Thursday January 9, 2014

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Published January 9, 2014 at 5:53 AM PST

9^th Day of 2013 / 356 Remaining
70 Days Until The First Day of Spring

Sunrise:7:24
Sunset:5:09
9 Hours 45 Minutes of Daylight

Moon Rise:12:36pm
Moon Set: 1:41am
Moon’s Phase: 67 %

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:5:19am/6:48pm
Low:12:29pm/11:45pm

Rainfall
This Year:2.10
Last Year:13.36
Average Year to Date:10.41

Holidays
Balloon Ascension Day
National Apricot Day

Martyr’s Day-Panama

On This Day In …
1776 --- Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet "Common Sense," setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. Although little used today, pamphlets were an important medium for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries.
1788 --- Beside a long tidal river or in American Indian-speak, Quinnehtukqut, is Connecticut, the state that entered the United States of America this day. Hartford, the capital of Connecticut ... and of the insurance industry ... boasts having the oldest newspaper, "Hartford Courant", which has been publishing since 1764. Many of the state’s symbols have been there as long, if not longer: state fossil: eubrontes giganteus; bird: American robin; flower: mountain laurel; tree: white oak; animal: sperm whale; mineral: garnet; shellfish: Eastern oyster; insect: praying mantis; hero: Nathan Hale. Other symbols came later: song: "Yankee Doodle" and ship: USS Nautilus. Nicknamed the Nutmeg State, Connecticut, the fifth state, also has an official designation: the Constitution State. Easy to figure out: In the 1630s, the English settlements along the tidal river gathered together to form the Connecticut Colony and wrote the first constitution in the new world, "Fundamental Orders". Connecticut’s motto: He who transplanted still sustains, or in Latin-speak: Qui transtulit sustinet.

1793 --- Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first successful balloon flight in the United States on this day in 1793. Blanchard’s balloon, filled with hydrogen, took off from Philadelphia, PA, soared to 5,800 feet and eventually wound up some 15 miles away, in Woodbury,

New Jersey. President George Washington was in Philadelphia for the event, along with Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, Paul Revere, John Adams and other bigwigs. Just before takeoff, the President slipped Blanchard a note. The letter was intended to allay the fears and suspicions of local farmers who saw Blanchard drop out of the sky. Rumor has it that Jean-Pierre had a copilot helping him on that historic flight: a little black dog.

1838 --- The first Flea Circus in the U.S. opened at 187 Broadway in New York City.

1863 --- The world's first underground railway, London's Metropolitan Railway, officially opened. It was opened to the public the following day.
1894 --- The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company put the first battery-operated switchboard into operation in Lexington, MA.

1902 --- New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.

1951 --- The United Nations headquarters officially opened in New York City.

1965 --- The James Bond movie "Goldfinger," which features the suave British super-spy driving an Aston Martin Silver Birch DB5 sports car, opens in theaters across the U.S. Aston Martins would go on to appear in a number of other Bond films.
1968 --- The Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon. It was the last of America's unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.

1969 --- “I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye is #1 on the charts.

1972 --- Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking to reporters by telephone from the Bahamas, said a purported biography of him by Clifford Irving was a fake. Irving and his wife had received a

$750,000 advance from the McGraw-Hill publishing house for the book. Clifford Irving was eventually imprisoned and ordered to repay the advance, plus damages.

1973 --- Mick Jagger was refused a Japanese visa because of a 1969 drug bust. The event halted the Rolling Stones' plan to tour the Orient.

1977 --- Super Bowl XI (at Pasadena): Oakland Raiders 32, Minnesota Vikings 14. John Matuszak and the Raiders defense kept Vikings QB Fran Tarkenton busy all day. MVP: Raiders’ WR Fred Biletnikoff. Tickets: $20.00.
1986 --- Kodak got out of the instant camera business after 10 years. A nasty court battle didn’t go their way. The court claimed that Kodak copied Polaroid patents. Sixteen million camera owners were offered free stock, coupons or a replacement camera.
1995 --- Russian cosmonaut Valeri Poliakov, 51, completed his 366th day in outer space aboard the Mir space station, breaking the record for the longest continuous time spent in outer space.
2003 --- Archaeologists announced that they had found five more chambers in the tomb of Qin Shihuang, China's first emperor. The rooms were believed to cover about 750,000 square feet.
2006 --- "The Phantom of the Opera" became the longest-running show in Broadway history, surpassing "Cats," which ran for 7,485 performances.

2007 --- Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone—a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features—at the Macworld convention in San Francisco. Jobs, dressed in his customary jeans and black mock turtleneck, called the iPhone a "revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone." When it went on sale in the United States six months later, on June 29, amidst huge hype, thousands of customers lined up at Apple stores across the country to be among the first to purchase an iPhone.

Birthdays
Richard M Nixon/37^th President
J K Simmons
Judith Krantz
Bart Starr
Joan Baez
Dick Enberg
Jimmy Page
David Johansen
Crystal Gayle
Joseph B Strauss
Simone de Beauvoir
Kenny Clarke
Gypsy Rose Lee
Fernando Lamas
Bob Denver
Dave Matthews