Wednesday, January 20, 2010

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: January 20

A year ago today I took this picture of my TV screen.

Barack Obama speaking at the inaugural luncheon in Statuary Hall .

History is being made everyday, of course. So it's fun to occasionally pick a day, put on the backward focusing binoculars, and see what happened way back when.

Thank goodness there is a handy dandy website which gives us historical movie footage.

The History Channel: This day in History - January 20

Turns out, January 20 is a big day for more reasons than what happened one year ago.

1. 1887 - Pearl Harbor was leased by the US as a naval base.
2. 1937 - FDR was inauguarated for the 2nd time. (Jan 20 has been inauguration day ever since.)
3. 1981 - 52 hostages held by Iran were released as Jimmy Carter left the presidency.
4. 1986 - The first national Martin Luther King Jr. Day was celebrated!

History is being made right now.

Wonder what we'll do about it...

What will history say about us?

4 comments:

  1. good point. Also, never thought of taking pictures of a tv screen. what will you think of next? See
    http://wordwranglernc.wordpress.com/ (scroll down to january 18) for one tangible way to help the Haitians. AM doing it this afternoon with my mother.

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  2. Hmmm... today I quoted some products for Haiti Relief.

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  3. I am stunned at the amount of money raised for relief. Over 300 million in one week!

    Glad someone is sending cable down there. Glad you are a part of it.

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  4. Carol, I haven't checked out this site yet but thanks for telling me.

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