• January 17, 1929 – Popeye the Sailor first appeared in Thimble Theatre Cartoon
• 1916 – The Professional Golfer’s Association of America was founded.
• 1955 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, was launched
• 1966 – The Palomares (Spain) Hydrogen accident took place, involving two US airplanes and four hydrogen bombs took place.
• If you were born on January 17th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 26th (prior year)

The business of the American people is bussiness.
– President Calvin Coolidge, in a 1925 speech

If you want to be successful you have to jump, there’s no way around it. If you’re safe, you’ll never soar.
– Steve Harvey

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
– Benjamin Franklin

We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possible happen, to live beyond our fear – think about that, and help us. Help lift us up, help us fight this fight to change – transform – this country in a fundamental way.
This chance won’t come around again.
– Michelle Obama

My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.
– Zooey Deschanel

Self esteem comes from doing something and accomplishing something.
– Shari Lewis

As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of Others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
– Benjamin Franklin

You are never too old to reinvent yourself.
– Steve Harvey

Vote early and vote often.
– Al Capone

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
– Vidal Sassoon

A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem.
– Found online

1706 – Ben Franklin ‘The First American’ was born.

1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew became the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle. During this voyage, Cook and his crew aboard the HMS Resolution encountered many challenges, including icy conditions, storms, and scurvy. Despite these challenges, they made several important discoveries, including the first known European sighting of the eastern coast of Australia and several islands in the Pacific. Cook’s voyage below the Antarctic Circle was an important milestone in the history of exploration. It helped to increase European knowledge about the Southern Ocean and the lands and peoples that it contained.

1871 – Andrew Hallikie was granted a patent (US #110,971) for San Francisco’s cable car system.

1929 – From the Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Edwin Hubble showed that the universe was expanding.

January 17, 19** Birthday (fictional) Kent ‘Doctor Fate’ Nelson, DC Comics

1946 – The United Nations Security Council held its 1st meeting

1949 – The Goldbergs, formerly a radio show, debuted on CBS

1950 – During the Great Brink’s Robbery, eleven thieves stole more than $2 million from an armored car company’s offices in Boston. They were all caught later.

1954 – Jacques Cousteau’s 1st network telecast aired on CBS’s Omnibus

1966 – There was an accident involving a mid-air refueling operation off the coast of Spain. 4 thermonuclear weapons were dropped in the process each with a yield of 70 kilotons or more (equal to 70 thousand tons of TNT) but none of them exploded.

1976 – #1 Hit January 17, 1976 – January 23, 1976: Barry Manilow – I Write the Songs

1983 – Frontline debuted on PBS.

1984 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws, in a 5-4 decision.

1986 – Iron Eagle, The Caln of the Cave Bear, Troll and Heathcliff: The Movie were released in theaters

1987 – #1 Hit January 17, 1987 – January 23, 1987: Gregory Abbott – Shake You Down

1994 (Earthquake) A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit Northridge, California.

1997 – Metro, Beverly Hills Ninja, Kolya and Albino Alligator were released in theaters.

1998 – #1 Hit January 17, 1998 – January 30, 1998: Savage Garden – Truly Madly Deeply

1998 – Matt Drudge broke the story of the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair on his website, The Drudge Report.

2003 – Kangaroo Jack debuted in theaters.

2009 – #1 Hit January 17, 2009 – February 6, 2009: Lady Gaga featuring Colby O’Donis – Just Dance

2011 – Piers Morgan Tonight, replacing Larry King Live, debuted on CNN.

2012 – Food Network personality Paula Deen revealed that she has Diabetes type 2.

January 17, 2014 – Cloud 9 aired on The Disney Channel

2015 – #1 Hit January 17, 2015 – April 24, 2015: Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk

On the scale from absolute zero to absolute hot we are actually closer to zero. On a universal scale we are cold.

Bender from Futurama was named after John Bender from “The Breakfast Club”.

There was a knock on the the door. “Who’s that?” I asked.” “Open up, it’s me.” I opened the door. You know what? It WAS me.

The Capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis is Basseterre

“I am Spartacus.” – The extras in Spartacus #moviequotes

The Soviet Union national ice hockey team participated nine times in the Winter Olympics and won seven gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal.

Biggest film of 1984: Ghostbusters (Comedy) earned ~ $242,000,000

Ray Charles – Real Name: Ray Charles Robinson

We invented the wheel, built the pyramids, discovered electricity and landed on the moon, but still haven’t found a way to stop accidentally biting the inside of your mouth when you least expect it.

All characters on The Simpsons have 4 fingers except for God, who has 5.

Adamantium is the strongest metal in the Marvel Universe. Vibranium is more versatile.

The older I get, the more I relate to Squidward.

A girl and her boyfriend went to a costume party as a barcode. They were an item.

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• The first ‘Modern Novel’ was published in 1605; The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes, in Madrid, Spain. About 500 million copies have been printed.
• 1920 – The League of Nations held its first council meeting in Paris, France.
• 1944 – Dwight Eisenhower assumed command of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe).
• 1991 – The Gulf War began.
• If you were born on January 16th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 25th (prior year)

Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.
– James May

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they’d be up here on stage and I’d be out there watching them.
– Ethel Merman

It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up.
– Dizzy Dean

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. A better state of one’s feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one’s self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same.
– Susan Sontag

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick – geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour… It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.
– James May

We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.
– Susan Sontag

I ain’t what I used to be, but who the hell is?
– Dizzy Dean

What people say isn’t going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
– Kate Moss

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
– Sade

1219 & 1362 – St. Marcellus Floods or Grote Mandrenke (Great Drowning of Men), Netherlands. Over 25,000 people drowned in 1362 and 25,000 in 1219.

1547 – Ivan the Terrible crowned himself 1st Tsar of Moscow.

1581 – England’s  Act of Persuasions passed in 1581 raised the fine that recusants, who refused to submit to established authority,  had to pay a fine/tax and allowed recusants to be imprisoned. The English Parliament passed several laws that restricted Roman Catholicism practice in England, but it did not outlaw it entirely. During the reign of Elizabeth I, England was a Protestant country, and the English Parliament passed several laws that sought to suppress the practice of Catholicism. These laws included the Act of Supremacy of 1558, which declared Elizabeth the supreme governor of the Church of England, and the Act of Uniformity of 1559, which required all clergy to use the Book of Common Prayer in their services. The English Parliament also passed a number of laws that imposed fines and other penalties on Catholics who practiced their religion openly, or who assisted priests in their ministry. Despite these laws, many Catholics continued to practice their religion secretly in England, and there were periodic persecutions of Catholics throughout Elizabeth’s reign.

However, the Catholic Church was not outlawed in England, and Catholics were not prevented from practicing their religion altogether.

1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid, Spain.

1776 – The U.S. Continental Congress approved the enlistment of free men for the rebellion.

1894 – Theodore Witte of Chilliwack, British Columbia, was issued a U.S. patent (#512930) for a “Puttying-Tool” (the first caulking gun)

1920 – The 18th Amendment, Prohibition began, and alcoholic beverages were made illegal in the United States. (Effective one year later)

1936 – The first photo finish camera was installed at a US racetrack at Hialeah, Florida.

1939 – The Superman newspaper comic strip debuted.

1941 – War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron, The Tuskegee Airmen, for black cadets.

1964 – Broadway Show – Hello, Dolly! (Musical) January 16, 1964, starring Carol Channing

1976 – The Donny and Marie musical variety show premiered on ABC.

1984 – Paul and Linda McCartney were arrested in Barbados for possession of marijuana.

January 16, 1986 – The Apple Macintosh Plus was released.

1988 – #1 Hit January 16, 1988 – January 22, 1988: George Harrison – Got My Mind Set On You

January 16, 19** Birthday (fictional) Wally West, Flash, DC Comics

1991 – All major television networks were pre-empted with Gulf War coverage right after evening news broadcasts.

1995 – Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, which starred Kevin Sorbo and Michael Hurst premiered.

1998 – Star Kid, Fallen, Hard Rain, Half Baked and Pretty Village, Pretty Flame were released in theaters.

1999 – #1 Hit January 16, 1999 – January 29, 1999: Brandy – Have You Ever

2004 – Along Came Polly debuted in theaters.

2009 – Paul Blart: Mall Cop debuted in theaters.

Obi-Wan Kenobi probably stank like a desert hobo when Luke first met him living on Tatooine.

I don’t think I’m a robot, but maybe that’s just part of my programming.

A diamond is just a lump of carbon that a South African mining cartel has convinced us is valuable.

US President #17 Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) impeached to little effect.

Don’t get your ambitions mixed up with your capabilities. #LifeProTip

Woody Allen – Real Name: Allen Konigsberg

If you shout, “I’m totally crazy,” people will think you’re crazy. If you shout, “I’m totally sane,” people will also think you’re crazy.

Because 1800 was not a leap year, John Adams served one fewer day as president than all other one-termers.

Lord Acton’s famous quote ‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ is immediately followed by ‘Great men are almost always bad men’.

A group of Asteroids is called a Belt.

Just for the giggles: Move every old person in the US to Ohio and rename Ohio as Ol’hio.

Bae – “before anyone else”

If there had been a fire going in the fireplace when the House was flooded with letters, Harry Potter would have ended very differently.

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• 1559 – Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London
• 1947 – The body of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles. The killer was never found. #BlackDahliaMystery
• 1967 – The inaugural Super Bowl was simulcast on CBS and NBC.
• 1943 – The construction of The Pentagon in Washington DC was completed.
• 2001 – Wikipedia went online.
• If you were born on January 15th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 24th (prior year)

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk
Are always the first to attack their neighbors.
~ Molière

In any country when you throw something in somebody’s face, it’s disrespectful.
– Pitbull

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
– Edward Teller

I don’t like to cry in public, unless I’m getting paid for it.
– Andrea Martin

Don’t be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.
– Pitbull

It’s National Hat Day, because in 1797, the 1st top hat was worn, by John Etherington in London.

1759 – The British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, opened. It houses a collection of art and artifacts from around the world. It is one of the oldest museums in the world and has a collection of more than 8 million objects. The museum was founded in 1753 and was originally located in Montagu House, a mansion in Bloomsbury. It has been located in its current building on Great Russell Street in London since 1759. The British Museum is home to a wide range of artifacts and artworks from different cultures and periods, including ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art and artifacts, as well as collections of art and artifacts from other parts of the world, including Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The museum is free to enter and is a popular tourist attraction in London, attracting millions of visitors each year.

1861 – Elisha Otis patented the Steam elevator.

1863 – Woodpulp paper was first used in the US for a printed newspaper by the Boston Morning Herald of Boston.

1870 – The Donkey was 1st used as a symbol of the Democratic Party, in Harper’s Weekly, drawn by Thomas Nast.

1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, was incorporated in Atlanta.

1895 – Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake” premiered in St. Petersburg.

1919 – The Boston Molasses Disaster – a huge vat of molasses broke open at the Purity Distilling Company and flooded a Boston neighborhood. 21 were killed.

1936 – The first building to be covered entirely in glass, two stories built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, was completed in Toledo, Ohio.

1951 – The US Supreme Court ruled that “clear and present danger” of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest.

1955 – The Benny Hill Show debuted on the BBC

1967 – The inaugural Super Bowl was simulcast on CBS and NBC. The National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas City Chiefs 35 – 10.

1967 – The Rolling Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, and did not sing “Let’s Spend Some time Together” as planned.

1969 – The first docking of two manned spacecraft took place between the Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5.

1972 – #1 Hit January 15, 1972 – February 11, 1972: Don McLean – American Pie

1974 – Happy Days debuted on ABC.

1975 – Space Mountain opened at Disney World (Florida)

1977 – #1 Hit January 15, 1977 – January 21, 1977: Leo Sayer – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

1977 – The Coneheads debuted on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Also, Bill Murray joined the cast of SNL, replacing Chevy Chase

1978 – Super Bowl XII aired on CBS, the first night-time Super Bowl

1981 – Hill Street Blues premiered on NBC.

1983 – #1 Hit January 15, 1983 – February 4, 1983: Men at Work – Down Under

1983 – Thom Syles kept a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours.

1988 – Jimmy ‘The Greek’ Snyder made a racist remark about black athletes – He said that the black athlete was “bred to be the better athlete because, this goes all the way to the Civil War when … the slave owner would breed his big woman so that he would have a big black kid.”

1993 – Body of Evidence, Alive, Man Bites Dog and Nowhere to Run were released in theaters.

1999 – Varsity Blues, At First Sight, Virus and In Dreams were released in theaters.

2000 – #1 Hit January 15, 2000 – January 28, 2000: Christina Aguilera – What a Girl Wants

2001 – Bob The Builder premiered on Nick Jr.

2001- Wikipedia debuted online.

2009 – US Airways flight 1549 landed safely in the Hudson River, NY, thanks to Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger.

2010 – The Book of Eli & The Spy Next Door debuted in theaters.

#1 Hit January 15, 2022 – February 4, 2022: Easy on Me – Adele

Considering how there’s no traces of humans in the film, the Lion King could be set in any era. It could be the bronze age, 21st century or a cyborg future where humanity has gone extinct.

Whenever Aladdin lies, you’ll notice the feather on his turban falls in his face.

Buddy Holly – Real Name: Charles Hardin

A group of Larks is called a Exaltation or Ascension.

You know that your game of monopoly starts to escalate when someone asks for the game instructions.

Joe Francis, founder and CEO of Girls Gone Wild, filed bankruptcy and fled the US to Mexico in order to avoid paying an outstanding gambling debt to Steve Wynn and the subsequent arrest warrant for failure to pay.

TV Quotes… “Yada, yada, yada” (various) on “Seinfeld”

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues #10 – Cleanliness.

We had a quiet dinner, except for the celery of course.

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” – Jennifer Cavilleri Barrett – (Ali MacGraw) #moviequotes

In the year 4567 AD we will have the 12/3/4567 day.

“The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either.’” – Ricky Gervais

The first 11 digits of pi’s decimal places are the international phone number of someone in San Francisco.

“One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can’t travel in space, you can’t go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions—what are you going to land on—one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That’s dialectic physics.” – Photojournalist in Apocalypse Now #moviequotes

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• 1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.
• 1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica killed more than 1,000 people.
• NBC’s Today Show premiered in 1952, hosted by Dave Garroway.
• 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
• 1967 – The Human Be-In began in San Francisco, at California’s Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
• If you were born on January 14th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 23rd (prior year)

1. The ones who learn by reading.
2. The ones who learn by observation.
3. The ones who have to touch the fire to learn it’s hot.

Which are you?

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.
– Albert Schweitzer

Dreams don’t have deadlines. I’m thinking of doing beggir and better things and having more fun with it.
– LL Cool J

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.
– Mark Antony

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do. It’s not about being perfect, it’s not about sounding absolutely correct, it’s not about what goes on in a computer. It’s about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].
– Dave Grohl

Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.
– Hal Roach

The only way out of today’s misery is for people to become worthy of each other’s trust.
– Albert Schweitzer

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.”
– Julian Bond

I’m not allergic to fashion. I’m just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they’re going to a funeral or to court.
– Dave Grohl

1690 – The Clarinet was invented in Nurnberg, Germany. The clarinet is a musical instrument that belongs to the woodwind family. It is a single-reed instrument, producing sound when a single reed vibrates against the player’s lips. The clarinet is a popular instrument in various musical genres, including classical, jazz, and folk music. But there is some debate about the exact origins of the clarinet, but it is generally believed to have originated in Nuremberg, Germany. It is thought to have evolved from earlier single-reed instruments, such as the chalumeau, which was popular in the Baroque period. The clarinet as we know it today was developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and has undergone several minor design changes.

1794 – Elizabeth Hog Bennett became the first woman in the US to successfully give birth to a child by a Cesarean section. Her husband, Dr. Jesse Bennett operated.

1878 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that race separation on trains is unconstitutional

1914 – Henry Ford opened his assembly-line Model-T factory

1950 – #1 Hit January 14, 1950 – February 10, 1950: The Andrews Sisters – I Can Dream, Can’t I

1952 – NBC’s Today Show debuted.

1954 – NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio married actress Marilyn Monroe.

1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.

1956 – #1 Hit January 14, 1956 – February 17, 1956: Dean Martin – Memories Are Made Of This

1967 – The Summer of Love took place, starting at San Francisco’s ‘The Human Be-In.’

January 14, 1972 (fiction) Liberty 1 went through a Hasslein Curve, Planet of the Apes, Film

1972 – NBC’s Sanford and Son debuted on NBC.

1973 – The Miami Dolphins complete the first undefeated season by winning Super Bowl VII.

1973 – Elvis Presley’s Aloha From Hawaii Special, was seen by over 1 billion viewers. Since it was on the same day as Super Bowl VII, it was shown later (April 3, 1973) in the US.

1978 – #1 Hit January 14, 1978 – February 3, 1978: Player – Baby Come Back

1978 – Fantasy Island premiered on CBS

January 14, 1981 Birthday (fictional) Cordelia Chase, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, TV

1981 – FCC ended limitation on TV commercials.

1989 – #1 Hit January 14, 1989 – January 20, 1989: Bobby Brown – My Prerogative

1990 – The Simpsons premiered on Fox.

1999 – Broadway Show – Fosse (Dance Musical) January 14, 1999

2000 – My Dog Skip debuted in theaters.

2005 – Coach Carter & Elektra debuted in theaters.

2006 – #1 Hit January 14, 2006 – January 20, 2006: D4L – Laffy Taffy

2011 – The Green Hornet debuted in theaters.

The “/” when you write and/or also stands for and/or.

The modern version of the Hippocratic Oath was written in 1964 by a man named Louis Lasagna.

The original drawings of Snoopy were based on Charles Schulz’s childhood dogs, Snooky and Spike.

Using the word ‘eloquent’ indicates that you are eloquent. #eloquent

“All you’ve got is lifetime… go!” #songlyrics

The stars of “Rebel Without a Cause” all met an untimely death. James Dean died in a car crash, Natalie Wood drowned, and Sal Mineo was stabbed.

“Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” Lady Lou (Mae West) #moviequotes

“I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial doing anything my radio advised.” #songlyrics

Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.

In an alternate universe, this is the most popular post of all time!

Statistically, the chance of something statistically unlikely occurring at some point, is very high.

The only state that doesn’t contain any of the letters in the word “mackerel” is Ohio.

Sundance Kid – Real Name: Henry Longbaugh

Butch Cassidy – Real Name: Robert Leroy Parker

“I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.” – George Carlin

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• 1910 – Lee De Forest performed the fitsrt public radio broadcast in New York City.
• 1966 – Robert C. Weaver was appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, becoming the first African American Cabinet member.
• 1968 – Johnny Cash performed at Folsom Prison in Folsom, California.
• If you were born on January 13th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 22nd (prior year)

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honor them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
– Sir Edmund Hillary

It’s not what you are in Hollywood – it’s what people think you are.
– Robert Stack

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you’re active in your community, there’s nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
– Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
– Edmund White

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful… Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don’t ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
– Robert Stack

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
– Nate Silver

1854 – US patent (#11062) for an accordion was issued to Anthony Faas of Philadelphia, Pa.

1863 – Thomas Crapper “invented” the portable toilet. Crapper is often credited with inventing the toilet because he was a successful and well-known businessman who significantly improved the design of toilets and other plumbing fixtures. However, he did not invent the toilet itself. The history of the toilet dates back thousands of years, and many innovations and improvements have been made to the basic design over time. The modern toilet, with a separate water tank and flushing mechanism, was actually developed in the late 19th century by Thomas Twyford, who is considered the true inventor of the modern toilet.

1888 – National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, D.C.

1930 – Disney’s ‘Mickey Mouse’ newspaper strip first appeared.

1906 – The 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American)

1959 – Motown Records is formed in Detroit.

1962 – #1 Hit January 13, 1962 – January 26, 1962: Chubby Checker – The Twist

1962 – Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scored 73 points against Chicago

1966 – Tabitha was born on ABC’s Bewitched. The episode titled, “And Then There Were Three.”

1967 – US patent (#3359678) was issued to the Wham-O Mfg. Company for their improvement of the Frisbee.

1969 – Dick York collapsed on the set of Bewitched and is rushed to the hospital. He resigned from the show due to his persistent back injury (started in 1959) and was replaced by Dick Sargent.

1978 – United States Food and Drug Administration began requiring all blood donations to be labeled “paid” or “volunteer” donors.

1986 – Johnny Cash performed his famous Folsom County Jail show.

1995 – Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, Higher Learning and Demon Knight were released in theaters.

2005 – US Surgeon General, Richard H. Carmona, issued a national health advisory to warn the public about the risks of breathing indoor radon.

2010 – Beauty and the Beast (3D) was released in theaters.

January 13, 2012 – Frenemies aired on The Disney Channel

#1 Hit January 23, 2021 – March 19, 2021: Drivers License – Olivia Rodrigo

Shakespeare made up the name “Jessica” for his play Merchant of Venice.

Barry Manilow wrote McDonald’s “You Deserve a Break Today” jingle.

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” – Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) #moviequotes

Characters in the Star Wars universe are completely unaware of the amazing soundtrack that accompanies the most important moments in their lives.

Bugs Bunny’s accent is an equal blend of the Bronx and Brooklyn dialects.

“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!” – Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) in Wizard of Oz, The Wizard of Oz, 1939

“My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)

The Scary Statistic: Accidental Injury odds: 1-in-36

What to do: Don’t do anything, ever. Sit in a non-folding chair.

“Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect… But tell me the truth.” – Shel Silverstein

Biggest film of 1985: Back to the Future (Action/Adventure) earned ~ $212,000,000

Billy The Kid – Real Name: Henry McCarty

Useless Pronunciation: P as in phishing

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• 1991 – Congress authorized the use of military force against Iraq.
• 1932 – Hattie W. Caraway (D, Arkansas) was the first female United States Senator.
• 2004 – The world’s largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, made its maiden voyage.
• If you were born on January 12th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 21st (prior year)

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ~
– Edmund Burke

I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you.
-Hal 5000, in 2001: A Space Odyssey

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.
– Swami Vivekananda

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
– Kirstie Alley

They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.
– Tex Ritter

How could I feel like a hero when only five men in my platoon of 45 survived, when only 27 men in my company of 250 managed to escape death or injury?
– Ira Hayes

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
– Jack London

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
– Edmund Burke

1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society was formed in London. It is one of the oldest aerospace professional societies in the world. Its membership includes a wide range of professionals working in the aerospace industry, including engineers, pilots, designers, and researchers. The society is headquartered in London and has branches around the world. The Royal Aeronautical Society’s mission is to promote the study and practice of aeronautics and to encourage the exchange of information and ideas among its members and the broader aerospace community. To achieve this, the society organizes various events, including conferences, lectures, and workshops, and publishes various technical journals and magazines. The society also provides a range of professional development and networking opportunities for its members.

1888 – Schoolhouse Blizzard, USA

1906 – Dow Jones closed over 100 for the 1st time.

1926 – Original Sam ‘n’ Henry premiered on WGN (Chicago) radio and was later renamed Amos ‘n’ Andy in 1928.

January 12, 1957 Birthday (fictional) Tow Mater, Cars, Pixar/Disney, Film

1959 – Motown Records was formed in Detroit.

1963 – #1 Hit January 12, 1963 – January 25, 1963: Steve Lawrence – Go Away Little Girl

1965 – Hullabaloo premiered on NBC.

1966 – ABC’s Batman television series premiered.

1967 – Dr. James Bedford was the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. He is still frozen at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.

1971 – All In The Family aired for the first time on CBS

1974 – #1 Hit January 12, 1974 – January 18, 1974: Steve Miller Band – The Joker

1981 – Dynasty debuted on ABC

1990 – Internal Affairs was released in theaters.

1996 – Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Bio-Dome, Two if By Sea and Dunston Checks In were released in theaters.

January 12, 1997 Activated (fictional) HAL 9000 computer was activated on January 12, 1997. But in the film, HAL said that he was activated on January 12, 1992. #mandelaeffect? 2001: A Space Odyssey, Film

1997 – King Of The Hill made its premiere on FOX.

1998 – The game SuperBall! was played for the last time on The Price Is Right

2001 – Save the Last Dance debuted in theaters.

2001 – National Geographic Channel debuted American cable

2001 – Lizzie McGuire premiered on The Disney Channel

2001 – Downtown Disney opened to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.

2006 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day of the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, killed at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.

January 12, 2007 – Jump In! aired on The Disney Channel

2007 – Stomp the Yard, Alpha Dog & Primeval debuted in theaters.

2010 (Earthquake) Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killed over 200,000 people.

2014 – Broadway Show – Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Musical) January 12, 2014

#1 Hit January 12, 2019 – January 18, 2019: Halsey – Without Me

Joan Rivers – Real Name: Joan Molinsky

Eyelashes are supposed to prevent things from getting into your eyes but when I do have something in my eye, its always an eyelash. Pretty ‘eye’ronic.

More retailers should adopt the “leave a penny / take a penny” system. It is literally common cents.

Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

“I have to return some videotapes.” – Patrick Bateman, American Psycho #moviequotes

[This post was deleted because Neil’s bedroom was on fire]

When Jack Kirby left his prolific career at Marvel Comics to work at DC, he insisted on being assigned to “Jimmy Olsen,” their least popular series, so he wouldn’t take anyone’s job

The Capital of Vietnam is Hanoi

Putting socks to the washer is like sending soldiers to war. You know beforehand that not all of them are going to make it back.

“Hands Down” originated when a jockey, having secured the outcome, could afford to loosen the reigns and lower his hands before crossing the finish line.

Charlton Heston – Real Name: Charlton Carter

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.” – Marilyn Monroe

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• 1759 – First American life insurance company incorporated, founded by the Presbyterian Synod of Philadelphia.
• 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument was created. It became a National park in 1919.
• 1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
• If you were born on January 11th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 20th (prior year)

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
– Alexander Hamilton

I don’t care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do on stage and the joy that we bring to people.
– Clarence Clemons

I’m not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap anymore from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
– Carroll Shelby

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
– William James

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel

I learned my lesson after seeing what guys like TJ Lavin, Ty Pinney, Stephen Murray and Mikey went through. And honestly, I feel like I’m disrespecting them by not wearing a helmet while riding at this level. I wish kids would start appreciating life and realize how everything can change in that one split second just because you’re not going to wear a helmet.
– Scotty Cranmer

1693 (Earthquake) Sicily, Italy

1908 – The Grand Canyon National Monument was dedicated. It is one of the most famous natural landmarks in the United States and is visited by millions yearly. The Grand Canyon is a massive, steep-sided canyon carved over millions of years by the Colorado River. It is over 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide, and more than a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters) deep. The Grand Canyon National Monument was established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt to protect the area and its unique geological and ecological features. It was later designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Grand Canyon is home to various plant and animal life and is a popular destination for hikers, backpackers, and sightseers.

1922 – Leonard Thompson (1908-35) was the first person to receive an insulin injection as a treatment for diabetes.

1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announced the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

1935 – Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

1949 – It snowed in Los Angeles for the first time (that we know of)

1958 – #1 Hit January 11, 1958 – February 14, 1958: Danny & the Juniors – At The Hop

1964 – US Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., published the first governmental report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health.

1973 – Major League Baseball owners voted to approve of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.

January 11, 1991 Birthday (fictional) Claire Bennet, Heroes, TV

1995 – The WB Television Network was launched.

January 11, 2005 – The iPod Shuffle (1st generation) was released.

#1 Hit January 11, 2020 – January 17, 2020: Circles – Post Malone

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Billie Holiday – Real Name: Eleanora Fagan

“No one ever takes a photograph of something they want to forget.” – Sy Parrish in One Hour Photo #moviequotes

Buy artwork from students at colleges near you. You can get great stuff for cheap from new artists that are ecstatic to be acknowledged and make even a little money. Win-win!

“You got my homework finished, McFly? ” – Biff #moviequotes

The Seven Deadly Sins #2- Envy is wanting what others have, be it status, abilities, or possessions.

We are all just one hit away from being one hit wonders.

“And though I’ll think of you, I guess, until the day I die.. I think I miss you less and less as every day goes by.” #songlyrics

When the “a” in “a part” is a part of the word “apart” it means the opposite of “a part.”

The word “regnartsneve” is strange, but backwards it’s even stranger.

Iin Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, written around 1599, Caesar describes himself as being “as constant as the northern star”, though in Caesar’s time there was no constant northern star.

Biggest film of 1986: Top Gun (Action) earned ~ $180,000,000

The guitar solo in Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ was played by Eddie Van Halen.

It’s the 21st century… you can buy a jet on eBay, video chat with someone in China and sit in a self-driving car for hours, but you still can’t upgrade your cable package to include HBO unless you call to upgrade over the phone.

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• 1776 – “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine was published.
• 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
• 1878 – The first (Susan B. Anthony Woman) Woman’s Suffrage Amendment was offerd to congress by Senator Arlen A. Sargent of California.
• 1927 – Fritz Lang’s futuristic film Metropolis was released in Germany.
• 1946 – The United Nations’ General Assembly (51 countries) met for the first time in London.
• If you were born on January 10th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 19th (prior year)

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there are left the mountains.
– Robinson Jeffers

I was brought up on the books of The Wizard of Oz and my mother told me that these were great philosophies. It was a very simple philosophy, that everybody had a heart, that everybody had a brain, that everybody had courage. These were the gifts that are given to you when you come on this earth, and if you use them properly, you reach the pot at the end of the rainbow. And that pot of gold was a home. And home isn’t just a house or an abode, its people, people who love you and that you love. That’s a home.
– Ray Bolger

You can’t change the past so don’t let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you’ve got to want to.
– Pat Benatar

It’s great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it’s wonderful to think that we’ve turned a few people on to jazz over the years.
– Donald Fagen

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.
– Frank James

It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.
– Roy E. Disney

1863 – London’s Metropolitan, the world’s first underground passenger railway, opened.

1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. It is now part of ExxonMobil.

1899 – The US patent (#617592) was issued for an “Electric Device,” invented by David Misell, which was manufactured as the first tubular “Flash Light” by Conrad Hubert at his American Electrical Novelty and Manufacturing Company.

1901 – The first major discovery of oil in Texas was made at Spindletop, near Beaumont.

1920 – The League of Nations was established.

1927 – Fritz Lang’s Metropolis premiered in Germany.

1941 – Broadway Show – Arsenic and Old Lace (Play) January 10, 1941

1946 – The United Nations General Assembly met for the 1st time in London.

1949 – The 7-inch ’45’ PRM record was introduced, by RCA. The blue-colored vinyl played a promo in English on one side and Spanish on the other.

1953 – #1 Hit January 10, 1953 – February 13, 1953: Perry Como – Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes

1955 – Inherit the Wind opened on Broadway at the National Theater

1976 – #1 Hit January 10, 1976 – January 16, 1976: C. W. McCall – Convoy

1983 – Fraggle Rock premiered on HBO

1990 – Time Warner was formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.

1992 – The Hand That Rocks the Cradle was released in theaters.

1997 – Jackie Chan’s First Strike, Turbulence and The Relic were released in theaters.

1999 – The Sopranos debuted on HBO

Janury 10, 2006 – The Apple iMac was released.

2010 – FOX announced that Simon Cowell would depart from American Idol in May in order to launch a US version of X Factor in Fall 2011, also on FOX

“I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody.” – Terry Molloy (Marlon Brando) #moviequotes

I want hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.

A group of Hyenas is called a Cackle or Clan.

“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.” – Charlie Chaplin #moviequotes

The Capital of Saint Lucia is Castries

Shrek was originally a children’s book – and it came out in 1990.

You should go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.

Biggest film of 1987: 3 Men and a Baby (Comedy) earned ~ $168,000,000

Sushi was originally a preservation method for the fish. Only later did people begin to eat the rice.

Domestic cats kill between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and between 6.9 and 20.7 billion mammals each year in the United States

My dog is always following me into the bathroom or poking his head in. He must think watching each other go to the bathroom is a bonding thing.

Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure.

Until 1954, STOP signs featured black writing on a yellow background, but the invention of a red finish that resisted fading allowed for the standardization of the idea that “red means stop” across both traffic lights and signs.

I still have no idea where Cotton Eye Joe came from or where he is going.

Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

You could pretty much learn all there is to know about America by watching the entire run of The Simpsons.

“Three Men and a Baby” was actually a remake of a 1985 French film, 3 hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Cradle).

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• 1851 – Jean Foucault proved that Earth rotated on its axis.
• January 8, 2016 Birthday (fictional) Replicant Roy Batty, Blade Runner, Film
• 1982 – AT&T was broken up into 22 smaller companies, nicknamed ‘Baby Bells’.
• 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson proposed the ‘Fourteen Points for a Just Peace’.
• 1964 – President Lyndon Johnson announced the ‘War on Poverty’ during his State of the Union Address.
• If you were born on January 8th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 17th (prior year)

I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.

II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.

III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.

IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.

V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable government whose title is to be determined.

VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their goodwill, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.

VII. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act, the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.

VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.

IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.

X. The people of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous development.

XI. Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea, and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.

XII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.

XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.

XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
– Elvis Presley

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. – Stephen Hawking

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress.
– Nicholas Biddle

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
– Elvis Presley

You don’t have to be naked to look naked.
– Gypsy Rose Lee

The colored folks have been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin’ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
– Elvis Presley

An ancient Chinese curse runs, “May you live in interesting times.” Since the fall of the Roman Empire, there has rarely been more interesting times than these. Whenever history becomes unstable and destinies hang in the balance, then magicians and messiahs appear everywhere. Our own civilization has moved into an epoch of permanent crisis and upheaval, and we are beset with a plague of wizards. They serve a historic purpose, for whenever a society undergoes radical change, alternative spiritualities proliferate, and from among these, a culture will select a new world view.
– Peter J. Carroll

January 8, **** Birthday (fictional) Queen Hippolyta, Wonder Woman, DC Comics

1780 (Earthquake) Tabriz, Iran

1790 – George Washington gave the first ‘State of the Union’ message, urging the opening of the US Patent Office.

1815 – Andrew Jackson won the “Battle of New Orleans”

1828 – The Democratic Party of the United States was organized.

1835 – The United States’ official debt was $0.00.

1889 – Dr. Herman Hollerith received the 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine, technically this was the first computer patent!

1918 – Mississippi was the 1st state to ratify the 18th amendment (prohibition)

1963 – Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

1964 – US President Lyndon Johnson declared ‘War on Poverty’

1966 – #1 Hit January 8, 1966 – February 4, 1966: The Beatles – We Can Work It Out

1977 – #1 Hit January 8, 1977 – January 14, 1977: Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. – You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)

1987 – Dow Jones closed above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)

1996 – Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso was accidentally rammed by a barge and sank in Singapore Harbour. It was raised, and is now a museum in France.

2002 – President George W. Bush signed into law the bi-partisan No Child Left Behind Act.

2001 – #1 Hit January 8, 2011 – January 28, 2011: Bruno Mars – Grenade

January 8, 2016 Birthday (fictional) Replicant Roy Batty, Blade Runner, Film

Biggest film of 1988: Rain Man (Comedy) earned ~ $173,000,000

“I think the universe is on my side. Heaven and Earth have finally aligned. Days are good and that’s the way it should be.” #songlyrics

You just don’t see criminals on TV with pantyhose over their heads anymore.

Brass doorknob germs will be self-disinfected within 7 hours due to the anti-microbial property of brass.

Actors are “on” a TV show but “in” a movie.

I’ve used it for 16 years and, despite its crazy technological advances, never once have I dared to hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on Google Search. All this time and I still don’t feel lucky.

The song, “Old Time Rock n Roll” by Bob Seger, has become that old time rock n roll.

If something lucky happens to you, you shouldn’t buy a lottery ticket. The chances of both happening on the same day is lower than winning the lottery itself.

Doc Brown named his dog “Einstein” because Doc broke all of Einstein’s rules and thought Einstein was an idiot.

The metal part on a pencil is called a “ferrule.”

If you got your mouth stuck in a mousetrap, it would then be pronounced “mouth trap.”

The Capital of Yemen is Sanaa

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• January 7, 1934 – Flash Gordon, a Comic Strip, debuted
• 1927 -The first transatlantic telephone service was established between New York City and London.
• January 7, 1929 – Tarzan the Ape Man, a Comic Strip, debuted
• 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton began.
• If you were born on January 7th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 16th (prior year)

“Courage is always rewarded.”
– Kenny Loggins

“The whole country is full of enterprise. Our common schools are diffusing intelligence among the people and our industry is fast accumulating the comforts and luxuries of life. … It is not strange, however much it may be regretted, that such an exuberance of enterprise should cause some individuals to mistake change for progress and the invasion of the rights of others for national prowess and glory.”
– Millard Fillmore

“The public is never wrong.”
– Adolph Zukor

“I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.”
– Kenny Loggins

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
– Charles Addams

“A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that’s not what boats are built for.”
– Katie Couric

1608 – Fire destroyed the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia

1610 – Galileo Galilei made his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa,

1714 – The world’s first patent (#395) for a “Machine for Transcribing Letters” was granted in England by Queen Anne to Henry Mill. This first planned typewriter was never actually produced.

1830 – The 1st U.S. Railroad Station opened in Baltimore, MD

1927 – Commercial telephone service via radio began between New York and London.

1929 – Drawn by Hal Foster, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan comic strip 1st appeared

1929 – Buck Rogers, illustrated by Dick Calkins, appeared in newspaper comics.

1927 – The Harlem Globetrotters played their first game in Hinkley, Ill.

1948 – Thomas Mantell reported seeing a UFO over Kentucky.

1950 – #1 Hit January 7, 1950 – January 13, 1950: Gene Autry – Rudolph, The Red-nosed Reindeer

1962 – The Avengers premiered in ITV, in the UK

1966 – Gene Kiniski defeated long-time wrestling champ Lou Thesz to become NWA champion.

1975 – Broadway Show – Shenandoah (Musical) January 7, 1975

1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorized legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.

January 7, 1983 Birthday (fictional) Grant Ward, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., TV

1990 – The Leaning Tower of Piza was closed, citing safety concerns, and after some repairs, reopened on June 16, 2001.

1994 – Cabin Boy was released in theaters.

January 7, 2002 – The Apple iBook was released.

2004 – The Apprentice premiered on NBC

2012 – #1 Hit January 7, 2012 – February 3, 2012: LMFAO – Sexy and I Know It

January 7, 2092 Birthday (fictional) Ellen Ripley, Alien/s, Film

2015 – Two terroists attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo Magazine in Paris, killing twelve people, and wounding eleven others.

#1 Hit January 7, 2017 – January 20, 2017: The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk – Starboy

Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.

What’s the definition of a will? It’s a dead giveaway.

The term “blueprint” is from the 19th century technique for copying technical drawings using a blue dye.

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” – Mel Brooks

The palace of the parliament in Bucharest is the heaviest building in the world.

“No one knows what its like to feel these feelings, like I do… and I blame you!” #songlyrics

Thanks to Ghostbusters if some god asked me to think of a monster to destroy the world, I would immediately think of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

“Truth” is an anti-smoking campaign and “D.A.R.E.” is an antidrug campaign. #truthordare

“I swear, if I hadn’t promised Mother on her deathbed that I wouldn’t kill you, I would kill you!” #moviequotes

26 year old Kyle MacDonald was able to trade a single red paperclip all the way up to a house, using the “Beggir and Better” game strategy.

PJ Proby – Real Name: James Marcus Smith

With her marriage she got a new name and a dress. It was an emotional wedding. Even the cake was in tiers.

Romeo and Juliet is proof that communication is key in relationships.

If you tried your best to make the most ugly, unattractive and most ridiculous looking mash-up between a french maid and a velociraptor, it would probably look a lot like an ostrich.

The Capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is Kingstown

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• January 6, 1854 Birthday (fictional) Sherlock Holmes, Literature
• 1536 – The first European school of higher learning in the Americas, Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, was founded in Mexico City.
• 1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address:
  Freedom of speech
  Freedom of worship
  Freedom from want
  Freedom from fear
• 1952 – The Hallmark Hall of Fame (Hallmark Television Playhouse) television anthology series premiered.
• If you were born on January 6th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 15th (prior year)

In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world. The second is the freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want… everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear… anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
– Danny Thomas

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
– Khalil Gibran

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why.
– Danny Thomas

Nothing happens unless first, we dream.
– Carl Sandburg

If I’d stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
– Syd Barrett

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.
– Joan of Arc

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as an insult.
– Rowan Atkinson

1540 – King Henry VIII of England married Anne of Cleves.

1838 – Samuel Morse made the 1st public demonstration of the telegraph in New Jersey.

1839 – The Night of the Big Wind swept across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.

January 6, 1854 Birthday (fictional) Sherlock Holmes, Literature

1912 – New Mexico became the 47th state.

1930 – The first diesel-powered automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York

1941 – FDR gave his “4 Freedoms” speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear)

1957 – Elvis Presley made his 7th (and final) appearance on Ed Sullivan Show

January 6, 19** Birthday (fictional) Commissioner James Gordon, Batman, DC Comics

1973 – #1 Hit January 6, 1973 – January 26, 1973: Carly Simon – You’re So Vain

1973 – ABC’s Schoolhouse Rock debuted with Multiplication Rock

1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time began nearly four months early in the United States.

1979 – #1 Hit January 6, 1979 – February 9, 1979: Bee Gees – Too Much Heaven

1994 – Olympic Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked when Tonya Harding’s husband and bodyguard hired Shane Stant to break her legs. Kerrigan finished in second place, Harding in 8th for the event.

1995 – Houseguest was released in theaters.

1996 – US Northeast Blizzard of 1996

January 6, 2004 – The Apple iPod mini (1st generation) was released.

“Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus” = “Never tickle a sleeping dragon”

A group of Bloodhounds is called a Sute.

“Vodka Martini, shaken, not stirred.” – James Bond (Sean Connery) #moviequotes

“This is the city …” – Sgt. Joe Friday (Dragnet)

TV Quotes… “Yabba dabba do!” (Fred Flintstone) on “The Flintstones”

“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” #songlyrics

Dress well even for the small things- If you look good, you’ll feel good. Feel good, you’ll do well. Do well, you’ll succeed.

Audrey Hepburn – Real Name: Edda Hepburn Van Heemstra Ruston

In movies, they usually play the sound of thunder along with lightning – with no delay, regardless of how far away it is.

Hello Kitty has an identical twin sister named Mimmy.

A person carrying a personal memento of a loved one, such as a jewelry or photo, has no chance of returning alive. #moviecliches

If a pair of common housefly began reproduction in the month of April under optimal conditions, they could be progenitors of up to 191,010,000,000,000,000,000 flies by August.

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” – Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) in Casablanca, 1942

Biggest film of 1989: Batman (Action) earned ~ $251,000,000

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• 1914 – The Ford Motor Company announced an eight-hour workday and a “living wage” of at least $5 per day’s labor.
• 1957 – In a speech to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the establishment of the Eisenhower Doctrine, an anti-communist agenda.
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  You were likely conceived the week of… April 14th (prior year)

We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe.
– Jeane Dixon

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
– Marilyn Manson

We’re all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth ’til death. We travel between the eternities.
– Robert Duvall

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.
– Diane Keaton

If I lose, I lose. I’ll do it on my terms.
– Ed Rendell

You don’t have to give up to let go.
– Deadmau5

Never use money to measure wealth, son.
– Robert Duvall

Being in ‘Us Weekly’ does not make you famous.
– Bradley Cooper

1889 – The word hamburger first appeared in print in the Walla Walla Union, a Walla Walla, Washington, newspaper.

1905 – The National Association of Audubon Society incorporated.

1911 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the world’s third oldest and largest black fraternity, was founded at Indiana University

1933 – San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge construction began

1945 – Pepe LePew debuted in Warner Brother’s Odor-able Kitty

1949 – President Harry S Truman labeled his administration the “Fair Deal”

1957 – Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson retired rather than be traded to New York Giants

1971 – Former boxing heavyweight champion “Sonny” Liston’s (36) corpse found (he probably died Dec 30, 1970)

1991 – #1 Hit January 5, 1991 – January 18, 1991: Madonna – Justify My Love

1998 – Vandals decapitated Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid

1970 – All My Children premiered on ABC

1975 – Broadway Show – The Wiz (Musical) January 5, 1975

1980 – #1 Hit January 5, 1980 – January 18, 1980: KC and the Sunshine Band – Please Don’t Go

1991 – Blossom debuted on NBC

1995 – Daytime soap opera All My Children celebrated its 25th anniversary.

2008 – #1 Hit January 5, 2008 – March 14, 2008: Flo Rida featuring T-Pain – Low

Hating your partner’s ex’s or past experiences has a name- Retroactive Jealousy

“Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.” – Neil Gaiman

“Secret Asian Man” #misunderstoodlyrics

When converting numbers to words, the commas stay in the same position e.g. 1,234,567 = one million, two hundred and thirty-four thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven.

The Capital of Zambia is Lusaka

After Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar, and The Martian, “We need to go pick up Matt Damon” has become a movie genre.

Wal-Mart loses about $3 billion every year from theft or 1% of its $300 billion in revenue.

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

Desserts is Stressed spelled backward.

Pirate walks into a bar, bartender says, “Hey, did you know there’s a bounty on your head?” Pirate replies, “No, that’s just a napkin.”

There was a 1700s politician named John Strange, and his epitaph reads, “Here lies an honest lawyer, and that is Strange.”

The necktie evolved from a type of scarf worn by Croatian soldiers in the early 17th century.

VW has more syllables than Volkswagen.

“Would you believe…?” – Maxwell Smart (Get Smart) #tvquotes

When films refer to “The dawn of time” that literally means when time was invented by humans, so it probably wasn’t that long ago in the grand scheme of things.

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• 1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opened its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.
• 1903 – Thomas Edison’s team filmed the electrocution of a murdering elephant, Topsy, to show the dangers of Alternating Current electricity.
• 1959 – The USSR’s Luna 1 became the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
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  You were likely conceived the week of… April 13th (prior year)

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans, and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it’s wallpaper to them, it’s elevator music, it’s just the thing that’s playing in the background that helps them through their day.
-Michael Stipe

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
– Isaac Newton

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
– Isaac Newton

I think my basic viewpoint is that everything the left and right say about each other is true. And the reason it’s true is because they have so much in common.
– Bob Black

When Disneyland opened in 1955, it included a lingerie store with an exhibit on the history of the bra. It was hosted by an animatronic figure called “The Wizard of Bras”

Sometimes I wonder if my life is in shambles because of all the chain letters that I never forwarded to ten of my closest friends.

In the year 774, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded a “red crucifix” in the sky. Tree rings dated from that year all over the world show a spike in Carbon-14 levels. It is believed that the event was caused by a very strong solar flare, perhaps the strongest ever known.

China owns every panda in the world.

“Could you describe the ruckus, sir?” – Brian Johnson in The Breakfast Club #moviequotes

“Oh yeah. Lots of girls. Mick Jagger and I had a running tally going. Last I checked I was way ahead.” – Stan Lee #moviequotes

The housefly hums in the middle octave key of F.

Fraudulently using the 4-H club logo or name is a federal crime punishable by up to 6 months in prison.

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues #1 – Temperance.
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

“I repeat: this is not a drill. This is the Apocalypse. Please exit the hospital in an orderly fashion.” #moviequotes

Mickey Mouse has two nephews named Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse.

A group of Keys is called a ring.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.

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• 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
• 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch.
• 1938 – The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1993 – George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
• 2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
• If you were born on January 3rd,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 12th (prior year)

He who looks on a true friend looks, as it were, upon a kind of image of himself: wherefore friends, though absent, are still present; though in poverty, they are rich; though weak, yet in the enjoyment of health; and, what is still more difficult to assert, though dead, they are alive.
– Cicero

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
– Victor Borge

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.
– J.R.R. Tolkien, in The Return of the King

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.
– Stephen Stills

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.
– Stephen Stills

If anyone tells you it’s impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you – and kiss your math.
– Danica McKeller

1521 – Martin Luther was excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church

1777 – Washington defeated the British at the Battle of Princeton, NJ

1847 – Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco

1870 – Construction work began on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, New York, United States

1871 – Oleomargarine was patented (#110626) by Henry Bradley in Binghamton, NY

1888 – The Drinking Straw, invented by Marvin C. Sone, was patented (#US375962)

January 3, 1900 Birthday (fictional) Jim Corrigan, The Spectre, DC Comics

1919 – Professor Ernest Rutherford succeeded in splitting the atom. He split nitrogen atoms into oxygen atoms.

1920 – New York Yankees purchased Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000

1924 – British Egyptologist Howard Carter found the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen (King Tut)

1938 – March of Dimes was established

1951 – Dragnet premiered on NBC

1959 – Alaska was admitted as 49th U.S. state

1970 – #1 Hit January 3, 1970 – January 30, 1970: B. J. Thomas – Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head

1970 – Jon Pertwee made his first appearance as the Third Doctor in the Doctor Who episode Spearhead from Space. It also marks the first time that the series was broadcast in color. (colour in the UK)

1973 – George Steinbrenner III bought the Yankees from CBS for $12 million

1976 – #1 Hit January 3, 1976 – January 9, 1976: Bay City Rollers – Saturday Night

1977 – Apple Computers incorporated

1977 – Holly Hallstrom joined Janice Pennington and Dian Parkinson as a showcase model on The Price is Right

1979 – The USA cable network was founded

1983 – Plinko was added as a Pricing Game for the series The Price Is Right

1987 – Unsolved Mysteries premiered (as a special) on NBC

1987 – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the 1st female artist, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin

1991 – First television sets to feature closed-caption display are introduced in the U.S.

1993 – ABC and CBS simultaneously broadcast their own movies based on the Amy Fisher story with ABC’s starring Drew Barrymore and CBS’s starring Alyssa Milano. NBC had already beaten the other networks airing their own version about six days prior.

1997 – Bryant Gumbel anchored his last episode of the Today Show.

2000 – Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.

“Err on the side of awesome.” – Brandon Sanderson

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen…

I wonder who The Simpsons’ other next-door neighbor is…

One of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World: Colossus of Rhodes, built in 280 BC, destroyed in the earthquake of 226 BC

Useless Pronunciation: B as in bee

“It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.” – Shirley MacLaine

During the filming of “The Shining”, Stanley Kubrick would reportedly call Stephen King at 3 AM to ask him questions like “Do you believe in God?”

US President #8 Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782, making him the first President born a U.S. citizen. All the presidents prior were originally British Subjects.

The biggest film of 1990: Home Alone (Comedy) earned ~ $286,000,000

Until 1971, the Postmaster General was a cabinet position and included in the presidential line of succession.

The term dead ringer comes from the practice of substituting a thoroughbred horse with a look-a-like to trick bookies.

Spongebob is a dish sponge, but his parents are actual sea sponges. Spongebob is adopted!

All mammals, from mice to whales, have roughly the same number of heartbeats in a lifetime: 1 billion.

“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.” – Steve Jobs

The Chinese population census margin of error (26 million) is beggir than the population of 180 countries.

If it weren’t for Google’s Autocomplete function, I probably wouldn’t have ever heard of the French town of Pornichet.

You can’t pump your own gas in New Jersey because of the Retail Gasoline Act of 1949.

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