January 23, 2023 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not January 23, 2023
          Noted Holidays: National Handwriting Day Created on this day in 1977, the anniversary of the birth of the writer of the most iconic signature in American history-John Hancock-to promote handwriting which given the use of computers and texting is probably a dying skill.
          Word of the Day: The word of the day is “adventitious” which means occurring by chance or by accident which describes the occurrence of a good number of scientific discoveries like penicillin or in hopefully the Trump, Pence and Biden classified documents scandals.
          Number 1 Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 1978 was “Baby Come Back” by Player on a run of 3 weeks to share with 21 other songs achieving number 1 status, while 11 acts achieved their first number 1 song.  Here is a music video of Player performing “Baby Come Back”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-enjcgV1o
          Noted Birthdays: Michael Brim, noted NFL cornerback born on this day in 1996 who played 8 years in the NFL ending his career with the Cincinnati Bengals and who proved that no matter how good, a cornerback cannot tackle a bullet as he was killed in a shootout in an argument involving a woman on April 19, 2005.
          Notable Events that occurred on January 23:
          1.     1945—German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz implemented the beginning of the 15 week evacuation of military forces and civilians to Germany and Denmark which resulted in the successful evacuation of 800-900,000 civilians and 350,000 military personnel at the cost of over 160 military vessels in the largest military evacuation in history that dwarfed the British evacuation from the Dunkirk beaches.
          2.     1968 in a flagrant act of war that LBJ failed to respond to North Korea seized the USS Pueblo in International Waters and held the officers and crew hostage subject to abuse and torture and only after the U.S. “admitted it was spying, apologized and promised not to spy again” did the North Koreans release the officers and crew less the member who had been killed during the seizure (sad day for the US Navy and American prestige.
          3.     1986—The Rock and Roll of Fame inducted its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. The absence of any women was rectified on January 3, 1987 when “The Lady of Soul" Aretha Franklin was inducted.  
          4.     2002—Stanford graduate and journalist Danial Pearl was kidnapped on this day by Islamist terrorists while he was in Pakistan investigating the link of the “Shoe Bomber” to terrorist training camps in Pakistan and was beheaded on video on February 1, 2022 leaving a wife and son born 4 months after his death.
          5.     2018—As part of a growing trade war with China and frustration with their proclivity to steal our intellectual property, President Trump announced the levy of tariffs on solar panels and washing machines (if we are going to discontinue fossil fuels like natural gas which we are blessed with, we have to expand our production of products and materials needed to produce renewable energy).
         Quote of the Day: Mitchell Lerner, Ohio State historian and Korean expert: “The Pueblo was a good symbol of America's Cold War myopia. (The crew members) were sent out there because the U.S. military said the Soviets run similar operations against us and we accept it and they accept it and no one ever said, 'Wait a minute, you're sending this ship to North Korea. That's not the Soviets.' "

 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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