December 1, 2022 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not December 1, 2022
         National Holiday: Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day: Created by Ruth and Thomas Roy of Wellcat Holidays to encourage empathy and sympathy for those who wear bifocals and constantly moving their eyes up and down to be able to read and work on a computer. Better yet a time for those with bifocals to consider progressive lenses, contact lenses with one lens for distance other for near, or in conjunction with cataract surgery an interocular lens that brings vision back to almost 20/20.
          Word of the Day: The word of the day is “ablutomania” which means a mania for washing oneself which means sufferers of those with the mania could feel they were normal during COVID-19 Pandemic with its warnings to wash hands frequently.     Number 1 Song of the Day: The number 1 song in 2016 was “Black Beatles” by  Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane on a run of 6 weeks  to share with 10 other songs reaching achieving number 1 status while 14 acts, including Sremmurd and Mane achieved their first number 1.  Here is a video recording of Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane performing “Black Beatles”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8m9zhNAgKs
          Famous Birthdays: Darrel Wayne Caldwell better known to his rapper loving fans as Drakeo the Ruler,  born on this day in 1993, who never knew his father, was raised by a single mother, had his first run in with the police at the age of 12 became a successful rapper, recording even one album for a phone call from his cell awaiting trial. Sadly, in something that seems to have life ape the songs of many rappers, on December 18, 2021 while backstage at the Once Upon a Time in L.A. Festival, he was stabbed to death to rule no more.
          Famous Events that occurred on December 1
          1.       1955—Seamstress Rosa Parks, after and long day of working in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to surrender her seat to a white man and under  Alabama’s and Montgomery’s Jim Crow Laws was arrested, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott that started on December 5, 1955 and ended on December 20, 1956 when SCOTUS in the case of Browder v. Gayle ruled that segregated busses were unconstitutional.  
          2.       1974—In a lightning does strike in the same place moment, 2 727’s crashed, TWA Flight 514 crashed near Dulles International Airport killing all 92 aboard and the other Northwest Airlines Flight 6231 flying from JFK to pick up the Baltimore Colts in Buffalo crashed shortly after takeoff due to icing killing the 3 crew members who were the only persons on the plane.
          3.       1988—World AIDS Day dedicated to creating awareness of AIDS and to mourn for those 1000’s  who have died was established by the United Nations.
          4.       1990 tunnel sections started from France and England met beneath the English Channel on the seabed to link the two nations.
          5.       2000—Vincente Fox was inaugurated as Mexico’s President, marking the first time in Mexico’s history that a peaceful transfer of the presidency from an opposing party has occurred.
          Quote of the Day: Rosa Parks who passed at age 92 on October 24, 2005: “People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Thankfully the ripples of a small act of defiance turned into a tidal wave of sweeping civil rights change.