The K-12 TLC Daily Almanac

for

		JANUARY 23

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. Which state recorded the lowest temperature in U.S. history on this date in 1971? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. Which two Constitutional amendments were ratified on this date 31 years apart? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

3. According to Kidsread, what events would Katharine Holabird's grandmother take her to on special occasions? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the name of a scientist, mathematician or inventor born on this date:
U HIKE AWAY KID

INTERMEDIATE

1. Which five players voted into the Professional Baseball Hall of Fame on this date in four different years? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. According to African American Registry, in which Maryland town was Amanda Berry Smith born into slavery? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

3. According to the Library of Congress, which constitutional amendment did poll taxes attempt to circumvent? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1943 work from Django Reinhardt's solo discography (according to RedHotJazz):
BARS LUCILE

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

1. According to the Guggenheim, with whom did Édouard Manet study from 1850-1856?

2. According to PBS, how did Django Reinhardt lose the use of two fingers on his left hand?

3. According to the Nobel Foundation, for what achievement was Gertrude Belle Elion awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize for Medicine?

Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Édouard Manet at the Cleveland Museum of Art (according to Artcyclopedia)
THREE RIM BOOTS

Édouard Manet Born on This Date 1832 [CFGA]	Amanda Berry Smith Born on This Date 1837 Binghamton University	Django Reinhardt Born on This Date 1910	Gertrude Belle Elion Born on This Date 1918 [National Academy of Science]	Katharine Holabird Born on This Date 1948 [Kidsread.com]


National Handwriting Day
Pitcairn Island: Bounty Day (Celebration of the burning of the HMS Bounty by Pitcairn ancestors: 01/23/1790)



1911	Charles Parlin Graves (Florida-born Children's Author)
1948	Katharine Holabird (Massachusetts-born Children's Author)
1950	Susan Mathias Smith (Virginia-born Children's Author)

1783	Stendhal (French Novelist of The Red and the Black)
1923	Walter M. Miller (Florida-born Science Fiction Author of Canticle for Leibowitz)
1930	Derek Walcott (St. Lucia-born 1992 Nobel Laureate for Literature)

1832	Édouard Manet (French Artist)
1967	Belkis Ayón (Cuban Artist)

1862	David Hilbert (German Mathematician)
1907	Hediki Yukawa (Japanese-born 1949 Nobel Laureate for Physics)
1915	William Arthur Lewis (St. Lucia-born African-American 1979 Nobel Laureate for Economics)
1918	Gertrude Belle Elion (New York City-born 1988 Nobel Laureate for Medicine)

1730	Joseph Hewes (New Jersey-born Signer of Declaration of Independence)
1765	Thomas Todd (Virginia-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
1837	Amanda Berry Smith (Maryland-born African-American Evangelist)
1915	Potter Stewart (Michigan-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
1957	Princess Caroline of Monaco

1898	Sergei Eisenstein (Latvian Filmmaker)
1910	Django Reinhardt (Belgian Jazz Guitarist)
1919	Ernie Kovacs (New Jersey Comedic Actor)
1928	Jeanne Moreau (French Performing Artist)
1933	Chita Rivera (Washington, D.C. Latin American Dancer, Actress)
1943	Gary Burton (Indiana-born Grammy Winning Jazz Musician)
1943	Gil Gerard (Arkansas-born Actor)
1964	Mariska Hargitay (California-born Actress)

1936	Jerry Kramer (Montana-born Professional Football Player, Author of Instant Replay)
1944	Sergei Belov (Russian Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame)

1893	Phillips Brooks (Massachusetts-born Hymnist: "O Little Town of Bethlehem")
1893	Lucius Q.C. Lamar (Georgia-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
1944	Edvard Munch (Norwegian Painter)
1957	Edward Bulwar Cochems (Wisconsin-born Football Coach Who Pioneered the Forward Pass)
1976	Paul Robeson (New Jersey-born African-American Football Player, Singer, Actor, Rights Activist)
1976	Milton Reynolds (Minnesota-born Developer of a Ball-Point Pen)
1981	Samuel Barber (Pennsylvania-born Composer)
1989	Salvador Dali (Spanish Surrealist Painter)
1993	Thomas Dorsey (Georgia-born African-American "Father of Modern Black Gospel Music")
2005	Johnny Carson (Iowa-born Television Talk Show Host)


1556	Deadliest Earthquake in Recorded World History Kills 830,000 in China
1579	Dutch Provinces Sign Union of Utrecht Creating the Netherlands
1594	William Shakespeare's First Tragedy, Titus Andronicus, Is First Performed

1691	Domingo Terán de los Ríos Is Appointed First Governor of Texas

1719	Prince Hans-Adam I Unites Territories of Schellenberg and Vaduz into Imperial Principality of Liechtenstein
1775	London Merchants Petition the British Parliament for Reconciliation with America
1789	Georgetown University, First U.S. Catholic College, Is Established
1790	Mutineers Burn and Sink the HMS Bounty at Pitcairn Island

1806	Lewis: This morning dispatched Howard and Warner to the Camp of the Saltmakes for a supply of salt. The men of the garison are still busily employed in dressing Elk's skins for cloathing, they find great difficulty for the want of branes; Animal brains were employed in tanning leather; it is to this that Lewis refers, rather than to any lack of intelligence on the part of the men. we have not soap to supply the deficiency, nor can we procure ashes to make the lye; none of the pines which we use for fuel affords any ashes; extrawdinary as it may seem, the greene wood is consoomed without leaving the residium of a particle of ashes.—
1812	7.6 Earthquake Hits New Madrid, Missouri, Causing Mississippi River to Flow Backward
1831	West Point Cadet, Edgar Allan Poe, Refuses Order to Attend Church
1834	Ground Broken for U.S. Customs House on Wall Street
1837	U.S. Army Troops Kill Seminole Indian Leader Osuche and His son Near Lake Apopka, FL
1841	Abraham Lincoln Writes "I am now the most miserable man living."
1845	U.S. Congress Sets November Date for Presidential Elections
1849	Elizabeth Blackwell Receives Medical Degree to Become First U.S. Female Physician
1851	State of Florida Appropriates $1,000 to Build Wagon Road from Miami to Indian River
1851	Portland Is the Second City in Oregon to be Incorporated
1853	Abraham Lincoln Attends Temperance Lecture by Rev. James Smith
1853	David Denny and Louisa Boren Are the First Persons Wed with a County Marriage License in King County, Washington
1854	In Pike County, Indiana, the Village of Glezen Is Laid Out by Stephen R. Hosmer
1855	Earthquake Hits Wellington, New Zealand
	Snowdrifts Close Railroad Traffic through Springfield, Illinois
	A Cable Suspension Bridge Between Minneapolis and Nicollet Island Opens as the First Permanent Span over the Main Channel of the Mississippi River
1856	Count Agoston Haraszthy, "Father of California Viticulture," Imports 100,000 Grape Cuttings of Different Varieties to California
1857	Earthquake Hits Volosko, Croatia
1857	Centerville, Iowa Is Incorporated
1861	Confederate Garrisons in Florida Shut Down the St. Augustine and Jupiter Inlet Lighthouses
	All Georgia Congressmen Resign from the U.S. House of Representatives
	Georgia's Governor Demands Federal Troops to Abandon the Arsenal in Augusta
1862	President Abraham Lincoln Concludes the Government Cannot Return Fugitive Slaves
1862	President & Mrs. Lincoln Attend the Opera Il Trovatore at the Washington Theater
1863	General Hood Removed As Commander of Army of Tennessee
	Confederates Hang Former Texas Senator in Fort Smith, Arkansas
	Louisa May Alcott Returns Home from Duty as a Civil War Nurse
1864	President Lincoln Expresses Support for Plantations That Will Hire Former Slaves as Paid Laborers
1865	Federal Tender Fox Captures British Blockade Runner Fannie McRae in Florida's Warrior River
	President Lincoln Spends Day Reviewing Court-martial Cases and Military Arrests
	The Privately-Held First National Bank of Minneapolis Commences Business with a Capital of $50,000
1866	Walt Whitman Suffers a Stroke
1870	U.S. Cavalry Unit Massacres Village of 173 Blackfoot Indians
1879	British Soldiers Defend Their Rorke's Drift Outpost Against Attack by 3,000 Zulu Warriors
1879	National Archery Association Is Chartered at a Convention in Crawfordsville, Indiana
1880	Aftershocks from Earthquake in Cuba Are Felt in Key West, Florida
1891	Chicago's Provident Hospital, America's First Integrated Hospital, Is Incorporated
1896	Wilhelm Röntgen Gives First Public Demonstration of X-rays

1903	West Virginia Legislature Adopts the Rhododendron as the State Flower
1906	August Kopff Discovers Asteroid 582 Olympia
1907	Charles Curtis Is First Native American Elected to Serve in U.S Senate
1909	7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 5,500 in Iran
1911	Novelist David Graham Phillips Is Fatally Wounded
1917	The Society of Friends Sponsors a Meeting in Wilmington, Delaware to Promote the Disbanding of the State's Whipping Post
1918	First American Military Balloon Ascension Takes Place at Cuperly, Marne, France
1920	The Netherlands Refuses to Extradite Kaiser Wilhelm to the Allies
1922	Toronto General Hospital Administers First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes
1923	Aztec Ruins National Monument Opens in New Mexico
1930	George Washington Birthplace National Monument Is Established
1933	20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Is Ratified
1935	One Inch of Snow Is Reported in Panama City, Florida
1937	Leon Trotsky and 17 Others Stand Trial for Plot to Overthrow Stalin
1941	Lindbergh Urges U.S. to Negotiate Neutrality Agreement with Hitler
	NASA's Glenn Aircraft Engine Research Center Opens in Cleveland, OH
	Artie Shaw and His Orchestra Record "Moonglow"
1943	Duke Ellington Plays Carnegie Hall for the First Time
1943	"Casablanca" Is Copyrighted

1950	Israel's Knesset Establishes Jerusalem as the Country's Capital
1955	14 Die When British Express Train Is Derailed
1959	Robert Noyce Records His First Description of an Integrated Circuit
1960	U.S. Navy Bathyscaphe Trieste 1 Descends 35,820 ft into the Pacific Ocean
1962	Jackie Robinson & Bob Feller Are Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1964	24th Amendment to the Constitution, Barring Poll Taxes, Is Ratified
	Production Begins of $5 United States Notes Bearing the Motto "In God We Trust"
	Dr. James Hardy Performs the First Human Heart Transplant at U. Mississippi Medical Center
1966	Earthquake Hits Near Dulce, New Mexico
1968	North Korea Seizes the USS Pueblo
1968	Joe Medwick Is Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1969	The U.S. Senate Confirms Alaska's Walter J. Hickel as the Secretary of the Interior by a Vote of 73 to 16.
1969	A Blizzard Dumps 16" of Snow on Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota
1970	NASA Launches ITOS 1 US Weather Satellite
1971	Prospect Creek, Alaska Records Lowest U.S. Temperature Ever (-80F)
1973	President Nixon Announces Vietnam Peace Agreement Reached in Paris
1975	"Barney Miller" Premieres on ABC Television
1975	Ralph Kiner Is Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1977	ABC Begins Broadcasting Roots Mini-series
1979	Willie Mays Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1981	6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 150 in China's Sichuan Province
1983	Bjorn Borg Retires from Tennis
1985	First Televised Debate from Britain's House of Lords
1985	O.J. Simpson, Roger Staubach and Joe Namath Are Elected to Pro Football's Hall of Fame
1986	Eight Musicians/Groups Inducted in the First Annual Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony
1986	NASA Researchers Discover Uranus Moon Bianca
1989	Earthquake Kills 25,000 in Tajikistan
1992	Hal Roach Awarded Smithsonian Institution's Highest Honor
1997	Madeline Albright Is Sworn in as America's First Female Secretary of State

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