- 4th Day of 2016 362 Remaining
- Spring Begins in 75 Days
- Sunrise: 7:25
- Sunset: 5:04
- 9 Hours 29 Minutes
- Moon Rise: 2:14am
- Moon Set: 1:22pm
- Phase: 27% 24 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: 6:15am/7:50pm
- Low: 1:25pm
- Rainfall (July 1 – June 30)
- This Year: 6.81
- Last Year: 15.14
- YTD Avg.: 9.69
- Annual Avg.: 23.80
- Holidays
- National Spaghetti Day
- “Thank God It’s Monday” Day
- National Weigh-In Day
- Pop Music Chart Day
- Tom Thumb Day
- National Trivia Day
- Dimpled Chad Day
- Free Flower Basket Day
- World Hypnotism Day
- World Braille Day
- Independence Day-Myanmar/Burma
- On This Day
- 1863 --- James Plimpton of New York patented 4 wheeled roller skates.
- 1896 --- Utah became the 45th U.S. state.
- 1936 --- The first pop music chart based on national sales was published by "Billboard" magazine.
- 1948 --- Britain granted independence to Burma.
- 1964 --- Mary Sullivan is raped and strangled to death in her Boston apartment. The killer left a card reading “Happy New Year” leaning against her foot. Sullivan would turn out to be the last woman killed by the notorious Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, who had terrorized the city between 1962 and 1964, raping and killing 13 women.
- 1965 --- In his State of the Union address, President Lyndon Baines Johnson lays out for Congress a laundry list of legislation needed to achieve his plan for a Great Society. On the heels of John F. Kennedy’s tragic death, Americans had elected Johnson, his vice president, to the presidency by the largest popular vote in the nation’s history. Johnson used this mandate to push for improvements he believed would better Americans’ quality of life.
- 1974 --- President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. Marking the beginning of the end of his Presidency, Nixon would resign from office in disgrace eight months later.
- 1981 --- The Broadway show "Frankenstein" lost an estimated $2 million, when it opened and closed on the same night.
- 1990 --- Two trains collide in Sangi, Pakistan, on this day in 1990, killing between 200 and 300 people and injuring an estimated 700 others. This was the worst rail accident to date in Pakistan. Pakistan’s rail system serves more than 65 million passengers annually. Unfortunately, the crash in Sangi was not unique. Less than 18 months later, a similar crash in Ghotki killed more than 100 people.
- 1995 --- The 104th Congress becomes the first held entirely under Republican control since the Eisenhower era. Thanks to Newt Gingrich and his “Contract with America,” the Republican Party won majority control of congress for the time in forty years.
- 1996 --- General Motors announces at the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show it will build an electric car, dubbed the EV1, to be launched in the fall of that year.
- 1999 --- Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
- 1999 --- For the first time since Charlemagne’s reign in the ninth century, Europe is united with a common currency when the “euro” debuts as a financial unit in corporate and investment markets. Eleven European Union (EU) nations (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain), representing some 290 million people, launched the currency in the hopes of increasing European integration and economic growth.
- 2006 --- University of Texas quarterback Vince Young makes an eight-yard touchdown run on fourth down with 19 seconds left in the game, capping one of the best individual performances in college football history while leading his team to a Rose Bowl victory and a national championship title over the University of Southern California (USC).
- 2007 --- Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., became the first female speaker of the House.
- 2010 --- Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper, the 2,717-foot gleaming glass-and-metal tower Burj Khalifa.
- Birthdays
- Jacob Grimm
- Louis Braille
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Charles “Tom Thumb” Stratton
- Jane Wyman
- Don Shula
- Jean Chretien
- Dyan Cannon
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Barbara Ann Cochran
National Spaghetti Day-KALW Almanac-1/4/2015
