Today is...
National Rubber Ducky Day!

In 1970, Jim Henson performed the song “Rubber Duckie” as Ernie on Sesame Street, and the rubber duck bath toy has been an iconic American symbol ever since. Rubber ducks have been around since the rise of the rubber industry in the late 1800s, but no one knows their exact origin.
Did you know that in January of 1992, a shipment of 29,000 rubber duckies fell off a cargo ship in the Pacific Ocean? By 2007, the “Friendly Floatees” had traveled 17,000 miles around the world on the ocean currents. Some are still afloat today! Over the years, people reported sightings in Indonesia, Australia, South America, the Bering Straight, the Arctic, and (eventually) the Atlantic Ocean.
Happy Rubber Ducky Day!

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January is Get Organized Month & National Oatmeal Month

 This week is Cuckoo Dancing Week
 

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History for January 13th 1920 - New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly 1930 - "Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears 1939 - Doc Barker, member of Bloody Barkers Gang, shot trying to escape Alcatraz 1942-  Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies   1966 -  First black man serves on a Presidential cabinet ______________________________________________________ "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else." -- Yogi Berra