Happy New Year (Again).
If You already screwed up your resolutions from 2 weeks ago, you have an opportunity to begin again!
January 14. Does this date have any significance to You? Some major events occurred on this date in history. Tonight we will look at a great Wikipedia feature you can add to your search tool box. Big 'shout out' to all of You who are now flooding the net with searches of your own!
I told You:
Google Search Box has all the Answers!
I am proud of all of You deciding to rise to the occasion & turn the TV off & get your Google On! Of course, You can spend your time anyway You want on the net. I happen to choose to learn more stuff. As You happen to be on this page right now, I assume You like learning of things affecting our Earth and the People also. So, a little clue I find very useful in understanding the Big Picture:
In the Google Search Box type the month and the date (not any year) and hit Go. The Google Index will come up with the options. Close to the top will be the Wikipedia Entry for that date-Select that one. An interesting collection of data comes up listing events, famous birthdays and deaths. Within the text are some words in different color print. These are links and when you click on them a new page will come up for that link. You back arrow at top left to return to previous page. They are also live links on my blog page as you will note below.
To give you an example,
I have selected today: January 14.
(How convenient!!!!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_14
January 14
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining until the end of the year (352 in leap years).
It is sometimes celebrated as New Year's Day (at least in the 20th and 21st centuries) by ethnic groups and religious orders still using the thirteen-days-adrift Julian calendar (Old New Year).
Events
- 1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
- 1343 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague and, subsequently, the first Archbishop of Prague.
- 1514 – Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.
- 1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.
- 1639 – The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
- 1724 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
- 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durraniand the Marhatas.
- 1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
- Does History Repeat Itself??????????
- 1814 – Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
- 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.
- 1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
- 1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
- 1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
- 1933 – The controversial "Bodyline" cricket tactics used by Douglas Jardine's England peak when Australian captain Bill Woodfull is hit in the heart.
- 1938 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
- 1943 – World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
- 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
- 1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
- 1952 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
- 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
- 1957 – Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagad guru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
- 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
- 1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching theSummer of Love.
- 1969 – An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
- 1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
- 1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcastby an individual entertainer in television history.
- 1975 – Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther".
- 1999 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city.
- 2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
- 2004 – The national flag of The Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
- 2005 – The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan.
- 2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
- 2011 – The former President of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali left and escaped to Saudi Arabia after a series of street demonstrations against his regime and corrupt policies, asking for Freedom, Rights and Democracy , considered as the Anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution and the birth of the Arab Spring
Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Earliest day on which Lee-Jackson Day can fall while January 20 is the latest, celebrated on Friday before Martin Luther King Day. (Commonwealth of Virginia)
- Feast of Divina Pastora (Barquisimeto)
- Feast of the Ass (Medieval Christianity)
- National Flag Day (Georgia)
- National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand)
- Old New Year
- Ratification Day (United States)
- Sidereal winter solstice celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; marking the transition of the Sun to Capricorn, and the first day of the six months Uttarayana period. (see April 14):
- Magh Bihu (Assam)
- Maghi (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh)
- Makar Sankranti (India)
- Maghe Sankranti (Nepal)
- The first day of Pongal, a Tamil New Year. (Tamil)
- Uttarayan (Uttaranchal, Gujarat and Rajasthan)
[edit]External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to: January 14 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_iRIcxsz0
American Revolutionary War
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the American War of Independence,[8] or simply the Revolutionary War in the United States, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, but gradually grew into a world war between Britain on one side and the newly formed United States, France, Netherlands and Spain on the other. The main result was an American victory and European recognition of the independence of the United States, with mixed results for the other powers.
The war was the result of the political American Revolution. Colonists galvanized around the position that the Stamp Act of 1765, imposed byParliament of Great Britain, was unconstitutional.[citation needed] The British Parliament insisted it had the right to tax colonists to finance the colonies' military defense, which had become increasingly expensive due to the French and Indian Wars. The colonists claimed that, as they were British subjects,taxation without representation in Parliament was illegal. The American colonists formed a unifying Continental Congress and a shadow government in each colony, though at first remaining loyal to the king. The American boycott of taxed British tea led to the Boston Tea Party in 1773, when shiploads of tea were destroyed. London responded by ending self-government inMassachusetts and putting it under the control of the British army with GeneralThomas Gage as governor. In April 1775 Gage learned that weapons were being gathered in Concord, and he sent British troops to seize and destroy them.[9]Local militia confronted the troops and exchanged fire (see Battles of Lexington and Concord). After repeated pleas to the British monarchy for intervention with Parliament, any chance of a compromise ended when the Congress were declared traitors by royal decree, and they responded by declaring the independence of a new sovereign nation, the United States of America, on July 4, 1776. American Loyalists rejected the Declaration, and sided with the king; they were excluded from power everywhere. American attempts to expand the rebellion into Quebec and the Floridas were unsuccessful.
France, Spain and the Dutch Republic all secretly provided supplies, ammunition and weapons to the revolutionaries starting early in 1776. By June 1776 the Americans were in full control of every state, but then the British Royal Navy captured New York City and made it their main base. The war became a standoff. The Royal Navy could occupy other coastal cities for brief periods, but the rebels controlled the countryside, where 90 percent of the population lived. British strategy relied on mobilizing Loyalist militia, and was never fully realized. A British invasion from Canada in 1777 ended in the capture of the British army at the Battles of Saratoga. That American victory persuaded France to enter the war openly in early 1778, balancing the two sides' military strength. Spain and the Dutch Republic—French allies—also went to war with Britain over the next four years, threatening an invasion of Great Britain and severely testing British military strength with campaigns in Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. Spain's involvement resulted in the expulsion of British armies from West Florida, securing the American southern flank. The decisive British naval victory at the Battle of the Saintes thwarted French and Spanish plans to drive Britain out of the Caribbean, and the joint Franco-Spanish attempt to capture the British stronghold of Gibraltar also resulted in similar defeat.
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Go to link to see complete article which is very long and informative!
January 14 new vid releases:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WThJWlZedHE
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...this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek. See You Next time.
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