January 23, 2019
Good morning dearest readers.
I’m glad you stopped by today. Today on Morning Coffee, On This Date features horses winning naval battles and the Frisbee, plus Your Hit Parade has the #1 songs from this date in 1965 and Philosophy 101 features a quote from Hitler, no first name required.
THE DAILY ALMANAC
On This Date:
In 1795 – In one of the few instances of horses winning a naval battle, French cavalry overtakes elements of the Dutch navy. 14 Dutch ships were frozen at anchor in the harbor at Den Helder, which is a bit north of Amsterdam. The battle was part of the War of the First Coalition, fought between April 1792 and October 1797 and won by the French. The war would resume the following year.
In 1957 – Walter Morrison sells the rights to what would become one of the world’s most popular toys, the Frisbee, to the toy company Wham-o, who had just bought the rights to the Hula-Hoop and would later be responsible for, among other things, the Super Ball. Morrison originally called his invention the Whirlo-Way and, later, Pluto Platters.
Your Hit Parade
#1 songs on this date in 1965:
Hot 100 – Downtown – Petula Clark (1st of two weeks)
Soul Chart – No chart
Country Chart – You’re the Only World I Know…Sonny James (1st of four weeks)
Album Chart – Beatles ’65…The Beatles (3rd of nine weeks)
– Chart data courtesy of Billboard.
Numbers Racket
10,626: the continuous number of days the US has been at war.
21.995: the number of dollars, in trillions, of America’s national debt. – Source: usdebtclock.org
653: days until 2020 election.
Philosophy 101
I didn’t know how or when, but I have waited for this day, and tonight I am here.
Adolf Hitler
Today’s quote is from a very good biography of Hitler by John Toland and, yes, we know Hitler was an evil a man as our species has produced. This doesn’t mean we can’t quote him.
What has always struck us in our reading on Hitler is how he always believed what he was meant to accomplish in his life was there for the taking. All he had to do was go and get it. Today’s quote reflects that and there is a lesson there for us because what we are meant to accomplish in our lives is there for the taking, too.
We must be on our path, though. We must put nature and circumstance to work for us and we must live the life we were meant to live. We must have the wisdom to know what we are meant to do with our lives, the courage to go and do it and the patience to do it every day of our lives. When we do that, we will have moments like this, moments we may not have been certain how or when they would come, but nonetheless certain they would come.
But we have to earn these moments and we can only do that by being on our paths.
xoxoxo
Kaitlyn