Monday December 30, 2013

• 364^th Day of 2013 / 1 Remaining
• 80 Days Until The First Day of Spring

• Sunrise:7:24
• Sunset:5:00
• 9 Hours 36 Minutes of Daylight

• Moon Rise:5:20am
• Moon Set:3:38pm
• Moon’s Phase: 4 %

• The Next Full Moon
• January 15 @ 8:35pm
• Full Wolf Moon
• Full Old Moon

January is the month of the Full Wolf Moon. It appeared when wolves howled in hunger outside the villages. It is also known as the Old Moon. To some Native American tribes, this was the Snow Moon, but most applied that name to the next full Moon, in February.

• Tides
• High:8:10am/10:13pm
• Low:2:01am/.3:15pm

• Holidays
• National Bicarbonate of Soda Day

• Republic Day-Madagascar
• Rizal Day-Philippines

• On This Day In …
• 1813 --- The British burned Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812.

• 1879 --- Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" was first performed, at Paignton, Devon, England.
  

  

• 1911 --- Sun Yat-sen was elected the first president of the Republic of China.

• 1922 --- In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Azerbaijan, and Armenian republics). Also known as the Soviet Union, the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.

• 1924 --- Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other galactic systems.
  

  

• 1927 --- The first subway in the Orient was dedicated in Tokyo, Japan. Many people had worried that the ground under Tokyo was too soft for a subway, but their fears proved unfounded as the Tokyo Underground Railway Company opened the first section of the subway between Ueno and Asakusa.
  

  

• 1936 --- At 8 p.m., in one of the first sit-down strikes in the United States, autoworkers occupy the General Motors Fisher Body Plant Number One in Flint, Michigan. The autoworkers were striking to win recognition of the United Auto Workers (UAW) as the only bargaining agent for GM's workers; they also wanted to make the company stop sending work to non-union plants and to establish a fair minimum wage scale, a grievance system and a set of procedures that would help protect assembly-line workers from injury. In all, the strike lasted 44 days.

• 1936 --- The famous feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen was ignited. After a 10-year-old performer finished a violin solo on The Fred Allen Show, Mr. Allen said, “A certain alleged violinist should hide

  

  his head in shame for his poor fiddle playing.” It didn’t take long for Mr. Benny to respond. The humorous feud lasted for ten weeks on both comedian’s radio shows.

• 1940 --- The Arroyo Seco Parkway (between Los Angeles and Pasadena) was dedicated by Los Angeles, California Mayor Fletcher Bowron. It was the first freeway in the western U.S. The

  

  Pasadena Freeway, as it was known from 1954-2010, was designated as a historic engineering landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1999.

• 1953 --- The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.

• 1954 --- Pearl Bailey opened on Broadway in the play, House of Flowers, about two madams with rival bordellos. Diahann Carroll was also cast in the play, written by Truman Capote. Harold Arlen provided the musical score.
  

  

• 1965 --- Former Philippines Senate president Ferdinand Marcos is inaugurated president of the Southeast Asian archipelago nation. Marcos' regime would span 20 years and become increasingly authoritarian and corrupt.
  

  

• 1968 --- Within a year, they'd be big. Within two, they'd be huge. And within three, they'd be the biggest band in the world. But on this day the quartet of British rockers preparing for their fifth-ever gig in the United States were using propane heaters to keep themselves and their equipment warm while they waited to go on as the opening act for Vanilla Fudge at a concert in a frigid college gymnasium in western Washington State. A few serious rock fans in attendance had at least heard about the new band formed around the former guitarist from the now-defunct Yardbirds, but if those fans even knew the name of this new group, they might not have recognized it in the ads that ran in the local newspaper. The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, ran an advertisement on this day in 1968 for a concert at Gonzaga University featuring "The Vanilla Fudge, with Len Zefflin"—a concert of which a bootleg recording would later

  

  emerge that represents the first-ever live Led Zeppelin performance captured on tape. There is nothing raw or un-Led Zeppelin-like about the sound captured by an unknown Gonzaga student on a small, portable tape recorder that day. The Gonzaga '68 bootleg features the band performing tight and thrilling versions of some songs that are now considered classics but were then unknown to those in attendance. Indeed, halfway through the set, Robert Plant introduces one number as follows: "This is off an album that comes out in about three weeks time on the Atlantic label. It's called Led Zeppelin. This is a tune called 'Dazed and Confused.'"

• 1970 --- Paul McCartney sued the other three Beatles to dissolve the partnership and gain control of his interest. The suit touched off a bitter feud between McCartney and the others, especially his cowriter on many of the Beatles compositions, John Lennon. The partnership officially came to end in 1974.

• 1978 --- Ohio State University (OSU) makes the decision to fire its 65-year-old football coach, Woody Hayes, one day after Hayes punched a player on the opposing team near the end of the Gator Bowl.
  

  

• 1980 --- The Selective Service System sent a warning to Mickey Mouse at Disneyland in Anaheim, California: Register for the draft or else! The Selective Service said that Mickey was in violation of registration compliance. Of course, Mickey, age 52 at the time, sent in his registration card proving that he’s a World War II veteran. On the same day the longest-running series in prime-time television history was canceled this day by NBC. The Wonderful World of Disney was axed after more than 25 years on the tube.

• 1993 --- After some 2,000 years of rocky Jewish-Christian relations, the Holy See and the State of Israel signed an agreement to recognize each other. The agreement was seen as a significant step forward in relations between the Vatican and Israel.

• Birthdays
• Rudyard Kipling
• LeBron James
• Meredith Viera
• Sandy Koufax
• Noel Paul Stookey
• Mike Nesmith
• Patti Smith
• Jeff Lynne
• Tracey Ullman
• Tiger Woods
• Laila Ali
• Bert Parks
• Alfred Einstein
• Asa Griggs Candler
• Hideki Tojo
• Jack Lord
• Del Shannon
• Davy Jones
• James Burrows