1st - New Year's Day (the Mother of all New Years)
2nd - Atom first split (1918)
3rd - Oscar Wilde declared 'nothing but my genius'
to US customs when entering America (1882)
8th - David Bowie's Birthday (1947)
- also, Stephen Hawking born (1942). Theoretical physicist, noted for work on Black Holes.
His book, A Brief History of Time, was a bestseller (it made a Big Bang
when it was published & it takes ages to read!)
11th - Thomas Hardy, British writer (eg Jude the Obscure), died (1928)
| "...though whiling
The time
somehow
In walking,
talking, smiling,
I live not
now. "
The Dead Man Walking Thomas Hardy
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14th - Debut of the Simpsons (1990)
15th - Birthday of Dr Martin Luther King (1929)
'injusice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere'
(I have a dream....)
17th - Birthday Muhammad Ali (1942)
22nd - Byron's B-day (1788), Coca Cola incorporated (1892)
23rd - Salvador Dali died (1989)
'Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion' (1954)
25th - Burns' Night (Scotland & wherever 2 or 3 Scots are gathered together)
30th - Beatles played in public for last time (London, 1969)
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In case you've forgotten:"Monday's child is fair of face; Tuesday's child is full of grace; Wednesday's child is full of woe; Thursday's child has far to go; Friday's child is loving and giving; Saturday's child works hard for a living. But the child that is born on the Sabbath day is fair and wise, good and gay" & if you believe that, you'll believe anything! |
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