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TODAY IS Martin Luther King Day…

BIRTHDAYS

Ray Dolby (Dolby inventor)-77
Bobby Goldsboro-69
Dave Attell -45
Kevin Costner-55

TODAY IN HISTORY

1896 1st demonstration of an x-ray machine in the US, New York City NY
1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1956 Bill Haley and The Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” album becomes the first Rock & Roll LP to hit the Billboard charts.
1964 Beatles 1st appearance in Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
1974 “The $6 Million Man” starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1975 “The Jeffersons” spin-off from “All in the Family” premieres on CBS
1975 “Mandy” by Barry Manilow peaks at No. 1.
1978 Neil Sedaka receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1975 “Mandy” by Barry Manilow peaks at No. 1.
1978 Neil Sedaka receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1980 Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” hits #1
1986 AIDS charity record “That’s What Friends are For” hits #1
1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY
2000 Michael J. Fox announces his departure from “Spin City” because of his Parkinson’s disease.

A DIVORCE LIST
Getting divoced? Need stuff for your new life? “Divorcing can be an expensive time and registering for a Divorce Gift List means that family and friends can help the newly separated begin their new life.” Thats the concept in England of Debenhams. The store will allow you to register like a wedding list for things that family and friends can buy you to help you get on with your post divorce life.

PINK SNOW
A cloud of food coloring powder was released when a Buffalo business was being torn down. A demolition contractor says a pipe contained about five pounds of residual red dye No. 40. It turned the snow pink.

911 CALLS-BILLBOARD
Conn. state police have been fielding 911 calls about a man and teddy bear on top of a billboard. The mannequin and teddy bear are not real but an ad for a BMW dealer test drive. Effective advertising.

TURN IT DOWN
A New York woman, Elizabeth Connors, alleges in a lawsuit that a couple living next door to her play their opera music Stephen Kechulius, 51, insists he and his wife make a point to not bother their neighbors with their in-house practices. “We’re very sensitive about noise,” he said. “We don’t practice before noon, we don’t practice after 9 p.m., we don’t even practice more than 75 minutes in a row.”so loud she and her son cannot sleep through the night.

CHURCHILL CIGAR AUCTION
A half-smoked cigar British Prime Minister Winston Churchill put down before a Cabinet meeting in 1941 is up for auction. It’s expected to bring about $500

USELESS TRIVIA

Hurricanes are actually huge storms that can last for a week or more. They can cover areas as large as 600 miles. Their strong winds can rage at speeds ranging from 75 to 200 miles per hour and are strong enough to cause a lot of damage to human settlement and vegetation.

The Earth’s moon is 239 miles away. If anyone ever wanted to travel to the sun, they would have to get ready for a 93 million mile journey. To get to Jupiter, a galactic traveler would have to cover 370 million miles.

If you want to know how far away a storm is, count the seconds between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder. Then divide that number by five, and the answer you get is the number of miles away the storm is. So, if you counted 15 seconds between lightning and thunder, the storm is three miles away.

Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru coined the phrase “Third World.”

A sesquipedalian speaker uses long words; like sesquipedalian.