ITs Tues. morning 1/13 H 22 L 12 sun & cold; cold today from Midwest to Northeast (H 16 Chicago, 16 Cleveland, 23 Boston, 26 NYC, 33 Philadelphia, 35 DC); r from N. Fla. to southern VA;. OSU W (1st National College Football Championship game; Pitt QB recruit, Alex Hornibrook, announces will follow Chryst to Wisconsin. NEWS: Central Commands (Social sites, which were not secure) twitter page returns on line after hacked by pro-ISIS terrorist hackers calling themselves the Cyber Caliphate, traced to Northern VA, just as Pres. Obama announces new cyber security plans (Washington); 10K French troops deployed in Jewish neighbourhoods, schools & French tourist sights as 1st of 3 French police officers are laid to rest, bodies of 4 Jews killed in terrorist raid of Kosher Market to be buried in Israel today (Paris/ Jerusalem); the black box & flight voice recorder of Air Asia flight 8501 recovered (Java Sea); White House admits Unity rally in Paris flubbed (Washington); Keystone Pipeline bill clears 1st hurdle by bipartisan vote of 63-32 (greed for the wealthy over the environment, Washington); Supreme Court wont hear challenge to Affordable Health Care Act (Washington); University of VA reinstates Phi Kappa Psi frat falsely linked to alleged ape by Rolling Stone magazine; smoke in LEnfant Plaza subway station kills 1 dozens injured , hundreds evacuated (Washington, DC); 43 year old woman, Tojuana Lowe, arrested for driving down St. Rd. 434 with her teenage son holding onto the hood of her car (Winter Springs, Fla.). OTD: 888 Odo, Count of Paris, crowned King of the Franks; 1099 Crusaders burn the city of Mara to the ground (Syria); 1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England (Westminster Abbey); 1794 Pres. George Washington approved measure adding 2 stars & 2 stripes to the American flag following the admission of Vermont & Kentucky to the US; ( the number of stripes was later reduced to 13); 1864 American songwriter Stephen Foster (37) died (NYC); 1915 an earthquake centered in Avezzano Italy killed over 30,000; 1941 writer & poet James Joyce (58) died (Zurich Switzerland); 1962 comedian Ernie Kovacs(420 was killed in a car crash (L.A., Calif.); 1964 Roman Catholic Bishop Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) became the Archbishop of Krakow, Poland; 1982 an Air Florida 737 crashed into the 14th St Bridge & fell into the Potomac River during a snow storm 78 people were killed (Washington, DC.); 2010 during 1st hearing of Congressional Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, top Wall St. bankers apologized for risky behavior which led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression (they still said their actions seemed appropriate at the time). BRT: songwriter Stephen Collin Foster, My Old Kentucky Home , Dixie & Way Down Upon the Sawnee River who was born in Pgh. Pa. & died in poverty in a hospital in NYC was never South of the Mason-Dixon Line; TFD: I am tomorrow or some future day, what I establish today, I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. author & poet James Joyce (1882-1941). Enjoy the day..
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:56:35 +0000
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