Daily Holidays -January 4

[Sherman A1]

National Spaghetti Day Six Awesome Things About Spaghetti For National Spaghetti Day! http://blog.grubhub.com/grublife/six-awesome-things-about-spaghetti-for-national-spaghetti-day/

Dimpled Chad Day

Earth at Perihelion Tonight – that is, before dawn tomorrow from our North American longitudes – our planet Earth will reach perihelion, its closest point to the sun for the year. This annual event will take place on January 4, 2015 at 6:36 UTC (01:36 a.m. EST). The word perihelion is from Greek roots peri meaning near, and helios meaning sun.

Earth is closest to the sun every year in early January, when it’s winter for the Northern Hemisphere. We’re farthest away from the sun in early July, during our Northern Hemisphere summer.

Earth is about 5 million kilometers – or 3 million miles – closer to the sun in early January than it will be in early July. That’s not a huge change in distance. It’s not enough of a change to cause the seasons on Earth. http://earthsky.org/tonight/earth-comes-closest-to-sun-every-year-in-early-january

Pop Music Chart Day

Tom Thumb Day General Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), a dwarf who achieved great fame as a midget[1] performer under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tom_Thumb

Trivia Day

World Braille Day World Braille Day is celebrated every year on 4th January around the world to commemorate the birthday of Louis Braille. Louis Braille is credited with inventing the Braille language which helps blind people to read as well as write.
Louis Braille was born in France. At the age of 3, he accidentally became blind. However, he had a great yearning to be able to read and write properly, despite his disability. An attentive kid at school, at the age of 15, he developed a set of symbols by making raised dots on a piece of paper. The dots could be easily felt by hand, thus enabling even the blind to feel them and hence, read and write. http://www.calendarlabs.com/holidays/international/world-braille-day.php


http://www.famousbirthdays.com/january4.html

[PoliticAverse]

1. This is DU, "Dimpled Chad Day" deserves its own thead. n/t

[Sherman A1]

3. You may be correct

however, it will not be me that starts that one......

[betsuni]

2. Spaghetti Day!

M.F.K. Fisher: "Spaghetti, one of the most misunderstood simple foods in the world, can be one of the best when it is properly treated. ... If you like it as I do, in its simplest form, have a hot casserole with a generous amount of fresh melted butter in it. Pour in the spaghetti, which is of course in its original long strands, swirl it around a few times, and rush it to the table. There, on hot plates, let your guests eat it loaded as they will with more butter, salt and fresh pepper, and grated dry cheese of the Parmesan type. Salad or fruit and a plenitude of thin red wine makes this a perfect meal."

[Sherman A1]

4. I love spaghetti!

Just give me a bowl full of noodles, some butter and I'm good.....

[bigwillq]

5. Spaghetti!

[femmocrat]

6. Those are all deserving of celebration, but let's go with this guy instead:

Sir Isaac Newton! I'm sure he has many fans here!

Physicist and mathematician who became one of the most influential scientist of all time for formulating the three basic laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. He built the first practical reflecting telescope and his work helped Enlightenment thinkers rebel against Church theology.

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/isaac-newton.html


(I'm not sure about that one!)