Daily Calendar for Saturday, January 18, 2025
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Saturday, January 18, 2025
Question of the Day
I’ve got a small scratch in a maple end table from the 1950s. The table isn’t worth much, but I love it. Can the scratch be covered somehow?
Some scratches can be concealed with a paste of instant coffee and water, although this is not recommended for fine antiques. Put some instant coffee in a small bowl, then sprinkle just enough water on the coffee to make a thick paste. Rub the mixture into the scratch.
Advice of the Day
Wash your dog’s paws after a walk on salted roads.
Home Hint of the Day
Prevent unauthorized use of your power tools by fitting a tiny padlock throught the small hole in one of the prongs of the tool’s electrical plug.
Word of the Day
Keelhaul
To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies.
Puzzle of the Day
Why is there a difference of only two letters of the alphabet between an accepted and a rejected love?
One kisses his miss, and the other misses his kiss.
Born
- Daniel Webster (statesman) –
- Ruben Dario (poet) –
- A. A. Milne (author) –
- Oliver Hardy (comedian) –
- Cary Grant (actor) –
- Danny Kaye (actor) –
- Curt Flood (baseball player) –
- Bobby Goldsboro (singer) –
- Kevin Costner (actor) –
- Karan Brar (actor) –
Died
- John Tyler (10th U.S. president) –
- Rudyard Kipling (author) –
- Curly Howard (actor, best known as one of The Three Stooges) –
- Robert B. Parker (author of mysteries; Mr. Parker died at his writing desk, working on a book) –
- Glenn Frey (musician; founding member of The Eagles) –
- David Crosby (singer, songwriter ) –
Events
- The play entitled Gorboduc, written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, was presented before Queen Elizabeth I. It was the first real English tragedy. –
- John Winthrop documented the first known unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings in North America –
- Two lights formed a manlike shape and arose out of the water in Boston –
- Eugene Ely proved that planes could land safely on ships –
- Ice in the in the Weddell Sea trapped Antarctic explorer E. Shackleton’s ship Endurance until she sank on November 21 –
- The first session of the Paris Peace Conference to end WWI was held –
- NY Daily Mirror columnist Walter Winchell debuted on radio –
- The sale of pre-sliced bread was banned throughout the U.S. on this date, although the law would be rescinded on March 8, 1943. –
- First around-the-world, nonstop flight by jet concluded –
- The Dow Jones industrial stock average first passed the 1,000 mark –
- Yellowknife became capital of the Northwest Territories –
- The cause of Legionnaires’ disease (Legionellosis) identified as bacteria –
- 211-pound striped marlin caught near Red Hill, Hawaii –
- 4-lb. 8-oz. Heller’s barracuda caught, Molokai, Hawaii –
- A half pound meteorite crashed through the office of Dr. Frank Ciampi, Lorton, Virginia –
- A 0.66-pound meteorite crashed through a doctors’ office in Lorton, Virginia –
- The Boston Bruins retired jersey number 22 in honor of Canadian Willie O’Ree, who became the first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL) when he debuted with the Bruins on this date in 1958. –
Weather
- Ice in the in the Weddell Sea trapped Antarctic explorer E. Shackleton’s ship Endurance until she sank on November 21 –
- Twenty-seven degrees below zero F, Watts, Oklahoma –
- Twenty-nine degrees below zero F in Concord, New Hampshire –
- 95 degrees F in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California –
- Fifty-four degrees below zero F in Embarrass, Minnesota –
- NASA and NOAA announced that 2016 was hottest year globally on record –