Thursday January 16, 2014

• 16^th Day of 2013 / 349 Remaining
• 63 Days Until The First Day of Spring

• Sunrise:7:23
• Sunset:5:16
• 9 Hours 53 Minutes of Daylight

• Moon Rise:6:11pm
• Moon Set: 7:23am
• Moon’s Phase: 100 %

• 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:10:14am
• Low:4:33am/5:10pm

• Rainfall
• This Year:2.12
• Last Year:13.36
• Average Year to Date:11.45

• Holidays
• Appreciate a Dragon Day
• National Nothing Day
• Religious Freedom Day
• Prohibition Remembrance Day
• Bean Day (Jan 16-17, 2014) Northarvest Bean Growers Association
• National Fig Newton Day
• Hot & Spicy International Food Day

• World Religion Day
• Haru-No-Yabuiri-Japan
• John Chilembwe Day-Malawi
• National Day of Peace-El Salvador
• Martyr’s Day-Benin
• Winter Festival-Russia

• On This Day In …
• 1547 --- Ivan IV (popularly known as "Ivan the Terrible") was crowned czar of Russia.

• 1759 --- The British Museum opened.

• 1769 --- A riot occurred at the Haymarket Theatre in London, when a 'magician' did not show up to perform. He had claimed he would get into a quart tavern bottle "and there sing several songs."

• 1866 --- Mr. Everett Barney patented the all-metal screw clamp skate. Remember those? They would clamp on to the edges of the soles of shoes and you tightened them with a key. With the advent of athletic shoes, there was no place to clamp the skates so the clamp skate disappeared.
  

  

• 1868 --- William Davis, a Detroit, Michigan fish dealer, received a patent for a refrigerator car ('ice box on wheels'). He also designed the first refrigerated railway car.
  

  

• 1883 --- The United States Civil Service Commission was established as the Pendleton Act went into effect. Today’s the day to hug a postal worker, for one.

• 1919 --- The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.

• 1920 --- Prohibition began in the U.S., which banned the sale of all alcoholic beverages. Gangsters flourished, importing and producing bootleg alcohol, and Americans drank more than ever. Prohibition was finally repealed in 1933. The end of the 'noble experiment.'
  

  

• 1925 --- Leon Trotsky was dismissed as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of the USSR.

• 1932 --- Duke Ellington and his Orchestra recorded "It Don't Mean a Thing."

• 1938 --- Benny Goodman and his band, plus a quartet, brought the sound of jazz to Carnegie Hall in New York City. When asked how long an intermission he wanted, he quipped, “I don’t know. How much does Toscanini get?”

• 1944 --- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.

• 1957 --- Three B-52's made the first nonstop, around the world flight by jet planes, taking off from Castle Air Force Base in California. The trip took 45 hours and 19 minutes.

• 1957 --- The Cavern Club opened for business in Liverpool, England. The rock club was just a hangout for commoners. Then, things changed -- big time. It all started in the early 1960s when four kids from the neighborhood popped in to jam. They, of course, turned out to be The Beatles.
  

  

• 1961 --- Mickey Mantle signed a contract which made him the highest paid baseball player in the American League. ‘The Commerce Comet’ stepped up to the plate for $75,000 for the 1961 season. Over in the National League, Willie ‘Say Hey’ Mays, was making more money than any baseball player. He had a contract for $85,000.

• 1964 --- Hello Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatre in New York City. Carol Channing starred in the role of Mrs. Dolly Levi. The musical was an adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s play, The Matchmaker. The show, with an unforgettable title song, was hailed

  

  by critics as the “...possible hit of the season.” It was possible, all right. Hello Dolly! played for 2,844 performances. And, it returned to Broadway in the 1990s, again starring Carol Channing.

• 1969 --- Two manned Soviet Soyuz spaceships became the first vehicles to dock in space and transfer personnel.

• 1970 --- Seven-time Golden Glove-winning center fielder Curt Flood of the St. Louis Cardinals files suit in a New York federal court against Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the presidents of the American
  and National Leagues and all 24 teams in the Major League Baseball (MLB) organization.

• 1976 --- The album, Frampton Comes Alive, was released by Herb Alpert’s A&M Records. The double LP soon reached the top spot of the album charts and stayed perched there for 17 weeks. It sold 19 million copies in its first year in the record racks.

• 1979 --- Faced with an army mutiny and violent demonstrations against his rule, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the leader of Iran since 1941, is forced to flee the country. Fourteen days later, the

  

  Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the Islamic revolution, returned after 15 years of exile and took control of Iran.

• 1980 --- Paul McCartney was jailed in Tokyo for possession of a half pound of marijuana. He spent ten days behind bars before being kicked-out of the country by Japanese authorities. The remainder of his tour was canceled.
  

  

• 1985 --- Leonard Nimoy, who roamed among the stars in the Star Trek TV series and movies, got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Live long and prosper, Mr. Spock.

• 1991 --- At midnight in Iraq, the United Nations deadline for the Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait expires, and the Pentagon prepares to commence offensive operations to forcibly eject Iraq from its five-month occupation of its oil-rich neighbor. At 4:30 p.m. EST, the first fighter aircraft were launched from Saudi Arabia and off U.S. and

  

  British aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf on bombing missions over Iraq. All evening, aircraft from the U.S.-led military coalition pounded targets in and around Baghdad as the world watched the events transpire in television footage transmitted live via satellite from Baghdad and elsewhere. At 7:00 p.m., Operation Desert Storm, the code-name for the massive U.S.-led offensive against Iraq, was formally announced at the White House.

• 1992 --- Officials of the government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war. At least 75,000 people were killed during the fighting.

• 1996 --- Jimmy Buffett’s sea plane Hemisphere Dancer was shot at by Jamaican police who mistook him for a drug smuggler. U2’s Bono was in the plane with Buffett at the time. Jimmy wrote a song about the incident, Jamaica Mistaica, that appears on the album Banana Wind.
  

  

• 1998 --- Three federal judges secretly granted Kenneth Starr authority to probe whether U.S. President Clinton or Vernon Jordan urged Monica Lewinsky to lie about her relationship with Clinton.

• 2003 --- The space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven blasted off from Cape Canaveral. (The shuttle broke up during its return descent on Feb. 1, killing everyone on board.)
  

  

• 2006 --- Africa's first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was sworn in as Liberia's president.
  

  

• Birthdays
• Ethel Merman
• Marilyn Horne
• A J Foyt
• Ronnie Milsap
• Laura Schlessinger
• John Carpenter
• Debbie Allen
• Sade’ (Adu)
• Kate Moss
• Dizzy Dean
• Fulgencio Batista
• Andre Michelin
• Susan Sontag