Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'Hot Heads Chili Days'.
Hottest ranking by Scoville heat units: From Wikipedia:
1,600,000 – 2,200,000 , Carolina Reaper
855,000 – 2,200,000 , Komodo Dragon Chili Pepper, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Naga Viper pepper, Infinity Chilli, Naga Morich, Bhut Jolokia (ghost pepper), Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper, Bedfordshire Super Naga, Spanish Naga Chili
350,000 – 580,000 , Red Savina habanero
100,000 – 350,000 , Habanero chili, Scotch bonnet pepper, Datil pepper, Rocoto, Madame Jeanette, Peruvian White Habanero, Jamaican hot pepper, Fatalii Wiri Wiri
100,000 – 225,000 , Bird's eye chili
50,000 – 100,000 , Byadgi chilli, Malagueta pepper, Chiltepin pepper, Piri piri, Pequin pepper, Siling Labuyo
30,000 – 50,000 , Guntur chilli, Cayenne pepper, Ají pepper, Tabasco pepper, Capsicum chinense, Serenade chilli
10,000 – 23,000 , Serrano pepper, Peter pepper, Chile de árbol, Aleppo pepper, Chungyang Red Pepper
3,500 – 10,000 , Guajillo pepper, Espelette pepper, Fresno pepper, Jalapeño, wax (e.g., Hungarian wax pepper)
1,000 – 4,000 , Jalapeño pepper, Gochujang, Pasilla pepper, Peppadew, poblano (or ancho), Poblano verde, Rocotillo pepper
100 – 900 , Banana pepper, Cubanelle, paprika, Peperoncini, Pimento
0 , Bell pepper
[The Hankster says] Oh, my! Today is Hot and Spicy Food day. Tomorrow we kick it up. Bamb!
Other celebrations/observances tomorrow:
Tomorrow is sort of an early achievers days. Tomorrow is 'Kid Inventors' Day'. Consider: Television (Philo Farnswort, at 14), Braille Reading (Louis Braille, age 15), Water skis (Ralph Samuelson , age 18), Earmuffs (Chester Greenwood, age 15), Popsicle (Frank Epperson, age 11).
[The Hankster says] I'm feeling old. I'm feeling not so intelligent. I'm going to take a nap.
Tomorrow is 'Cable Car Day'. Celebrates Andrew Smith Hallidie's patent relating to cable cars, in 1871. See 1871 in the history section.
OK, you wait for this one, every year. It will be 'Ditch New Years Resolutions Day' tomorrow.
[The Hankster says] It appears that most New Year's Resolutions are broken after only two weeks. We are past that now, so why still pretend. You don't need to embrace your shortcomings, but at least be honest about them.
Awareness / Observance Days on: January 17
o Health
- 'National Non-Smoking Week:'. January 17-23 in Canada.
o Other
- 'Hardware Freedom Day'. By the the Digital Freedom Foundation and promotes the use of, and contributions to the open concept.
- 'World Snow Day'. By the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Historical events in the past on: January 17
In 1773, The 'Resolution', under Captain James Cook, becomes the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.
From Wikipedia: 'Cook commanded HMS Resolution on this voyage, while Tobias Furneaux commanded its companion ship, HMS Adventure. Cook's expedition circumnavigated the globe at an extreme southern latitude, becoming one of the first to cross the Antarctic Circle (17 January 1773). In the Antarctic fog, Resolution and Adventure became separated. Furneaux made his way to New Zealand, where he lost some of his men during an encounter with Maori, and eventually sailed back to Britain,
while Cook continued to explore the Antarctic, reaching 71°10'S on 31 January 1774'.
In 1871, Andrew S. Hallidie received a patent for a cable car system.
From Wikipedia: 'Andrew Smith Hallidie (March 16, 1836–April 24, 1900) was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco, USA. This was the world's first practical cable car system, and Hallidie is often therefore regarded as the inventor of the cable car and father of the present day San Francisco cable car system, although both claims are open to dispute. He also introduced the manufacture of wire rope to California, and at an early age was a prolific builder of
bridges in the Californian interior'.
In 1912, English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole. Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him there by one month. Scott and his party died during the return trip.
From Wikipedia: 'Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, RN (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was an English Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13.
On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Polar Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott's party discovered plant fossils, proving Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. At
a distance of 150 miles from their base camp and 11 miles from the next depot, Scott and his companions died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold'.
In 1928. A patent is granted for the first ever fully automatic machine for photographic film processing.
In 1929, Popeye the Sailor Man, first appears in Thimble Theatre comic strip.
From Wikipedia: 'Popeye the Sailor Man is a cartoon fictional character, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and theatrical and television animated cartoons. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929; Popeye became the strip's title in later years.
In 1949, The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time.
From Wikipedia: 'The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio, and from 1949 to 1956 on American television. It was adapted into a 1948 play, Me and Molly; a 1950 film, The Goldbergs; and a 1973 Broadway musical, Molly.'
'The program was devised by writer-actress Gertrude Berg in 1928 and sold to the NBC radio network the following year. It was a domestic comedy featuring the home life of a Jewish family, supposedly located at 1038 East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx. In addition to writing the scripts and directing each episode, Berg starred as bighearted, lovingly meddlesome, and somewhat stereotypical Jewish matriarch Molly Goldberg'.
In 1950, The Great Brinks Robbery occurs.
From Wikipedia: 'The Great Brink's Robbery was an armed robbery of the Brink's Building at the east corner of Prince St. and Commercial St. in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on January 17, 1950. Today the building is a parking garage located at 600 Commercial Street.
The $2.775 million ($27.3 million today) theft consisted of $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders, and other securities. It was then the largest robbery in the history of the United States. The robbery, skillfully executed with few clues left at the crime scene, was billed as "the crime of the century". It was the work of an eleven-member gang, all of whom were later arrested'.
In 1966, A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
From Wikipedia: 'The 1966 Palomares B-52 crash or Palomares incident occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at 31,000 feet (9,450 m) over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain. The KC-135 was completely destroyed when its fuel load ignited, killing all four crew members. The B-52G broke apart, killing three of the seven crew members aboard.
'Of the four Mk28-type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carried, three were found on land near the small fishing village of Palomares in the municipality of Cuevas del Almanzora, Almería, Spain. The non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonated upon impact with the ground, resulting in the contamination of a 2-square-kilometer (490-acre) (0.78 square mile) area by plutonium. The fourth, which fell into the Mediterranean Sea, was recovered intact after a 2½-month-long search'.
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
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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