The K-12 TLC Daily Almanac

for

		JANUARY 30

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

Why do you teach? Let Us Know.		Tell Us about your most memorable teacher.

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. Whose library did James Madison approve purchasing on this date in 1815? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. What was the mission of the Ranger 6 spacecraft launched by NASA on this date in 1964? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

3. According to the Children's Book Council, what is the title of the Lloyd Alexander book that was awarded the 1969 Newbery Medal? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book written by Lloyd Alexander (according to Scholastic booklist):
GRIN TIN HERO

INTERMEDIATE

1. What was the mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery flight that was completed on this date in 1992? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. According to the White House, on what holiday were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt married? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

3. According to the BBC, which university did Dick Chaney drop out of? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Eugene O'Neill:
THEIR HAY PEA

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

1. According to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, what is Douglas Engelbart's patent number for the computer mouse?

2. According to the Washington Area Music Association, in what year was Ruth Brown inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

3. John Bardeen was awarded his first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for the invention of the transistor, for what accomplishment was he awarded his second Nobel Prize for Physics in 1972?

Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Michael Dorris (according to the History Channel):
BEDROCK HORNET

Franklin Roosevelt Born on This Date 1882 [Smithsonian Institution]	Lloyd Alexander Born on This Date 1924 [National Book Foundation]	Douglas Engelbart Born on This Date 1925 [National Inventors Hall of Fame]	Ruth Brown Born on This Date 1928 [Rosebud Agency]	Richard Cheney Born on This Date 1941 [PBS]


India: Mohandas Gandhi Martyrdom Day (Observance of the anniversary of the assassination of Gandhi: 01/30/1948)
Jordan: King Abdullah's Birthday (Observance of the birthday of King Abdullah: 01/30/1962)



1924	Lloyd Alexander (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author)
1931	Allan W. Eckert (New York-born Children's Author)
1945	Michael Dorris (Kentucky-born Native American Activist, Novelist, Educator, Children's Author)

1775	Walter Savage Landor (English Poet)
1798	William Apess (Massachusetts-born Native-American Writer)
1866	Gelett Burgess (Massachusetts-born Humorist, Novelist)
1878	Anton Tammsaare (Estonian Novelist)
1912	Barbara Tuchman (New York-born Historian, Author: 1963, 1972 Pulitzer Prizes for non-Fiction)
1931	Shirley Hazzard (Australian Novelist, Short Story Writer)
1935	Richard (Gary) Brautigan (Washington-born Poet, Novelist)
1940	Sterling Plumpp (Mississippi-born African-American Poet)

1862	Walter Damrosch (German Composer, Conductor)

1899	Max Theiler (South African-born 1951 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology)
1925	Douglas Engelbart (Oregon-born Inventor of the Computer Mouse)

1816	Nathaniel Banks (Massachusetts-born Union General)
1829	Alfred Cumming (Georgia-born Confederate General)

1933	Louis Rukeyser (New York City-born Investment Advisor, Television Host)

1846	Francis H. Bradley (English Philosopher)

1844	Richard Theodore Greener (First African-American Graduate of Harvard University)
1882	Franklin Roosevelt (New York-born 32nd President of the United States)
1941	Dick Cheney (Nebraska-born Vice-President of the United States)

1911	Roy Eldridge (Pennsylvania-born African-American Jazz Musician)
1916	Frank Andrew Parker (Wisconsin-born Actor)
1928	Ruth Brown (Virginia-born African-American Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
1928	Harold Prince (New York City-born Broadway Director; Winner of 37 Tony Awards)
1930	Gene Hackman (California-born Actor)
1934	Tammy Grimes (Massachusetts-born Actress; Winner of Two Tony Award)
1937	Vanessa Redgrave (English Actress)
1951	Phil Collins (English Popular Musician)
1974	Christian Bale (Welsh Actress)

1937	Boris Spassky (Russian-born World Chess Champion)
1943	Davey Johnson (Florida-born Professional Baseball Player, Manager)
1955	Curtis Strange (Virginia-born Professional Golfer)

1649	Charles I, King of England (Beheaded)
1838	Osceola (Seminole Chief)
1847	Virginia Poe (Massachusetts-born Wife of Edgar Allan Poe)
1938	Carl Venth (German Classical Musician)
1948	Mohandas Gandhi (Indian Human Right Activist: Assassinated)
1948	Orville Wright (Ohio-born Aviation Pioneer)
1951	Ferdinand Porsche (Austrian Automotive Designer)
1962	Sam (Lightnin') Hopkins (Texas-born African-American Blues Musician)
1991	John Bardeen (Wisconsin co-Inventor of the Transistor: 1956 and 1972 Nobel Laureate for Physics)
2006	Coretta Scott King (Alabama-born Wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
2006	Wendy Wasserstein (New York-born Author; 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)


1561	Tristan de Luna Is Relieved of His Position as Governor of the Spanish Colony of Pensacola

1577	Thomas Vicary's "Anatomy of Man" Is Republished

1649	Charles I of England Is Beheaded for Treason

1781	Maryland Is the 13th and Final State to Ratify the Articles of Confederation

1803	Clark: A cloudy morning. Some snow. At 8 am it was sixteen degrees. At sunset Lewis returned to camp with Mr. J. Hay and Mr. Jo Hays of Kohokia. The hunters killed 5 deer today.
1806	Lewis: Nothing transpired today worthy of notice. we are agreeable disappointed in our fuel which is altogether green pine. we had supposed that it burn but illy, but we have found that by spliting it that it burns very well. The dress of the Clatsops and others in this neighbourhood differs but little from the discribed of the skillutes; they never wear leggins or mockersons which the mildness of this climate I presume has rendered in a great measure unnecessary; and their being obliged to be frequently in the water also renders those articles of dress inconvenient. they wear a hat of a conic figure without a brim confined on the head by means of a string which passes under the chin and is attatched to the two opsite sides of a secondary rim within the hat. the hat at top terminates in a pointed knob of a connic form also. these hats are made of the bark of cedar and beargrass wrought with the fingers so closely that it casts the rain most effectually in the shape which they give them for their own uce or that just discribed. on these hats they work various figures of different colours, but most commonly only black and white are employed. these figures are faint representations of whales the canoes and the harpoonneers striking them. sometimes squares dimonds triangles &c. The form of knife which seems to be prefered by these people is a double edged and double pointed daggar; the handle being in the middle, and the blades of unequal lengths, the longest usually from 9 to ten inches and the shorter one from four to five. these knives they carry with them habitually and most usually in the hand, somtimes exposed but most usually particularly when in company with strangers, under their robes with this knife they cut and lense their fish make their arrows &c. A is a small loop of a strong twine through which they sometimes insert the thumb in order to prevent it's being wrested from their hand.
1808	The Newport-Gap Turnpike Is the First Turnpike Chartered by the Delaware General. Assembly
1815	President Madison Approves Purchase of Thomas Jefferson's Library
1831	Surveying of Arkansas' Southern Boundary Line Is Completed
1833	In Jefferson County, Indiana, the Name of the Town Indiana Kentucky Is Changed to China
1835	Andrew Jackson Survives First Assassination Attempt on a U.S. President
1847	Chief Magistrate Washington Bartlett Signs Ordinance Renaming Yerba Buena, CA, to San Francisco
1857	State Historical Society of Iowa Is Organized in Iowa City
1861	Georgia Appoints a Trade Commissioner to England and Belgium
1861	Louisiana Elects Six Delegates to the Confederate Convention in Montgomery
1862	U.S. Navy Launches Its First Iron-clad Ship, the Monitor
1862	U.S.S. Kingfisher Captures Blockade Runner Teresita Off Florida's West Coast
1864	President Lincoln Writes General Steele About the Formation of an Arkansas State Government
1866	A Freedman's Aid Society Is Organized in San Francisco, California to Provide Assistance to Former Slaves
1867	Ralph Waldo Emerson Lectures at the Courthouse in Winona, Minnesota
1876	Sobieski Brady of Wheeling Is Appointed West Virginia State Treasurer
1883	Patent Is Issued for the Cash Register
1892	University of Georgia Beats Mercer 50-0 in the First Intercollegiate Football Game Played in the Deep South

1901	The Arkansas Legislature Approves the Apple Blossom as the State Flower
1920	Japan's Toyo Kogyo Company, Ltd. (Mazda autos), Is Founded
1920	Fire Destroys the Plant of the Daily Alaska Citizen at Fairbanks
1928	Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude Opens on Broadway
1933	President Hindenburg Names Adolph Hitler German Chancellor
1933	The Lone Ranger Debuts on Radio in Detroit, MI
1934	The Gold Reserve Act Is Passed to Stabilize the Value of the Dollar
1934	In Wilmington, Delaware, the Shellpot Park Amusement Center Suffers a Devastating Fire
1935	Martin Luther King Sr. Protests Segregated Elevators in Georgia's Fulton County Courthouse
1936	The Swedish Newspaper Svenska Posten Begins Publication in Seattle, Washington
1939	Felix Frankfurter Is Sworn In as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
1942	Chevrolet & Desoto Auto Production Halted until End of WWII
1942	Aaron Copland's Orchestral Suite from "Billy the Kid" Ballet Is First Performed by the Boston Symphony
1943	The British RAF Carries Out Daytime Bombing Raid of Berlin
1945	In the Philippines, U.S. Troops Liberate Camp Cabanatuan and Prisoners of War from Japan
1946	The First Roosevelt Dime Is Issued
1948	Mohandas Gandhi Is Assassinated
1948	Fifth Winter Olympic Games Open in St. Moritz, Switzerland

1952	Korean War Peace Talks Hit Stalemate
1953	Socialist and Labour Activist, Solly Sachs, Leaves South Africa for England
1953	Surge Tide Floods England's East Coast
1956	Elvis Presley Records "Blue Suede Shoes"
1957	University of Minnesota Surgeon, C. Walton Lillehei, Makes First Clinical Use of a Heart Pacemaker
1957	Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Montgomery, AL Home is Bombed by Segregationists
1958	Minnesota and North Dakota Agree Not to Tax Income Earned in Their State by Persons Living in the Other State
1959	William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun Opens in New York's John Golden Theatre
1961	In His First State of the Union Address, President Kennedy Invites All Countries to Cooperate in Space
1962	Two Members of the "Flying Wallendas" Balancing Act Fall to Their Death in Detroit
1964	NASA Launches Unmanned Ranger 6 for Lunar Crash Landing with Cameras on Board
1965	A State Funeral Is Held for Winston Churchill
1966	New Market, Alabama Experiences Coldest Temperature in the State's Recorded History (-27°F)
1968	Viet Cong & North Vietnamese Launch Tet (New Year) Offensive
1969	Beatles Last Concert Is an Impromptu Appearance on Their Studio Roof
1972	British Forces Kill 13 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland Demonstration
1972	Pakistan Withdraws from the British Commonwealth, Protesting Recognition of Bangladesh
1973	7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 52 Near Coast of Michoacan, Mexico
1973	Gordon Liddy & James McCord Convicted of Watergate Crimes
1974	USSR Performs Underground Nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan
1976	George Bush Replaces William Colby as Director of the CIA
1978	Mutual Broadcasting Begins Airing the Late Night "Larry King Show" on Radio
1978	In Delaware, the Du Pont Company Sells the News Journal to the Gannett Company for $60M
1979	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Invited to Return to Iran from Exile in France
1979	NASA Launches (SCATHA) to Investigate Electrical Charging of Spacecraft at High Altitude
1991	11 U.S. Marines Die in First Ground Battle of the Gulf War
1992	Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) Completes 8-day Microgravity Lab Mission
1993	Monica Seles Defeats Steffi Graf to Win Her Third Straight Australian Open
1995	National Institutes of Health Announces Drug Treatment for Sickle Cell Anemia

2000	Kenya Airways Jet Crashes into the Atlantic Ocean: 169 Die
2001	Georgia's State Senate Votes 34-22 to Adopt a New State Flag
2003	British "Shoe Bomber" Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempted American Airlines Bombing
2005	Iraqi Citizens Turn Out in Large Numbers for First Democratic Election
2011	Southern Sudan's Referendum Commission Announces 99%+ of Voters Choose to Secede from North Sudan

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