Monday February 10, 2014

•   41^st Day of 2014 / 324 Remaining
• 38 Days Until The First Day of Spring

• Sunrise:7:03
• Sunset:5:44
• 10 Hours 41 Minutes of Daylight

• Moon Rise:2:18pm
• Moon Set: 4:01am
• Moon’s Phase: 85 %

• The Next Full Moon
• February 14 @ 3:54 pm
• Full Snow Moon
• Full Hunger Moon

Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February’s full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult.

• Tides
• High:7:17am/9:22pm
• Low:1:27am/2:34pm

• Rainfall
• This Year:5.56
• Last Year:13.87
• Average Year to Date:15.27

• Holidays
• My Way Day
• National PTA Founders' Day
• National Cream Cheese Brownie Day

• World Human Spirit Day
• Lantern Festival-China
• Oruro Festival-Bolivia
• Oatmeal Monday-United Kingdom

• On This Day In …
• 1763 --- The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. In the treaty France ceded Canada to England.

• 1846 --- Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – the Mormons – began an exodus west from Illinois.

• 1863 --- The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane.

• 1897 --- "The New York Times" began printing "All the news that's fit to print" on their front page. Henry J. Raymond and two associates started The New York Times in 1851. It began as a penny paper ... one cent for news vs. the six-cent political rags of the day. In October of 1896, the paper held a contest offering readers a one-hundred-dollar prize if they could come up with a better slogan ... in ten words or less ... than “All the news that’s fit to print.” No one did.

• 1934 --- The first imperforated, ungummed sheets of postage stamps were issued by the U.S. Postal Service in New York City. Talk about inconvenience! One had to cut the stamps out of the

  

  sheet and then put some glue on the back to get them to stick on an envelope. Fortunately, the Postal Service changed this idea after many complaints. Letters were, literally, gumming up the works.

• 1935 --- The Pennsylvania Railroad began passenger service with its electric locomotive. The engine was 79-1/2 feet long and weighed 230 tons.
  

  

• 1949 --- Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock starred in the classic, Death of a Salesman, which opened at the Morosco Theatre in New York City. The play later became a major motion picture.
  

  

• 1956 --- 'My Friend Flicka' premiers on CBS TV. The series about a boy and his horse is set on the Goose Bar Ranch in Montana.
  

  

• 1956 --- Elvis Presley wiggled his way through Heartbreak Hotel this day for RCA Records in Nashville, TN. The record received two gold records, one for each side. The hit on the other side was I Was the One.

• 1957 --- The ‘Styrofoam’ cooler was invented.
  

  

• 1961 --- The Los Angeles franchise in the American Football League was transferred to San Diego. The previous year, Hollywood resident Gerald Courtney had won an all-expenses-paid trip to Mexico City and Acapulco after submitting the winning name: Chargers.

• 1962 --- Francis Gary Powers, an American who was shot down over the Soviet Union while flying a CIA spy plane in 1960, is

  

  released by the Soviets in exchange for the U.S. release of a Russian spy. The exchange concluded one of the most dramatic episodes of the Cold War.

• 1964 --- Bob Dylan's album "The Times They Are A-Changin"' was released.
  

  

• 1965 --- A quote, often used later by others, was first stated by Hubert H. Humphrey. He said, “The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.” Humphrey was a noted and beloved U.S. Senator from Minnesota and a Vice-President in the Lyndon Johnson administration. He ran for the Presidency but lost to Richard M. Nixon.

• 1966 --- Ralph Nader, a young lawyer and the author of the groundbreaking book "Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile," testifies before Congress for the first time about unsafe practices in the auto industry. By the

  

  mid-1960s, U.S. automakers were still largely unregulated. Nader's book, which was published in November 1965, accused car companies of designing vehicles with an emphasis on style and power at the expense of consumer safety.

• 1967 --- The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment required the appointment of a vice-president when that office became vacant and instituted new measures in the event of presidential disability.

• 1970 --- An avalanche crashes down on a ski resort in Val d'Isere, France, killing 42 people, mostly young skiers. This disaster was the worst such incident in French history.

• 1971 --- Carole King's "Tapestry" was released.
  

  

• 1972 --- It was one of those events that virtually nobody witnessed, yet almost but many wish they had: the concert at London's Toby Jug pub, when the relatively minor rocker named David Bowie became the spaceman Ziggy Stardust. Bowie created the persona and groundbreaking album that offered "a finger up the nose of pop

  

  sincerity...a boot in the collective sagging denim behind of hippie singer-songwhiners" and made his career. As one of the roughly sixty young Londoners in the audience that night at the Toby Jug now recalls, "Bowie had brought theatre to a humble pub gig....I couldn't blink for fear of missing something—nothing would ever be the same again."

• 1981 --- The Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino caught fire. Eight people were killed and 198 were injured.

• 1990 --- South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity.

• 1992 --- Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, accused of raping 18-year-old beauty-pageant contestant Desiree Washington, is found guilty by an Indiana jury. The following month, Tyson was given a 10-year prison sentence, with four years suspended.

• 1996 --- In the first game of a six-game match, an IBM computer dubbed “Deep Blue” becomes the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial upset victory, man ultimately triumphed over machine as Kasparov goes went on to win the match, 4-2. The 6-game match between Kasparov and Deep Blue began on February 10, 1996, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. Although Deep Blue was capable of evaluating 100 million different chess positions

  

  per second, the IBM team wasn’t sure how the computer would perform in competition and Kasparov was favored to win. Instead, much to his frustration, the world chess champ lost the first game to Deep Blue. However, the tenacious, brilliant Kasparov quickly staged a comeback by winning the second game. The third and fourth games ended in a draw, while Kasparov took the fifth and sixth games, for a score of 4-2.

• 1997 --- The U.S. Army suspended its top-ranking enlisted soldier, Army Sgt. Major Gene McKinney following allegations of sexual misconduct. McKinney was convicted of obstruction of justice and acquitted of 18 counts alleging sexual harassment of six military women.

• Birthdays
• Leontyne Price
• Boris Pasternak
• Elizabeth Banks
• Robert Wagner
• Roberta Flack
• Mark Spitz
• George Stephanopoulos
• Laura Dern
• Charles Lamb
• Jimmy Durante
• Bertolt Brecht
• Stella Adler
• Harold Macmillan
• Lon Chaney Jr.