Table of Contents December 29th History, Trivia, and Fun Facts |
December 29th History Highlights |
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December 29th is… |
National Pepper Pot Day Still Need To Do Day Texas Admission Day (28th state) Tick Tock Day |
December 29th Birthday Quotes |
“If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.” “If you analyze the bad times you find that it’s because you wanted to have a bad time.” “Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” “It’s funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy, and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers, and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.” “Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.” |
December 29th Birthdays |
1800 – Charles Goodyear, American chemist, and engineer (died in 1860) 1808 – Andrew Johnson, American politician, 17th President of the United States (died in 1875) 1809 – William Ewart Gladstone, British politician 1934 – Ed Flanders, American actor (died in 1995) 1936 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (died in 2017) 1938 – Jon Voight, American actor 1946 – Marianne Faithfull, English actress and singer 1947 – Ted Danson, American actor 1951 – Yvonne Elliman, American singer-songwriter 1959 – Paula Poundstone, American comedian 1967 – Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian-American journalist 1972 – Jude Law, English actor 1976 – Danny McBride, American actor 1979 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor 1982 – Alison Brie, American actress 1985 – Alexa Ray Joel, American singer-songwriter |
December 29th History |
1170 – Archbishop Thomas Becket was assassinated in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights, under orders from King Henry II of England. 1896 – “Lava” soap was trademarked by William Waltke & Co. of St. Louis, Missouri. 1916 – James Joyce’s book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was published. 1927 – Krakatoa began a volcanic eruption on the seafloor. It had been quiet since its 1883 eruption. 1951 – #1 Hit December 29, 1951 – March 14, 1952: Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads – Cry 1952 – The first transistor hearing aid went on sale, the model 1010, manufactured by the Sonotone Corporation 1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” which brought in the concept of nanotechnology. 1973 – #1 Hit December 29, 1973 – January 11, 1974: Jim Croce – Time in a Bottle 1982 – Surround Sound was introduced for home use by Dolby. 1995 – Mr. Holland’s Opus, Dead Man Walking, and 12 Monkeys were released in theaters. |
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts |
Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees is the appropriate song for CPR. It has 104 beats per minute, and 100-120 chest compressions per minute are usually recommended. Other good songs CPR include Dancing Queen – ABBA, Cecilia – Simon & Garfunkel, Hard To Handle – The Black Crowes, Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rock Your Body – Justin Timberlake, I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor, MMMBop – Hanson. #stayinalive “A gun rack… a gun rack. I don’t even own a gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack.” – Wayne Campbell in Wayne’s World #moviequotes While trying to publish his first novel Ernest Hemingway was meeting with an editor who wished to see more of his work. His wife packed all of his work she could find in a suitcase and went to meet him. While on the train she left the suitcase unattended, where it was lost and never seen again. #samethinghappenedtome “The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.” – Dave Barry Pretty much any survivor of a paranormal horror movie is going to prison… “Ghosts killed all those people whose blood I was covered in, if I didn’t read the incantation to banish their spirits in time I would have been next” would never fly in court. The protagonist in Wicked was based on Margaret Hamilton’s approach to the character, as explained to TV’s Mister Rogers. Biggest film of 2009: Avatar (Action) earned ~ $760,000,000 “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” – Captain (Strother Martin) in Cool Hand Luke, 1967 Burl Ives – Real Name: Burl Ivanhoe Before Elvis Presley became famous, he had a troubling past of getting bullied. Once in High School, three guys were going to cut his hair off. Then a man, named Red West intervened in the scene and stopped them. He would become Elvis’s bodyguard and friend and was with him from 1956 to 1975. |
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