Your source for multiple sports and entertainment
WIKIPEDIA INFORMATION ON SADE Helen Folasade Adu CBE (Yoruba: Fแปlรกแนฃadรฉ Adรบ [fษฬlรกสฤdรฉ ฤdรบ]; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade (/สษหหdeษช/ shah-DAY), is a British singer, songwriter, and actress, known as the lead singer of her eponymous band. She has been credited as one of the most successful British female […]
1550s 1559: ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND WAS CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY 1620s BORN 1622: MOLIรRE (DRAMATIST) 1710s BORN 1716: PHILIP LIVINGSTON (PATRIOT, AND SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE) 1770s 1777: VERMONT DECLARES ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM GREAT BRITAIN AND THE COLONY OF NEW YORK AS […]
1630s 1639: “THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT” WERE ADOPTED 1740s BORN 1741: BENEDICT ARNOLD (GENERAL IN U. S. REVOLUTIONARY WAR) DIED 1742: EDMOND HALLEY (ASTRONOMER) 1790s 1794: FIRST SUCCESSFUL CESAREAN OPERATION IN THE U.S. 1810s 1813: GIDEON HAWLEY BECAME FIRST STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT IN THE […]
ST. KNUT’S DAY In Sweden, January 13 is the traditional day to discard the Christmas tree and end the season’s festivities. A children’s party is the favored way to strip the tree of its decorations, after which the children are free to “plunder” the edible […]
CHINESE NEW YEAR The new year is by far the most important festival of the Chinese lunar calendar. It is celebrated on the second new Moon after the winter solstice. The holiday is a time of renewal, with debts cleared, new clothes bought, shops and […]
PLOUGH MONDAY The first Monday after Epiphany (January 6) was the day for the menfolk to return to work after the holidays — although no work was actually done on this day. Dressed in clean white smocks decorated with ribbons, the men dragged a plow […]
December Images 2020 Snowman & Wreath (courtesy mascpa.org) 1680s 1686: FICTIONAL ROBINSON CRUSOE LEFT ISLAND AFTER 28 YEARS. DANIEL DEFOE’S STORY IS BASED ON AN ACTUAL PERSON, ALEXANDER SELKIRK, A SCOTTISH SAILOR, WHO WAS FOUND ON AN ISLAND WHERE HE HAD BEEN STRANDED FOR 52 […]
THANKSGIVING DAY In a 1789 proclamation, President George Washington called on the people of the United States to acknowledge God for affording them “an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness” by observing a day of thanksgiving. Devoting a […]
(photo courtesy of InvisionMag.com) 1640s BORN 1643: RENร-ROBERT CAVELIER, SIEUR DE LA SALLE (EXPLORER) 1710s DIED 1718: BLACKBEARD (PIRATE) 1810s BORN 1819: GEORGE ELIOT (AUTHOR) 1860s 1869: BRITISH CLIPPER CUTTY SARK LAUNCHED 1880s 1880: ACTRESS LILLIAN RUSSELL DEBUTED AT TONY PASTOR’S THEATRE, NEW YORK CITY […]
