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On This Date In 1128 Pope Honorius II granted a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God. On This Date In 1794 President
George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes
to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to
the union. On This Date In 1833 President
Andrew Jackson wrote Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his
opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority. He closed
with the assertion, “nothing must be permitted to weaken our government
at home or abroad.” On This Date In 1842 British
army doctor William Bryde reaches the British sentry post at Jalalabad,
Afghanistan, the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian
expeditionary force that was massacred in its retreat from Kabul. He
told of a terrible massacre in the Khyber Pass, in which the Afghans
gave the defeated Anglo-Indian force and their camp followers no
quarter. On This Date In 1847 The
Treaty of Cahuenga. usually called the “Capitulation of Cahuenga,” was
signed, and ended the fighting of the Mexican-American War in California
in 1847. On This Date In 1864 Stephen
Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as the “father
of American music,” was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States
of the 19th century. In an era before transfusions and antibiotics, he
succumbed to persistent fever three days after his admittance to
Bellevue Hospital at the age of 37. Foster was buried in the Allegheny
Cemetery in Pittsburgh. One of his most beloved works, “Beautiful
Dreamer,” was published shortly after his death. On This Date In 1865 Through
January 15, 1865. the Second Battle of Fort Fisher was fought. It was a
joint assault by Union Army and naval forces against Fort Fisher,
outside Wilmington, North Carolina, near the end of the American Civil
War. Sometimes referred to as the “Gibraltar of the South” and the last
major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy, Fort Fisher had tremendous
strategic value during the war. On This Date In 1898 French
writer Emile Zola's inflammatory newspaper editorial, entitled
“J'accuse,” was printed. The letter exposed a military cover-up
regarding Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus, a French army captain, had
been accused of espionage in 1894 and sentenced in a secret military
court-martial to imprisonment in a South American penal colony. Two
years later, evidence of Dreyfus' innocence surfaced, but the army
suppressed the information. Zola's letter excoriated the military for
concealing its mistaken conviction. On This Date In 1902 The
Battle of Riyadh was fought, a minor battle of the Unification War
between Rashidi and Ibn Saud rebels, in Masmak Castle in Riyadh, The
capital of present day Saudi Arabia. On This Date In 1908 The
Rhoads Opera House, located in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, caught fire
during a church-sponsored stage play. The fire started when a kerosene
lamp was knocked over, lighting gasoline from a stereoscopic machine.
The stage and auditorium were located on the 2nd floor and all auxiliary
exits were either unmarked or locked. One fire escape was available but
unable to be accessed through a locked window above a 3 foot sill. 171
people perished when the exit was crowded against to escape the fire.
Entire families were wiped out. On This Date In 1915 The
1915 Avezzano earthquake occurred in southern Italy, by L'Aquila. The
epicenter was located in the town of Avezzano in southern Italy. 30,000
direct fatalities resulted from the earthquake, destroying the
epicentral area. On This Date In 1916 The
Battle of Wadi was fought, an unsuccessful attempt by British forces
fighting in present-day Iraq during the First World War to relieve
beleaguered forces under Sir Charles Townshend, then under siege by the
Turks at Kut-al-Amara. On This Date In 1940 “Brother Rat and a Baby”, the sequel to the 1938 film Brother Rat, about cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, was released. It
stars Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan, Eddie Albert, Jane
Wyman, and Ronald Reagan. Mayo Methot and Alan Ladd appear in small
roles. The movie was directed by Ray Enright and remains notable for
featuring future US president Reagan and wife Wyman. On This Date In 1941 James
Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941), Irish
novelist and poet, and considered to be one of the most influential
writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, died
from a perforated ulcer and gastrointestinal hemorrhaging. He is buried
in the Fluntern Cemetery near Zurich Zoo. On This Date In 1945 The
East Prussian Offensive was a strategic offensive by the Red Army
against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front during World War II.
It lasted from January 13, 1945 to April 25, 1945, though some German
units did not surrender until May 9. The Battle of Königsberg was a
major part of the offensive, which ended with a total victory for the
Red Army. On This Date In 1962 During
the Vietnam War, Operation Farm Gate, initially designed to provide
advisory support to assist the South Vietnamese Air Force in increasing
its capability, flew its first combat missions with T-28 fighter-bombers
in support of a South Vietnamese outpost under Viet Cong attack. By the
end of the month, U.S. Air Force pilots had flown 229 Farm Gate
sorties. On This Date In 1962 Ernie
Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962), a Hungarian American
comedian and actor who hosted his own television shows during the 1950s
and is said to have influenced such TV hosts as Johnny Carson and David
Letterman, died at the age of 42 after crashing his Chevrolet Corvair
into a telephone pole in Los Angeles, California, while driving in a
rainstorm. On This Date In 1966 President
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the first African-American cabinet member,
making Robert C. Weaver head of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), the agency that develops and implements national
housing policy and enforces fair housing laws. On This Date In 1972 President
Richard Nixon announced that 70,000 U.S. troops would leave South
Vietnam over the next three months, reducing U.S. troop strength there
by May 1 to 69,000 troops. On This Date In 1974 Super
Bowl VIII was played at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas to decide the
National Football League (NFL) champion following the 1973 regular
season. The American Football Conference (AFC) champion Miami Dolphins
(15-2) defeated the National Football Conference (NFC) champion
Minnesota Vikings (14-3), 24–7. Scoring the first 24 points of the game
and leading 24-0 entering the fourth quarter, the Dolphins easily won
their second consecutive Super Bowl, and became the first team to appear
in three consecutive Super Bowls. On This Date In 1982 Air
Florida Boeing 727 plunged into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.,
killing 78 people. The crash, caused by bad weather, took place only two
miles from the White House. On This Date In 1999 National Basketball Association (NBA) superstar Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls announced his retirement from professional basketball, for the second time, in front of a crowd at Chicago's United Center. On This Date In 2010 Theodore
DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010),
American R&B/soul singer and songwriter, died of respiratory failure
at age 59 with his wife Joan by his side, while hospitalized at Bryn
Mawr Hospital in suburban Philadelphia. Pendergrass first rose to fame
as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before
a successful solo career at the end of the decade.
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Happy Birthday Frances Sternhagen (1930), Rip Taylor (1934), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Trace Adkins (1962), Penelope Ann Miller (1964), Patrick Dempsey (1966), Traci Bingham (1968), Nicole Eggert (1972), Bam Morris (1972), Orlando Bloom (1977), and Jill Wagner (1979).
RIP Wilhelm Wien (1864 – 1928), Kay Francis (1905 – 1968), Robert Stack (1919 – 2003), Gwen Verdon (1925 – 2000), and Ian Hendry (1931 – 1984).
Quotes
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. Earl Nightingale
The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. Robert Fritz
People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck. Grenville Kleiser
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation. Eileen Caddy
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end. Claude Bristol
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge
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NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory mission's two spacecraft achieve lunar orbit at beginning of new year and begin their study of the moon, from crust to core. Also, FIRST season starts; Booster Day; Commander's Comet; Booms and Whispers; and Curiosity's RAD! Also, Aggies get shuttle sim; Butch & The Titans; and STS-81 anniversary.
Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk comments her game against Olivier Kurmann at the 2011 Swiss Chess Championship of Leukerbad.
the first montage and video of RAWPr0ductions, the theme is pictures taken at the right moment. Hope you Enjoy.
Just as our religious institutions are guaranteed freedom in this land, so also do we cherish the diversity of our faiths and the freedom afforded to each of us to pray according to the promptings of our individual conscience. - President Ronald Reagan, January 13, 1986
Hat tip to any included contributing sources, along with: , , ,
Happy Birthday Frances Sternhagen (1930), Rip Taylor (1934), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Trace Adkins (1962), Penelope Ann Miller (1964), Patrick Dempsey (1966), Traci Bingham (1968), Nicole Eggert (1972), Bam Morris (1972), Orlando Bloom (1977), and Jill Wagner (1979).
RIP Wilhelm Wien (1864 – 1928), Kay Francis (1905 – 1968), Robert Stack (1919 – 2003), Gwen Verdon (1925 – 2000), and Ian Hendry (1931 – 1984).
Quotes
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. Earl Nightingale
The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. Robert Fritz
People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck. Grenville Kleiser
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation. Eileen Caddy
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end. Claude Bristol
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge
Courtesy YouTube et al
NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory mission's two spacecraft achieve lunar orbit at beginning of new year and begin their study of the moon, from crust to core. Also, FIRST season starts; Booster Day; Commander's Comet; Booms and Whispers; and Curiosity's RAD! Also, Aggies get shuttle sim; Butch & The Titans; and STS-81 anniversary.
Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk comments her game against Olivier Kurmann at the 2011 Swiss Chess Championship of Leukerbad.
the first montage and video of RAWPr0ductions, the theme is pictures taken at the right moment. Hope you Enjoy.
Just as our religious institutions are guaranteed freedom in this land, so also do we cherish the diversity of our faiths and the freedom afforded to each of us to pray according to the promptings of our individual conscience. - President Ronald Reagan, January 13, 1986
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