Climate deniers in the US are not being told of the ice-capades of their brethren in the antarctic. Trapped in summer ice, and 98% of US news outlets don't mention it. At this rate of heating, by 2050, the world will be a snowball. Apparently a high salt diet is good for longevity. Assange, who does not recognise the right of a court to come between him and his abusive style of lovemaking is appealing for one to abuse process on his behalf.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Anna Cao and Emely Rose He. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 106 BC – Cicero, Roman politician and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
- 169 – Lü Bu, Chinese general and warlord (d. 199)
- 1806 – Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
- 1840 – Father Damien, Flemish missionary and priest (d. 1889)
- 1855 – Hubert Bland, English educator (d. 1914)
- 1861 – William Renshaw, English tennis player (d. 1904)
- 1873 – Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded the Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (d. 1957)
- 1887 – Helen Parkhurst, American educator and author (d. 1973)
- 1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien, English philologist and author (d. 1973)
- 1909 – Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist and comedian (d. 2000)
- 1916 – Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
- 1942 – John Thaw, English actor (d. 2002)
- 1945 – Stephen Stills, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Manassas)
- 1956 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1969 – Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
- 1975 – Danica McKellar, American actress
- 1988 – J. R. Hildebrand American race car driver
- 1993 – Kevin Ware, American basketball player
Matches
- 1431 – Joan of Arc is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
- 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
- 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
- 1777 – American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- 1870 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
- 1885 – Beginning of the Battle of Nui Bop
- 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland inPalestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
- 1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
- 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
- 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
- 1959 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
- 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
- 1977 – Apple Computers is incorporated.
- 2000 – The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
- 2002 – Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
Despatches
- 235 – Pope Anterus
- 323 – Emperor Yuan of Jin (b. 276)
- 1701 – Louis I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1642)
- 1795 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founder of the Wedgwood Company (b. 1730)
- 1813 – Bennelong, Aborigine interlocutor (b. 1764)
Reform list begins with ABC on top
Piers Akerman – Friday, January 03, 2014 (8:35am)
THE Abbott government’s window of opportunity for major reform is rapidly closing.
98 per cent of US reports don’t mention the ice-trapped passengers were global warmists
Andrew Bolt January 03 2014 (6:04am)
The media here has covered up for the climate change expedition that got stuck in ice:
===Why have the ABC and Fairfax media, so keen at first to announce this expedition was to measure the extent and effects of global warming, since omitted that fact from their reports after the expedition became ice-bound?It’s been even worse in the US:
The Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was stranded in the ice while on a climate change research expedition, yet nearly 98 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers failed to mention their mission at all…
In fact, rather than point out the mission was to find evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded people as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” without a word about climate change or global warming…
There was only one news story out of 41 that mentioned climate change. That was CBS “This Morning” Dec. 30. “Despite being frozen at a standstill, the team’s research on climate change and Antarctic wildlife is moving forward,” CBS News Correspondent Don Dahler said.
On the benefits of putting salt on even apples
Andrew Bolt January 03 2014 (5:53am)
Blaming the army for a man’s eating habits for the 60 years since he last served is already a ludicrous stretch:
But here’s the even more bizarre thing. Hutton died at 87. Why is there any talk of a premature death? Did the salt in fact preserve him?
(Via Catallaxy Files.)
===A WOMAN has won the right to a war widow’s pension by proving her late husband’s death was linked to the excessive salt-eating habit he developed as a serviceman.Hutton really had no free will to change his diet in 60 years?
After serving in the tropics during World War II, Queensland cane cutter and farmer Clement Hutton loaded all his food – from apples to porridge and rice – with salt.
His widow Shirley Hutton, 83, of Maroochy River on the Sunshine Coast, told the Administrative Appeal Tribunal her husband, who she married in 1951, developed his taste for salt during his Army service…
Mr Hutton was diagnosed with hypertension in 1997 and died after a stroke in July 2012 aged 87.
But here’s the even more bizarre thing. Hutton died at 87. Why is there any talk of a premature death? Did the salt in fact preserve him?
(Via Catallaxy Files.)
Wikileaks not so in favor of debate, after all
Andrew Bolt January 03 2014 (5:29am)
The Wikileaks Party claims to want a free debate, with no stifling of dissent:
===Yet we are witness to a degeneration of democracy into political party oligarchy, in which dissent is stifled…Yet when another politician dissents from the Wikileaks line, the party calls in the lawyers:
How rare is it to see a Member of Parliament, whether in government or in opposition, stepping out of line, or raising difficult or controversial issues?…
It’s time to give dissidents a voice in our political system…
In particular we will be fearless in the pursuit of the 21st century freedoms which are essential to the creation of any meaningful democracy. These include ... the free flow of information
Julian Assange’s father has engaged a silk to start legal action against Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop over comments relating to his political party’s controversial visit to Syria.
John Shipton came under fire after the Australian WikiLeaks Party sent a delegation to Syria to meet accused war criminal, President Bashar al-Assad…
“Because of the defamatory statements made against myself by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, we have asked barrister Clive A. Evatt to begin defamation proceedings seeking $5 million in damages in each case,” he said…
Mr Evatt said ... “he’s suing on publicly being called stupid and reckless – that’s Bishop.
“And Tony Abbott said more or less the same thing, reported in the media this morning.”
Sometimes people get it fast, sometimes slow.
Some people even take the douchebag way and steal other parking spots, or just as bad, DOUBLE PARK!
Some people may wait patiently, but you may not know if you'll be missing out on better parking spots!
Maybe some people find some reason to park illegally just because they can... And somehow get away with it (in Malaysia at least :p)
Or maybe after a long long tiring search people might give up one day and decide to use valet service!
Let's not forget to mention about the vvip parking!! On behalf of the rest of the community, screw u!!
... ...
But in the end, what really matters is that I should really stop comparing relationships to parking. The end.>
I got my eye on this really sweet spot. Now need to convince it I'm a car. I don't think I can just flash my headlights. Probably won't impress them if I leak oil too. Full of petrol. Clean windows. Licensed. Registered. - ed
Thinking of you while reading the article ..http://www.news.com.au/
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2014 years is not long enough for a lefty to mature intellectually. HNY Safiyyah .. don't let the jerks get you down. - ed
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I can't see anything wrong with what passed. It isn't like fining a motorist for leaving windows a few cm down on their parked car on a hot day. - ed
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"Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do." -Jesus
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Glück durchströmt den ganzen Körper, Stolz nur den Kopf und die Brust. Die Depression lässt den kompletten Leib kalt und schlaff wirken, Traurigkeit bloß die Arme und Beine.
Finnische Forscher haben detailliert zusammengetragen, wo im Körper sich welche#Emotionen manifestieren.
>>> www.sz.de/1.1854431
(Foto: Aalto University and Turku PET)
Aalto University #Gefühle
Finnish researchers have gathered detail where in the body which manifest # emotions.>
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http://www.theage.com.au/business/retail/we-spent-42b-on-christmas-and-government-gets-the-credit-20140103-309a5.html===
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http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/assanges-father-to-start-legal-action-against-tony-abbott-julie-bishop-20140102-3080z.html===
San Francisco NYE 2014 Panoramic — at Yerba Buena Island.
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http://www.theage.com.au/comment/lack-of-accountability-clouding-the-climate-change-debate-20140102-307ja.html===
#TheirABC
www.theaustralian.com.au
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Apparently this is called 'Australia Rock'- poor Tassie is always forgotten. We didnt see any whales or seals either.
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David Bowles
Wait! On this blessed day,
O Hurricane, Heart of Earth and Sky,
Source of ripeness and freshness,
Giver of daughters and sons,
Spread that stain, spill your drops
Of green and yellow—
Give life and beginning
To those we beget and bear,
So they too multiply and grow,
Nurturing and providing for you,
Calling to you along road and path,
Upon rivers, within canyons,
Beneath trees and bushes:
Give them their daughters and sons.
May there be no blame or barrier,
No lack or misery;
Let no deceiver sneak up behind
Or arise before them;
May they neither be snared nor wounded,
Nor seduced, nor burned,
Nor diverted below the road or above it;
May they neither fall backward nor stumble—
Keep them ever on the verdant path.
That road of deepest green.
—from "Cry of the Rulers' Hearts" in the Popol Vuh, the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life
===O Hurricane, Heart of Earth and Sky,
Source of ripeness and freshness,
Giver of daughters and sons,
Spread that stain, spill your drops
Of green and yellow—
Give life and beginning
To those we beget and bear,
So they too multiply and grow,
Nurturing and providing for you,
Calling to you along road and path,
Upon rivers, within canyons,
Beneath trees and bushes:
Give them their daughters and sons.
May there be no blame or barrier,
No lack or misery;
Let no deceiver sneak up behind
Or arise before them;
May they neither be snared nor wounded,
Nor seduced, nor burned,
Nor diverted below the road or above it;
May they neither fall backward nor stumble—
Keep them ever on the verdant path.
That road of deepest green.
—from "Cry of the Rulers' Hearts" in the Popol Vuh, the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life
Meh, who heads a terrorist organisation? Definitely not a democratically elected leader .. ed
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Israel news: the world’s most anti-Jewish country
http://www.israelnationalnews.co...
Here are some recent headlines you might have missed. These stories come from December 27 – 30, 2013.
The war against Israel
-Court Won't Intervene,
===The war against Israel
-Court Won't Intervene,
www.imra.org.il
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wordfromjerusalem.com
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#tcot #pjnet #nra #2a #guns #tlot
Quote of the day:
“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
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Fight with your words today so your children don't have to fight for their lives tomorrow.
-AC-
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<I do not find shocking as much as sickening the fact that President Obama is determined to destroy the majesty of the United States with his misguided concepts of who constitutes friend and who foe. Perhaps this is not an accident at all as he has made crystal clear the vital part Islam plays in his every day actions. The partnership with Israel is one in name only as long as Netanyahu accedes to Obama's commands conveyed by Kerry. By his every action Obama has shown that only the Muslim Brotherhood is integral in his life. The US as we have known it is slowly but surely disappearing.>
www.jpost.com
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===SAD FOR TURKEY
Turkish PM Erdoğan has now taken a page from the Dictator's Manual of Operations, claiming that there are giant foreign originated plots against him and Turkey.
Every dictator in the past 100 years has used this line. Most recently Chavez in Venezuela. But the list includes Stalin, Hitler, Ghaddafi,Assad, Saddam Hussein, and Idi Amin.
Far from a novel tactic, blaming scapegoats for one's failings, is a political tactic that many failing politicians use to bolster their power. Nothing new.
Turkey has gone from a progressive, secular, free society, to a place where journalists are jailed, from a growing prosperous nation to a no-growth economy for the past 22 months, and from a regional leader to a country that has isolated itself from its neighbors under Erdoğan's leadership.
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Meh, Shameless capitalism is old hat. I like the Lindt bunnies .. and hot cross buns (with fruit) .. it isn't hurting anybody except those who find meaning in .. marketing. I find the sweetest chocolate is discounted .. it is better after Easter! But if I must .. (passes hat around, I'm sorry, I must confiscate the illicit candy) .. ed===
Never give up! - ed
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- 1888 – The 36 in (91 cm) refracting telescope(pictured) at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, at the time the largest in the world, wasused for the first time.
- 1911 – A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroyed the city ofAlmaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 1949 – The first Central Bank of the Philippines was formally inaugurated with Miguel Cuaderno, Sr. as the first governor.
- 1973 – American businessman George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees professional baseball team forUS$8.7 million.
- 2002 – Israeli forces seized the MV Karine A, which was carrying 50 tons of weapons being smuggled in on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
Events[edit]
- 1431 – Joan of Arc is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
- 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
- 1653 – By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
- 1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
- 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
- 1777 – American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- 1815 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
- 1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
- 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
- 1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
- 1870 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
- 1885 – Beginning of the Battle of Nui Bop
- 1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescopein the world at the time.
- 1911 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland inPalestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
- 1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
- 1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
- 1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
- 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
- 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
- 1946 – Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
- 1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
- 1949 – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
- 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
- 1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
- 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
- 1958 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
- 1959 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
- 1959 – Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
- 1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
- 1961 – A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
- 1961 – In Finland's worst civilian aviation accident an Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.
- 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
- 1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
- 1977 – Apple Computers is incorporated.
- 1990 – Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- 1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
- 1994 – More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
- 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
- 1997 – China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
- 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
- 1999 – Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
- 2000 – The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
- 2002 – Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
- 2004 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
Births[edit]
- 106 BC – Cicero, Roman politician and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
- 169 – Lü Bu, Chinese general and warlord (d. 199)
- 1196 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
- 1698 – Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
- 1710 – Richard Gridley, American soldier (d. 1796)
- 1719 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
- 1722 – Fredrik Hasselqvist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
- 1760 – Veerapandiya Kattabomman, Tamil Palayakarrar and Indian Freedom activist(d. 1799)
- 1760 – John Storm, American soldier (d. 1835)
- 1778 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (d. 1861)
- 1793 – Lucretia Mott, American activist (d. 1880)
- 1802 – Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (d. 1898)
- 1803 – Douglas William Jerrold, English playwright (d. 1857)
- 1806 – Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
- 1810 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
- 1819 – Charles Piazzi Smyth, Italian astronomer (d. 1900)
- 1821 – Karel Dežman, Slovenian politician, archeologist, and botanist (d. 1889)
- 1831 – Savitribai Phule, Indian educator and activist (d. 1897)
- 1836 – Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and rebel leader (d. 1867)
- 1840 – Father Damien, Flemish missionary and priest (d. 1889)
- 1855 – Hubert Bland, English educator (d. 1914)
- 1856 – R. C. Lehmann, English journalist and politician (d. 1929)
- 1861 – William Renshaw, English tennis player (d. 1904)
- 1862 – Matthew Nathan, English soldier and politician, 13th Governor of Queensland (d. 1939)
- 1865 – Henry Lytton, English actor and singer (d. 1936)
- 1870 – Henry Handel Richardson, Australian author (d. 1946)
- 1873 – Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded the Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (d. 1957)
- 1874 – Francis Newton, American golfer (d. 1946)
- 1875 – Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1950)
- 1876 – Wilhelm Pieck, German politician, 1st President of the German Democratic Republic (d. 1960)
- 1879 – Grace Coolidge, American wife of Calvin Coolidge, 32nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
- 1880 – Francis Browne, Irish photographer (d. 1960)
- 1883 – Clement Attlee, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
- 1884 – Raoul Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948)
- 1885 – Harry Elkins Widener, American businessman, victim of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)
- 1886 – John Gould Fletcher, American poet and author (d. 1950)
- 1886 – Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)
- 1887 – August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
- 1887 – Helen Parkhurst, American educator and author (d. 1973)
- 1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien, English philologist and author (d. 1973)
- 1894 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
- 1895 – Boris Lyatoshinsky, Ukrainian composer and conductor (d. 1968)
- 1897 – Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961)
- 1898 – Carolyn Haywood, American author (d. 1990)
- 1898 – Carlos Keller, Chilean politician (d. 1974)
- 1900 – Donald J. Russell, American businessman (d. 1985)
- 1901 – Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 1963)
- 1905 – Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
- 1907 – Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (d. 1986)
- 1909 – Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist and comedian (d. 2000)
- 1910 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1911 – John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
- 1912 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish soldier (d. 1936)
- 1912 – Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2002)
- 1912 – Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
- 1915 – Jack Levine, American painter (d. 2010)
- 1915 – Mady Rahl, German actress (d. 2009)
- 1916 – Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
- 1916 – Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
- 1916 – Warren King, American cartoonist (d. 1978)
- 1917 – Albert Mol, Dutch author and actor (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux (d. 2004)
- 1917 – Vernon A. Walters, American military officer and diplomat, 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Ivan Bodiul, Soviet politician (d. 2013)
- 1919 – Herbie Nichols, American pianist and composer (d. 1963)
- 1920 – Siegfried Buback, German politician, Attorney General of Germany (d. 1977)
- 1920 – Renato Carosone, Italian pianist (d. 2001)
- 1921 – Chetan Anand, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
- 1922 – Bill Travers, English actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Bud Adams, American businessman (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Hank Stram, American football player and coach (d. 2005)
- 1923 – Bud Tingwell, Australian actor (d. 2009)
- 1924 – Otto Beisheim, German businessman, founded Metro AG (d. 2013)
- 1924 – André Franquin, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1997)
- 1924 – Nell Rankin, American soprano (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Jill Balcon, English actress (d. 2009)
- 1926 – W. Michael Blumenthal, American businessman and politician, 64th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1926 – George Martin, English composer and producer
- 1928 – Michael Barratt, English television presenter
- 1929 – Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
- 1929 – Ernst Mahle, German-Brazilian composer and conductor
- 1930 – Mara Corday, American model and actress
- 1930 – Marcel Dubé, Canadian playwright
- 1930 – Robert Loggia, American actor and director
- 1931 – Yashawant Dinkar Phadke, Indian historian and activist (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Dabney Coleman, American actor
- 1932 – Yolanda "Tongolele" Montes, American-Mexican dancer and actress
- 1933 – Geoffrey Bindman, English solicitor
- 1933 – Anya Linden, English former ballerina
- 1933 – Anne Stevenson, American-British poet
- 1934 – Marpessa Dawn, American-born French actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2008)
- 1934 – Carla Anderson Hills, American lawyer and civil servant
- 1935 – Raymond Garneau, Canadian businessman and politician
- 1935 – Camil Samson, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
- 1936 – Michael Layard, English retired admiral
- 1937 – Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
- 1938 – Robin Butler, English politician
- 1938 – K. Ganeshalingam, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (d. 2006)
- 1939 – Arik Einstein, Israeli singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1939 – Ruben Reyes, Filipino jurist
- 1941 – Van Dyke Parks, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1942 – John Marsden, Australian lawyer and activist (d. 2006)
- 1942 – John Thaw, English actor (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Jarl Alfredius, Swedish journalist (d. 2009)
- 1944 – David Atherton, English conductor
- 1944 – Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian author
- 1945 – David Starkey, English historian
- 1945 – Stephen Stills, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Manassas)
- 1946 – John Paul Jones, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (Led Zeppelin and Them Crooked Vultures)
- 1946 – Cissy King, American singer and dancer
- 1947 – Zulema, American singer-songwriter (Faith Hope and Charity) (d. 2013)
- 1949 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (d. 1965)
- 1949 – Hilary Wainwright, English sociologist, political activist and editor Red Pepper
- 1950 – Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
- 1950 – Victoria Principal, American actress
- 1951 – Linda Dobbs, Sierra Leone-born former High Court judge
- 1951 – Gary Nairn, Australian politician
- 1952 – Esperanza Aguirre, Spanish politician, 3rd President of Madrid
- 1952 – Gianfranco Fini, Italian politician
- 1952 – Jim Ross, American wrestler and sportscaster
- 1953 – Justin Fleming, Australian playwright and author
- 1953 – Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Maldivian politician, 5th President of the Maldives
- 1954 – Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
- 1954 – Ned Lamont, American businessman and politician
- 1954 – Ross the Boss, American guitarist and songwriter (The Dictators, Manowar, and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom)
- 1955 – Palmolive, Spanish-English drummer (The Slits, The Raincoats, and The Flowers of Romance)
- 1956 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1956 – Sam Laidlaw, English businessman
- 1956 – Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver
- 1958 – James J. Greco, American businessman
- 1958 – Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean actor, director, and producer
- 1960 – Russell Spence, English race car driver
- 1963 – Vic Grimes, American wrestler
- 1963 – Stewart Hosie, Scottish politician
- 1963 – New Jack, American wrestler
- 1963 – Alex Wheatle, English author
- 1964 – Bruce LaBruce, Canadian director
- 1967 – Gérald Mossé, French jockey
- 1969 – Jarmo Lehtinen, Finnish rally co-driver
- 1969 – Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
- 1969 – Gerda Weissensteiner, Italian bobsledder
- 1970 – Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
- 1970 – Priit Reiska, Estonian footballer
- 1970 – Matt Ross, American actor
- 1971 – Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 – Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
- 1972 – Janek Kiisman, Estonian footballer
- 1973 – Dan Harmon, American screenwriter and producer
- 1973 – Rory Stewart, British academic, writer and politician
- 1974 – Robert-Jan Derksen, Dutch golfer
- 1974 – Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
- 1975 – Thomas Bangalter, French DJ and producer (Daft Punk, Stardust, Together, and Darlin')
- 1975 – Jason Marsden, American actor
- 1975 – Danica McKellar, American actress
- 1976 – Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
- 1976 – Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress
- 1977 – Lee Bowyer, English footballer
- 1977 – A. J. Burnett, American baseball player
- 1977 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1978 – Dimitra Kalentzou, Greek basketball player
- 1978 – Liya Kebede, Ethiopian-American model, actress, and fashion designer
- 1978 – Kimberley Locke, American singer-songwriter
- 1978 – Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
- 1978 – Mike York, American ice hockey player
- 1979 – Chris Geddes, Canadian volleyball player
- 1979 – Dina Tersago, Belgian model and television host, Miss Belgium 2001
- 1979 – Koit Toome, Estonian singer
- 1980 – Bryan Clay, American decathlete
- 1980 – Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
- 1980 – David Tyree, American football player
- 1980 – Kurt Vile, American musician
- 1981 – Naresh Iyer, Indian singer
- 1981 – Eli Manning, American football player
- 1982 – Lasse Nilsson, Swedish footballer
- 1982 – Peter Clarke, English footballer
- 1983 – Antti Arst, Estonian football, beach soccer and futsal player
- 1984 – Billy Mehmet, Irish footballer
- 1984 – Arif Suyono, Indonesian footballer
- 1985 – John David Booty, American football player
- 1985 – Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1985 – Evan Moore, American football player
- 1986 – Dana Hussain, Iraqi sprinter
- 1986 – Jessica O'Rourke, American footballer
- 1986 – Jacob Timpano, Australian footballer
- 1986 – Greg Nwokolo, Indonesian footballer
- 1986 – Asa Akira, Japanese-American pornographic actress and model
- 1987 – Anchal Joseph Indian-American model and actress
- 1987 – Leonidas Panagopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1988 – Ikechi Anya, Scottish-Nigerian footballer
- 1988 – Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican singer-songwriter
- 1988 – Jonny Evans, Irish footballer
- 1988 – Matt Frattin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 – J. R. Hildebrand American race car driver
- 1989 – Adas Juškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1989 – Alex D. Linz, American actor
- 1989 – Anya Rozova, Russian-American model
- 1989 – Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese gymnast
- 1989 – Ayaka Umeda, Japanese singer (AKB48 and Diva)
- 1991 – Jerson Cabral, Dutch footballer
- 1992 – Sandra Zaniewska, Polish tennis player
- 1993 – Kevin Ware, American basketball player
Deaths[edit]
- 235 – Pope Anterus
- 323 – Emperor Yuan of Jin (b. 276)
- 492 – Pope Felix III
- 661 – Benjamin, patriarch of Alexandria
- 1098 – Walkelin, French bishop
- 1322 – Philip V of France (b. 1292)
- 1437 – Catherine of Valois (b. 1401)
- 1543 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
- 1571 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
- 1641 – Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618)
- 1656 – Mathieu Molé, French politician (b. 1584)
- 1670 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician (b. 1608)
- 1690 – Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
- 1701 – Louis I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1642)
- 1705 – Luca Giordano, Italian painter (b. 1634)
- 1743 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
- 1779 – Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon (b. 1712)
- 1785 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
- 1795 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founder of the Wedgwood Company (b. 1730)
- 1813 – Bennelong, Aborigine interlocutor (b. 1764)
- 1826 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
- 1871 – Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Indian saint (b. 1805)
- 1875 – Pierre Larousse, French lexicographer (b. 1817)
- 1882 – William Harrison Ainsworth, English author (b. 1805)
- 1895 – James Merritt Ives, American lithographer and businessman, co-founded Currier and Ives (b. 1824)
- 1903 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (b. 1837)
- 1911 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
- 1915 – James Elroy Flecker, English poet, author, and playwright (b. 1884)
- 1916 – Grenville M. Dodge, American General (b. 1831)
- 1922 – Wilhelm Voigt, German military impostor (b. 1849)
- 1923 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech author (b. 1883)
- 1927 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
- 1931 – Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
- 1933 – Wilhelm Cuno, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
- 1933 – Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
- 1943 – André Fauquet-Lemaître, French polo player (b. 1862)
- 1943 – Walter James, Australian politician, 5th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
- 1944 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
- 1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
- 1945 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and explorer (b. 1879)
- 1946 – William Joyce, American-English politician (b. 1906)
- 1950 – Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
- 1956 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
- 1956 – Dimitrios Vergos, Greek wrestler, weightlifter, and shot putter (b. 1886)
- 1956 – Joseph Wirth, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
- 1959 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, author, and translator (b. 1887)
- 1960 – Eric P. Kelly, American children's author (b. 1884)
- 1962 – Hermann Lux, German footballer (b. 1893)
- 1967 – Mary Garden, Scottish soprano (b. 1874)
- 1967 – Jack Ruby, American murderer (b. 1911)
- 1969 – Jean Focas, Greek-French astronomer (b. 1909)
- 1969 – Tzavalas Karousos, Greek actor (b. 1904)
- 1970 – Gladys Aylward, English missionary (b. 1902)
- 1972 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (b. 1925)
- 1974 – Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
- 1975 – James McCormack, American army officer (b. 1910)
- 1979 – Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (b. 1887)
- 1980 – Joy Adamson, Czech author (b. 1910)
- 1980 – Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
- 1980 – George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915)
- 1981 – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. 1883)
- 1988 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
- 1988 – Joie Chitwood, American race car driver and stuntman (b. 1912)
- 1989 – Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1992 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
- 1993 – Johnny Most, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
- 2002 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican pianist and composer (b. 1918)
- 2002 – Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (b. 1923)
- 2002 – Satish Dhawan, Indian Aerospace Engineer (b.1920)
- 2003 – Sid Gillman, American football player and coach (b. 1911)
- 2004 – Des Corcoran, Australian politician, 37th Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and diplomat (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Jyotindra Nath Dixit, Indian diplomat (b. 1936)
- 2005 – Will Eisner, American writer and illustrator (b. 1917)
- 2006 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby player (b. 1954)
- 2006 – Bill Skate, Papua New Guinean politician, 5th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
- 2007 – János Fürst, Hungarian conductor and violinist (b. 1935)
- 2007 – Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
- 2007 – Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
- 2007 – William Verity, Jr., American businessman (b. 1917)
- 2007 – Cecil Walker, Irish politician (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
- 2008 – Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)
- 2008 – Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
- 2009 – Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b. 1969)
- 2010 – Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean composer (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Mary Daly, American theologian and scholar (b. 1928)
- 2011 – Fadil Hadžić, Croatian director (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Willi Entenmann, German footballer and coach (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Mart Port, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (b. 1924)
- 2013 – George Falconer, Scottish footballer (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Alfie Fripp, English air force officer (b. 1913)
- 2013 – M. S. Gopalakrishnan, Indian violinist (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Jimmy Halliday, Scottish politician (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Kanang anak Langkau, Malaysian soldier (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Ivan Mackerle, Czech cryptozoologist, explorer, and author (b. 1942)
- 2013 – William Maxson, American general (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian director, actor, and politician (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Andrew P. O'Rourke, American judge and politician (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao, Indian archeologist (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Hisayuki Sasaki, Japanese golfer (b. 1964)
- 2013 – Patty Shepard, American-Spanish actress (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Burry Stander, South African cyclist (b. 1987)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka)
- The tenth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
- First day of school at schools in Malaysia and Singapore
“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” - Psalm 90:12
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 2: Morning
"Continue in prayer." - Colossians 4:2
It is interesting to remark how large a portion of Sacred Writ is occupied with the subject of prayer, either in furnishing examples, enforcing precepts, or pronouncing promises. We scarcely open the Bible before we read, "Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord;" and just as we are about to close the volume, the "Amen" of an earnest supplication meets our ear. Instances are plentiful. Here we find a wrestling Jacob--there a Daniel who prayed three times a day--and a David who with all his heart called upon his God. On the mountain we see Elias; in the dungeon Paul and Silas. We have multitudes of commands, and myriads of promises. What does this teach us, but the sacred importance and necessity of prayer? We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in his Word, he intended to be conspicuous in our lives. If he has said much about prayer, it is because he knows we have much need of it. So deep are our necessities, that until we are in heaven we must not cease to pray. Dost thou want nothing? Then, I fear thou dost not know thy poverty. Hast thou no mercy to ask of God? Then, may the Lord's mercy show thee thy misery! A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. It is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honour of a Christian. If thou be a child of God, thou wilt seek thy Father's face, and live in thy Father's love. Pray that this year thou mayst be holy, humble, zealous, and patient; have closer communion with Christ, and enter oftener into the banqueting-house of his love. Pray that thou mayst be an example and a blessing unto others, and that thou mayst live more to the glory of thy Master. The motto for this year must be, "Continue in prayer."
Evening
"Let the people renew their strength." - Isaiah 41:1
All things on earth need to be renewed. No created thing continueth by itself. "Thou renewest the face of the year," was the Psalmist's utterance. Even the trees, which wear not themselves with care, nor shorten their lives with labour, must drink of the rain of heaven and suck from the hidden treasures of the soil. The cedars of Lebanon, which God has planted, only live because day by day they are full of sap fresh drawn from the earth. Neither can man's life be sustained without renewal from God. As it is necessary to repair the waste of the body by the frequent meal, so we must repair the waste of the soul by feeding upon the Book of God, or by listening to the preached Word, or by the soul-fattening table of the ordinances. How depressed are our graces when means are neglected! What poor starvelings some saints are who live without the diligent use of the Word of God and secret prayer! If our piety can live without God it is not of divine creating; it is but a dream; for if God had begotten it, it would wait upon him as the flowers wait upon the dew. Without constant restoration we are not ready for the perpetual assaults of hell, or the stern afflictions of heaven, or even for the strifes within. When the whirlwind shall be loosed, woe to the tree that hath not sucked up fresh sap, and grasped the rock with many intertwisted roots. When tempests arise, woe to the mariners that have not strengthened their mast, nor cast their anchor, nor sought the haven. If we suffer the good to grow weaker, the evil will surely gather strength and struggle desperately for the mastery over us; and so, perhaps, a painful desolation, and a lamentable disgrace may follow. Let us draw near to the footstool of divine mercy in humble entreaty, and we shall realize the fulfilment of the promise, "They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength."
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Today's reading: Genesis 4-6, Matthew 2 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 4-6
Cain and Abel
1 Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man." 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.
Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 2
The Visit of the Magi
1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."
3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.
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