Happy New Year!

January

National Mentoring Month; Oatmeal Month

1 Happy New Year!
Ellis Island opens, 1892
Earth at Perihelion - closest point of orbit to sun at 8:00 PM EST
3 Mars Rover “Spirit” lands on Gusev Crater, 2003
4 Trivia Day
5 George Washington Carver dies, 1943
6 Epiphany/Twelfth Day/Three Kings Day and Armenian Christmas
Pan Am completes first around-the-world flight by commercial aircraft, 1942
7 Julian Calendar Orthodox Christmas celebrated in Russia
Transatlantic telephone service between London and New York begins, 1927
8 Celebrate Universal Letter Writing Week
Foucault uses pendulum to prove Earth’s rotation on its axis, 1851
10 Perigean Spring Tides, highest possible tides
12 First woman senator, Hattie W. Caraway from Arkansas elected, 1932
13 First Radio Broadcast to public in New York City, 1910
16 Religious Freedom Day – drafted by Jefferson in 1786, model for First
Amendment
18 Pooh Day – celebrates birthday of author A.A. Milne, born in 1882
21 Arbor Day
23 National Handwriting Day – observed on the birthday of John Hancock, born in 1737
25 First Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924
Apple Computer releases Macintosh, 1984
27 Auschwitz liberated by Soviets, 1945
Apollo I spacecraft fire, 1967
Vietnam Peace Agreement signed, 1973
28 Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, 1986
30 Osceola dies in St. Augustine at Fort Marion, 1838


Birthdays
1 Paul Revere, 1735; Betsy Ross, 1752
2 Isaac Asimov, 1920
3 J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892
4 Louis Braille, 1809; Jacob Grimm, 1785; Sir Isaac Newton, 1643
5 Alvin Ailey, 1931
6 Joan of Arc, 1412; Carl Sandburg, 1878
8 Elvis Presley, 1935
11 Alexander Hamilton, 1755
12 Jack London, 1876
14 Benedict Arnold, 1741
15 Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929
17 Benjamin Franklin, 1706
19 Paul Cezanne, 1839; Edgar Allan Poe, 1809; Robert E. Lee, 1807
20 Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, 1930
23 Edouard Manet, 1832
27 Lewis Carroll, 1832; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756


Look with favor upon a bold beginning.
-- Virgil

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
-- Horace

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.
-- John Heywood

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
-- Francis Bacon

Things are always at their best in their beginning.
-– Blaise Paschal

Begin at the beginning…and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
-– Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)