FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
USS Osmond Ingram (DD-255/AVD–9/APD-35) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Gunners Mate First Class Osmond Ingram, who posthumously received the Medal of Honor.
Osmond Ingram decommissioned at Philadelphia 8 January 1946, was struck from the Navy List 21 January 1946, and was sold for scrapping to Hugo Neu 17 June 1946.
Osmond Ingram received 6 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation for World War II service.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
How do you kill ants that come into the house? Our house is on a concrete base. They seem to come through the heating ducts in the concrete. The pipes are clay, and the ants live there summer and winter.
Sprinkle hot pepper flakes near the ducts where the ants come in. If that doesn’t work, try ground cloves. Also wipe the area where you see the ants with a solution of equal parts white vinegar and water.
Advice of the Day
Don’t turn a chair with one foot as the pivot. It will lead to family quarrels.
Home Hint of the Day
Can’t get around that radiator to paint behind it? Check with your local paint store; you’ll probably find it stocks paint rollers about 1-inch thick and 7-inches long, with 24-inch handles, for just such predicaments.
Word of the Day
Fathom
1 fathom=2 yards=6 feet
Puzzle of the Day
What do men never wish to be in and yet labor hard to possess?
Bonds
Born
- George Frederic Watts (artist) – 1817
- W.E.B. Dubois (founder of the Niagara Movement, which eventually merged with the NAACP) – 1868
- Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (actress and producer) – 1932
- Patricia Richardson (actress) – 1951
- Dakota Fanning (actress) – 1994
- Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary (daughter of Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria; first royal birth in 30 years) – 2012
Died
- John Quincy Adams (6th U.S. president) – 1848
- Melvin Franklin (Motown singer) – 1995
- Gordon Matthews (inventor of voicemail) – 2002
- Charlie Fox (1971 manager of the year with the San Francisco Giants and spent a half-century in baseball as an executive, manager, coach, and scout) – 2004
- Don Cornell (big band singer) – 2004
Events
- Cato Street Conspiracy foiled– 1820
- The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas– 1836
- Liberty Bell developed its final irreparable crack after tolling for Washington’s birthday celebration– 1846
- Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield– 1896
- First powered flight in Canada (by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy in Silver Dart) took place in Baddeck, Nova Scotia– 1909
- USS Osmond Ingram, first U.S. naval vessel named for an enlisted man, was launched – 1919
- Federal Radio Commission established– 1927
- U.S. rocket mail flight across Greenwood Lake, New York, to New Jersey– 1936
- Song As Time Goes By, from movie Casablanca, copyrighted– 1943
- The most memorable WW II photo was taken by Joe Rosenthal of members of the 5th Division of the U.S. Marines planting an American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan– 1945
- The existence of Dolly the sheep, the first successful cloned mammal, was announced– 1997
- Chloe Hegland kept soccer ball aloft with 163 touches in 30 seconds– 2008
Weather
- Blizzard stranded 750 motorists in the Sierra Nevada region of California– 1936
- 97 degrees F, San Antonio, Texas– 1996
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