Sippin' Cider

BEVERAGE DAY – Start with water, and work your way up through juices, sodas, coffees, teas, and if you are of legal age, the hard stuff like beer, wine and liquor. My favorite specialty beverage is the frozen grasshopper (virgin or not).

NATIONAL TOURIST APPRECIATION DAY – If you are taking your vacation today, then make sure you play this day up. If you work with tourists, make sure you be extra nice to your customers and clients.

NATIONAL NURSES DAY – Remember what you did to teachers yesterday. Do the same for nurses today.  Thank you Dorothy Sutherland (who suggested it).

INTERNATIONAL NO DIET DAY – Today was created to allow everyone to stop and appreciate their bodies just the way they are. If you are too heavy or too thin and feel you need to change your outward appearance, continue on the path, but take today off and continue tomorrow.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

1983-Gabourey Sidibe, Actress (Precious);

1972-Martin Brodeur, Athlete (Hockey Goalie);

1961-George Clooney, Actor/Heartthrob (Facts of Life, ER, Ocean’s 11);

1955-Tom Bergeron, TV Personality (Dancing with the Stars);

1953-Tony Blair, Politician (UK Prime Minister);

1945-Bob Seger, Musician (Turn The Page)

1915-Orson Welles, Director (War of Worlds, Citizen Kane);

1913-Stewart Granger, Actor (King Solomon’s Mines)

1895-Rudolph Valentino, Actor (The Shiek)

1898-Gaston Leroux, Writer (The Phantom of the Opera)

1856-Sigmund Freud, Psychiatrist (Father of Dream Therapy)

1856-Robert E. Peary, Explorer (North Pole Expedition)

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

1994- Chunnel opened. This tunnel beneath the English Channel links England and France.

1991- Wilfrid Hyde-White died at the age of 87 of congestive heart failure;

1954- Brit Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile.

1937- Dirigible Hidenburg exploded in Lakehurst, NJ. 36 killed.

1862- Henry David Thoreay, Resident and writer of Walden Pond died at the age of 44 he suffered from tuberculosis and bronchitis.

1851- Yale Lock is patented by Linus Yale.