals.From Wikipedia: 'An apricot is a fruit or the tree that bears the fruit of several species in the genus Prunus (stone fruits). '.
[The Hankster says] I like Apricot jam. Only eaten the raw fruit once.
- 'National Cassoulet Week'. January 9-15. From Wikipedia: 'Cassoulet is a rich, slow-cooked casserole originating in the south of France, containing meat (typically pork sausages, goose, duck and sometimes mutton), pork skin (couennes) and white beans (haricots blancs)'.
[The Hankster says] A lot of stuff in it. I guess the kitchen sink is at the bottom.
Other celebrations/observances tomorrow:
Socking, just shocking. Tomorrow is 'National Static Electricity Day'. The colder weather and dry air this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, increase it's likelihood, since dry air is a good insulator. From Simple English Wikipedia: 'Static electricity means the increase of electric charge on the surface of objects. This electric charge remains on an object until it either flows into the ground, or loses its charge quickly by a discharge. Charge exchange can happen in
conditions like when different objects are rubbed and separated. A static
charge will only remain when one of the surfaces has a high resistance to electrical flow. The effects of static electricity are familiar to most people because they can see, feel and even hear the spark. This spark happens when the excess charge is neutralized. This neutralization occurs when excess charge flows into an electrical conductor (for example a path to ground). Other charge flow occurs when a charged object is near a region with an excess charge of
the opposite polarity (positive or negative). The familiar phenomenon of a static 'shock' is caused by the neutralization of charge'.
[The Hankster says] I light up my life.
Up, up and away. tomorrow is 'Balloon Ascension Day'. Celebrates the day in 1793 that Frenchman, Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon assent in America. See more in the history section.
[The Hankster says] Ah, ha. Something else is full of hot air, you say.
Tomorrow is 'National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day'.
[The Hankster says] Officers, check out McDonald's. Some are offering a free meal on Saturday January 9.
Kick that bucket, go ahead. Tomorrow is 'National Vision Board Day'. Second Saturday in January. Get rid of the bucket list. Make a visual presentation of your goals and place it on the wall (a visual board), where you can't miss or forget it.
[The Hankster says] Doesn't matter. My bucket was wooden with a hole in it (you may remember the song written about it), and I lost my to-do's. The vision board thing is not going well either, since it is black and I only have a black marker.
Historical events in the past on: January 9
In 1493, Columbus mistakes manatees for mermaids. Columbus wrote in his log that mermaids were “not half as beautiful as they are painted”.
In 1793, Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. From Wikipedia: 'On 9 January 1793, Blanchard conducted the first balloon flight in the Americas. He launched his balloon from the prison yard of Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and landed in Deptford, Gloucester County, New Jersey. One of the flight's witnesses that day was President George Washington, and the future presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, and James Monroe were also present. Blanchard left the United States in 1797'.
In 1788, Connecticut becomes the 5th state to become part of the United States.
In 1816, Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. From Wikipedia: 'The Davy lamp is a safety lamp for use in flammable atmospheres, invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy. It consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. It was created for use in coal mines, to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence of methane and other flammable gases, called firedamp or minedamp'.
In 1839, The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. From Wikipedia: 'The daguerreotype (/d?'g?r?ta?p/; French: daguerréotype) process, or daguerreotypy, was the first publicly announced photographic process, and for nearly twenty years, it was the one most commonly used. It was invented by Louis-Jaques-Mandé Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839. By 1860, new processes which were less expensive and produced more easily viewed images had almost
completely replaced it'.
In 1861, The first hostile act of the Civil War takes place. The "Star of the West" fired on in the harbor at Sumter SC. From Wikipedia: 'On January 9, 1861, weeks after South Carolina declared that it had seceded from the U.S. (but before other states had done so to form the Confederacy) Star of the West was fired upon by cadets from The Citadel stationed at the Morris Island battery as the ship entered Charleston Harbor. This prevented Star of the West from resupplying Major Robert
Anderson' s garrison at Fort Sumter. Star of the West was given a warning shot across the bow and turned about to leave the harbor mouth. She was hit three times by what were effectively the first shots of the American Civil War'.
In 1903, Wind Cave National Park, SD established. From Wikipedia: 'Wind Cave National Park is a United States national park 10 miles (16 km) north of the town of Hot Springs in western South Dakota. Established in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt, it was the seventh U.S. National Park and the first cave to be designated a national park anywhere in the world'.
In 1923, Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. From Wikipedia: 'Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of De La Cierva, 21 September 1895 in Murcia, Spain – 9 December 1936 in Croydon, United Kingdom) was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of the Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language. In 1923, after four years of experimentation,
De la Cierva developed the articulated rotor, which resulted in the world's first successful flight of a stable rotary- wing aircraft, with his C.4 prototype'.
In 1941, the first flight of the Avro Lancaster. From Wikipedia: 'The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber designed and built by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and, as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it was the central implement for the night-time bombing campaigns that followed'.
In 1956, The newspaper column 'Dear Abby', by Abigail Van Buren debuts. From Wikipedia: 'Dear Abby, is an advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name "Abigail Van Buren" and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name.'.
In 1959, The TV show 'Rawhide' with Clint Eastwood premieres. From Wikipedia: 'Rawhide is an American Western TV series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes'' More
In 1984, The TV show, TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, premieres on NBC TV. From Wikipedia: 'TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes is an American television series. Debuting as a weekly series, new episodes have been broadcast as infrequent specials during most of its run. It premiered on NBC in 1984, moved to ABC in 1998, and was revived in syndication in 2012'.
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.'
January at Wikipedia: More
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