TODAY IN HISTORY!

[Sky King]

1776​

First national memorial is ordered by Congress​

1949​

First Emmy Awards ceremony​

1980​

Paul McCartney is released from a Tokyo jail and deported from Japan​

1995​

Russia activates its nuclear command systems for the first time​

1971​

Charles Manson and his followers convicted of murder​

1942​

Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom​

 

[Sky King]

1788​

British settlement begins in Australia​

On January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying convicts to the colony of New South Wales, effectively founding Australia. After overcoming a period of hardship, the fledgling colony began to celebrate the anniversary of this date with great fanfare​ 1838​ Tennessee passes first U.S. law limiting alcohol sales​

1875​

Pinkertons maim Frank and Jesse James’ mother​

1905​

World’s largest diamond found​

1980​

U.S. Olympic Committee votes against Moscow games​

1986​

Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX​

2020​

Basketball star Kobe Bryant dies in helicopter crash​ 1970​ POW spends 2,000th day in captivity​

 

[Sky King]

1965​

Shelby GT 350 debuts​

1967​

Astronauts die in launch pad fire​

1993​

American becomes first non-Japanese to achieve highest rank in sumo wrestling​

1943​

Americans bomb Germans for first time​

 

[Sky King]

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1986​ The space shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff​ At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire.​

1985​

Music stars gather to record “We Are the World”​

1964​

Soviets shoot down U.S. jet​

1973​

Cease-fire goes into effect in Vietnam​

 

[Sky King]

1936​

U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects first members​

On January 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson. The Hall of Fame actually had its beginnings in 1935, when plans were made to build a museum devoted to baseball​

1962​

Peter, Paul and Mary sign their first recording contract​

 

[Sky King]

1948​

Gandhi assassinated​

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu extremist on January 30, 1948. Born the son of an Indian official in 1869, Gandhi’s Vaishnava mother was deeply religious​

1933​

Adolf Hitler is named chancellor of Germany​

1972​

“Bloody Sunday” in Northern Ireland​

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1920​

Mazda car company founded​

1835​

Andrew Jackson narrowly escapes assassination​

1968​

Tet Offensive shakes Cold War confidence​

 

[Sky King]

1950​

Truman announces development of H-bomb​

On January 31, 1950, U.S. President Harry S. Truman publicly announces his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II.​

1979​

Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter sign accords​

1933​

“The Lone Ranger” debuts on Detroit radio​

1865​

House passes the 13th Amendment​

1990​

First McDonald’s opens in Soviet Union​

1988​

Doug Williams leads Redskins to Super Bowl victory​

1968​

Viet Cong attack U.S. Embassy​

1917​

Germans unleash U-boats​

 

[Sky King]

2003​

Columbia Space Shuttle mission ends in disaster​

1913​

Multi-sport star Jim Thorpe signs MLB contract with Giants​

1790​

First meeting of the U.S. Supreme Court​

1917​

Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare​

 

[INTJohn]

It’s the historical & monumental Groundhog’s Day!
You bunch of van livin marmots! So climb out of ur hole and do what y’all do!

bch bum jonny

 

[INTJohn]

It’s the historical & monumental Groundhog’s Day!
You bunch of van livin marmots! So climb out of ur hole and do what y’all do!

bch bum jonny

Every year Groundhog's Day comes around, every year the movie gets repeated (kinda meta, ain't it?), and still I forget whether the shadow means more or less winter.

I know, I could look it up but why? To better know a superstition that, even as far as superstitions go, makes no intuitive sense; does it? It makes no logical scientific method sense either. Don't walk under a ladder? Sure, it may be bad luck if something falls from the ladder. Breaking a mirror? Maybe cut yourself?

But a groundhog not even indicating anything but some ding dongs deciding what it's feeling? Now if I saw a groundhog walking under a ladder, maybe wearing some circus clown hat and seeing the sun in a broken mirror, it might mean something. I still don’t no what it might mean but hey, means something for sure right?

F#%king Groundhogs; aka Woodchux. Those whistle pigs are nothing but giant disease ridden squirrels. They're the best tho & I love them.

you do too; yes?
bch bum jonny