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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not January 24, 2023
Noted Holidays: National Lobster
Thermidor Day Clueless who created this holiday or when first
celebrated but given the massive increase in lobster due to Chinese demand and
the assault on lobster fisherman that their pots are decimating the Right Whale
population, celebrating the day by having some lobster thermidor will be
difficult.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day is “advocaat” which means a Dutch liqueur
containing brandy, egg yolks, sugar or honey and aromatic spirits and is yellow
in color.
Number 1 Song of the Day: The
number 1 song on this day in 1977 was “I Wish” by Stevie Wonder on a run of 1
week to share with 29 other songs achieving number 1 status, while 18 acts
achieved their first number 1 song. Here is a music video of Stevie
Wonder performing “I Wish”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKYka-PNt0
Noted Birthdays: Neil Diamond, noted
American singer songwriter who started writing and performing his songs after
going to a summer camp where Pete Seeger
performed and some of the campers performed for his benefit songs they had
written. Diamond attended New York University on a fencing scholarship but was
writing more and more songs and with 10 units needed to graduate as a premed,
he was offered a 16 week job writing
songs as $50 a week which he accepted, dropped out and the rest is history with
over 130 million records sold, 10 number 1 singles and 38 top ten songs; still
performing but announced in January 2018 that he had stopped touring due to a
diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease.
Notable Events that occurred on
January 24:
1. 1935—The
Gottfried Kreuger Brewing Company started selling the first canned beer instead
of bottles.
2. 1961—A B-52 carrying
2 H-Bombs aborted a midair fueling over the skies near Goldsboro, North
Carolina when the tanker notified the pilot of the B-52 that it was leaking fuel
from one of the wings which caused the plane to immediately try to land at a
nearby Air Force base. As it descended the crew bailed out as the pilot
continued to fly the plane which then proceeded to break up releasing its two
H-bombs which failed to detonate due to the fact that all the arming switches
had not switched to arm.
3. 1984—Apple
Corporation placed the Macintosh on sale in the United States to reach 70,000
in sales on May 3, 1984 and when its successor Macintosh 512k was introduced it
was rebranded Macintosh 128
4. 2003—The U.S.
Department of Homeland Security officially opened for business.
5.
2018—Larry Nassar, the former
medical doctor to the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team after being pleading guilty
to child pornography and sentenced to 40 years in a federal prison he pled
guilty to the rape of 7 minors and was sentenced to an additional 40-175 years
to run consecutively in a Michigan State Prison. He is currently rotting away
at Coleman II Federal Penitentiary near Orlando.
Quote of the Day: Hannah Morrow, one
of Larry Nassar’s numerous sexual abuse victims addressing him during the sentencing process: “Life’s handed me lemons and
you’d best believe that I am prepared to make lemonade"
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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