Ridley's Believe It
Or Not—December 31, 2014:
Trust your resolutions for the New Year are being framed in a fashion that you
will be able to achieve and, as always, I hope you enjoy the holidays and
observances, factoids and a relevant quote from Dirk Stikker, with a
smile on your face, looking forward to ringing in the New Year, blessed with a
positive attitude even though you know you will have to wade through tons of
spam in your inbox, and secure in the knowledge
that if you want to find a gift for a memorable event, you know that the
Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price
tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for
details.
1. New Year’s Eve —celebrating
world wide the end of the year with fireworks and unfortunately too many
traffic fatalities from celebrants celebrating in excess.
2.
First Day of Hogmanay in Scotland—celebrated
with excess by the Scots by first footing with gifts and fireball
swinging.
3. 1970 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song on this day in 1970 My Sweet Lord by George Harrison.
4. Universal
Hour of Peace Day—celebrated since 1995 from
11:30 p.m. on the 31st to 12:30 a.m. on the 1st. Sadly, we
humans track record for maintaining peaceful thoughts is not a good one but one
hour is better than none.
5. National
Champagne Day—Hopefully in moderation as you toast in 2015 with a resounding
singing of Auld Lang Syne.
On this day in
a. 1907 the first New Year’s Celebration was held in Times Square, then known
as Longacre Square.
b. 1951 the Marshall Plan ended after
distributing over 13 Billion Dollars of aid to rebuild Western Europe.
c. 1983
AT&T and its Bell Telephone companies was broken up by the U.S. Government
as an illegal monopoly.
d. 1999 in a dark day for
mankind, Boris Yeltsin resigned as the first president of the Russian Federation
and was replaced by Vladimir Putin.
e. 1999 in a we built it but cannot keep it moment, the U.S. turned
over control of the Panama Canal to Panama.
Reflections on the Marshall Plan: “Churchill's words won the war; Marshall's
words won the peace.--Dirk Stikker, Foreign Minister of The Netherlands,
1948-1952
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