Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not For January 18, 2016, 368 days to go
in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Tough loss for the Steelers
last night and great fireworks between Clinton and Sanders last night and
better yet your Monday is off to a great start with all or a majority of
your New Year’s Resolutions still being observed;
as always, I hope you enjoy Monday’s holidays and observances, a music link to Vaughn
Monroe; factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Martin Luther King, Jr., looking
forward to enjoying a serving of Peking Duck, blessed with a positive attitude
and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any
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1.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—honoring a
great man and proponent of nonviolence as a means of achieving desegregation
and ending discrimination who sadly was assassinated far too early. .
2. Elementary School
Teachers’ Day—commemorating and honoring all those teachers
that more likely than not have had a great impact on our lives.
3. 1948
Number One S ong—celebrating
the number one song in 1948 on a long run of ten weeks in that position Ballerina by Vaughn Monroe. Here is a
link to Vaughn Monroe performing Ballerina:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZdI_okm2I
4. National
Peking Duck—celebrating another great Chinese dish and a great
reason to go to your favorite Chinese restaurant.
5. Temptations
Come In All Forms--celebrating the birthday on this day in 1941 the
lead singer of the Temptations, David Ruffin, who sadly could not withstand the
temptation of cocaine and died of a cocaine overdose in 1951.
On
this day in:
a.
1788 the first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England
arrived at Botany Bay.
b.
1903 the first radio transatlantic transmission to originate in the U.S. was
sent from a radio transmitter located at Wellfleet, MA.
c.
1967 Albert De Salvo, aka the ”Boston Strangler,” was convicted of numerous murders
and sentenced to life imprisonment.
d.
1977 scientists identified a previously unknown bacterium which caused the
deadly outbreak of what became to be known as Legionnaires Disease so name
because it struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
e.
1993 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was observed in all 50 states for the first
time.
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