Monday January 6, 2014

KALW | By Joe Burke

Published January 6, 2014 at 5:34 AM PST

6 Day of 2013 / 359 Remaining
73 Days Until The First Day of Spring

Sunrise:7:25
Sunset:5:06
9 Hours 41 Minutes of Daylight

Moon Rise:10:51am
Moon Set: 11:38pm
Moon’s Phase: 36 %

The Next Full Moon
January 15 @ 8:35pm
Full Wolf Moon
Full Old Moon

January is the month of the Full Wolf Moon. It appeared when wolves howled in hunger outside the villages. It is also known as the Old Moon. To some Native American tribes, this was the Snow Moon, but most applied that name to the next full Moon, in February.

Tides
High:2:47am/2:34pm
Low:8:52am/8:P47pm

Rainfall
This Year:2.09
Last Year:13.35
Average Year to Date:9.97

Holidays
Admission Day-New Mexico
National Shortbread Day
National Bean Day

Epiphany/Twelfth Day/Little Christmas/3 Kings Day-Christian
Christmas-Armenian
La Befana-Italy
Carnival Season
Maroon Day –Jamaica
Pathet Lao Day-Laos

On This Day In …
1540 --- England's King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

1759 --- George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married.

1838 --- Samuel Morse's telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. The telegraph, a device which used electric impulses to transmit encoded messages over a wire, would eventually revolutionize long-distance communication, reaching the height of its popularity in the 1920s and 1930s.

1912 --- The Land of Enchantment, the territory acquired by the U.S. as a result of the Mexican War, entered the United States of America this day as New Mexico, the 47th state. New Mexico is also referred to as the Sunshine State, but that irritates the residents of the Sunshine State of Florida, so we'll stick to the Land of Enchantment. Santa Fe, the oldest city in New Mexico, is also the state capital and has been the capital of the area since 1610. The state bird is the roadrunner, not the cartoon, but the real thing. New Mexico has a multitude of state symbols including its own fossil: coelophysis, plus the state flower: yucca; tree: pinon; animal: black bear; vegetables: chili and frijol; gem: turquoise; and insect: tarantula hawk wasp. The state motto is in latin: Crescit eundo, which translates to “It grows as it goes.”

1929 --- Sheffeld Farms of New York began using wax paper cartons instead of glass bottles for milk delivery.

1936 --- Warner Bros. Loony Tunes character 'Porky Pig' makes his debut.
1942 --- The first commercial around-the-world airline flight took place. Pan American Airlines was the company that made history with the feat.
1952 --- A regular feature of Sunday funny papers debuted. Peanuts was seen above the fold in newspapers across the U.S. The Charles Schulz creation became the most successful syndicated comic strip in history.
1958 --- Gibson patented its Flying V electric guitar.
1968 --- Dr. Norman E. Shumway performed the first heart transplant on an adult patient in the U.S. at Stanford University Hospital. Shumway’s historic first heart transplant came four weeks after the first such operation in the world, by Dr. Christian Barnard, in South Africa. Barnard used techniques developed by Shumway at Stanford.

1975 --- A crowd of 2,000-plus lines up outside Boston Garden to buy tickets to the rock band Led Zeppelin. Some in the crowd then broke in to the near-empty arena, and caused thousands of dollars in damage. "For years and years, we had people line up overnight to wait for tickets," recalls Steven Rosenblatt, the ticket-office manager at Boston Garden on that January night, "but we never had anything like this." Someone pried open the Garden's locked doors around midnight, and soon hundreds of beer-drinking, bottle-throwing Led Zeppelin fans had the run of Boston Garden. "You couldn't have this kind of crowd running around un-tethered inside the building," says Rosenblatt, "so we decided to open the ticket windows." The near-riot was calmed by around 2:30 a.m., when the Garden staff began selling tickets hours ahead of schedule. By 6:00 a.m., all 9,000 seats were sold out and the crowd had dispersed, but not before causing upwards of $50,000 to the Garden and infuriating the Boston's mayor, Kevin H. White. White came down hard on the Led Zeppelin rioters. Not only did he cancel the concert scheduled for February 4, but he also announced that the band would not be allowed to perform in Boston for the next five years.

1985 --- Dan Marino passed for a record 421 yards and four touchdowns, leading the Miami Dolphins to a 45-28 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC championship game. And the San Francisco 49ers were all over the Chicago Bears 23-0 in the NFC title game. (The 49ers defeated the Dolphins 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX on January 20.)

1993 --- Bassist Bill Wyman announced that he had officially left the Rolling Stones.

1994 --- Nancy Kerrigan, a favorite to win the women’s U.S. Figure Skating Championship, was assaulted after she finished a practice session in Detroit. The assailant used a blunt object to strike the skater on the right knee, although she recovered in time to compete in the Olympics. Four men, including Jeff Gillooly, the ex-husband of

Kerrigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, were later sentenced to prison for their roles in the attack; Harding, who denied advance knowledge of the attack, received probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution.

2001 --- After a bitterly contested election, Vice President Al Gore presides over a joint session of Congress that certifies George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 election. In one of the closest Presidential elections in U.S. history, George W. Bush was finally declared the winner more then five weeks after the election due to the disputed Florida ballots.
2005 --- Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested 41 years after three civil rights workers were slain in Mississippi. (Killen was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison.)

Birthdays
Joan of Arc
Julie Chen
Howie Long
E L Doctorow
Malcolm Young
Rowan Atkinson
Nancy Lopez
John Singleton
Carl Sandburg
Tom Mix
Khalil Gibran
Jedediah Smith
Gustave Dore’
Danny Thomas
Loretta Young
Sum Myung Moon
Earl Scruggs
John Delorean
Bonnie Franklin
Jett Williams