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Chocolate Candy Day-KALW Almanac-12/28/2015

  • 362nd Day of 2015 3 Remaining
  • Spring Begins in 82 Days
  • Sunrise: 7:24
  • Sunset: 4:58
  • 9 Hours 34 Minutes
  • Moon Rise: 8:41pm
  • Moon Set: 9:36am
  • Phase: 88% 17 Days
  • Next Full Moon January 23 @ 5:46pm
  • Full Wolf Moon Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January’s full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.
  • Tides
  • High: 1:16am/12:01pm
  • Low: 6:25am/6:54pm
  • Rainfall (July 1 – June 30)
  • This Year: 6.72
  • Last Year: 15.14
  • YTD Avg.: 8.65
  • Annual Avg.: 23.80
  • Holidays
  • National Chocolate Candy Day
  • Call A Friend Day
  • National Card Playing Day
  • Pledge Of Allegiance Day
  • Kwanzaa (12/26-1/1)
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  • On This Day
  • 1732 --- "The Pennsylvania Gazette," owned by Benjamin Franklin, ran an ad for the first issue of "Poor Richard’s Almanack." 
  • 1793 --- Thomas Paine is arrested in France for treason. Though the charges against him were never detailed, he had been tried in absentia on December 26 and convicted. Before moving to France, Paine was an instrumental figure in the American Revolution as the author of Common Sense, writings used by George Washington to inspire the American troops. Paine moved to Paris to become involved with the French Revolution, but the chaotic political climate turned against him, and he was arrested and jailed for crimes against the country.
  • 1846 --- Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.
  • 1869 --- The Knights of Labor, a labor union of tailors in Philadelphia, hold the first Labor Day ceremonies in American history. The Knights of Labor was established as a secret society of Pennsylvanian tailors earlier in the year and later grew into a national body that played an important role in the labor movement of the late 19th century.
  • 1886 --- Josephine Garis Cochran patented the first commercially successful dish washing machine.  It became a huge hit at the 1893 Columbian Exposition.   Her company eventually evolved into KitchenAid.
  • 1895 --- The world’s first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time.
  • 1897 --- Edmond Rostand's romantic, dramatic play 'Cyarano de Bergerac' premieres in Paris. A unique combination of love, swordplay, comedy, pathos and proboscis.
  • 1900 --- Convinced that her righteous campaign against alcohol justified her aggressive tactics, Carry Nation attacks a saloon in Wichita, Kansas, shattering a large mirror behind the bar and throwing rocks at a titillating painting of Cleopatra bathing. Carry Nation’s lifelong battle against alcohol reflected a larger reformist spirit that swept through the nation in the early 20th century and led to laws against everything from child labor to impure food and drugs. But Nation’s hatred of alcohol was also a deeply personal struggle–in 1867, she married an Ohio physician who had a serious alcohol problem. Despite Nation’s efforts to reform him, her husband’s drinking problem eventually destroyed their marriage and he died shortly after they split. Nation remarried, this time to a Texas minister. She and her new husband moved in 1889 to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, at a time when much of the state was emerging from its wild frontier days. Convinced that drinking was the root cause of all social evil, Nation decided to close down the saloons in Medicine Lodge and other Kansas cities by traveling throughout the state and preaching her temperance message. Nation soon found that her inspiring speeches against “demon rum” had little effect on the wilder citizens of Kansas, though, so she decided to take more aggressive action. Claiming she was inspired by powerful “visions,” in 1900 she began a series of well-publicized attacks on Kansas saloons using her favorite weapon of moral righteousness–her trusty hatchet.
  • 1908 --- At dawn, the most destructive earthquake in recorded European history strikes the Straits of Messina in southern Italy, leveling the cities of Messina in Sicily and Reggio di Calabria on the Italian mainland. The earthquake and tsunami it caused killed an estimated 100,000 people.
  • 1912 --- The first municipally-owned street cars were used on the streets of San Francisco, CA. 
  • 1958 --- The Baltimore Colts won the NFL championship, defeating the New York Giants 23-17 in overtime at Yankee Stadium, in what has been dubbed the greatest football game ever played.
  • 1968 --- 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' by Marvin Gaye was number one on the music charts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFgc-CNCQw
  • 1973 --- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “literary investigation” of the police-state system in the Soviet Union, “The Gulag Archipelago”, 1918-1956, is published in the original Russian in Paris. The book was the first of the three-volume work. The brutal and uncompromising description of political repression and terror was quickly translated into many languages and was published in the United States just a few months later.
  • 1989 --- Alexander Dubcek, former Czechoslovak leader and architect of the “Prague Spring,” is elected chairman of the new multiparty Czechoslovak parliament. It was the first time Dubcek held public office since being deprived of Communist Party membership in 1970.
  • 2001 --- The National Guard was called up out help Buffalo, New York dig out from a five-day storm that dropped almost 7 feet of snow.
  • Birthdays
  • Maggie Smith
  • Denzel Washignton
  • Earl “Fatha” Hines
  • Lew Ayers
  • Woodrow Wilson (28th President)
  • Cliff Arquette
  • Billy Williams
  • Lou Jacobi
  • Roebuck “Pop” Staples
  • Stan Lee
  • Johnny Otis
  • Manuel Puig