The K-12 TLC Daily Almanac

for

		JANUARY 12

Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching

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Today's 5-Minute Quest

Answers to all questions can be found on this page or by using links provided on this page.
Good Luck!

BEGINNERS

1. On this date in 1998, how many European nations signed a treaty opposing human cloning? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. On this date in 1969, who did the New York Jets defeat in Super Bowl III? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

3. On this date in 1986, who became the first Hispanic American in space? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author or illustrator born on this date:
TED CHURN ELM

INTERMEDIATE

1. On this date in 1999, how much money was paid for the baseball Mark McGwire hit for his 70th home run? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. According to Spartacus, for how many terms did John Winthrop serve as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

3. According to the Lemelson Foundation, what theory did Ruth Rogan Benerito develop that saved the cotton industry? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1905 work by Jack London (according to the Authors' Calendar)
GAG THEN

EXPERT
(hint: all three questions will require you to use a link found on this page)

1. According to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, how many portraits did John Singer Sargent paint of Asher Wertheimer and his wife?

2. According to JackLondon.com, how long was Jack London imprisoned?

3. According to the African American Registry, what organization was founded by James Farmer?

Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1918 work by Ferenc Molnár (according to the Authors' Calendar)
ADORN

John Winthrop Born on This Date 1588 [Cal State Stanislaus]	John Singer Sargent Born on This Date 1856 [Tigertail Associates]	Jack London Born on This Date 1876 [Jack London Foundation]	James Farmer Born on This Date 1920 [PBS]	Ruth Rogan Benerito Born on This Date 1916 [AgJournal]


Tanzania: Zanzibar Revolution Day (Commemorates African majority revolt against the Arab sultan, and formation of a Afro-Shirazi party government: 01/12/1964)
Turkmenistan: Memorial Day (Observed in memory of the thousands of civilians massacred by Russian Imperial Forces: 01/12/1881)



1628	Charles Perrault (French Children's Author)
1874	Laura Adams Armer (California-born Photographer, Children's Author)
1908	Clement Hurd (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator)
1945	Margaret Rostkowski (Arkansas-born Children's Author)
1949	William Muńoz (American Photographer)
1949	D. Anne Love (Tennessee-born Children's Author)

1729	Edmund Burke (Irish-born Member of the British Parliament and Pamphleteer Who Sympathized with the American Colonies)
1751	Jakob Michael Lenz (Russian-born German Poet and Dramatist)
1876	Jack London (San Francisco-born Novelist of The Call of the Wild)
1878	Ferenc Molnár (Hungarian-born American Playwright, Director, Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Journalist)
1915	Margaret Danner (Kentucky-born African-American Poet)
1915	Paul Jarrico (Los Angeles-born Screenwriter Blacklisted During the McCarthy Era)
1949	Haruki Murakami (Japanese Novelist)
1952	Walter Moseley (Los Angeles-born African-American Novelist of Devil in a Blue Dress)

1856	John Singer-Sargent (Italian Portrait Painter)

1884	Louis Horst (Missouri-born Pianist, Composer, Dance Instructor)
1921	Leo Smit (Philadelphia-born Pianist, Composer)
1926	Morton Feldman (New York City-born Composer)
1927	Salvatore Martirano (New York City-born Composer)

1716	Antonio de Ulloa (Spanish Naval Officer, Economist, Astronomer)
1822	Jean-Joseph Étienne Lenoir (Belgian Inventor Who Devised the First Commercially Successful Internal-Combustion Engine)
1899	Paul Hermann Müller (Swiss-born 1948 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine)
1906	Sergei Korolev (Chief Rocket Designer for the Early Soviet Space Program)
1916	Ruth Rogan Benerito (New Orleans-born Chemist Who Developed the Polymers Necessary for Wrinkle-, Stain-, and Flame-Resistant Cotton Fabrics)

1964	Jeff Bezos (New Mexico-born Founder of Amazon.com)

1878	Charles E. Bunnell (Pennsylvania-born First President of the University of Alaska)
1890	Mordecai Johnson (Tennessee-born African-American Educator, Clergyman, Administrator)

1588	John Winthrop (English-born Puritan Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Famous for his "City on the Hill" Sermon)
1737	John Hancock (Massachusetts-born President of the First and Second Continental Congresses: 17757)
1816	Willis A. Gorman (Kentucky-born Second Territorial Governor of Minnesota)
1825	Francis Henry Underwood (Massachusetts-born Author and Attorney)
1916	P.W. Botha (Prime Minister and President of South Africa)
1920	James Farmer (Texas-born African-American Civil Right Leader)

1893	Herman Goring (German Commander of the Nazi Air Force)
1893	Alfred Rosenberg (Estonian-born Nazi Ideologue and Propagandist

1916	Jay McShann (Oklahoma-born African-American Jazz Pianist and Composer)
1951	Kirstie Alley (Kansas-born Actress)
1951	Rush Limbaugh (Missouri-born Political Commentator)

1944	Joe Frazier (South Carolina-born African-American Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame)
1960	Dominique Wilkins (African-American Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame)

1519	Maximilian I (Austrian-born Holy Roman Emperor)
1965	Lorraine Hansberry (Chicago-born African-American Playwright of Raisin in the Sun)
1976	Agatha Christie (English Mystery Writer)
1976	Duma (Philemon Pearce Dumasile) Nokwe (South African Civil Rights Activist and Politician)
2001	William Hewlett (Michigan-born co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard)
2002	Cyrus R. Vance (West Virginia-born Statesman: Secretary of State for President Jimmy Carter)


1604	England's James I Convenes the Hampton Court Conference to Discuss Religious Differences

1773	The First Public Museum in America Is Established in Charleston, S.C.
1775	Residents of Georgia's St. Andrew's Parish Adopt Resolutions in Support of the Colonial Liberties
1777	Padre Thomas Peńa Founds California Mission Santa Clara de Asís

1805	Clark: a verry Cold Day three of our hunters Joseph & Reuben Fields withe 2 Elk on a Slay Sent one more hunter out. Ordway: cloudy 2 of the hunters came in had killed 3 Elk 4 men Sent after the meat & got it Whitehouse: The weather still continued clear and cold; the officers sent some of the party, for meat down the River, they took a Slide with them to bring it on. Two more of our hunters went out to hunt this day.
1806	Lewis: The men who were sent in surch of the canoe returned without being able to find her, we therefore give her over as lost. This morning sent out Drewyer and one man to hunt, they returned in the evening, Drewyer having killed seven Elk; I scarcely know how we should subsist were it not for the exertions of this excellet hunter. At 2 P. M. the ballance of the party who had been left by Capt. C. arrived; about the same time the two hunters also arrived who had been dispatched by Capt. C. for the purpose of hunting on the 9th; they had killed nothing. We have heretofore usually divided the meat when first killed among the four messes into which we have divided our party leaving to each the care of preserving and the discretion of using it, but we find that they make such prodigal use of it when they hapen to have a tolerable stock on hand that we have determined to adapt a different system with our present stock of seven Elk; this is to jerk it & issue it to them in small quantities.
1812	The First Commercial Goods Are Delivered to New Orleans by Steamboat
1828	The City of Key West Is Incorporated by the Territorial Government of Florida
1835	Michigan's Territorial Governor Calls for Convention to Apply for Statehood
1838	Mormon Leader, Joseph Smith, Flees Kirtland, Ohio to Avoid Arrest
1843	Polygamy Is Declared as Policy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
1848	Speaking on the Floor of the U.S. House, Lincoln Declares the Mexican War Unnecessary & Unconstitutional
1853	The Oregon Territorial Legislative Assembly at Salem Passes an Act to Establish Willamette University
1853	In Arkansas, the Cairo & Fulton Railroad Is Chartered
1861	Confederate Forces in Florida Seize the U.S. Navy Yard at Pensacola, Ft. McRee & Ft. Barrancas
	Federal Forces Garrison Fort Pickens on Florida's Santa Rosa Island
	In Marshall, Texas, John W. Barrett Shuts Down His Unionist Newspaper, the Harrison Flag
1865	Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Is Promoted to Major General in the Union Army
1879	The Anglo Zulu War Begins
1881	Russian Imperial Forces End 20-day Siege Overrunning the Turkmen Fortress of Goktepe
1888	A Blizzard in Western Minnesota Causes 100 - 150 Death
1895	Printing and Binding Act Prohibits Copyrighting of Government Publications
1897	National Monetary Conference Creates Committee to Devise a Gold Standard Financial System

1904	Racing Driver Barney Oldfield Sets a New Speed of 91.37 mph
1912	"Bread and Roses" Labor Strike Begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts
	The Italian Workingmen's Club Is Founded in Madison, Wisconsin
	The Lowest Temperature in Iowa's Recorded History (-47 Degrees F) Is Set in Washta
1913	Alexander T. Heine Flies the First Airplane over Minneapolis
1915	United States House of Representatives Rejects Proposal to Give Women the Right to Vote
1917	"Arkansas" by Eva Ware Is Adopted as the Official State Song
1919	Leaders of Great Britain, France, Italy and U.S. Meet in Paris
1932	Arkansas' Hattie W. Caraway Is the First Woman Elected to the U.S. Senate
1932	Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Retires from the U.S. Supreme Court
1935	Thousands Greet Amelia Earhart's Landing in Oakland, CA after 18 h Flight from Hawaii
1937	Howard Hughes Sets Cross-Country Flight Record, 7h 28m
1941	Matthew Neely Resigns from the United States Senate to Become Governor of West Virginia
1942	Malaysian Capital Kuala Lumpur Captured by the Japanese Army
	President Franklin Roosevelt Reinstates Woodrow Wilson's National War Labor Board (NWLB)
	Florida Solider Killed in the Philippines Will Be Awarded First WWII Congressional Medal of Honor
1943	Soviet Forces Breach 18-month Nazi Siege of Leningrad
1944	Supreme Court Strikes Down Exclusion of Blacks from Texas Primary Voting
1945	Soviet Forces Begin a Huge Offensive Against the Germans in Eastern Europe
	A Japanese Balloon Carrying Bombs Explodes Near Regina, Saskatchewan
	7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 1,900 in Japan
1946	After Winning the 1945 NFL Title, the Cleveland Rams Move to Los Angeles
1948	U.S. Supreme Court Rules States Can Not Discriminate Against Law-School Applicants Because of Race

1950	Seattle's Cirque Playhouse Opens
1951	Annie Lola Price Is Appointed as the First Woman to Serve on the Alabama Court of Appeals
1951	Ezzard Charles Knocks Out Lee Oma to Retain the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship
1953	Thornton Wilder Appears on the Cover of Time Magazine
1954	U.S. Announces It Will Protect Its Allies through the "Deterrent of Massive Retaliatory Power"
1954	Queen Elizabeth II Opens a Special Session of the New Zealand Parliament
1957	President Eisenhower Proposes U.S. & Soviets Limit Use of Space to Peaceful Purposes Only
1959	NASA Announces McDonnell Aircraft Will Design, Develop and Construct Mercury Capsule
1961	A Nike-Cajun Is First Rocket Launched for Exploration From Italian Soil
1964	Revolutionaries Overthrow the Arab Sultan of Zanzibar's Ruling National Party
1966	Three Members of Britain's Parliament Attacked in Rhodesia
1969	New York Jets Defeat Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III
1970	A Boeing 747 Is First Used for a Trans-Atlantic Flight
1971	Reverend Philip F. Berrigan Is Indicted for Conspiracy with Harrisburg Six
	Anarchists Bomb Home of British Employment Secretary
	Jimmy Carter Is Inaugurated As Governor of Georgia
	Controversial Television Comedy All in the Family Debuts
1975	Pittsburgh Defeat Minnesota 16-6 in Super Bowl IX
1982	Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Son Missing in Sahara Auto Race
1982	6.2 Magnitude Earthquake Injures Two in Honduras
1986	Space Shuttle Columbia Launches with First Hispanic American in Space
1988	The First Florida Lottery Tickets Are Sold
1991	Congress Narrowly Authorizes Use of Force to Expel Iraq from Kuwait
1997	Space Shuttle Atlantis Is Launched for MIR Docking and Crew Rotation Mission
1998	Nineteen European Nations Sign Treaty in Paris Opposing Human Cloning
1998	Linda Tripp Gives Taped Conversations of President Clinton to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr
1999	Mark McGwire's 70th Home Run Ball Auctioned for $3 Million

2000	Supreme Court Gives Police Authority to Question People Who Flee an Officer
2003	NASA Launches ICESat System for Measuring Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Aerosol Heights
2005	NASA Launches "Deep Impact" for July 4th Collision with Comet Tempel 1
2010	7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills More Than 200,000 People in Haiti

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